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Dismantling Space and Time [Review of book by Brian Greene]
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| 09 March 2004
| Kenneth Silber
Posted on 07/15/2004 7:52:36 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: Conspiracy Guy
"The flashlight will not work until you are finished. Please hurry I need to go to the men's room."
Not sure you wanna do that just yet, what with space warping in weird curved directions and all. . .
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posted on
07/15/2004 9:50:36 AM PDT
by
Fedora
(Kerryman, Kerryman, does whatever a ketchup can/Spins a lie, any size, catches wives just like flies)
To: Fedora
I know that is why I said hurry!!!!
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posted on
07/15/2004 9:56:29 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Kerry has a Carter Plan. Bush has a Reagan Plan. You choose which is your plan.)
To: Fedora
The surface tension theory also splains the speed limit C. The faster you go the greater the resistance.
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posted on
07/15/2004 9:56:42 AM PDT
by
OSHA
(The meek may inherit the earth but they'll never get out of the Wal-Mart parking lot.)
To: Fedora
Too much coffeeeeeeeeeeeee..........!!!!!!!!
44
posted on
07/15/2004 9:56:49 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Kerry has a Carter Plan. Bush has a Reagan Plan. You choose which is your plan.)
To: Fedora
45
posted on
07/15/2004 9:57:04 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Kerry has a Carter Plan. Bush has a Reagan Plan. You choose which is your plan.)
To: King Prout
We are playing over here.
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posted on
07/15/2004 9:59:13 AM PDT
by
OSHA
(The meek may inherit the earth but they'll never get out of the Wal-Mart parking lot.)
To: linear
I saw him speak on C-span..............I'm not much into physics and quantum theories, but this guy had me enthralled.
The broken egg explanation was good...
To: OSHA
48
posted on
07/15/2004 10:02:46 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(Viggo Bozodozeus is your friend... Viggo Bozodozeus deserves all trust... submit to Viggo Bozodozeus)
To: PatrickHenry; OSHA
oh, yes... "entanglement"
I heard something on this subject last week.
interesting property. If it could be harnessed, instantaneous communications irrespective of range would become possible.
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:07:19 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(Viggo Bozodozeus is your friend... Viggo Bozodozeus deserves all trust... submit to Viggo Bozodozeus)
To: linear
I wish there was a way to express things on paper in a 3-dimensional manner.I'm also reading this book (just got to the m-theory part), and visualizing these concepts is extremely difficult. When he talks about adjacent 3-branes, even a 3-D illustration wouldn't help.
I was interested in his description of the "Higgs ocean" being the embodiment of the effect we call "inertia." I had not see that particular concept anywhere before.
But this book has a marked soporific effect -- I can't read more than 20 pages without falling asleep!
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:08:42 AM PDT
by
forsnax5
(The greatest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.)
To: Conspiracy Guy; Fedora
you will also need a brass-magnet, a brick stretcher, and some add-a-metal.
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:09:52 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(Viggo Bozodozeus is your friend... Viggo Bozodozeus deserves all trust... submit to Viggo Bozodozeus)
To: King Prout
Can you explain "entanglement" in a way that I can follow?
52
posted on
07/15/2004 10:10:21 AM PDT
by
OSHA
(The meek may inherit the earth but they'll never get out of the Wal-Mart parking lot.)
To: Conspiracy Guy
One Piece at a Time
-Johnny Cash.
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:10:37 AM PDT
by
The Scourge of Yazid
("I've had Shut up Stew before, and it sure as didley didn't taste like that!")
To: King Prout
54
posted on
07/15/2004 10:11:29 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Kerry has a Carter Plan. Bush has a Reagan Plan. You choose which is your plan.)
To: Conspiracy Guy
55
posted on
07/15/2004 10:13:40 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(Viggo Bozodozeus is your friend... Viggo Bozodozeus deserves all trust... submit to Viggo Bozodozeus)
To: Fedora; OSHA
BSIC is also the Toys R US of bad ideas.
We're "Bretheren & Sisteren In Chaos, Inc. LLC".
Yes, there IS a top member of the group that is a "Sisteren", but she's secret and we will keep that so.
The hiding of the erasers for the golf club pencils is one of our meaner nastier plans.
We're also holding prisoner for questioning some guy claiming to have important information about the future.
(Holding cell 4c-sublevel 21d. back corner by the shelving for observation.)
/ joke.
In seriousness, I do wonder about time dialation.
And what would happen to one's 'perspective' should they actually be unfortunate enough to attain light speed.
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:13:46 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(The voices in my head tell me that I'm special.)
To: OSHA
not really.
I can't really follow it myself.
basically, at some subatomic level, two bits of matter are "tuned" to one another.
After that time, no matter what is done to one of these bits also happens to the other (in terms of "spin" on quarks, IIRC) irrespective of distance separating the two bits.
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:15:44 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(Viggo Bozodozeus is your friend... Viggo Bozodozeus deserves all trust... submit to Viggo Bozodozeus)
To: The Scourge of Yazid
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:17:01 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Kerry has a Carter Plan. Bush has a Reagan Plan. You choose which is your plan.)
To: Darksheare
I'm waiting on science to discover subspace. the non-location equidistant from all points in the sidereal universe.
It exists.
It does too, you guys!
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:17:38 AM PDT
by
King Prout
(Viggo Bozodozeus is your friend... Viggo Bozodozeus deserves all trust... submit to Viggo Bozodozeus)
To: King Prout
Heck, there are strange things in this universe.
So I won't rule it out.
(Imagine being able to fire a laser at light speed.. would be possible if you could have the beam bypass the distance between you and the target.)
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posted on
07/15/2004 10:20:21 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(The voices in my head tell me that I'm special.)
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