the stars that bowl
like forever
is a card
commemorating
the time we cannot hold
Posted on 10/26/2004 7:36:36 PM PDT by ckilmer
Photons seem to have managed that trick. But they have no sex life.
Yes, well, we "perceive" the earth to be flat, too. I mean, just look around you! Isn't it obvious?
BTTT
Sex-free placemarker
It is possible that of the eleven dimensions, the eleventh thanks to Witten's M-theory, the ones we see are the ones that were affected by gravitational inflation and may constitute a brane.
A physics society would have journals available in specific disciplines such as cosmology. Picking out the articles specific to string theory would be up to the reader, and the math might be rarified for the non-specialist.
No, it isn't obvious. Those of us who have flown (which is most of us) in airplanes have seen the curvature of the earth. Most people see photos from satellites and the space station. The earth doesn't look flat at all.
Besides my point was that our comprehension of time as flowing forward was far more than just a "perception".
We have all kinds of objective evidence that time moves forward which is not only obvious to the simplest of minds but scientifically provable.
That's a point I've been trying to make for a long time.
Tkhat would take all the fun out of it.
The reason you don't have that nickel is because the blade who wrote this 'research' got your taxes.
Well, to some folks who have done the math, time doesn't look flat either. That's the point I was trying to make.
Carrol and Chen must have been enjoying the same gin soaked raisins that Ms. Kerry has been nipping on!
Witten
It is possible that of the eleven dimensions, the eleventh thanks to Witten's M-theory, the ones we see are the ones that were affected by gravitational inflation and may constitute a brane.
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Notice your use of the words "possible" and "may"
the blog I mentioned from columbia u math dept before has all real math guys there. I pulled a piece out of a longer post of one of these math guys who from first hand experience recounted the history of string theory people from the theory's inception. so i'm inclined to believe the guy when he says that besides the witten stuff "I think string theory has been an utter disaster for theoretical physics"
from what I've read apparently superstring theory fills some kind of philosophical need similiar to that of aether theory in the 19th century.
but if your point is that theoretical physics is showing the darkness that in the past (like in the late 19th century) has generally preceded a pretty big paradigm shift. Then I would agree.
cognitive dissonance
may be discerned
in the clock face
sign, hung
upon the door
of the little
shop of hours,
closed for lunch
come back yesterday
bring your own flowers.
My point is that math is merely useful, but any correlation to reality lies in procurement of project funding.
The covariant derivative is anticommutative.
-willful suspension of disbelief [Coleridge]
cognitive dissonance
may be discerned
in the clock face
sign, hung
upon the door
of the little
shop of hours,
closed for lunch
come back yesterday
bring your own flowers.
Beautiful. Every time I think I'm the only one who gets it, someone such as you posts such as this.
The name on the forehead of the Harlot was Mystery.
That is the one thing they all are afraid of.
bttt
bttt
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