Dismantling Space and Time [Review of book by Brian Greene]

Tech Central Station ^ | 09 March 2004 | Kenneth Silber

[Darksheare]

We'll see if we can stock that one.

[Darksheare]

*groans*
And time appears to go by quickly after that, right?

[Darksheare]

n-dimensional space is something mentioned in Argon Zark...

[The Scourge of Yazid]

Marie Curie:

Yeeeaaah. She's okay. For someone who's not ALSO A CHEMIST! Pffft. I'm not impressed.

( Miss Curie returns to her work. Plays with some leftover radium.)

[bvw]

I was kidding -- I mixed the Communist Manifesto in with one of the article's paragraphs. But you are right!

Physics is "political" too. The current theories of our most regarded scientists and mathematicians always somehow accord to current and recent politcal lines of thought.

Note how Einstein loved relativity and was a absolutist in regard to limitations. Dirac liked relavity too, but felt that limits are not so always. Einstein loathed -- for many years -- the fringy and spastic quantum theory. And Bohr insisted that everything revolve around a simple center.

The chinese physicists loved the balancing acts of buddha-like quarks, and some of us like the constant discomfort of strings thrashing the back of all creation.

[scott0347]

"You guys don't have the brane of a white dwarf"

What does a white dwarf (star at the end of it's life) have to do with any of the extended objects that arise in string theory?

[Fedora]

Yeah, that looks like an idea we should definitely steal--um, I mean, contact the original inventor about. . .

[Fedora]

"And time appears to go by quickly after that, right?"

Depends if you're nearsighted or farsighted.

[Darksheare]

LOL.

In an odd side note: Shouldn't elemental weights higher than 115 come into being inside a blackhole?

[OSHA]

The oppresive regime of counter-revolutionary forces we feel when we spin or accelerate, Trotskyite Mach argued, are exerted on us by all the other feudal systems of objects near and far, if you serf, the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, were alone in the cosmos, you wouldn't feel a thing.

That explains the opression of time and gravity.

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

[RightWhale]

For a long time I had thought that Einstein invented relativity. But then I continued to read and found relativity predated Einstein, so it may be that sometimes physics is made to conform to ethical theory or political theory. Heard anything more about the string dimension that is large enough to measure in the lab? It was supposedly the size of a neuron, which makes a great takeoff point as to the nature of thought and consciousness.

[RightWhale]

the extended objects

Extension is an a priori predicate of body according to French rationalism, but is it necessarily and universally a predicate of objects?

[Fedora]

"In an odd side note: Shouldn't elemental weights higher than 115 come into being inside a blackhole?"

I don't know--have they ever measured the atomic weight of John Kerry's brain?

[MHGinTN]

If you intend on sharing, beware! I tried sharing my personal conceptualization of space and time and was thoroughly smacked down.

[theFIRMbss]

>I once rebuilt a 65 Ford Fairlane. When I was through I still had a lot of parts so I built a Harley

I once rebuilt an
Ellen Barkin. With the parts
leftover, I built

a Paris Hilton.
I've got a Mischa Barton
conversion ordered . . .

[RightWhale]

Add scissors and tape and flat paper becomes 3-D or at least Riemannian.

[Conspiracy Guy]

I have a neighbor who named her dog, Ellen Barkin.

[Darksheare]

His brain would have an atomic weight?
I thought it was on the level of a metaparticle.

[Fedora]

Well, maybe quark weight--it was a figure of speech, like "blessed are the cheesemakers".

[Conspiracy Guy]

PS. Paris Hilto is weird looking.