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1 posted on 08/09/2009 12:08:19 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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“Doubly Special Relativity”

Sounds like democrat club or something.


2 posted on 08/09/2009 12:10:46 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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Q: Why did Albert Einstein cross the street?
A: To get away from Niels Bohr. But when he got to the other side Bohr was
there also.


3 posted on 08/09/2009 12:10:48 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: LibWhacker

Why do I always read these things? All they do is make my head hurt.


5 posted on 08/09/2009 12:17:55 PM PDT by oldsalt (There's no such thing as a free lunch.)
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>"It seems to me it is much more appealing to find partial answers, answers that close the door on a few open issues but actually open the door on many more puzzling issues."

Jessica still can't
sort out chicken of the sea
versus real chicken . . .

8 posted on 08/09/2009 12:22:33 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: LibWhacker

Bump!


10 posted on 08/09/2009 1:23:20 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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12 posted on 08/09/2009 1:43:47 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Your opinion is doubleplusungoodthinkful. You have been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.)
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14 posted on 08/09/2009 6:36:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: LibWhacker

I don’t think gravity is quantifiable in the material sense. Being (assumed) a function of space-time itself would necessarily preclude it from combining with the corresponding matter based theories. I don’t expect the discovery of gravitons in my lifetime. Just a hunch.


19 posted on 08/09/2009 6:50:35 PM PDT by allmost
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>>Camelia’s doubly special relativity posits that
>>there is also a minimum length—the Planck
>>length—below which space cannot contract.

But if spatial density is variant, then so too are units of distance - including the Planck Length.

I’m sticking with Occam’s Razor and assuming the gravitational lensing observed and associated with hypothetical dark matter is due, not to “dark matter”, but to variation in spatial density.

If space is to energy as energy is to space, then it is reasonable to assume there are areas of space where the energy density is not sufficient to manifest the strong forces required for the formation of matter - but still strong enough to manifest the weak force of gravity, observable as gravitational lensing.


33 posted on 08/09/2009 9:55:35 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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