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Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time
NewScientist ^
| 8/9/10
| Anil Ananthaswamy
Posted on 08/09/2010 7:25:58 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
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posted on
08/09/2010 7:27:00 AM PDT
by
tophat9000
(.............................. BP + BO = BS ...........................Formula for a disaster...)
To: LibWhacker
Particle Physics gives me a hadron.
Sometimes I think being smart enough to think about subjects like this beyond the realm of just understanding would be a great burden.
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posted on
08/09/2010 7:30:40 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(You older gentleman ever sit on your testicles? WOW, that hurts!!)
To: IamConservative
How did that electron meet up with that proton in the first place, and where did THEY come from?
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posted on
08/09/2010 7:35:19 AM PDT
by
Shady
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To: LibWhacker
OK, I’ve read the article ... now my head hurts.
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posted on
08/09/2010 7:35:19 AM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
To: IamConservative
Sometimes I think being smart enough to think about subjects like this beyond the realm of just understanding would be a great burden. Don't I know it.
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posted on
08/09/2010 7:41:40 AM PDT
by
Richard Kimball
(We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
To: Richard Kimball
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posted on
08/09/2010 7:43:24 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: LibWhacker
We have all heard that Einstein determined that space and time were actually aspects of the same thing: Spacetime. And we’ve all seen the “world-line” funnels, and the super-C forbidden action zones and suchlike, so we know in an important sense, space IS time.
Since from the Science of econimics we also know that time is money, does it follow that space, therefore is money?
[Another but related subject:]
My former partner was fond of observing that, “time is money, but it ain’t cash.”
To: tx_eggman
"OK, Ive read the article ... now my head hurts."
What part don't you understand there pal >
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posted on
08/09/2010 7:48:17 AM PDT
by
mainsail that
("A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights" - Napoleon Bonaparte)
To: LibWhacker
I expect that the String Theory Lobby will not be happy with this development. Personally I like it since it is testable, a feature that seems to be lacking in ST.
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
08/09/2010 7:53:14 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: LibWhacker; SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/09/2010 7:55:03 AM PDT
by
stefanbatory
(Insert witty tagline here)
To: LibWhacker; Constitution Day; Lazamataz
Freepers have known for years that space/time is not where the real mysteries reside. It is well known on this site that the real answers will be found in the mǿǿse/cheese continuum.
Ask Laz or C.D.
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posted on
08/09/2010 8:01:32 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
To: Mad Dawgg
"the mǿǿse/cheese continuum"
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posted on
08/09/2010 8:04:51 AM PDT
by
paulycy
(Demand Constitutionality: Marxism is Evil.)
To: LibWhacker
I don’t think GR and Quantum mechanics can be reconciled by such tricks. We’re missing some facts, some kind of measurement needed to reconcile the two theories.
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posted on
08/09/2010 8:08:10 AM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
To: Mad Dawgg
Freepers have known for years that
space/time is not where the real mysteries reside.timetravel....HA! HA!![](http://th280.photobucket.com/albums/kk197/RetiredApachePilot/Smiley%20Faces/th_type.gif)
staying on FR over two hours....real time travel!
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posted on
08/09/2010 8:14:23 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Zer0 to the voters: "Here's my DeathCARE Plan"...now....just die (quicky), please. :^)
To: Shady
Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar.
One says, ‘I think I’ve lost an electron.’
The other says ‘Are you sure?’
The first says, ‘Yes, I’m positive.’
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posted on
08/09/2010 8:15:21 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(It's all about Chemistry...)
To: LibWhacker
Oddly enough, the value of this idea is less that it might provide a great theory, than that it challenges existing theory, and forces its reexamination.
This is the underlying problem with such theories. As soon as they are accepted, they become barriers, like walls. All you can do is to build up the wall further. You cannot transcend it without destroying it. Fortunately, the taller a wall gets, the less stable it becomes, contributing to its own destruction.
And this is a great general theory of knowledge, by the way.
As far as the subject goes, I rather like the idea of space-time, and I think that this theory gives it short shrift, in the quest to discover the gravity particle, which may or may not exist.
Just because mass and gravity affect time-space doesn’t mean they are the same things. In fact, it implies that mass and gravity transcend time-space, and affect space-time so strongly that it is bent into their mass and gravity dimension.
To: mainsail that
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posted on
08/09/2010 8:28:04 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
("That's my Theory, and I'm sticking to it!")
To: IamConservative
"Particle Physics gives me a hadron."
You should be pants'd for saying that.
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posted on
08/09/2010 8:33:38 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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