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To: All; yall
Moving Day is over. Any celebratory "Poblachd Saorsa," (in English, "Free Republic") the best whisky straight from The Official Distillery of the Undead ThreadTM, anyone?



90 posted on 08/31/2005 9:00:55 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azadi)
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To: sionnsar

Ahh, the fragrance of our finest brew wafting on the breeze has led me home, again.

Nice digs. Who picked this one, you?

It'll do for a month, at least, and it'll be better when we're done with it than it is today.

Hey! Did YOU know...
Quantum field theory is plagued with infinities, which show up in diagrams in which virtual particles go in closed loops. Normally these infinities can be gotten rid of by "renormalization," in which infinite "counterterms" cancel the infinite parts of the diagrams, leaving finite results for experimentally observable quantities. Renormalization works for QED and the other field theories used to describe particle interactions, but it fails when applied to gravity. Graviton loops generate an infinite family of counterterms. The theory ends up with an infinite number of free parameters, and it's no theory at all. Other approaches to quantum gravity are needed, and they might not describe static fields with virtual gravitons.

Isn't that intriguing??

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Quantum/virtual_particles.html


393 posted on 09/02/2005 12:01:46 PM PDT by HKMk23 (SAVE THE EARTH! STOP THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS!)
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