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Astronomers Deal Blow To Quantum Theories Of Time, Space, Gravity
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| Huntsville - Mar 28, 2003
| Editorial Staff
Posted on 03/28/2003 5:49:29 PM PST by vannrox
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To: EternalHope
"Stop telling God what to do." -- Neils Bohr
To: vannrox
I knew it!!!
This is why my beer is always empty before I'm done being thirsty.
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posted on
03/28/2003 6:21:38 PM PST
by
soycd
To: vannrox
To look for the quantum blurring effect the European team used a parameter from optics, the Strehl ratio, to calculate how sharply the telescope should be able to resolve an image of the distant light source and its first Airy ring - a signature of the interference of the rays of light entering a telescope.They are now asking that not enough time has been spent looking for these effects. They are saying that the blurring inspectors be given another miilion years or so to confirm the blur.
To: PatrickHenry
thanks for the ping...
Reconciling quantum electrodynamics with general relativity will take some more time.
(Meanwhile we will take Baghdad).
To: PatrickHenry
"
In everyday terms, the measurement of time compares the duration of the clocked event relative to an agreed-upon standard, such as the motion of the earth, etc."
That's right.
But it seems some want to imbue it with a substance.
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posted on
03/28/2003 6:23:10 PM PST
by
freedom9
To: vannrox
Does this mean that that guy who says he traveled in time actually did?
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posted on
03/28/2003 6:23:54 PM PST
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(Again, protestors have NO RIGHT TO BE HEARD, only a freedom to speak.)
To: vannrox
This may be one way to prove we actually exist as we perceive we do, rather than being stuck in some sort of virtual reality machine.
If we were stuck in a virtual reality machine using highly advanced forms of current technology then the computer would have a clock cycle (corresponding to a quantum of time) and resolution (corresponding to quanta of distances.)
But it seems this is not the case. We are not stuck in The Matrix!
Unless of course those sneaky computer bastards are using asynchronous clocking!
To: vannrox
Since the expected blurring "signature" of quantum space time isn't seen, however, it might mean that time isn't made of quantum bits, and neither are space or gravity.Great. Now what? Where did this come from?
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posted on
03/28/2003 6:26:45 PM PST
by
AndrewC
To: Dark Wing
This is big. You might even say hugh!
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posted on
03/28/2003 6:29:50 PM PST
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AndrewC
To: vannrox
To: vannrox
Huh?
To: who_would_fardels_bear
If we were stuck in a virtual reality machine using highly advanced forms of current technology then the computer would have a clock cycle (corresponding to a quantum of time) and resolution (corresponding to quanta of distances.) But it seems this is not the case. We are not stuck in The Matrix! Unless of course those sneaky computer bastards are using asynchronous clocking! This just shows that God runs Windows and is using the OS's timer rather than the universal hardware. I'd criticize this, but who am I to tell God which OS to run.
To: vannrox
This sucks. The idea that the Universe is a finite-state machine was one of my favorites. I had no evidence for it of course, but it was a cool idea.
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posted on
03/28/2003 6:37:49 PM PST
by
Nick Danger
(More rallys planned! www.freerepublic.net)
To: gorebegone
Now that's a blurry view.
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posted on
03/28/2003 6:39:22 PM PST
by
js1138
To: PatrickHenry
LOL!
To: *RealScience
To: who_would_fardels_bear
But it seems this is not the case. We are not stuck in The Matrix! They're probably running the simulation at a finer resolution than Planck time/length for better accuracy, and to make sure we don't catch on to them with experiments like this...
To: vannrox
It seems to me a quantum fluctuation might affect the brightness, but not the sharpness.
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posted on
03/28/2003 6:41:51 PM PST
by
djf
To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
AwC'mon. God runs unix.
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posted on
03/28/2003 6:42:14 PM PST
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old3030
To: Only1choice____Freedom
Not yet.
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03/28/2003 6:45:56 PM PST
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Dimensio
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