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To: vannrox

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle in which travel occurs at the speed of thought. That'd be fast.


2 posted on 06/12/2005 6:11:25 PM PDT by bwteim
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"the speed of thought. That'd be fast."
Not for me it wouldn't!


11 posted on 06/12/2005 6:18:00 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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To: bwteim
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle in which travel occurs at the speed of thought. That'd be fast.

The process of cognition is quite slow when compared to current technology. For instance, a loud sound takes a good fraction of a second before we are aware of it.

Of course what is almost certainly meant by the author is that we could be in a place as soon as we think of it. That would be a neat trick, especially of we are thinking of some place on the other side of the Universe.

26 posted on 06/12/2005 6:28:54 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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To: bwteim
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle in which travel occurs at the speed of thought.

Nerve impulses (thought) travel between neurons at about 200 mph. It might take you a while to get anywhere you need to go.

105 posted on 06/13/2005 3:13:19 AM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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