Tom ([info]tomnoir) wrote,
@ 2007-08-01 10:47:00
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time is defined to be what our clocks measure
Close to a century ago, now, Einstein rocked the world by proving that time is not absolute, but is instead malleable.

Scientists now suspect that physics is about to yield another dark secret about time - that it may not exist at all.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
-Einstein

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[info]syntheticjesso
2007-08-01 03:13 pm UTC (link)
I like that.

I need to reread it when I'm not surrounded by loud people freaking out about things, and when I'm awake, but I like what I got of it :-P

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[info]iamza
2007-08-01 04:25 pm UTC (link)
Pretty cool, and I was following along nicely until the article got to the infinite quanta existing in a single dimensionless point, at which point my brain exploded. I'm pretty sure dimensionless points are above my level of understanding.

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[info]tomnoir
2007-08-01 08:56 pm UTC (link)
I think I understand the dimensionless part, it's the part where infinite stuff fits inside that worries me.

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[info]patrick___
2007-08-01 04:41 pm UTC (link)
Now that's an interesting article!
Reminds me of stuff I read in Feynman's book on quantum-electro-dynamics.

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[info]wistfulmaid
2007-08-01 07:59 pm UTC (link)
OMG THAT IS SO COOL!!!

Um, I just spent way more time than I intended at that site.

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[info]tomnoir
2007-08-01 08:55 pm UTC (link)
Is there other stuff on there I should be poking around?!?

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[info]wistfulmaid
2007-08-02 12:48 am UTC (link)
Yeah, definitely :)

Offhand, these 3 were pretty cool:
- Radiation & space travel
- Brain differences between the sexes
- The Real Dr. House

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[info]bojojoti
2007-08-02 06:20 am UTC (link)
I think I sprained a brain cell, but it was worth it. We are so close to discovering so much. Give the scientists a few more years probing the furthest areas of the universe we can reach, and who knows what we'll learn. So much of what we thought we knew is being turned inside out.

Great link.

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[info]wistfulmaid
2007-08-02 01:39 pm UTC (link)
Aaah, I heart your pic!!

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[info]bojojoti
2007-08-03 04:59 am UTC (link)
Gotta love a woman who wears buns as ear muffs.

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[info]tomnoir
2007-08-03 11:09 am UTC (link)

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