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Re: PHYSICS THEORIES AND DANCING ON THE HEAD OF A PIN

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From: xxein
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:20
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On Mar 24, 9:20 am, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/wallace.htm
> Dying Bryan Wallace: "I expect that the scientists of the future will
> consider the dominant abstract physics theories of our time in much
> the same light as we now consider the Medieval theories of how many
> angels can dance on the head of a pin or that the Earth stands still
> and the Universe moves around it."
>
> http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/A97/94/63I40/index.xml
> "We have had time travelers already," Gott said in an interview at his
> Peyton Hall office. "The greatest time traveler so far is (cosmonaut)
> Sergei Avdeyev, who, by virtue of being on space flights for 748 days,
> is one-fiftieth of a second younger than if he had stayed home. So
> that man has traveled one-fiftieth of a second into the future." The
> key to time travel of any sort is the bendable nature of time, as
> described by Einstein's theories of relativity. "Einstein showed that
> moving clocks tick slowly," Gott explained....."Regarding time travel
> into the past, Gott said it may be possible, but much more difficult.
> One idea, developed by Kip Thorne and colleagues at the California
> Institute of Technology, involves "wormholes," which are shortcuts
> from one part of the universe to another. The other, which Gott
> proposed in 1991, involves two "cosmic strings," which are filaments
> of very dense matter left over from the early universe. When two
> cosmic strings pass each other at a great enough speed, someone
> traveling around the strings would be transported back in time."
>
> Pentcho Valev
> pva...@yahoo.com

xxein:  Are you trying to reinvigorate the "Crusades"?

I don't know where you get a notion of the physic from, but it is
absurd.
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