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Article #5323Re: PHYSICS THEORIES AND DANCING ON THE HEAD OF A PIN
From: xxein
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:20
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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