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Article #5382Re: BRIAN GREENE: THE SILLIEST EINSTEINIAN
From: Pentcho Valev
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:12
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:12
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On Mar 5, 12:48 pm, Pentcho Valev <pva...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Silly Brian is walking in an incomparably silly manner here: > > http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=989 > Question: "You say that a particle on one side of the universe can > influence the action of a sister particle on the other side of the > universe instantaneously. Does this violate Einstein's statement that > nothing can travel faster than the speed of light?" > Brian Greene: "It is a delicate question, but most physicists would > say no. The influence is such that no information can be sent from > place to place at faster than light speed, and many believe that's > enough to avoid conflict with Einstein's recognition that light sets a > cosmic speed limit. I am among those who take this point of view, but > as I stress in the book, this issue--due to remaining conundrums > surrounding quantum mechanics--is not fully settled." > > Even silly walkers at the Perimeter Institute are unable to produce > anything comparable to silly Brian's silly walk: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w My last claim is not quite correct perhaps: http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.3/smolin.htm Lee Smolin: "Special relativity grew out of Einstein's insight that the laws of electromagnetism cannot depend on relative motion and that the speed of light THEREFORE must be always the same, no matter how the source or the observer moves." This particular silly walk of Lee Smolin's is undoubtedly sillier than (at least as silly as) silly Brian's silly walk. Pentcho Valev pvalev@yahoo.com
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