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On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 15:48:24 -0700 (PDT), Pentcho Valev
<pvalev@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Aug 10, 12:25�am, Traveler <noasskiss...@nowhere.net> wrote:
>> ahahaha... I love it. Dr. John Baez of UC Riverside, who loves to
>> point out that he regularly flies to conferences around the world
>> (he's a proud jet-setting physicist), is the well-known usenet
>> crackpot and math puzzle fanatic who once wrote this wonderful gem:
>>
>> � �I would prefer to say that there are infinitely many "nows", but no
>> � �one "now" that is any better than the rest. �In special or general
>> � �relativity, we can define a "now" to be a spacelike hypersurface -
>> � �or more technically, a Cauchy surface. �In one "now", I am typing
>> � �this article while sitting at my desk on a hot summer morning in
>> � �Riverside. In another, I am asleep on an airplane flying to
>> � �Portugal. �In most of them, I don't exist. �Since we can describe
>> � �the state of the universe by giving the values of fields at any
>> � �given "now", all these "nows" give isomorphic descriptions of the
>> � �universe. �The isomorphism between them is what we call "the
>> � �passage of time".
>>
>> ahahaha... Wait, it gets even better. In response to the following
>> mesmerizing nugget of wisdom by fellow crackpot, Mark William Hopkins:
>>
>> � �In reality, there is no "I". �It's all an illusion based entirely
>> � �on the abovementioned misperception. �Once you begin to perceive
>> � �yourself as you actually are (i.e., part of a 4-dimensional
>> � �web-like structure) then the "I" part just disappears.
>>
>> Baez brilliantly replies with the refined aplomb of a professional
>> academic crank:
>>
>> � � �I wouldn't say there is no "I". �I would instead say there are
>> � � �many.
>>
>> ahahaha... I am not making this shit up, I swear. This shit is forever
>> recorded in the annals of sci.physics.research, one of Baez's favorite
>> censored hangout.
>>
>> http://www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/1999-07/msg0016990.html
>>
>> The only other academic crackpot (that I know of) that may surpass Dr.
>> John Baez in crackpottery is Dr. David Deutsch of quantum computing
>> fame. Deutsch wrote the book on voodoo physics. ahahaha... Having said
>> that, I must add that the little con artist in the wheelchair is not
>> too far behind. Ah, the wonderful farce of physics. Insane nerds
>> having fun with the little games they love to play. I love it.
>>
>> ahahaha... AHAHAHA... ahahaha...
>>
>> Louis Savain
>>
>> Rebel Science News: http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/
>
>Don't foget the money the "insane nerds having fun with the little
>games they love to play" are wasting:
>
>http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Jyu6eioZ4
>"Silly Walks Applicant: "Well sir, I have a silly walk and I'd like to
>obtain a Government grant to help me develop it....I think that with
>Government backing I could make it very silly." Silly Walks Director:
>"Mr Pudey, the very real problem is one of money. I'm afraid that the
>Ministry of Silly Walks is no longer getting the kind of support it
>needs. You see there's Defence, Social Security, Health, Housing,
>Education, Silly Walks ... they're all supposed to get the same. But
>last year, the Government spent less on the Ministry of Silly Walks
>than it did on National Defence! Now we get 348,000,000 a year, which
>is supposed to be spent on all our available products."
>
>Pentcho Valev
>pvalev@yahoo.com

ahahahaha... Thanks for that bit of humor.

Louis Savain

Rebel Science News:
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/