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is that time was invented to stop everything happening simultaneously...

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sat May 27th, 2006 at 05:02:52 PM EST
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Don't get me started on "the problem if time in quantum gravity", which is basically that quantum mechanics seems to indicate that time does not exist.

Then again, the relevant calculations are not on a firm footing, so it is taken as an indication that we just don't grok things as well as we should.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat May 27th, 2006 at 05:07:31 PM EST
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Certainly things get tricky when you throw one of Kcuries cosmic particle balls at a discrete bee and it goes right through.

I think I'll sleep in a cloud chamber tonight...

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sat May 27th, 2006 at 05:49:17 PM EST
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Hur-rumph

This is where you need to don a black turtleneck sweater, find a coffeehouse, and discuss Nietzsche.  :-)

If {Whatever} is not measureable using a certain intellectual tool that does not mean the {Whatever} doesn't exist.  It means the {Whatever} is not measureable using that intellectual tool and you need to get yourself another tool.  

Or expand the analysis by plugging in additional procedures.  

Anyone insisting on staying within mathematics, I submit, should contemplate positive Lyapunov Exponents as they pertain to information processing.


She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sun May 28th, 2006 at 01:46:49 PM EST
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