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Post by lazlototh on Apr 22, 2005 16:23:05 GMT -5
This is the 100th anniversary of Einstein publishing the General Theory of Relativity!  |
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Nov 6, 2006 17:11:45 GMT -5
I know this is an old thread but I saw 2 really cool documentaries on Einstein's life last night on the Science channel! Really cool, I learned alot of neat facts from it. Did I mention they were really cool?  |
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Post by Starkindler (The Naked Jedi) on Nov 6, 2006 22:31:46 GMT -5
I watched the same ones............late at night.
E=MC2 translates to "BOOM" in the biggest way.
Isn't it telling how many of the advances science makes are either intended for the furtherance of knowledge or the benefit of mankind........while many (if not the gross majority) of the USES those discoveries are put to are less than altruuistic.
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Nov 6, 2006 23:39:43 GMT -5
Yes, and it also shows the nature of... hmmm, what to call it, humans? progress? the world? in that once an idea is concieved and you choose to share it, release it into the world for whatever purpose, it is no longer yours. As much as the splitting atom causes a chain reaction, so does the freeing of an idea. But there's no way for the human race to progress without taking that risk.
I was really touched at the end where he regretted sending that letter to the president, and he never lived to see that his formula for destruction was also the formula for creation.
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Post by Ani-Chay Pinn on Nov 7, 2006 19:35:27 GMT -5
I didn't see that show, but the American Physical Society made a big thing about 2005 being the 'year of physics' for the 100th anniversay of Eienstein's paper. Of course, for me, every year is the year of physics. ;D Alas, Einstein never got it together with quantum mechanics.
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Nov 7, 2006 20:31:56 GMT -5
Give him time... he will! lol |
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Post by lazlototh on Nov 8, 2006 11:17:22 GMT -5
It's been a while since I saw this post....
I majored in physics in college, hence...
Recently there was a big debate over the loss of information in black holes as calculated by Stephen Hawking.
They called it the Hawking Paradox. Another man disagreed with it, but at the time couldn't figure out the mathematics to prove it. It's been kinda bouncing around for the past 20 years or so.
I always thought it was kinda cool that it was discovered that black holes spin, emit energy and evaporate... It's a freaky place near a balck hole.
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Post by Starkindler (The Naked Jedi) on Nov 8, 2006 21:58:38 GMT -5
I thought the loss of information was accounted for in "Hawking radiation"?
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Post by lazlototh on Nov 8, 2006 22:07:52 GMT -5
I thought the loss of information was accounted for in "Hawking radiation"? I believe Hawking Radiation has something to do with the evaporation of black holes... The evaporation would then lead to loss of information, if the theories are correct and hold under experiment. From the article I just checked at the Wikipedia, Hawking may have made an error on how the radiation may be emitted, so information may or may not be lost. Hawking also proposed a multiple universe theory in which a black hole in one universe may lose the information but another universe without the black hole would not lose the information - kinda like Schroedinger's Cat... Complete understanding is still quite a ways away... Wikipedia Article on Hawking RadiationIs this a whole pot calling the kettle black issue? I guess we'll have to lasso a black hole and see... Kip Thorne's Black Holes and Time Warps is another great reference too - i loved reading that book. |
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Post by Starkindler (The Naked Jedi) on Nov 9, 2006 17:59:11 GMT -5
Yeah....things get "wonky" on the quantum level don't they?
I had thought that Hawking Radiation accounted for the evaporation of black holes and that the radiation being a release of energy preserved the balance so to speak.........it could just re-emit the matter/energy as Dark Matter also perhaps? We still ca'nt really measure that.
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Nov 9, 2006 18:18:25 GMT -5
 Reading.. thinking... wearing a t-shirt that says "Time is an Invention"....
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Post by Cara Drume on Nov 10, 2006 11:24:55 GMT -5
Science? Okay. Math...? BLECH!  I am allergic to mathematics...two hours of exposure is all mit takes for me to devellop extreme furstration and or/a headache. |
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Post by Starkindler (The Naked Jedi) on Nov 10, 2006 12:01:15 GMT -5
Time is an objective label of a subjective experience.
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Post by Ani-Chay Pinn on Nov 12, 2006 18:51:56 GMT -5
You know what they say about relativity....
Time is relative.
If you have one watch, you will always know what time it is. If you have two, you will never be sure.
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Post by Solinbeb Newau on Nov 12, 2006 22:32:22 GMT -5
A long time ago...relatively speaking
My filmediting teacher asked our class to define "Time".
Oddly enough, she said I had the most accurate description...which I had honestly made up on the fly.
"Time is a ratio comparing the duration of events."
Afterall, if it weren't for comparing things' relative durations, how would we know which took more time?
We compare days to years by how many times the Earth turns compared to how many times the Earth goes around the sun...
I'm not sure why we broke a day into hours, though...or hours into minutes or minutes into seconds...
But, when in doubt.
Ask a relative! ;D
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I am allergic to mathematics...two hours of exposure is all mit takes for me to devellop extreme furstration and or/a headache.
