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The more we delve...
...into these mysteries, the more mysterious they become. That's the beauty of scientific inquiry...or, would it be
enquiry, in this context? I'm sorry to have missed this series, Nautikos. I'll be watching out for other goodies I'm sure you have in store for us. This crabcake's on the house.
posted by
metalrat
on April 19, 2008 at 7:05 PM
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I thought you were wrapping up!!
I like classical physics 'cause well the idea of all those 'big bangs' is fascinating, and well who's to say that here is the only place that 'big banged'!! When it comes to particles well there is something really amazing about all that! It is probably a really good excersise of the brain to consider the actions of little itty bitty particles.... I'll come back for more stimulation of this boggled brain!
posted by
KaBooM62
on April 15, 2008 at 5:49 PM
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Sorry, TAPS!
posted by
Nautikos
on April 12, 2008 at 12:27 PM
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Oh drat, Nautikos. Here I thought I had something all figured out. LOL
posted by
TAPS.
on April 9, 2008 at 9:01 PM
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Re: Nautikos
Wiley, first of all congrats again about your success in Ottawa! And I sure am glad that you're keeping things together, even without the help of a cat. But who needs a cat when he's got Kabu...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 9, 2008 at 9:43 AM
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Thanks sam, I am really glad that you continue to find this interesting!
posted by
Nautikos
on April 9, 2008 at 9:36 AM
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Re: Nautikos
Krisles, a very interesting and cogent comment! Your analogy is very apt, in that it implicitly addresses the question of the relationship between the individual ('particle') and the society or collectivity ('big thing'). That question has been at the bottom of much of philosophy and sociology for several hundred years now...
While not immediately relevant to our present concern with time, it's nonetheless very interesting, and I may get back to it at some point...
posted by
Nautikos
on April 9, 2008 at 9:35 AM
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TAPS, the short answer is: Not all particles decay into smaller particles, (some don't decay at all, like protons; we're still waiting...), and it isn't the case that smaller ones always travel faster than larger ones, and none of that does anything to (space)time as we know it...
For our present purposes we should just keep in mind one thing: according to Relativity Theory, nothing (no particle, no signal, no information) moves faster than c, the speed of a photon (light) in a vacuum. C is the yardstick, as it were. While we can measure its speed in terms of time (i.e. the 'ticks' of a 'clock'), not spacetime, for the photon there is no time, it couldn't 'experience' it, if it could experience anything. And to move faster than c means to move faster than light, which for a 'big thing' like you, (by which I'm not suggesting you're overweight, LOL) is impossible in principle, aside from the fact that it would mean that you arrive at B before you have left A...
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posted by
Nautikos
on April 9, 2008 at 9:08 AM
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Nautikos
Well I feel better for being put togther different than my cat 'cuz I don't got a cat. Sooooooooooo, I'm holding it together anyways. LOL
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 8, 2008 at 12:49 PM
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I am glad the discussion is back on! I like your thoughts here. I need to review the whole project as well. You are doing a tremendous job with this timely discussion. Pun intended! sam
posted by
sam444
on April 8, 2008 at 9:57 AM
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Nautikos
I've told you that I'm waiting to read this all at once, as a whole.....but I do peek in occasionally....as today....and read a stand-alone portion. I know so little of these things and have a mental block when it comes to thinking I can understand them....even though I do usually follow it at the time I'm listening or reading to someone as good at explaining as you. Today, your closing thoughts were for me, very meaningful:
But all big things are made of little things. ........and........So why can they act one way if they’re on their own but, as soon as they’re together in a big thing, the rules change?
I know you were talking of particles, but I think these words are quite apt in describing human interactions as well and will probably be stewing on these thoughts throughtout my "time" today........
posted by
Krisles
on April 8, 2008 at 6:48 AM
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Nautikos, We know that particles decay into smaller particles, and those smaller particles into even smaller particles. Isn't it true that smaller travels faster than larger and, if so, what does that do to time as we know it?
posted by
TAPS.
on April 7, 2008 at 9:18 PM
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