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If they find the defects, will there be a recall?
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Joel Olson
2012-12-20 06:39:09 UTC
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tim
2012-12-20 16:24:19 UTC
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Post by Joel Olson
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"We can't do without inflation as such because we haven't got an
alternative."

Last sentence, and he revealed the truth. Almost a religious faith in
inflation. Inflation as it were was nothing but normal explosive behavior
in a universe where time itself was not fixed but was was developing. They
are looking at the physical and not the chronological.

We have a long way to go, and this propensity to explain things with magic
is simply dreadful.

And that's why physics is the bomb, the most interesting thing ever.
Perhaps real is virtual, and virtual is real. We just can't imagine things
like that.
Joel Olson
2012-12-21 02:03:48 UTC
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Post by Joel Olson
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-defects-space.html
"We can't do without inflation as such because we haven't got an alternative."
Last sentence, and he revealed the truth. Almost a religious faith in
inflation. Inflation as it were was nothing but normal explosive behavior in
a universe where time itself was not fixed but was was developing. They are
looking at the physical and not the chronological.
We have a long way to go, and this propensity to explain things with magic is
simply dreadful.
And that's why physics is the bomb, the most interesting thing ever. Perhaps
real is virtual, and virtual is real. We just can't imagine things like that.
Like time had been one of the curled up dimensions and suddenly
unfolded?
tim
2012-12-21 03:01:19 UTC
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Post by Joel Olson
Post by Joel Olson
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-defects-space.html
"We can't do without inflation as such because we haven't got an alternative."
Last sentence, and he revealed the truth. Almost a religious faith in
inflation. Inflation as it were was nothing but normal explosive
behavior in a universe where time itself was not fixed but was was
developing. They are looking at the physical and not the chronological.
We have a long way to go, and this propensity to explain things with
magic is simply dreadful.
And that's why physics is the bomb, the most interesting thing ever.
Perhaps real is virtual, and virtual is real. We just can't imagine
things like that.
Like time had been one of the curled up dimensions and suddenly
unfolded?
Well said. Not the whoosh of time, but the literal tick-tock of time, it is
quantized. We're just too slow to accept everything is quantized. They
suppose a timeline after the Big Bang through "inflation", but your folded
dimension theory suggests their timeline is magical thinking, or nothing at
all, probably. We need to get creative in our analyses. Feynman said
something to the effect that he didn't understand QED but he believed it.
We do not understand time, it's nature, its quantum state, its field, or its
consequence. Einstein's brilliance was to factor time into the equation as
an equal to space. Space is nothing but quanta, all matter and energy, in
their construction and behavior, and so is time.

I'm late for my nap. :-)

Happy Foot of Heavy Snow and 60 mph Winds. The Kubota is with blower and
ready for it.
Joel Olson
2012-12-21 18:51:43 UTC
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Post by Joel Olson
Post by Joel Olson
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-defects-space.html
"We can't do without inflation as such because we haven't got an alternative."
Last sentence, and he revealed the truth. Almost a religious faith in
inflation. Inflation as it were was nothing but normal explosive behavior
in a universe where time itself was not fixed but was was developing. They
are looking at the physical and not the chronological.
We have a long way to go, and this propensity to explain things with magic
is simply dreadful.
And that's why physics is the bomb, the most interesting thing ever. Perhaps
real is virtual, and virtual is real. We just can't imagine things like that.
Like time had been one of the curled up dimensions and suddenly
unfolded?
Well said. Not the whoosh of time, but the literal tick-tock of time, it is
quantized. We're just too slow to accept everything is quantized. They
suppose a timeline after the Big Bang through "inflation", but your folded
dimension theory suggests their timeline is magical thinking, or nothing at
all, probably. We need to get creative in our analyses. Feynman said
something to the effect that he didn't understand QED but he believed it. We
do not understand time, it's nature, its quantum state, its field, or its
consequence. Einstein's brilliance was to factor time into the equation as an
equal to space. Space is nothing but quanta, all matter and energy, in their
construction and behavior, and so is time.
I'm late for my nap. :-)
Happy Foot of Heavy Snow and 60 mph Winds. The Kubota is with blower and
ready for it.
Solstice; beginning of winter. 56 with 11 mph south wind.
Overnight low got below freezing. Instead of plugging for a
white Christmas, the local tv meteorologists are praying for
a cold front.
tim
2012-12-21 20:35:56 UTC
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Post by tim
Post by Joel Olson
Post by Joel Olson
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-defects-space.html
"We can't do without inflation as such because we haven't got an alternative."
Last sentence, and he revealed the truth. Almost a religious faith in
inflation. Inflation as it were was nothing but normal explosive
behavior in a universe where time itself was not fixed but was was
developing. They are looking at the physical and not the
chronological.
We have a long way to go, and this propensity to explain things with
magic is simply dreadful.
And that's why physics is the bomb, the most interesting thing ever.
Perhaps real is virtual, and virtual is real. We just can't imagine
things like that.
Like time had been one of the curled up dimensions and suddenly
unfolded?
Well said. Not the whoosh of time, but the literal tick-tock of time, it
is quantized. We're just too slow to accept everything is quantized.
They suppose a timeline after the Big Bang through "inflation", but your
folded dimension theory suggests their timeline is magical thinking, or
nothing at all, probably. We need to get creative in our analyses.
Feynman said something to the effect that he didn't understand QED but he
believed it. We do not understand time, it's nature, its quantum state,
its field, or its consequence. Einstein's brilliance was to factor time
into the equation as an equal to space. Space is nothing but quanta, all
matter and energy, in their construction and behavior, and so is time.
I'm late for my nap. :-)
Happy Foot of Heavy Snow and 60 mph Winds. The Kubota is with blower and
ready for it.
Solstice; beginning of winter. 56 with 11 mph south wind.
Overnight low got below freezing. Instead of plugging for a
white Christmas, the local tv meteorologists are praying for
a cold front.
Got the chains on the tractor (no fun at all, it's a two-man job) and
managed to blow a path to the Hardy to fill it. 15" of snow so heavy you
can actually walk on top of it. Trees down all over the place, two across
the driveway. Winds continue 30-40 mph, higher predicted. The power
flickered off and on several times last night, but no major outages.

I'm dreaming of a cold front Christmas? You can have mine.

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