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Microsoft's Smartphone 2003 SDK Released
cd_Csc writes "Microsoft's long awaited Smartphone 2003 SDK was released today. This free download is critical milestone for the Smartphone platform. For the first time, developers are now able to use the .NET Compact Framework to write Smartphone applications using Visual Studio. At Smartphone Thoughts, we have listed the details of what's new in the 2003 SDK along with some screen shots of enhancements to the Inbox and Internet Explorer applications."
It's damned late.
Yeah but does it run linux??
We played dungeons and dragons for 3 hours.....then i was slain by an elf
why do i care about this?
WHY
WHY
WHY?
Time and Classical and Quantum Mechanics: Indeterminacy vs. Discontinuity
Peter Lynds1
Time, Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Indeterminacy, Discontinuity, Relativity,
Cosmology, Imaginary Time, Chronons, Zenos Paradoxes.
It is postulated there is not a precise static instant in time underlying a dynamical physical process at which
the relative position of a body in relative motion or a specific physical magnitude would theoretically be
precisely determined. It is concluded it is exactly because of this that time (relative interval as indicated by a
clock) and the continuity of a physical process is possible, with there being a necessary trade off of all
precisely determined physical values at a time, for their continuity through time. This explanation is also
shown to be the correct solution to the motion and infinity paradoxes, excluding the Stadium, originally
conceived by the ancient Greek mathematician Zeno of Elea. Quantum Cosmology, Imaginary Time and
Chronons are also then discussed, with the latter two appearing to be superseded on a theoretical basis.
1. Introduction
Time enters mechanics as a measure of interval, relative to the clock completing the measurement.
Conversely, although it is generally not realized, in all cases a time value indicates an interval of time,
rather than a precise static instant in time at which the relative position of a body in relative motion or a
specific physical magnitude would theoretically be precisely determined. For example, if two separate
events are measured to take place at either 1 hour or 10.00 seconds, these two values indicate the events
occurred during the time intervals of 1 and 1.99999hours and 10.00 and 10.0099999seconds,
respectively. If a time measurement is made smaller and more accurate, the value comes closer to an
accurate measure of an interval in time and the corresponding parameter and boundary of a specific
physical magnitudes potential measurement during that interval, whether it be relative position,
momentum, energy or other. Regardless of how small and accurate the value is made however, it cannot
indicate a precise static instant in time at which a value would theoretically be precisely determined,
because there is not a precise static instant in time underlying a dynamical physical process. If there were,
all physical continuity, including motion and variation in all physical magnitudes would not be possible,
as they would be frozen static at that precise instant, remaining that way. Subsequently, at no time is the
relative position of a body in relative motion or a physical magnitude precisely determined, whether
during a measured time interval, however small, or at a precise static instant in time, as at no time is it not
constantly changing and undetermined. Thus, it is exactly due to there not being a precise static instant in
time underlying a dynamical physical process, and the relative motion of body in relative motion or a
physical magnitude not being precisely determined at any time, that motion and variation in physical
magnitudes is possible: there is a necessary trade off of all precisely determined physical values at a time,
for their continuity through time.
In the present report this simple but very counter-intuitive conclusion is developed and explored in
further detail and its general implications have important significance to time and its relationship to
classical and quantum mechanics, while also providing an insight into the reason and purpose for
indeterminacy and uncertainty in nature. An overview of the main theoretical results reported, presented
in the numerical order in which they later appear follows: (3) A body (micro and macroscopic) in relative
motion does not have a precisely determined relative position at any time, and all physical magnitudes are
not precisely determined at any time, although with the parameter and boundary of their respective
position and magnitude being determinable