I always wished that my followers would do something for themselves besides eat, breed, and die. I never made it through the game becuase I got tired of building houses for my people.
I've actually TRIED Coke mixed with Coffee before, and I have to say it's actually pretty good! There was only a half a cup of coffee left in the pot at work and plenty of coke lying around, so I filled up the rest of my coffee cup with coke fully expecting it to taste like four kinds of ass.
To my surprise it was actually quite tasty, the coke balanced out the bitter coffee in a very interesting way! I think I'll do it again tonight!
Probably for the same reason WindowBlinds exists. Some people like flashy desktops with fancy borders and other cool (if not 'functional') enhancements.
It's the old argument of style over function, I personally liked WindowBlinds but not enough to take the preformance hit and some of the hastles of configuring it. Perhaps Vista, being created by microsoft, won't be quite as subject to those limitations. If it's free (or 'free-able') I'll certanly take a gander at it.
1. Continue to read and, 2. Tirelessly work to improve your karma by bitching.
+5 Informitive for -1 Flamebait?
If I was CmndrTaco I would be long past giving two shits about editing or even dupes. If he did, how hard would it be to build a simple spell checker into the the tool he uses to post articles? Or even a trivial URL dupe checker that looked over the past several days for an identical URL gracing the front page? If I cared to do so I could probably hammer something like that out in an hour or two, but I don't, and neither does he.
If you don't like it, leave. And don't let the doorknob plug your mouth on the way out.
.. but once I started thinking about it it made a bit more sense in evolutionary terms.
Scales! If dinosaurs evolved slowly from fish, why would the scales simply disappear without evolution even trying to figure out another use for them? It's not a gigantic logical leap to move from the idea of scales to the idea of feathers, they're both overlapping 'plates' attached at a single point, the only difference is the fine structure involved which may have started simply as land walking fish who's scales didn't hold together very well, leaving ribbons of scale that were at once more flexible and slightly more insulative.
I've recently been tinkering with a FreeBSD server where I work, but what I'd really like is an insanely stripped down version of BSD that will run SSH and Apache ONLY, both on arbitrary ports up in the 1xxxxx range, and flat out ignore any communication to any other port. IE, a stealth server (Ninja please!).
At first glance this looks like it would fit the bill, just install this and run on the wan port alone while disabling the DHCP server aspect of it, but before I nuke the install I spent last night setting up in favor of m0n0bsd I'd like a second opinion. Any thoughts?
I knew it! I wonder if the lack of plot in the second two movies was due to the same sort of meddling. "The first one was great, but they did so much 'talking', in this one, let's make everyone a deaf-mute with an AK 47 and ten pounds of C4!"
If I recall correctly, I think Morpheus went on about how the human nervous system produced enough electricity to power a light bulb, and that the machines tapped into that energy to run themselves.
Personally, though, I think it would have been cooler if the machines were using us as inexpensive processing units. What if, in the real world, you didn't actually have to sleep, and that 'sleep' is the machines using you to think? o.o
Here's a little trick I've been using recently, I don't remember a password, I remember a phrase. Such as Ten and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, boiled down to create 10&20bbb1@p. It looks pretty random to the average person, but a lot easier to remember than pure randomness.
Perhaps instead of offering people simply randomly generated numbers and letters, or even pronounceable versions thereof, why not offer a variety of phrases along with the resulting hash after filtering it through 'leet' speek?
By the way, I did not RTFA, so I apologize if this is -1 Redundant
You're not an idiot, my mistake was in putting up an incomplete formula as fact. I should have instead posed it as an open ended question with a plea for someone to point me in the right direction. When I model how a black hole would work in my head this is what the information I get back tells me, that when two points of matter pass each other by at a high velocity they radiate gravity relational to the amount of mass involved and how much is in the area in question, however I have no classical physics training beyond self study and general high school education about the subject, neither one of which drills the correct terms into one's head.
Here, I've looked up the terms involved and found that density was a simple term for what I was trying to express for the right half of the multiplier in my original equation, and reorganized a bit better. Each term holds it's constituent formula within parenthesis.
Fun, now I'll cross cancel and see what happens. I can remove kg from either side, as well as m/s, which leaves me with
1 * 1 / s = 1 / m^3 * 1
Multiplying by one is boring.
1 / s = 1 / m^3
1/time equals 1/space:)
Why can't angular momentum be conserved
L = r x gamma p
then as r->0, gamma->Inf, because v->c
so a limit can exist
the same thing happens in particle physics by the way
Not knowing the terms you're talking about by abbreviation I can't understand quite what you mean, would you be willing to clarify your equation with terms that I could ask my friend Google about?
The jets of matter do not come out of the black hole its self, please be careful the way you state things. That is how misinformation spreads.
I apologize, I should have thought that paragraph through one more time before submitting, but I'm glad that you only had issue with the idea of matter leaving the black hole than the theory of why such forces would exist, being that rapid spin would produce higher Newtonian force along the equator than at the poles, leaving one dimensional axis of greatly reduced forces in relation to the rest of the space time twist.
This, coupled with the conservation of angular momentum, says that a true zero volume singularity can't exist through traditional mathematics, since as volume gets closer to zero everything to the right of the divisor grows. Now, whether you believe x/0 equals infinity or take the usual mathematical stance of saying that it simply can't be done it still equals a very unique situation. The mass at the center of a black hole must occupy some volume, after all, it's twisted enough spacetime in along with it to contain all the mass it holds.
The faster a black hole rotates the higher it's gravity, since the relative distance of the particles is so small and angular momentum refuses to decrease you have more relative velocity in a much smaller volume, with plenty of mass. Think of an electromagnet, lots of turns in a real real small space plus a ton of current will make one hell of a magnetic force, though confined to a very small area.
This is basically a gravstar. It doesn't really matter how much volume it takes up as long as gravity is over the magic number it takes to spin a photon in and compile it back into matter (E=MC^2, right? well M=E/C^2).
Another thought for you, some black holes have jets of matter screaming out of their poles. When a gravstar spins, at the poles the matter doesn't have the same relative velocity as the matter at the equator, and when enough of a differential is created, poof, incoming matter is squirted upwards and outwards along the poles. Even if it's not matter escaping from the inside of the hole, the accretion disk would be forced much harder inwards perpendicular to the poles than drawn in along the axis of rotation, and the resulting pressure is god's own jet engine.
Infinity isn't just something that you can toss around like a twenty, true infinite gravity would be all consuming, since it had no upper limit there would be no lower limit to the curve, and the resulting spacetime curvature would have an infinite range and infinite strength, sucking the universe in along with it in a very unidirectional way. If one point of mass ever became a true zero volume singularity, everything would become a zero volume singularity. That's infinity for you.
One thing's for sure, I'm not going to pay to offer files up off of my own darn computer. If they do make me pay, they'd better start offering up files of their own. the way I pay for napster service now is to give back to the comunity in the form of letting people download music that I've downloaded from people with the same philosophy as me. if they're going to go to a 'pay the fat cats' system, it better better be the fat cat's bandwidth that I'm sucking off of when I download a rare Fila Brazillia remix.
Do you know WHY JFK was so hip about the space program? we needed vehicles that could deliver nuclear weapons to the USSR.
The human body is a pretty fragile little package as far as equipment goes, it can only handle about 10 gees or so before it breaks. the fact that we showed we could get one to the moon and back showed pretty well that we could put as many A bombs as we wanted on the Kremlin's doorstep.
It wasn't until the shuttle we were really in it for science reasons, and I'm not even sure about that, either, we just needed a reusable elevator to push up a bunch of spy satalites, science was a bonus. it all comes back to `defense'.
but on another note I don't mind living in the country with the biggest stick, since the one with the biggest stick is almost always hitting littler people with it, and I don't wanna be little
'cept canada, we don't tick them off cuz when we do they send busloads of tourists out of Thunder Bay to stone pesestrians to death with their chinsy aluminum quarters --
Alright, I think I understand..
Let me continue on with the ballon analogy. in the begining one point of the balloon had all spacetime affecting material in one spot, spinning around a central point and twisting the ballon up into a very tight, compact little point, the rest of spacetime so streached and thin it could contain no matter, so just like water seeks the lowest ground all matter was forced into the area of greatest collected spacetime.
For reasons unknown, this rotation stopped, and the balloon, or spacetime, unwound in a snap that suddenly diffused spacetime everywhere for matter to exist, so it diffused outward away all of a sudden.. kind of like ink on a rubber band. if you squished rubber together and wrote on it, then streached it out, there is no central point it's expanding from, it was never in one point to begin with, but all points were very close together and are now moving away from each other, pulling matter along with it..
I like:)
I see what you are saying about no absolute velocity, only relative velocity, and I think I now understand how that would work in a situation like that, if this singularity, with an infintesimaly small but nonzero volume was rotating at a speed of 1, any point on the outside would be traveling at a speed of 2 relative to the exact point on the other side along the line of the axis of rotation, 2*(lots of density)/little bit of volume=lots of gravity, or spacetime warp, or twisted rubber, holding it all together. space would snap back if the density was nulified by no velocity around the axis in relation to the point on the other side. maybe spin makes gravity. and there's always going to be a seed of spin availible, when's the last time you saw a nonspinning atom? (ok, you might have, I'm conjecturing)
does this mean there was no big bang? when I went through school I was taught that the universe was given x/y/z dimension from a singularity via a big bang, and you don't get much more point based than a singularity. singularities are THE points.
that's a good point, I think I was likening the Higgs bosun to the 'ether' Einstin kicked around, something for us to be traveling through that would create this wake. guess I'll just go back to calling it space/time:)
Let me try another tact. if you have two cars on the highway moving at forty miles an hour, if they could only see each other and they were moving at the same rate they would appear to be stopped, and indeed would be in relation to one another, however if they moved closer to one another the wind whipping at high speed between them would cause them to tug closer to each other, possibly thinking it was a force eminated by the cars themselves rather than being a byproduct of their forty mile an hour travel in relation to the wind that pushes past them. IE, this sea of higgs particles. the question would be is what framework this Higgs is in and what is 'stationary' in relation to it.
Ahhh, I see. Using my mathematics it would make more sense then for singularities would have a infentesimal, though nonzero volume, making it 0D/10^-53=? or whatnot.. either way if the object happened to be at dead stop by my calculations it should have 0 gravitational squeeze on it, and to have mass is to prove you're in motion.
I'm not entirely sure I understand what you're talking about in the analogy between a ballon and the big bang, when I visualize what you're talking about is being at the center of an expanding balloon with dots all over it's surface, where the dots would appear to be expanding away from each other at a steady rate and universaly away from me at the center. but the dots in any direction would have a set of dots on the other side of me traveling in an equal and opposite direction.
If the image you're trying to convey is one of being on the surface of the balloon watching the dots around me grow in distance from one another.. say if you had a fuzzy ballon, more like an elastic mist, with the polka dots spread throuout it. if you were at the center of part of that mist, not all parts of it would be traveling at the same rate in the same direction, but spreading apart uniformly away from each other spot in the mist as it streached further apart.
Either way I think it's time I do more research. It works in my head, so (more likely) my understanding of physics is flawed or I'm just not very good at expressing myself.
Thanks
About six months ago I was feeling particularly good and my mind felt tuned to physics, so I downloaded some informational text about frame dragging and singularities from britannica.com and thought about them while I wasted my life at my boring job. I thought about how an object increases in mass as it starts to move faster, and this led me to the idea that mass was tied directly to velocity. Our sun is moving right now, circling around the center of our galaxy like a bath toy around a drain, and our galaxy is almost certanly moving outwards from the central point at which the big bang occurred, and all these add up to quite a bit of velocity, hence, in my mind, gravity. The idea that motion through Higgs bosuns meshes quite nicely with this idea of mine, that a wake through this sea of bosuns would produce this lovely force that ties stuff together.
It makes me wonder, what would be the mass of an object at dead stop? I've heard it argued that there can be no dead stop due to there being no exact framework for the universe, but I disagree, if the big bang was a point, matter must be traveling in opposite directions at exactly opposite velocities on either side of this single point, every velocity in one direction is matched exactly by a velocity on the other side of this single point. This thought being how I believe the big bang occurred.
It has to do with a formula I came up with while I was having a particularly good day, one I haven't had since, Angular velocity (J) multiplied by density (D) divided by volume V equals the gravitational wake (G) of any particular object, or JD/V=G. In a singularity, V is going to be 0, this is lots of matter in no space, spinning quickly for the same reason a figure skater moves faster when they pull up into a tight axle. Being literate computer folks I think you know what a divide by zero gets you, JD/0=? it leads me to suspect that even a singularity has measurable volume, because active spin in no space would make infinite gravity and suck the universe in to get cozy.
First, the big bang was a singularity to begin with, a mighty big one, likely spinning as it sucked in whatever mass was growing it, and it's spin was every velocity that was put into it spinning in almost zero volume, but a curious thing happenened, the velocities added to it started to cancle it's spin, slowing it down until J was 0, so 0D/0=0, no gravity to hold D inside of V, so physics snapped back in that very instant and all the velocity ever added to it springs back traveling in equal and opposite directions like god's own firecracker.
This therory appears to be consistant with Frame Dragging and the whole general relitivity business.
if you'd like to take a look at my raw notes, go here, although I warn that they're a little messy and in some parts totally wrong:)
Napster has contributed to the world by creating a lovely radio pool for people who cannot be served adequetly by the existing content delivery structure. For those of us who are NOT interested in whatever the latest craze happens to be can browse music titles in an infinatly more useful and accurate fashion, by searching through the collections of people with tastes simalar to their own.
For instance, I am follower of jazzy easy listening band Fila Brazillia. I do periodic searches on napster for anything containing the words Fila Brazillia, and when I find a user with a significant amount of Fila Brazillia songs I add them to my hot list and browse their archive, looking for songs I am interested in.
It was via this method I learned of another lovely group called Wagon Christ, a band with a very simalar style, who's CD I immediatly bought.
Multiply my experience by all other people interested in purchasing CDs who are using napster and you've got quite a bit of money moving around for music, which, if analyzed, is not very different from normal, current distribution channels, with a few notable exeptions;
1. I wasn't 'fed' this band through a radio or over the television, I sought it out from someone who liked it enough to take the time to seek it and then store it on their computer.
2. An artist selling a CD through normal distribution channels makes (AFAIK) aproximatly.30 to.40 cents off of each and every CD sold. Basically about the same price the CD itself before overhead, so why am I not paying $2 per CD? After all, if I can write lovely music and find someone to print my CDs at.30 cents a pop and then I add.30, if enough people listen to me I can still make money, right? so where is the extra $15 going? To making sure they sell a lot, to everybody. To make sure that you are listening to them and not Atom and his Package. To the stereotypical suit with a pony tail and a cocaine habit who has managed to convince the artist that they don't own the music they wrote and played.
3. Therefor, when I purchase a CD from an independant artist who manufactures his own CDs and works to distribute them he keeps the entire profit and has no need to be in your face all of the time. He can make a tidy living for himself off of the fans that wish to purchase his album, relieving the strian on bands to continually come up with music suitable for the lowest common denominator (AKA 'larger market share')
If this were any other commodity it would a clear variant on the classic protection racket, you pay us (using the formula (15-(.30 +.30))/15=) 94% of the earnings off your CD and we makes sure your CD gets sold. Otherwise you're another one of those 'independant' bands we're always hearing about but never hear.
Mp3 is the means, Napster is the way. Mp3 by it's very existance has already changed our lives for the better, those of us who know how to utlize it to our advantages, and Napster gives us the way to realize what we want to do, namely listen to something NEW. I don't want to listen to the radio, I don't want to turn on my television, I don't want to be 'fed' another second of the same pre chewed overhyped music of the month enviornment that has stifled the creativity of the past three generations of musicians and encouraged conformity over diversity for the simple reason that conformity means conforming to them and continuing to offer them $14.40 for every $15 I want to spend on the culture that surrounds me.
No more. I have seen the future and I am going to follow it even if I have to become a criminal in order to do it. Living in a democracy I was taught that if the laws do not conform to public opinion than by the nature of our governmental system it would attemt to conform itself to the wishes of the people. If people have no respect for a law than it is in essence a bad law, rife for disregard by those who would choose to think for themselves.
Metallica, on the other hand, owns none of their work, are held on a contractural basis to Elektra which prevents them from having any attitude that does not comply with the wishes of their label under threat of legal action, unless they choose to opt for a buyout which I have heard described as 100% of current assets plus 10%. They contribute to society only at one end of the flow, while Napster contributes to the fabric of the society itself, making a richer world for all of us who wish to listen to something else for a change, because frankly I heard my fill of the current distribution channels when they started their current exclusive policy, which occurred slightly after they realized that they were the bottleneck of society and were in the perfect position to reap huge profits off an art form that extends back to the dawn of human history.
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I always wished that my followers would do something for themselves besides eat, breed, and die. I never made it through the game becuase I got tired of building houses for my people.
I've actually TRIED Coke mixed with Coffee before, and I have to say it's actually pretty good! There was only a half a cup of coffee left in the pot at work and plenty of coke lying around, so I filled up the rest of my coffee cup with coke fully expecting it to taste like four kinds of ass. To my surprise it was actually quite tasty, the coke balanced out the bitter coffee in a very interesting way! I think I'll do it again tonight!
Probably for the same reason WindowBlinds exists. Some people like flashy desktops with fancy borders and other cool (if not 'functional') enhancements.
It's the old argument of style over function, I personally liked WindowBlinds but not enough to take the preformance hit and some of the hastles of configuring it. Perhaps Vista, being created by microsoft, won't be quite as subject to those limitations. If it's free (or 'free-able') I'll certanly take a gander at it.
But only if I can uninstall it!!
If Slashdot irks you so much, why do you;
1. Continue to read and,
2. Tirelessly work to improve your karma by bitching.
+5 Informitive for -1 Flamebait?
If I was CmndrTaco I would be long past giving two shits about editing or even dupes. If he did, how hard would it be to build a simple spell checker into the the tool he uses to post articles? Or even a trivial URL dupe checker that looked over the past several days for an identical URL gracing the front page? If I cared to do so I could probably hammer something like that out in an hour or two, but I don't, and neither does he.
If you don't like it, leave. And don't let the doorknob plug your mouth on the way out.
.. but once I started thinking about it it made a bit more sense in evolutionary terms.
Scales! If dinosaurs evolved slowly from fish, why would the scales simply disappear without evolution even trying to figure out another use for them? It's not a gigantic logical leap to move from the idea of scales to the idea of feathers, they're both overlapping 'plates' attached at a single point, the only difference is the fine structure involved which may have started simply as land walking fish who's scales didn't hold together very well, leaving ribbons of scale that were at once more flexible and slightly more insulative.
Brilliant! *beer time*
I've recently been tinkering with a FreeBSD server where I work, but what I'd really like is an insanely stripped down version of BSD that will run SSH and Apache ONLY, both on arbitrary ports up in the 1xxxxx range, and flat out ignore any communication to any other port. IE, a stealth server (Ninja please!).
At first glance this looks like it would fit the bill, just install this and run on the wan port alone while disabling the DHCP server aspect of it, but before I nuke the install I spent last night setting up in favor of m0n0bsd I'd like a second opinion. Any thoughts?
Months ago I decided that 'funny' was broken and gave it a -2 modifier. As long as I browse at 4 and above Slashdot doesn't suck :)
My private shame is that the only 5 level posts I've written were 'funny'.
How? By banging it against the coffee table?
I knew it! I wonder if the lack of plot in the second two movies was due to the same sort of meddling. "The first one was great, but they did so much 'talking', in this one, let's make everyone a deaf-mute with an AK 47 and ten pounds of C4!"
If I recall correctly, I think Morpheus went on about how the human nervous system produced enough electricity to power a light bulb, and that the machines tapped into that energy to run themselves.
Personally, though, I think it would have been cooler if the machines were using us as inexpensive processing units. What if, in the real world, you didn't actually have to sleep, and that 'sleep' is the machines using you to think? o.o
Who says you have to use your own blood?
Here's a little trick I've been using recently, I don't remember a password, I remember a phrase. Such as Ten and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, boiled down to create 10&20bbb1@p. It looks pretty random to the average person, but a lot easier to remember than pure randomness.
Perhaps instead of offering people simply randomly generated numbers and letters, or even pronounceable versions thereof, why not offer a variety of phrases along with the resulting hash after filtering it through 'leet' speek?
By the way, I did not RTFA, so I apologize if this is -1 Redundant
Here, I've looked up the terms involved and found that density was a simple term for what I was trying to express for the right half of the multiplier in my original equation, and reorganized a bit better. Each term holds it's constituent formula within parenthesis.
newton(kg*m/s/s) = density(kg/m^3) * velocity(m/s)
Fun, now I'll cross cancel and see what happens. I can remove kg from either side, as well as m/s, which leaves me with
1 * 1 / s = 1 / m^3 * 1
Multiplying by one is boring.
1 / s = 1 / m^3
1/time equals 1/space :)
Why can't angular momentum be conserved
L = r x gamma p
then as r->0, gamma->Inf, because v->c
so a limit can exist
the same thing happens in particle physics by the way
Not knowing the terms you're talking about by abbreviation I can't understand quite what you mean, would you be willing to clarify your equation with terms that I could ask my friend Google about?
The jets of matter do not come out of the black hole its self, please be careful the way you state things. That is how misinformation spreads.
I apologize, I should have thought that paragraph through one more time before submitting, but I'm glad that you only had issue with the idea of matter leaving the black hole than the theory of why such forces would exist, being that rapid spin would produce higher Newtonian force along the equator than at the poles, leaving one dimensional axis of greatly reduced forces in relation to the rest of the space time twist.
Oh crap, you know I meant to the left of the divisor :/
This, coupled with the conservation of angular momentum, says that a true zero volume singularity can't exist through traditional mathematics, since as volume gets closer to zero everything to the right of the divisor grows. Now, whether you believe x/0 equals infinity or take the usual mathematical stance of saying that it simply can't be done it still equals a very unique situation. The mass at the center of a black hole must occupy some volume, after all, it's twisted enough spacetime in along with it to contain all the mass it holds.
The faster a black hole rotates the higher it's gravity, since the relative distance of the particles is so small and angular momentum refuses to decrease you have more relative velocity in a much smaller volume, with plenty of mass. Think of an electromagnet, lots of turns in a real real small space plus a ton of current will make one hell of a magnetic force, though confined to a very small area.
This is basically a gravstar. It doesn't really matter how much volume it takes up as long as gravity is over the magic number it takes to spin a photon in and compile it back into matter (E=MC^2, right? well M=E/C^2).
Another thought for you, some black holes have jets of matter screaming out of their poles. When a gravstar spins, at the poles the matter doesn't have the same relative velocity as the matter at the equator, and when enough of a differential is created, poof, incoming matter is squirted upwards and outwards along the poles. Even if it's not matter escaping from the inside of the hole, the accretion disk would be forced much harder inwards perpendicular to the poles than drawn in along the axis of rotation, and the resulting pressure is god's own jet engine.
Infinity isn't just something that you can toss around like a twenty, true infinite gravity would be all consuming, since it had no upper limit there would be no lower limit to the curve, and the resulting spacetime curvature would have an infinite range and infinite strength, sucking the universe in along with it in a very unidirectional way. If one point of mass ever became a true zero volume singularity, everything would become a zero volume singularity. That's infinity for you.
in short, they make me pay, I share nothing
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The human body is a pretty fragile little package as far as equipment goes, it can only handle about 10 gees or so before it breaks. the fact that we showed we could get one to the moon and back showed pretty well that we could put as many A bombs as we wanted on the Kremlin's doorstep.
It wasn't until the shuttle we were really in it for science reasons, and I'm not even sure about that, either, we just needed a reusable elevator to push up a bunch of spy satalites, science was a bonus. it all comes back to `defense'.
but on another note I don't mind living in the country with the biggest stick, since the one with the biggest stick is almost always hitting littler people with it, and I don't wanna be little
'cept canada, we don't tick them off cuz when we do they send busloads of tourists out of Thunder Bay to stone pesestrians to death with their chinsy aluminum quarters
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For reasons unknown, this rotation stopped, and the balloon, or spacetime, unwound in a snap that suddenly diffused spacetime everywhere for matter to exist, so it diffused outward away all of a sudden.. kind of like ink on a rubber band. if you squished rubber together and wrote on it, then streached it out, there is no central point it's expanding from, it was never in one point to begin with, but all points were very close together and are now moving away from each other, pulling matter along with it..
I like :)
I see what you are saying about no absolute velocity, only relative velocity, and I think I now understand how that would work in a situation like that, if this singularity, with an infintesimaly small but nonzero volume was rotating at a speed of 1, any point on the outside would be traveling at a speed of 2 relative to the exact point on the other side along the line of the axis of rotation, 2*(lots of density)/little bit of volume=lots of gravity, or spacetime warp, or twisted rubber, holding it all together. space would snap back if the density was nulified by no velocity around the axis in relation to the point on the other side. maybe spin makes gravity. and there's always going to be a seed of spin availible, when's the last time you saw a nonspinning atom? (ok, you might have, I'm conjecturing)
I have more to think about now :)
if it didn't happen I'd really like to know :/
that's a good point, I think I was likening the Higgs bosun to the 'ether' Einstin kicked around, something for us to be traveling through that would create this wake. guess I'll just go back to calling it space/time :)
Let me try another tact. if you have two cars on the highway moving at forty miles an hour, if they could only see each other and they were moving at the same rate they would appear to be stopped, and indeed would be in relation to one another, however if they moved closer to one another the wind whipping at high speed between them would cause them to tug closer to each other, possibly thinking it was a force eminated by the cars themselves rather than being a byproduct of their forty mile an hour travel in relation to the wind that pushes past them. IE, this sea of higgs particles. the question would be is what framework this Higgs is in and what is 'stationary' in relation to it.
Ahhh, I see. Using my mathematics it would make more sense then for singularities would have a infentesimal, though nonzero volume, making it 0D/10^-53=? or whatnot.. either way if the object happened to be at dead stop by my calculations it should have 0 gravitational squeeze on it, and to have mass is to prove you're in motion.
If the image you're trying to convey is one of being on the surface of the balloon watching the dots around me grow in distance from one another.. say if you had a fuzzy ballon, more like an elastic mist, with the polka dots spread throuout it. if you were at the center of part of that mist, not all parts of it would be traveling at the same rate in the same direction, but spreading apart uniformly away from each other spot in the mist as it streached further apart.
Either way I think it's time I do more research. It works in my head, so (more likely) my understanding of physics is flawed or I'm just not very good at expressing myself. Thanks
It makes me wonder, what would be the mass of an object at dead stop? I've heard it argued that there can be no dead stop due to there being no exact framework for the universe, but I disagree, if the big bang was a point, matter must be traveling in opposite directions at exactly opposite velocities on either side of this single point, every velocity in one direction is matched exactly by a velocity on the other side of this single point. This thought being how I believe the big bang occurred.
It has to do with a formula I came up with while I was having a particularly good day, one I haven't had since, Angular velocity (J) multiplied by density (D) divided by volume V equals the gravitational wake (G) of any particular object, or JD/V=G. In a singularity, V is going to be 0, this is lots of matter in no space, spinning quickly for the same reason a figure skater moves faster when they pull up into a tight axle. Being literate computer folks I think you know what a divide by zero gets you, JD/0=? it leads me to suspect that even a singularity has measurable volume, because active spin in no space would make infinite gravity and suck the universe in to get cozy.
First, the big bang was a singularity to begin with, a mighty big one, likely spinning as it sucked in whatever mass was growing it, and it's spin was every velocity that was put into it spinning in almost zero volume, but a curious thing happenened, the velocities added to it started to cancle it's spin, slowing it down until J was 0, so 0D/0=0, no gravity to hold D inside of V, so physics snapped back in that very instant and all the velocity ever added to it springs back traveling in equal and opposite directions like god's own firecracker.
This therory appears to be consistant with Frame Dragging and the whole general relitivity business.
if you'd like to take a look at my raw notes, go here, although I warn that they're a little messy and in some parts totally wrong :)
For instance, I am follower of jazzy easy listening band Fila Brazillia. I do periodic searches on napster for anything containing the words Fila Brazillia, and when I find a user with a significant amount of Fila Brazillia songs I add them to my hot list and browse their archive, looking for songs I am interested in.
It was via this method I learned of another lovely group called Wagon Christ, a band with a very simalar style, who's CD I immediatly bought.
Multiply my experience by all other people interested in purchasing CDs who are using napster and you've got quite a bit of money moving around for music, which, if analyzed, is not very different from normal, current distribution channels, with a few notable exeptions;
1. I wasn't 'fed' this band through a radio or over the television, I sought it out from someone who liked it enough to take the time to seek it and then store it on their computer.
2. An artist selling a CD through normal distribution channels makes (AFAIK) aproximatly .30 to .40 cents off of each and every CD sold. Basically about the same price the CD itself before overhead, so why am I not paying $2 per CD? After all, if I can write lovely music and find someone to print my CDs at .30 cents a pop and then I add .30, if enough people listen to me I can still make money, right? so where is the extra $15 going? To making sure they sell a lot, to everybody. To make sure that you are listening to them and not Atom and his Package. To the stereotypical suit with a pony tail and a cocaine habit who has managed to convince the artist that they don't own the music they wrote and played.
3. Therefor, when I purchase a CD from an independant artist who manufactures his own CDs and works to distribute them he keeps the entire profit and has no need to be in your face all of the time. He can make a tidy living for himself off of the fans that wish to purchase his album, relieving the strian on bands to continually come up with music suitable for the lowest common denominator (AKA 'larger market share')
If this were any other commodity it would a clear variant on the classic protection racket, you pay us (using the formula (15-(.30 + .30))/15=) 94% of the earnings off your CD and we makes sure your CD gets sold. Otherwise you're another one of those 'independant' bands we're always hearing about but never hear.
Mp3 is the means, Napster is the way. Mp3 by it's very existance has already changed our lives for the better, those of us who know how to utlize it to our advantages, and Napster gives us the way to realize what we want to do, namely listen to something NEW. I don't want to listen to the radio, I don't want to turn on my television, I don't want to be 'fed' another second of the same pre chewed overhyped music of the month enviornment that has stifled the creativity of the past three generations of musicians and encouraged conformity over diversity for the simple reason that conformity means conforming to them and continuing to offer them $14.40 for every $15 I want to spend on the culture that surrounds me.
No more. I have seen the future and I am going to follow it even if I have to become a criminal in order to do it. Living in a democracy I was taught that if the laws do not conform to public opinion than by the nature of our governmental system it would attemt to conform itself to the wishes of the people. If people have no respect for a law than it is in essence a bad law, rife for disregard by those who would choose to think for themselves.
Metallica, on the other hand, owns none of their work, are held on a contractural basis to Elektra which prevents them from having any attitude that does not comply with the wishes of their label under threat of legal action, unless they choose to opt for a buyout which I have heard described as 100% of current assets plus 10%. They contribute to society only at one end of the flow, while Napster contributes to the fabric of the society itself, making a richer world for all of us who wish to listen to something else for a change, because frankly I heard my fill of the current distribution channels when they started their current exclusive policy, which occurred slightly after they realized that they were the bottleneck of society and were in the perfect position to reap huge profits off an art form that extends back to the dawn of human history.
Who owns the patent on music, anyways?
Sincerely;
Rommel Fox
http://spikesahead.net/