> Special relativity concerns only objects in uniform straight-line motion. A circular train around the Earth is not straight-line motion, so general relativity comes into play.
Is that so? Okay, where's the straight line in this Universe.
Will this measuring satellite go by the straight-line? By my best knowledge, those orbits are all elliptic.
No, he is not. It's an echo of 1859... when Darwin came out with his theory. All the bozos (and some bright people also) are doing the same ritual as they have done it - back then.
It will be the Singularity before all this predicted long term good effects on the quality of cola sprite.
You are 90% boring here on Slashdot. Sorry to say - but I really don't like CO2 level in 2100 predictions, or how the car will negotiate with another for parking place in 2040.
But then again... that many people as here... want this kind of stuff.
It's the moron's problem, that they don't know anything and dislike science. Science is alive and well, among several millions of educated and smart enough people.
Evolution is under way every single moment. It does change the direction and speed, but it's constantly all around us.
It's effects may be microscopic in short intervals, but still - there it is.
Now, for example, those AIDS resistant has a slight advantage aver those, who aren't. It should be already noticeable in some parts of the world.
We have hundreds or thousands of those evolution pressures, many more important than AIDS resistance.
But to see the changes with a naked eye, thousand generations should past first.
In a time of a generation the random mechanism of evolution will be most likely replaced with a rational design. And will drive us much faster to a less random goals, as now is the case.
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No length contraction has ever been observed.
- Thomas
> Note that when you are on the train, it is still the same length
I am a _bystander_. First, the train doesn't move. It just stretches around the equator.
Then however, it slowly accelerate (let say in a 10 years time) to the 99% of c. It should be 1/7 of it's original length now.
How do I suppose to see that?
- Thomas
> Just because *you* don't understand how it all fits together, doesn't mean it doesn't.
...
But if nobody can show me how they do fit
> The rules do work "all the time" - if they didn't, physicists wouldn't find them very useful
In the case of the circular train - how do they work? I am asking.
> The rules of special relativity apply everywhere, all the time
Yea, yea - HOW do they work for my example?
>, but they only produce the unusual time/mass dilation effects in situations involving relative differences in velocity.
I am standing by this train. What do I see?
> improved theory which completely explains all areas in question with a single theory.
Excuse me! How it works for the circular train?
> Try reading Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" for more on this.
I see no answer to my question there - either.
- Thomas
> Special relativity concerns only objects in uniform straight-line motion. A circular train around the Earth is not straight-line motion, so general relativity comes into play.
Is that so? Okay, where's the straight line in this Universe.
Will this measuring satellite go by the straight-line? By my best knowledge, those orbits are all elliptic.
- Thomas
I see!
Hope, that you are not too tired now.
- Thomas
That's my bet.
Be cause I can't see, what happens with a circular train around the Earth. How does it shrink, when it's velocity approaches c?
And this inconsistency must pop out on some other places as well. Sooner or later.
- Thomas
Interesting thing about quarks, is the constant force against the separation, no matter how far you've already separated them.
It's easy for me, to see bits everywhere.
- Thomas
Maybe you wouldn't talk like that - then.
- Thomas
Did you ever hear for the Planck's distance - for example?
Analog - is an oldfashioned myth.
- Thomas
No, he is not. It's an echo of 1859 ... when Darwin came out with his theory. All the bozos (and some bright people also) are doing the same ritual as they have done it - back then.
- Thomas Kristan
"Everything is computing" - is essentially to understand. Just as: "animal is a machine". Or "man is an animal".
... we will handle it well. Beyond anything imagined before, in the dark ages.
What is the big deal? Facts of life.
I am even glad, that it is so. So, we will be able to reprogram this Universe_program. To make it close to perfect!
What if it was a stupid Bible driven world? Many would go to hell for the eternity. For example.
This way
- Thomas
Amateurs for amateurs ... hunt comets. And this is our professional defense against the Doomsday?!
- Thomas
It will be the Singularity before all this predicted long term good effects on the quality of cola sprite.
... that many people as here ... want this kind of stuff.
You are 90% boring here on Slashdot. Sorry to say - but I really don't like CO2 level in 2100 predictions, or how the car will negotiate with another for parking place in 2040.
But then again
- Thomas
Bull.
It's the moron's problem, that they don't know anything and dislike science. Science is alive and well, among several millions of educated and smart enough people.
Am I arrogant? So what?
You are correct. But the slashdot community is too numerous - I guess. Too many 'ordinary people'.
This is correct. All oposite views are wrong.
That simple.
Evolution is under way every single moment. It does change the direction and speed, but it's constantly all around us.
It's effects may be microscopic in short intervals, but still - there it is.
Now, for example, those AIDS resistant has a slight advantage aver those, who aren't. It should be already noticeable in some parts of the world.
We have hundreds or thousands of those evolution pressures, many more important than AIDS resistance.
But to see the changes with a naked eye, thousand generations should past first.
In a time of a generation the random mechanism of evolution will be most likely replaced with a rational design. And will drive us much faster to a less random goals, as now is the case.
Is this still evolution - it's a semantic.