The universe was much less massive than it is now. The currently favored models are inflationary.
In order to describe the first momments of the Big Bang, you are going to need a good theory of quantum realativity. Unfortunately, no one has one.
That actually would have been a really good question for Mr. Seife, "What are the current best theories for reconciling Quantum Mechanics and Relativity? Or what are the prospects of such a theory coming together in the near future?"
Using a black body to define the temperature of a photon is not very precise since a black body gives off a specific spectrum, not a single wavelength.
Ususally, the termpaerature of a photon is defined as its Boltzman energy. In light of a lot of the cluelss remarks about this propulsion not being subject to the Second Law, it seems funny we use the Second Law to define a photon's temperature. Well, not so funny actually since the termperature as a physical quantity has no meaning without a Second Law of Thermodynamics,
Energy of a photon,
E = hv
The Boltzman energy of "something",
E = kT (k = Boltzmans' constant)
So, the "temperature" of a photon is,
T = hv / k
Yes, "mass center" of a proton is meaningless since they don't have mass. But it is not acurate to say "photons go in a perfectly straight line" either. Remember your wave-particle duality. They propagate as waves and can do all sorts of things that don't make sense if you treate them as particles.
This won't work the way the author wants. Once the receiving SMTP server sends the 354 after the client issues a DATA command, there is no opportunity for the server to slow things down until it produces the 250 response at the end of the message. That is, at the application level, all the server can do is slow down the WHOLE message. During the transfer, the only way to slow things down would be to mess around with the TCP layer. The transport layer lives in the kernel. That means kernel module. That means not very portable. That means no Java. That means an SMTP server (by its nature a security risk) futzing with the security of the operating system itself.
You can slow things down by waiting before you produce the 250, but that is not at all a new concept. Several people have referenced Sendmail milters for that purpose already.
Well, one thing you have to give this version,
we get a Baron who actually comes across as
a cunning and deviously intelligent foe, rather
than a comically grotesque and warped fat man.
The Rabban is similarly more restrained, and
therefore better. We haven't really met the
new Feyd yet, so we've yet to see there.
But I must say the Piter was a letdown. The Lynch
Piter was a little to edgy and fragile for me (despite the fact I like Brad Dourif), but between
this guy's think accent and the fact he looked like a body double for Black Adder, I was glad Piter's role was one they sacrificed a bit in the adaptation to the screen.
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The universe was much less massive than it is now. The currently favored models are inflationary.
In order to describe the first momments of the Big Bang, you are going to need a good theory of quantum realativity. Unfortunately, no one has one.
That actually would have been a really good question for Mr. Seife, "What are the current best theories for reconciling Quantum Mechanics and Relativity? Or what are the prospects of such a theory coming together in the near future?"
Using a black body to define the temperature of a photon is not very precise since a black body gives off a specific spectrum, not a single wavelength.
Ususally, the termpaerature of a photon is defined
as its Boltzman energy. In light of a lot of the
cluelss remarks about this propulsion not being
subject to the Second Law, it seems funny we use the Second Law to define a photon's temperature. Well, not so funny actually since the termperature as a physical quantity has no meaning without a Second Law of Thermodynamics,
Energy of a photon,
E = hv
The Boltzman energy of "something",
E = kT (k = Boltzmans' constant)
So, the "temperature" of a photon is,
T = hv / k
Yes, "mass center" of a proton is meaningless since they don't have mass. But it is not acurate to say "photons go in a perfectly straight line" either. Remember your wave-particle duality. They propagate as waves and can do all sorts of things that don't make sense if you treate them as particles.
This won't work the way the author wants. Once the receiving SMTP server sends the 354 after the client issues a DATA command, there is no opportunity for the server to slow things down until it produces the 250 response at the end of the message. That is, at the application level, all the server can do is slow down the WHOLE message. During the transfer, the only way to slow things down would be to mess around with the TCP layer. The transport layer lives in the kernel. That means kernel module. That means not very portable. That means no Java. That means an SMTP server (by its nature a security risk) futzing with the security of the operating system itself.
You can slow things down by waiting before you produce the 250, but that is not at all a new concept. Several people have referenced Sendmail milters for that purpose already.
But I must say the Piter was a letdown. The Lynch Piter was a little to edgy and fragile for me (despite the fact I like Brad Dourif), but between this guy's think accent and the fact he looked like a body double for Black Adder, I was glad Piter's role was one they sacrificed a bit in the adaptation to the screen.
Few can phone in a performance like Hurt can when he is not into the material.
He was pretty good in Pleasantville. And everyone sucked in 101 Dalmations.