I think we all kind of knew this, but it's nice to see someone is looking at the numbers, especially with the campaign contributions.
Not to mention this is also sickening that this continues to go on. The average person has a shit-fit when they hear that someone in the government does something illegal like this, but here it is obvious that Microsoft has more power than that. They have budget books big enough to make six million dollars disappear, very few other companies do. It's time that the public learned of this.
I don't think we'll have another Enron, but something big, nonetheless (hopefully).
Okay, I'm referring to paragraph 8 of this article (actually, I saw this idea first in Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, but this is the best online reference I can find on short notice).
Basically, it says that at extremely high temperatures, forces combine together. First, the electromagnetic force with weak nuclear force, becoming electroweak force, then the strong nuclear force, then finally, gravity (it is better explained in Hawking's book). Basically, depending on the temperature of the substance you're working with, constants, laws, and forces that it obey change as well.
Hawking also tells us that there is a constant amount of energy and matter in the universe, and the universe is constantly expanding and cooling. Since no natural law is so abrupt as to spontaneously jump from one value to another (a bullet traveling in one direction cannot change its direction entirely without stopping first, then going the other way, even if it is shot at directly with a cannon ball), then it only makes sense that it would change smoothly on some sort of function. Why shouldn't this idea be applied to constants? In this case, the force combination at high temperatures (such as the infinte temperature at the beginning of time) would follow some sort of inverse function, such as c = k ^ h + 300,000 (where k is some unknown value, h is the temperature of the location in space). So, at incredibly high temperatures, this would severely change the value of "c" (the speed of light), but at lower ones, the change would have less effect.
I don't believe that the value of light or gravity or any other constant will change with time, but instead with temperature, since the temperature of an object directly changes how it acts (H20: ice vs. water vs. vapor, etc), not what particular time it is in. This would still hold up with the quasar observations. With an incredible amount of distance separating us and the phenomena we're observing, the temperature of the universe in between here and there would affect the observations more, not the time in which it was sent.
Well, this is defintely more than just $.02 worth, but interesting to consider, nonetheless.
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I think we all kind of knew this, but it's nice to see someone is looking at the numbers, especially with the campaign contributions.
Not to mention this is also sickening that this continues to go on. The average person has a shit-fit when they hear that someone in the government does something illegal like this, but here it is obvious that Microsoft has more power than that. They have budget books big enough to make six million dollars disappear, very few other companies do. It's time that the public learned of this.
I don't think we'll have another Enron, but something big, nonetheless (hopefully).
This seriously looks like a map of the strength of stench of a fart from my dad in aerial view. Weird.
My packets are copyrighted, so legally they can't copy and resell them without my written authorization.
Even lost packets?
...32795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062 86208998...
Bleh, I need a life.
I also thought about adding at the end "=> God exists". Or maybe "=> Bush is not a flaming moron".
Instead of the "God Exists" ending, how about "=> Right=Wrong => Right=Creationism" just for kicks?
Nobody's suing people who actually infringe copyrights anymore. Everyone is suing people who make devices...
Yeah, but isn't this like suing Xerox for making copiers that can successfully copy parts of copyrighted books?
This idea is downright silly, and stupid. Leave file sharing software makers alone, go for the real criminals, no matter how hard that is.
Basically, it says that at extremely high temperatures, forces combine together. First, the electromagnetic force with weak nuclear force, becoming electroweak force, then the strong nuclear force, then finally, gravity (it is better explained in Hawking's book). Basically, depending on the temperature of the substance you're working with, constants, laws, and forces that it obey change as well.
Hawking also tells us that there is a constant amount of energy and matter in the universe, and the universe is constantly expanding and cooling. Since no natural law is so abrupt as to spontaneously jump from one value to another (a bullet traveling in one direction cannot change its direction entirely without stopping first, then going the other way, even if it is shot at directly with a cannon ball), then it only makes sense that it would change smoothly on some sort of function. Why shouldn't this idea be applied to constants? In this case, the force combination at high temperatures (such as the infinte temperature at the beginning of time) would follow some sort of inverse function, such as c = k ^ h + 300,000 (where k is some unknown value, h is the temperature of the location in space). So, at incredibly high temperatures, this would severely change the value of "c" (the speed of light), but at lower ones, the change would have less effect.
I don't believe that the value of light or gravity or any other constant will change with time, but instead with temperature, since the temperature of an object directly changes how it acts (H20: ice vs. water vs. vapor, etc), not what particular time it is in. This would still hold up with the quasar observations. With an incredible amount of distance separating us and the phenomena we're observing, the temperature of the universe in between here and there would affect the observations more, not the time in which it was sent.
Well, this is defintely more than just $.02 worth, but interesting to consider, nonetheless.