Well, if it's true (can't really remember) I'd blame the episode's authors for that.;-)
The Classic Series also had a different scale, but if you believe the Technical Manual Warp 10 marks infinite velocity. I think they also mentioned it in the series one or two times (at least in Voyager).
time DOES slow down the faster that you're traveling
No, it does not. That would imply you have some point of reference, that you can compare the time to. Einstein's theory is all about the lack of such a point, i.e. everything is relative. So you can't say time DOES slow down, you can only say it appears to slow down when observed from another system.
This twin paradoxon leaves out an important fact. If the traveller moved contantly at near-light speed the time dilation would be symmetric, i.e. the twin on earth would observe a slower time at the traveller and vice versa. Hence they cannot have a different age when he returns.
But in a "real world example" they do have a different age. The traveller has somehow to get to that high velocity (and turn around at some distance). So he has to be accelerated, and this it what causes the different age. There is no paradoxon, everything can be calculated very well. It only seems paradox if you ignore the acceleration.
You're right, the time only appears to slow down from a different point of view, for example the stationary observer watching a high velovity object. That's what Einstein's theory is all about, there is no absolute time. Every system has its own time. If you want to know some other system's time with respect to your own, you have to take into account the relative velocity and the gravity.
Since it only depends on the relative velocity, the time dilation is symmetric. The stationary observer thinks the time is slowed down for the moving one, while the moving observer thinks exactly the same about the stationary one. If it were different (like you suggested) you could point out an absolute point of reference, and therefore getting an absolute time.
General relativity may surely be proven wrong by the probe's results, but this will not turn it to be "nothing but bunk". So far it successfully passed all tests, which makes it at least a very good approximation (within our current measurement limits).
Ok, this may sound a bit lazy, but should I be forced to launch my browser getting an attachment from a mail? The feature of adding attachments to mails mainly exists to *not* do this, IMHO.
But when you're already willing to take the step and teach the users something new, why not instead tell them to use a different, more secure, mail app (like Mozilla, Evolution etc.)? They still have to learn something new, but can stick to the lazy behaviour and save attachments as they are used to. I'm sure they'd swallow this sooner.
I would guess they used the Faraday Effect for the measurement. The (linear) polarisation plane of a light beam passing through a media is rotated when a magnetic field is applied. This is due to the different change of the refractive index for the two circularly polarized beams (cw & ccw).
This is the best link a quick googling turned up with, if you want to know more.
Wanted: Dead AND Alive This is impossible. In order to be found the cat must first be observed, but this would bring the cat's wave function immediately into one of the eigenstates, either dead OR alive.
AFAIK killing the MX entry does not shutdown any mail delivery at all. MTAs connect to the domain name itself if there's no MX entry present. I have no MX for my DynDNS domain and can receive mail without problems.
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Well, if it's true (can't really remember) I'd blame the episode's authors for that. ;-)
The Classic Series also had a different scale, but if you believe the Technical Manual Warp 10 marks infinite velocity. I think they also mentioned it in the series one or two times (at least in Voyager).
Yes, but in this case the bits don't have to arrive synchronous cause they belong to completely different channels.
Warp 10 is infinite velocity.
I would guess that people who simply expect their hardware to work and those using Debian are (mostly) different groups.
time DOES slow down the faster that you're traveling
No, it does not. That would imply you have some point of reference, that you can compare the time to. Einstein's theory is all about the lack of such a point, i.e. everything is relative. So you can't say time DOES slow down, you can only say it appears to slow down when observed from another system.
This twin paradoxon leaves out an important fact. If the traveller moved contantly at near-light speed the time dilation would be symmetric, i.e. the twin on earth would observe a slower time at the traveller and vice versa. Hence they cannot have a different age when he returns.
But in a "real world example" they do have a different age. The traveller has somehow to get to that high velocity (and turn around at some distance). So he has to be accelerated, and this it what causes the different age. There is no paradoxon, everything can be calculated very well. It only seems paradox if you ignore the acceleration.
You're right, the time only appears to slow down from a different point of view, for example the stationary observer watching a high velovity object. That's what Einstein's theory is all about, there is no absolute time. Every system has its own time. If you want to know some other system's time with respect to your own, you have to take into account the relative velocity and the gravity.
Since it only depends on the relative velocity, the time dilation is symmetric. The stationary observer thinks the time is slowed down for the moving one, while the moving observer thinks exactly the same about the stationary one. If it were different (like you suggested) you could point out an absolute point of reference, and therefore getting an absolute time.
General relativity may surely be proven wrong by the probe's results, but this will not turn it to be "nothing but bunk". So far it successfully passed all tests, which makes it at least a very good approximation (within our current measurement limits).
Great idea, I'll call my laywer... ehh... I mean, there's this good friend of mine, you know... *doh*
Not that a good idea. It will just make the spammers send out even more spam so they can hope to get "near-immediate results" when caught.
`cat $tif | cut -f1 -d"."`.jpg
;)
I'd prefer echo instead of cat here, but maybe you like complicated filenames...
Ok, this may sound a bit lazy, but should I be forced to launch my browser getting an attachment from a mail? The feature of adding attachments to mails mainly exists to *not* do this, IMHO.
But when you're already willing to take the step and teach the users something new, why not instead tell them to use a different, more secure, mail app (like Mozilla, Evolution etc.)? They still have to learn something new, but can stick to the lazy behaviour and save attachments as they are used to. I'm sure they'd swallow this sooner.
This might be a help: GNU utilities for Win32
I would guess they used the Faraday Effect for the measurement. The (linear) polarisation plane of a light beam passing through a media is rotated when a magnetic field is applied. This is due to the different change of the refractive index for the two circularly polarized beams (cw & ccw).
This is the best link a quick googling turned up with, if you want to know more.Wanted: Dead AND Alive
This is impossible. In order to be found the cat must first be observed, but this would bring the cat's wave function immediately into one of the eigenstates, either dead OR alive.
I received your test mail, the error reply couldn't be sent to your private IP though. :)
It's dream-dimensions.homelinux.net. Just checked again with dig to be sure, there's really no MX.
AFAIK killing the MX entry does not shutdown any mail delivery at all. MTAs connect to the domain name itself if there's no MX entry present. I have no MX for my DynDNS domain and can receive mail without problems.