I suspect that the time-travel "paradox" being tested is akin to the famous "twin paradox" which goes like this:
We have two identical twins. One heads off into space, eventually reaching a relativistic speed (eg 99% of c). When the space-faring twin comes back to earth 50 years later, he will have aged only, say, 30 years. See the "paradox"?
Neither do I.
Supposedly, the fact that the two men are of greatly different ages, while being identical twins, is described as a "paradox" although I don't see anything paradoxical about it.
What we do have is a discrepancy between local time (both start off as the same age) and relativistic time (the 20-year difference).
Similarly, in Cramer's experiment, according to relativity the changes in the longer-path half-photon should be out of sync with the changes in the shorter-path half-photon, since it would take a measurable amount of time for one part to communicate its state to the other. But by QM, they should be in perfect sync, and that is what is "spooky" about it. Of course, relativity only applies to actual particles, and not to mathematical constructs that sometimes resemble particles. See http://freespace.virgin.net/ch.thompson1/People/Ca rverMead.htm.
What does all of this have to do with causality and time travel? The same as the vice-president's first name.
In that case, the vendor would have paid the full (salon) price, and the only way they could undercut the salon would be to take a loss. Not very likely.
In my day, each of us was given a stone abacus, which we had to lug to and from school each day, uphill both ways. They were originally called "100lb laptop" machines, although they really ended up weighing 175 lbs.
Global warming has a profound effect on health, you idiot. That's why the Surgeon General has a medical opinion on it. And "some degree of political pressure" is completely different from the blatant anti-science bent of Bush and his cronies.
The thing I don't get is why changing document standards should be such a big problem. POT (Plain Old Text) contains most of the important information in any document, as the formatting is rarely crucial to understanding it. And, almost all common office programs have a "Save As Text" option. So, everybody who saves a document, in any format, should also save a backup in ascii text form, so that most of the information can be recovered no matter what happens later on.
At worst, you will be left with a huge quantity of POT.
You believe we should force everyone across the country to throw away their old cars and trucks, buy new ones with diesel engines
No, just you.
Seriously, if we just get all the machines that currently run on diesel (long-haul trucks, delivery vans, construction machinery, ships, trains, power generators) off sand juice, we could reduce oil imports by 10-15% and significantly reduce carbon emissions, too.
Even with aggressive assumptions about biological productivity, we project costs for biodiesel which are two times higher than current petroleum diesel fuel costs.
Of course, "current petroleum diesel fuel costs" have risen more than two times since then, and will continue to do so.
Truly, just as you think people can't get any dumber, up pops another idiot to disprove the theory.
Later...
Unfortunately, trying to point out that biblical events may not wholly be made up out of whole cloth inevitably brings down the ire of the atheist lynch mobs on this site.
Wrong. You raised people's ire with your arrogant rudeness to the parent poster.
Nobody disputes the fact that there were large floods in antiquity.
The bible also refers to people walking, talking and eating. Nobody doubts that these things actually occurred, either.
So what? None of this changes the fundamental silliness of biblical literalism.
Sure there were floods in the past. The problem is that current-day fundamentalists believe that Noah's flood actually covered the whole earth. In fact,
Southern Baptists and their ilk maintain that the layers visible in ancient canyons constitute evidence of Noah's flood. This is despite the fact that flood deposits always leave lightweight objects (sand and dust) in the top layers and heavy objects (boulders) at the bottom.
However, anybody who has actually studied an ancient canyon knows that they look nothing like that. Instead, what you find are the remains of familiar present-day plants and animals near the top, and only fossils of long-extinct lifeforms at the bottom. Which is a problem if you are one of those "young-earth creationist" idiots.
It's obvious to most of us who made it past grade school that it was a fake.
It's obvious to anyone who actually paid attention in grade school that these "anomalies" have all been explained, although most of them never needed to be. Only an idiot would have any trouble seeing through "anomalies" like "the images are too perfect" (they are far from perfect) or "who took the the picture of Neil Armstrong on the ladder" (the camera was mounted on the lander's base).
Sad truth is, unlike car assembly lines (which he mentions), it's cheaper to use trained humans to assemble low-value products like these, especially in a market based almost entirely on price (for consumer items at least).
What a crock: motherboard manufacturing is one of the world's most highly automated industries, with robotic pick-and-place machines doing all the component assembly. Only the inspection process is done manually because machine vision is not that good yet. And low value product? Motherboards are the extreme of high-value: the board costs a couple of dollars to make, and sells for over a hundred.
Futhermore, car assembly involves hundreds of manual steps. Ever heard of the United Auto Workers? What do you think they do?
Are you actually suggesting that it's not the official position of Bejing that Taiwan is part of China?
Who gives a fuck what Bejing's official policy is? China and Taiwan are completely different cultures and economies. The women shown in the GigaByte factory are well-trained and well-paid technicians, not sweat-shop workers.
China only started to grow economically when they abandoned strict Communism and brought in capitalistic market reforms. Albania was in a state of constant starvation until communism was overthrown.
Where do you find true Communism today? In North Korea, possibly the poorest (and most corrupt) nation on earth.
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I suspect that the time-travel "paradox" being tested is akin to the famous "twin paradox" which goes like this:
a rverMead.htm.
We have two identical twins. One heads off into space, eventually reaching a relativistic speed (eg 99% of c). When the space-faring twin comes back to earth 50 years later, he will have aged only, say, 30 years.
See the "paradox"?
Neither do I.
Supposedly, the fact that the two men are of greatly different ages, while being identical twins, is described as a "paradox" although I don't see anything paradoxical about it. What we do have is a discrepancy between local time (both start off as the same age) and relativistic time (the 20-year difference).
Similarly, in Cramer's experiment, according to relativity the changes in the longer-path half-photon should be out of sync with the changes in the shorter-path half-photon, since it would take a measurable amount of time for one part to communicate its state to the other. But by QM, they should be in perfect sync, and that is what is "spooky" about it. Of course, relativity only applies to actual particles, and not to mathematical constructs that sometimes resemble particles. See http://freespace.virgin.net/ch.thompson1/People/C
What does all of this have to do with causality and time travel?
The same as the vice-president's first name.
In that case, the vendor would have paid the full (salon) price, and the only way they could undercut the salon would be to take a loss. Not very likely.
Hah! That's nothing.
In my day, each of us was given a stone abacus, which we had to lug to and from school each day, uphill both ways. They were originally called "100lb laptop" machines, although they really ended up weighing 175 lbs.
Global warming has a profound effect on health, you idiot. That's why the Surgeon General has a medical opinion on it.
And "some degree of political pressure" is completely different from the blatant anti-science bent of Bush and his cronies.
"And at what point does the yard raise to impeachment of the clan?"
This is the US.
"Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn børk! børk! børk!"
Just wait until they come back for Sean McCarthy's first-born child.
Actually, the pornonet.
Damn! That was pretty good.
The thing I don't get is why changing document standards should be such a big problem. POT (Plain Old Text) contains most of the important information in any document, as the formatting is rarely crucial to understanding it. And, almost all common office programs have a "Save As Text" option. So, everybody who saves a document, in any format, should also save a backup in ascii text form, so that most of the information can be recovered no matter what happens later on.
At worst, you will be left with a huge quantity of POT.
Seriously, if we just get all the machines that currently run on diesel (long-haul trucks, delivery vans, construction machinery, ships, trains, power generators) off sand juice, we could reduce oil imports by 10-15% and significantly reduce carbon emissions, too.
Slashdot is common conversation?
You raised people's ire with your arrogant rudeness to the parent poster.
Nobody disputes the fact that there were large floods in antiquity. The bible also refers to people walking, talking and eating. Nobody doubts that these things actually occurred, either.
So what? None of this changes the fundamental silliness of biblical literalism.
Sure there were floods in the past. The problem is that current-day fundamentalists believe that Noah's flood actually covered the whole earth. In fact, Southern Baptists and their ilk maintain that the layers visible in ancient canyons constitute evidence of Noah's flood. This is despite the fact that flood deposits always leave lightweight objects (sand and dust) in the top layers and heavy objects (boulders) at the bottom.
However, anybody who has actually studied an ancient canyon knows that they look nothing like that. Instead, what you find are the remains of familiar present-day plants and animals near the top, and only fossils of long-extinct lifeforms at the bottom. Which is a problem if you are one of those "young-earth creationist" idiots.
No, because it is correct, as anyone who isn't a Bush-loving-sheeple like you can see.
Let me guess: you don't believe in evolution either, do you?
Do you expect to get the Gold?
Rather OT, but worth noting for sure.
Later..
Satan:"How did you die?"
Me:"Like I told the other guy, I was looking at porn through my new cybernetic internet interface when it malfunctioned and overloaded my brain stem."
Satan:"Sweet!"
Lord, deliver us from morons like you.
Futhermore, car assembly involves hundreds of manual steps. Ever heard of the United Auto Workers? What do you think they do?
Who gives a fuck what Bejing's official policy is? China and Taiwan are completely different cultures and economies. The women shown in the GigaByte factory are well-trained and well-paid technicians, not sweat-shop workers.
China only started to grow economically when they abandoned strict Communism and brought in capitalistic market reforms. Albania was in a state of constant starvation until communism was overthrown.
Where do you find true Communism today? In North Korea, possibly the poorest (and most corrupt) nation on earth.