The concept of 'frames of observation' is what relativity is all about.
For example, how relativity relates to the speed of light:
For reasons not entirely understood, the speed of light is a universal constant. It is not so much a speed as it is a relative velocity. No matter how fast you go (v), the perceived speed of light will always be C+v. The same beam of light can be seen at two entirely different speeds by two people at different speeds. I seem to recall other stories about watches running slightly faster temporarily while in flight, but I doubt their veracity.
Similarly, if the universe is really, really small, an immense amount of real time would pass during a very brief duration of imaginary time. In the first 'microsecond' of the universe's existence, billions of years may have passed for whatever could observe the universe.
What's even more interesting is the concept that Stephen Hawking and others refer to as 'imaginary time.' Since, as you point out, time expanded alongside space, we can't really measure how old the universe is, since it may be infinitely old from any vantage point within it. (If space was ever infinitely small, then real time is infinite.)
The 'microsecond' referred to here would be imaginary time. Not imaginary as in 'imaginary numbers' (which don't technically exist but are still useful), but imaginary as in non-relativistic. In other words, the entire process could occur in a microsecond if we reproduced it today, but in relativistic time, it may have, as you said, taken eons.
I'd guess that it had to do with the out surface of early space-time being curved... as objects formed in expanding space-time, the warps caused their three-dimensional distributions to become uneven. But I wouldn't take anything I say without a chunk of salt.
But is there really a point to this?
I'm serious. What is the scientific benefit that we can gain from understanding what the universe was like for a microsecond? I'm honestly curious: is there a practical application to this sort of study?
According to the article, the project follows the mantra of "It's not about the license, it's about the community."
To paraphrase Hillary Clinton, it takes a village to raise a software project.
Come on, man... the MPAA would win either way.
Scenario 1: Earth is hit by asteroid.
Result: MPAA sues asteroid for copyright violation for Deep Impact.
Scenario 2: Earth is saved by the actions of a brave, ragtag group of astronauts. One or more of them may die.
Result: MPAA sues every government that contributed an astronaut for copyright violation for Armageddon.
It seems like a 'win-win' outcome for those guys...
If you put advertisements on your web site, you are not holding up your end of a "social contract" between yourself and the people browsing the Internet. The Internet was originally intended to be a database of human knowledge, a research tool, and an educational resource, not a billboard.
"Self-Contained" means that everything you need should be in the operating system. Like a media player, a web browser, an e-mail client, an IM client, a basic Word(Pad) processor, a notepad...
You're going to have to use your imagination, but, imagine your mind was put together seconds ago, but the atoms in your body were configured in such a way that you had a continuous memory, and didn't know you had just been created at all.
A memory of time that did not exist is not a memory - it is a fantasy.
We're talking about Linus, not Linux. Remember, Linus created Linux, much like Bill Gates created AIDS. /using Windows right now, doesn't really care either way about MS
Not a dupe at all. The previous article was about how KernelTrap was no longer supporting the free version of Bitkeeper. This is about how Linus is no longer using it.
To compare: Article A talks about George Bush Sr. ending his term. Article B talks about Bill Clinton becoming president. Dupe? I think not.
Well, there's always CVS... *sigh*...
Or you could teach your code to two hundred trained squirrels, a la Tim Burton. Then every time you changed some code, you could train another squirrel. Not only would you have an army of Code Squirrels at your command, but... eh, you'd probably be locked up...
Not at all, the creator need not be bound by the time that he creates within the universe at all.br/>
Wrong. To say that God created the universe in ANY amount of time is to confine Him to a time-based existence. Something outside of time cannot interact in any meaningful fashion with things in time; it might just end up randomly throwing things together at different points in time, since they seem orderly to it. For God to understand time, God must be in time.
It's perfectly possible that our universe has a creator and the universe always existed, in the sense that if we could travel back in time, we would never reach a "beginning." In fact, the universe could have been created 15 years ago, with a history spanning forever.
Also wrong. It is NOT possible that the universe has always existed. Scientists have conclusively proven that the universe is expanding. If the universe had always existed, there would be no way to tell if it was expanding; the change in size of an infinitely large universe would be so negligible as to be unmeasureable.
As for the whole "15-year-old world" argument, that's just silly. We wouldn't have a "history spanning forever"; we'd have a history spanning 15 minutes, and LEGENDS of everything before that.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: An RFID tag transmits a radio signal, which would have to be triangulated. This means three radio detection locations constantly reading signals from thousands of cars.
A better solution would be to use a GPS transmitter, which only requires ONE detector.
Actually, entry-level employees at the McDonald's restaurants in my area get about $2 above minimum wage. Still not a *livable* wage, but better than Wal-Mart.
I agree about the whole "arresting people who break the public trust by violating the Constitution that they have sworn to uphold" thing... but would they get conjugal visits?
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like all the PSP's games are rehashed versions of old PSX/PS2 games. Ape Escape, Tony Hawk's Underground 'Remix', Dynasty Warriors, Spider-Man 2, Need for Speed Underground: Rivals, Metal Gear: Acid, the simply-named "NBA" and "MLB", ATV Offroad Fury...
The DS, on the other hand, had Asphalt Urban GT, Feel the Magic XY/XX, Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits, Ping Pals, Super Mario 64 DS (not just rehashed - totally redone, with new characters and missions, multiplayer, improved graphics and sound), and The Urbz: Sims in the City (a new game). Not to mention the games that came out later - WarioWare Touched, Yoshi Touch and Go, etc. It just seems that the selection for the DS is fresher.
This seems a bit... weird.
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Personally I prefer using a PocketPC. I carry around an old Ipaq 3800, with a 512MB SD card. I can convert my videos to the proper dimensions/orientation using the Pocket DivX encoder, then dump then onto the card and play them with BetaPlayer. Anime, movies, TV shows... you name it, I've probably carried it in my pocket.
No porn, though. Porn in public would just be... weird.
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The concept of 'frames of observation' is what relativity is all about.
For example, how relativity relates to the speed of light:
For reasons not entirely understood, the speed of light is a universal constant. It is not so much a speed as it is a relative velocity. No matter how fast you go (v), the perceived speed of light will always be C+v. The same beam of light can be seen at two entirely different speeds by two people at different speeds. I seem to recall other stories about watches running slightly faster temporarily while in flight, but I doubt their veracity.
Similarly, if the universe is really, really small, an immense amount of real time would pass during a very brief duration of imaginary time. In the first 'microsecond' of the universe's existence, billions of years may have passed for whatever could observe the universe.
What's even more interesting is the concept that Stephen Hawking and others refer to as 'imaginary time.' Since, as you point out, time expanded alongside space, we can't really measure how old the universe is, since it may be infinitely old from any vantage point within it. (If space was ever infinitely small, then real time is infinite.)
The 'microsecond' referred to here would be imaginary time. Not imaginary as in 'imaginary numbers' (which don't technically exist but are still useful), but imaginary as in non-relativistic. In other words, the entire process could occur in a microsecond if we reproduced it today, but in relativistic time, it may have, as you said, taken eons.
Who knows, maybe the Time Cube blinked into and out of exist during this period...
/i keed.
I'd guess that it had to do with the out surface of early space-time being curved... as objects formed in expanding space-time, the warps caused their three-dimensional distributions to become uneven. But I wouldn't take anything I say without a chunk of salt.
But is there really a point to this?
I'm serious. What is the scientific benefit that we can gain from understanding what the universe was like for a microsecond? I'm honestly curious: is there a practical application to this sort of study?
According to the article, the project follows the mantra of "It's not about the license, it's about the community."
To paraphrase Hillary Clinton, it takes a village to raise a software project.
Come on, man... the MPAA would win either way.
Scenario 1: Earth is hit by asteroid.
Result: MPAA sues asteroid for copyright violation for Deep Impact.
Scenario 2: Earth is saved by the actions of a brave, ragtag group of astronauts. One or more of them may die.
Result: MPAA sues every government that contributed an astronaut for copyright violation for Armageddon.
It seems like a 'win-win' outcome for those guys...
If you put advertisements on your web site, you are not holding up your end of a "social contract" between yourself and the people browsing the Internet. The Internet was originally intended to be a database of human knowledge, a research tool, and an educational resource, not a billboard.
"Self-Contained" means that everything you need should be in the operating system. Like a media player, a web browser, an e-mail client, an IM client, a basic Word(Pad) processor, a notepad...
They're all integral parts of the OS, after all.
That's eerily similar to something Douglas Adams might say.
... Doug?
You're going to have to use your imagination, but, imagine your mind was put together seconds ago, but the atoms in your body were configured in such a way that you had a continuous memory, and didn't know you had just been created at all.
A memory of time that did not exist is not a memory - it is a fantasy.
I was in GR until November... now I'm in Dow Town, Inc.
She would have, but she was too busy being worshipped by Catholics... those pesky praying prattlers!
We're talking about Linus, not Linux. Remember, Linus created Linux, much like Bill Gates created AIDS.
/using Windows right now, doesn't really care either way about MS
My God, what have I done? I'm feeding trolls! *cries pitiously*
Not a dupe at all. The previous article was about how KernelTrap was no longer supporting the free version of Bitkeeper. This is about how Linus is no longer using it.
To compare: Article A talks about George Bush Sr. ending his term. Article B talks about Bill Clinton becoming president. Dupe? I think not.
Well, there's always CVS... *sigh*...
Or you could teach your code to two hundred trained squirrels, a la Tim Burton. Then every time you changed some code, you could train another squirrel. Not only would you have an army of Code Squirrels at your command, but... eh, you'd probably be locked up...
Not at all, the creator need not be bound by the time that he creates within the universe at all.br/>
Wrong. To say that God created the universe in ANY amount of time is to confine Him to a time-based existence. Something outside of time cannot interact in any meaningful fashion with things in time; it might just end up randomly throwing things together at different points in time, since they seem orderly to it. For God to understand time, God must be in time.
It's perfectly possible that our universe has a creator and the universe always existed, in the sense that if we could travel back in time, we would never reach a "beginning." In fact, the universe could have been created 15 years ago, with a history spanning forever.
Also wrong. It is NOT possible that the universe has always existed. Scientists have conclusively proven that the universe is expanding. If the universe had always existed, there would be no way to tell if it was expanding; the change in size of an infinitely large universe would be so negligible as to be unmeasureable.
As for the whole "15-year-old world" argument, that's just silly. We wouldn't have a "history spanning forever"; we'd have a history spanning 15 minutes, and LEGENDS of everything before that.
Short answer: No.
Long answer: An RFID tag transmits a radio signal, which would have to be triangulated. This means three radio detection locations constantly reading signals from thousands of cars.
A better solution would be to use a GPS transmitter, which only requires ONE detector.
10% noninfringing use is considered substantial, according to the Betamax decision.
Google for "substantial noninfringing use" and 10%.
Actually, entry-level employees at the McDonald's restaurants in my area get about $2 above minimum wage. Still not a *livable* wage, but better than Wal-Mart.
I agree about the whole "arresting people who break the public trust by violating the Constitution that they have sworn to uphold" thing... but would they get conjugal visits?
I'm Richard Gere, and I speak for the entire world...
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like all the PSP's games are rehashed versions of old PSX/PS2 games. Ape Escape, Tony Hawk's Underground 'Remix', Dynasty Warriors, Spider-Man 2, Need for Speed Underground: Rivals, Metal Gear: Acid, the simply-named "NBA" and "MLB", ATV Offroad Fury...
The DS, on the other hand, had Asphalt Urban GT, Feel the Magic XY/XX, Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits, Ping Pals, Super Mario 64 DS (not just rehashed - totally redone, with new characters and missions, multiplayer, improved graphics and sound), and The Urbz: Sims in the City (a new game). Not to mention the games that came out later - WarioWare Touched, Yoshi Touch and Go, etc. It just seems that the selection for the DS is fresher.
Personally I prefer using a PocketPC. I carry around an old Ipaq 3800, with a 512MB SD card. I can convert my videos to the proper dimensions/orientation using the Pocket DivX encoder, then dump then onto the card and play them with BetaPlayer. Anime, movies, TV shows... you name it, I've probably carried it in my pocket.
... weird.
No porn, though. Porn in public would just be