Just curious... What college do you think has the highest-bandwidth connection to the Internet? What about access to other networks like Intenet II? Would these affect/have affected your choice of a college? How?
Exotic matter and negative energy seem to be the key to many interesting applications of relativity: wormholes, time warps, etc. Do you see it conceivable in the near future that matter or energy of this nature could be produced in (relatively) large quantities?
Also, what kind of revelations and applications can you envision that would arise from a Grand Unified Theory? Would we see any benefits from just a partial marriage between some forces, general relativity, or quantum mechanics?
What are your thoughts on the feasibility of time travel backwards or travel through wormholes (or other means to circumvent the limit of the speed of light), given an infinitely advanced civilization?
Lastly, here's a somewhat trivial question (argument with a friend), but... can you see any advantages to reducing the speed of light to something on the order of 75 miles per hour?
Before anyone comes up with conspiracy theories as to how the government just might take these and implant them in everybody at birth so that they can track each and every citizen in real time as he journals over the globe (and into space when the GPS system is extended into space), learning exactly how he spends his time on an average day as a measure to fight against "crime" (which has been at a record low) while paying no regard to privacy, let me put in a word that this might not necessarily be a bad thing if used correctly...
Slashdot Mirror
Just curious... What college do you think has the highest-bandwidth connection to the Internet? What about access to other networks like Intenet II? Would these affect/have affected your choice of a college? How?
Dr. Lederman,
Exotic matter and negative energy seem to be the key to many interesting applications of relativity: wormholes, time warps, etc. Do you see it conceivable in the near future that matter or energy of this nature could be produced in (relatively) large quantities?
Also, what kind of revelations and applications can you envision that would arise from a Grand Unified Theory? Would we see any benefits from just a partial marriage between some forces, general relativity, or quantum mechanics?
What are your thoughts on the feasibility of time travel backwards or travel through wormholes (or other means to circumvent the limit of the speed of light), given an infinitely advanced civilization?
Lastly, here's a somewhat trivial question (argument with a friend), but... can you see any advantages to reducing the speed of light to something on the order of 75 miles per hour?
Daniel J. Peng
Before anyone comes up with conspiracy theories as to how the government just might take these and implant them in everybody at birth so that they can track each and every citizen in real time as he journals over the globe (and into space when the GPS system is extended into space), learning exactly how he spends his time on an average day as a measure to fight against "crime" (which has been at a record low) while paying no regard to privacy, let me put in a word that this might not necessarily be a bad thing if used correctly...