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By: jubal8

jubal8 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:03:58 +0000

Hmmm… perhaps I subconsciously misinfurred my meaning, resulting in further entanglements between my Big Bangs and famous furbies like Minkowski and Levi-Civeta. Think I’ll hop into my deLorentz and get the flux outta here before somebody puts a cap in my acitor.

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:35:19 +0000

That would be the mass of everything that is, I guess.
Hard to see exactly what the normalization conditions are there, since we can’t take a box out to large values of length, then, can we?
Yet the mass of the whole universe makes some sense to some physicists. I dunno. I don’t go in for that stuff. {as also in: dontcha need an observer somewhere? and just where is he supposed to be standing, or sitting? maybe in “de Sitter space”? — a little joke there}.
And what with the cosmological constant and all, I am none too sure it makes sense even to them, any more.

By: jubal8

jubal8 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:18:58 +0000

So is this E in the equation the exact same thing as what was present in the yocto-instant after the BB, before the emergence of the QGP out of the… uhhh… E?

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:26:22 +0000

good point jubal8. Since SR is closely tied with Maxwell, and indeed is incorporated into QED, it is tempting to say 'electromagnetic'. But since 'mass' is mostly conferred by the Higgs interaction, maybe not. Yet, if they are all unified, then what difference does it make. Indeed, when you collide two electrons at relativistic speeds, you get a whole slew of particles, in various flavors, with cross sections for their production often closely predicted (or at least consistently predicted -- i.e. some constants are variables in one experiment, but the same values you arrive at in the first experiment work to predict the results of different experiments) by the Standard Model. In other news, I congratulate the Editors fur having found the furtive hideout of the legendary, often busted, often refurbished and regenerated gang of degenerates that is the FFF (FurFuxFrenz; Why, that could even be the domain of the Majestic Golden Porn Dragon of the East and South!

By: Dr. Comclop

Dr. Comclop — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:04:12 +0000

The techno industrial eurotrash may scoff at their baby black hole before it retreats to the center of the earth.

But the apocalypse to come will vindicate my faith!

By: jubal8

jubal8 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:43:17 +0000

OK, color me one of those Joe Sixpack Einstein wannabeers who wants to go from 2+2=4 to E=MC2 while still using my fingers — for what, I won’t say — but anyway, if that pencil could be converted to pure energy, what kind of energy would it be? Electromagnetic? Some kind of strong or weak nuclear force? Would it be like light and exist as both particles and waves, or like Schroedinger’s cat and not decide what it is until we observe it in the split-second before we are plasmafied? How would it act upon conversion? Expand in all directions simultaneously, all being 3, 4, 11 or n dimensions? Answer me that, hunh?

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:52:56 +0000

yeah that’s the ‘time’ formula – how long it takes you as measured by you in ‘light units’ to get ‘there’. If you are light, it takes no ‘time’ at all. Negative values are presumably (timelike) that you could have got there by now, or you will get there just by waiting a second, and positive values meaning you would never have got there by ‘now’ (spacelike).

By: kenmeer livermaile

kenmeer livermaile — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:50:55 +0000

“This has always freaked me out because it means that light travels 0 distance in spacetime no matter how far it goes in our perpective.”

Cool, eh? In disproving the existence of a background cosmic aether, Einstein providing something even better: a cosmic aether that travels so ultimately, definitively, and commandingly fast that it stays still even as it moves faster than anything can.

Heil light!

By: kenmeer livermaile

kenmeer livermaile — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:47:42 +0000

“*sigh*

E=Mc**2

You can convert the mass of the pencil to a shitload of energy.

You cannot accelerate the pencil to the speed of light with that shitload of energy.”

*sigh* We’ve already been through several of these sighs, begininning with mine in my first post:

‘Yes, I know it’s impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, or even to accelerate a pencil to the speed of light.

‘But that IS what the equation says, period. It IS a linear equation, yes?’

I’m feeling an itch for some healing internet incivility.