the fundamentals of physics behind the times

[Mark Kohut]

Bad joke of the day: The barman says "sorry, we don't serve neutrinos". A neutrino walks into a bar.


From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: the fundamentals of physics behind the times

Yeah, it's exactly the tachyons that can (theoretically) put effect
before cause, isn't it?

2011/9/23 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> "You're gonna want cause & effect"....GR
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> From: Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com>
> To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:59 AM
> Subject: Re: the fundamentals of physics behind the times
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> I still trust theory as long as it's willing to be changed when there
> is new information.
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> But tachyons aren't exactly "new information":
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
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> 2011/9/23 Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>:
>> On 9/23/2011 12:29 AM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
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>> Apparently Albert Einstein was only mostly right about the universal
>> constant. Tuns out there is regular light which seemed to travel at the
>> absolute upper limits of speed, and there is lickety split, beat ya to the
>> finish line, kiss my fast ass light which is what you get with an outlaw
>> neutrino running from the particle cops. I'm not making this up.
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>> Does this mean that part of the universe is one step ahead of the rest of
>> the universe? And what if those are the really bad neutrinos? Or did some
>> light just get to thinking , "hey, I can do better than this".
>> http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/09/2011922183317431339.html
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>> So the Big Bang was just another theory--like Evolution.
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>> I always knew there couldn't possibly ever be a big enough bang to explain
>> everything.
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>> Don't trust Theory.
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