4D
That was definately my last game, honest
 Offline
Posts: 23530
I can't bear it 🙄
|
 |
« Reply #15 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 11:13:35 » |
|
Has that machine been calibrated?  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Ardiles
Offline
Posts: 11588
Stirlingshire Reds
|
|
« Reply #16 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 12:01:48 » |
|
Surely all that 'theory' is is an attempt to rationalise observable phenomena. As our ability to observe improves with technological advance, theories almost always have to be adapted or discarded to handle this.
Newton's Laws of Motion are a good example. They do a good job of explaining movement in time & space on the macro scale (which is all he was able to observe at the time he proposed the laws), but completely failed to explain it at the quantum level - giving rise to the development of quantum theory in the last century.
Even if the new findings are upheld, Einstein's theory will have lasted over 100 years before requiring a tweak...which is impressive.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Samdy Gray
Dirty sneaky traitor weasel
Offline
Posts: 27180
|
|
« Reply #17 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 12:15:10 » |
|
Exactly Ardiles, that's the beauty of physics. Theories are just that, theories. They are there to be disproved, at which point everything gets torn up and they start again.
If anyone else has read Brian Cox's book "Why does E=mc2?" you will know what I mean.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
jayohaitchenn
Wielder of the BANHAMMER
Offline
Posts: 12835
|
|
« Reply #18 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 13:10:31 » |
|
Exactly Ardiles, that's the beauty of physics. Theories are just that, theories. They are there to be disproved, at which point everything gets torn up and they start again.
If anyone else has read Brian Cox's book "Why does E=mc2?" you will know what I mean.
Fucking love that book. See if you can get A Very Short Introduction to Particle Physics. Another fascinating read. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
iffy
|
|
« Reply #19 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 16:52:21 » |
|
I love that it's one of two things and it's either amazing or stupid. Either:
1. Things can go faster than light. This means 'cause and effect' as we understand it MIGHT NOT BE TRUE. You would live your life in a very different way if you knew that the consequences weren't related to what you did. And time travel.
2. There was an eyelash or something on the machine that did the experiment.
I'm betting on 2.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
thedarkprince
Offline
Posts: 2747
Hubba-hubba
|
|
« Reply #20 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 19:09:12 » |
|
Fuck time travel. I'm still waiting for the damn hoverboard.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
tans
You spin me right round baby right round
Offline
Posts: 26810
|
|
« Reply #21 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 19:14:29 » |
|
Fuck that, I want one of those expanding pizzas that they had
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
chalkies_shorts
|
|
« Reply #22 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 21:04:23 » |
|
Could we go back to August 21st 1pm and start again
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Kinky Tom
Snow Master Sandwich King.
Offline
Posts: 9060
|
|
« Reply #23 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 21:06:46 » |
|
i want some of those cool trainers...
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Benzel
Offline
Posts: 6158
|
|
« Reply #24 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 21:08:00 » |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Is your cat making too much noise all the time?
|
|
|
jonny72
Offline
Posts: 5554
|
|
« Reply #25 on: Friday, September 23, 2011, 21:56:54 » |
|
2. There was an eyelash or something on the machine that did the experiment.
Or one half of the team was working in metric and the other in imperial measurements. Though to do that you'd have to be a) really dumb or b) NASA. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
jim
Offline
Posts: 758
|
|
« Reply #26 on: Saturday, September 24, 2011, 09:46:39 » |
|
The bartender says "Sorry sir, we don't allow faster than light particles in here". A neutrino walks into a bar.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Reg Smeeton
Walking Encyclopaedia
Offline
Posts: 34913
|
|
« Reply #27 on: Saturday, September 24, 2011, 10:13:30 » |
|
The bartender says "Sorry sir, we don't allow faster than light particles in here". A neutrino walks into a bar.
 |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Batch
Not a Batch
Offline
Posts: 57822
|
|
« Reply #28 on: Saturday, September 24, 2011, 10:53:26 » |
|
The bartender says "Sorry sir, we don't allow faster than light particles in here". A neutrino walks into a bar.
 |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
Peter Venkman
Past glories motivate us when times are bleak.
Offline
Posts: 64743
Perfection is not attainable
|
|
« Reply #29 on: Saturday, September 24, 2011, 11:09:28 » |
|
The bartender says "Sorry sir, we don't allow faster than light particles in here". A neutrino walks into a bar.
 very good. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
|
|
|
|
