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Re: 3D Viewport for Stars!

Sun, 10 June 2007 21:27

jabbawocky

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400 m/s difference is significant if the experimental error is only +- 25 m/s say. While if the experimental error is in excess of +- 400m/s why are we having this conversation?

I honestly don't know what the experimental error of LS is, mainly due to the length of a metre being redefined in terms of LS. Kinda makes it hard once you do that.

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As to quantum foam (can you shave with it being the most important question to mankind?) why does it prohibit determinism?

Nah, it isn't really an important question at all but I'm one of those crazies who HAS to understand a system. Quantum foam is, by its very nature, random. And a truely random system defies determinism (by definition).

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Isn't there a fundamental unit of distance? Why not define the metre in terms of that?

Yes, there is THEORETICALLY a fundamental unit of distance, a planck length- which is 6.626x10^-34m (which, according to string theory, is the length of a piece of string Razz

). So I guess it could be possible to define a metre in terms of that.

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Vague memories returning: IIRC, weren't those constants defined to be particular values for a vacuum, hence giving rise to constant LS? Hence, if you want them to fluctuate doesn't that require the underlying nature of a vacuum to fluctuate too?

Yep, those particular values exist only in a vacuum, and need to be redefined in different mediums. Well, according to the newer theory, the nature of space (and hence a vacuum) fluctuates- it flows towards massive objects (which is how it describes gravity).

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Finally, perhaps you can answer a quetsion for me. Does energy have inertia?

Uh oh... This is one question that is gonna be very VERY hard to answer. What do you MEAN by energy? Do you mean light, potential, heat, or kinetic? The 'purest' form of energy, in my perspective, light, DOES have inertia. But I honestly CAN'T be 100% sure for the other types. Heat and kinetic would (because they are both the same thing in a way: heat is the vibrations of atoms) but potential energy is a mystery in general. I'm not sure if that really answers your question, sorry Confused

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