Text 45213, 87 rader
Skriven 2006-12-28 17:35:03 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
  Kommentar till text 45114 av LEE LOFASO (1:123/140)
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Hello LEE!

On Tuesday December 26 2006 18:23, you wrote to me:

 >> MvdV>- You can not go back in time.

 >> RW>I read somewhere that someone has proposed a theory that allows for
 >> RW>going faster than the speed of light.

 MVDV>> Proposing a theory does not make it so.

 >> RW>If that can be done, going back in time can also be done.

 MVDV>> Exactly. And that is the problem with going faster than light. It
 MVDV>> *implies time travel. And vice versa. Time travel opens up a can
 MVDV>> of worms that is t hard for the universe to swallow.

very well. Meet me at mny place 15:00 hours yesterday.

Hé, whgy did yo not show up?

 LL> Faster than light travel and time travel do not violate the laws of
 LL> physics.

Not on a microscopic scale no. But on a macroscopic scale, they sure do.

 LL> Travel close to the sun, at an accelerated rate, and time
 LL> travel is accomplished.

Not without violating the lifgt speed limit.

 >> MvdV>- You can not fit a 4 mm peg into a 3 mm hole.

 >> RW>I can fit a 4.2mm peg into a 4mm hole.

 MVDV>> You'd end up with a hole bigger than 4 mm or pegs smaller than
 MVDV>> 4.2. Or bot whatever way it turns out, you would not have fitted
 MVDV>> 4,2 mmm pegs into 4 m holes.

 LL> The astronauts of Apollo 13 managed to put a square peg into a round
 LL> hole.

Never said, that could not be done.

 >> MvdV>- You can not be in two places at the same time.

 >> RW>Part of you could. You get into an accident and your left leg is
 >> RW>laying over there and your right arm is way over there...

 MVDV>> That wasn't the proposition.

 LL> Schroedinger's Cat did it.

That is a thougt experiment. Never doen in the real.

 LL>   So did a team of Sliders.

Fiction...

 >> MvdV>- You can not lift a 1 meter platinum cube with human bare
 >> MvdV>hands only.

 >> RW>Well, you would have to put your back into it and that wouldn't be
 >> RW>enough either.

 MVDV>> Have you any idea what a cubic meter of platinum weighs?

 LL> Does not matter in the weightlessness of space.

How do you get it into space using only human bare hands?

 >> MvdV>- You can not breathe in a vacuum.

 LL> Man can breathe underwater, as shown in the movie "The Abyss".

Under water <> vacuum.

 MVDV>> Whatever, an oxygen saturated liquid is not a vacuum.

 LL> Is there such a thing as a perfect vacuum?

An imperfect vacuum will do to kill you of oxygen starvation.

Cheers, Michiel

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