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Originally posted by grimreaper797
You said what exists before and after. You then said "nothing, and it still does". This is untrue.
It does not exist, and it never has. Something exists before and after, you and I just can't figure out what it is yet.
Why does something have to exist? Because nothing doesn't exist, therefor it has to be something.
Before and after would not exist then, but they do because before and after are measurements, and measurements exist.
You may like to say the future and the past do not exist. That is on your own time to prove. Something that can only be proved with what you refuse to acknowledge as usable.
Originally posted by Astyanax
Any attempt to talk real physics is disrupted by people who skimmed through The Tao of Physics and The Dancing Wu Li Masters a few years ago and think they now understand relativity,
quantum theory and the rest, when in fact all they have is a mishmash of false analogical mappings from physics into cut-rate epistemology and ontology.
What a comedown. Luckily, there are lots of other places on the Web where one can go if one wants to discuss physics without the Yahoos butting in.
Poor old ATS.
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
Originally posted by Astyanax
Any attempt to talk real physics is disrupted by people who skimmed through The Tao of Physics and The Dancing Wu Li Masters a few years ago and think they now understand relativity
I assume you are making reference to me...
Originally posted by Astyanax
Your eagerness to accept the blame for the lamentable condition of the Science & Technology Forum does you some credit.
However, I find I have nothing to say to you on the subject. Or, indeed, on any other subject.
Originally posted by junglelord
This post is again an attempt to encourage everyone to study Geometry of folded dimensions and String Theory as it is the key to the UFO puzzle.
The following PNU report is a good example that the answers to many field questions and the manipulations of those fields via amplification and technology is always based in geometry.
[edit on 29-5-2007 by Azador]
Originally posted by NGC2736
Third, you further estrange yourself from understanding the subject of string theory, and quantum mechanics in general, by insisting that this branch of science is an attempt to reduce everything to a basis of matter. In actualy, this science does almost exactly the opposite.
Such claims dismay Krauss, a leading expert on cosmic dark matter and dark energy who is popularly known as author of a best-seller, "The Physics of Star Trek." In his book "Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions," to be published by Viking in September, Krauss argues that string theorists have produced no satisfactory explanations for anything.......... "has probably been the least successful 'great' idea in physics"
Even so, "it's my impression that more and more physicists are starting to join Krauss as 'skeptical agnostics' about string theory," said mathematician Peter Woit of Columbia............"A theory that can't predict anything is not a scientific theory," Woit says.
"I agree entirely with Larry Krauss," says Nobel Prize-winning physicist Philip Anderson of Princeton University. In academia, "we from outside the (string) field are disturbed by our colleagues' insistence that every new semi-adolescent who has done something in string theory is the greatest genius since Einstein and therefore must occupy yet another tenure track. ... Our sciences are becoming increasingly infected with quasi-theology, a tendency which needs to be openly debated.
Originally posted by blue bird
Way would string theorist try now to explain dark matter - how come that they miss to find out that expansion of our universe is accelerating ?
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
Am I not from this planet...
Originally posted by LastOutfiniteVoiceEternal
The universe is not expanding and there is nothing outside of it. Nothing is not something, thus the universe is an immeasurable expanse and not expanding. There can't be other universes because there is no room in existence to allow for it. There is no space of nothingness existing, there is only an eternal expanse, there is only this 'uni-verse'. Einstein and Hawking are messing every thing up.
Originally posted by tgidkp
the only reason that higher numbered dimensions are necessary is because super-luminous communication between particles is a huuuuuge problem for a purely mechanical process.
Originally posted by grimreaper797
To say there is no spiritual world is denying what is inside you, and to say there is no physical world, well that's denying what is right in front of you.
Originally posted by badw0lf
Nonsense.
What are you saying, that if we 'believe' enough, we can change our physical world ?
Thats a nice thing to believe, but it's a load of bunk.
Originally posted by Azador
I agree with Astyanax this has been hijacked by Lastoutfinblahblah and others when all junglelord was trying to do was get people who might be interested in this area to research and read the relevant material and discuss the topic specifically.
String theory argues that all matter is composed of string-like shreds in a 10-dimensional hyperspace assembled in various forms. It has won acclaim from many who appreciate the theory's elegant mathematics and ambition to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity, and skepticism from others who cite the theory's lack of a practical track record. String theory, the doubters say, makes no testable predictions.
But this isn't exactly true. Indeed, the theory has not yet been experimentally vindicated in the realm of quantum gravity, but has been put into play in the realm of high-energy ion collisions, the kind carried out at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). A few years ago string practitioners attempted to establish a relationship between the 10-dimensional string world and the 4-dimensional (3 spatial dimensions plus time) world in which we observe interactions among quark-filled particles like protons (for background, see Physics Today, May 2005).
This duality between string theory and the theory of the strong nuclear force, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), was recently used to interpret puzzling early results from RHIC, namely the suppression of energetic quark jets that should have emerged from the fireball formed when two heavy nuclei (such as gold) collide head on. The thinking was that perhaps the plasma of quarks and gluons (quarks bursting free from their customary proton and meson groupings) wasn't a gas of weakly interacting particles (as was originally thought) but a gas of strongly interacting particles, so strong that any energetic quarks that might have escaped the fireball (initiating a secondary avalanche, or jet, or quarks) would quickly be slowed and stripped of energy on its way through the tumultuous quark-gluon plasma (QGP) environment.
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