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Aesquire
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 09:38 am: | 
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There are 2 competing theories for how the Universe works....
One suggests an underlying structure, a fabric to space time. Aether. It was considered proven wrong by the Michelson-Morley experiment... and a lot of other attempts to detect the planet moving through the Aether.... This theory is getting a second look by some physicists who gripe about the Other Theory...
The Other Theory points out the math on General Relativity doesn't work out, compared to the actual Observations of the universe, so invents Dark Matter and Dark Energy, to fix the problem.
So, short form, we have 2 theories that try and explain the Universe, both have an invisible substance that we so far can't detect, that may or may not exist, and we humans made up to make sense of what we see.
In the end, I suspect one made up substance will be the same as the other, just looked at in different ways, but in the meantime it's a major argument that doesn't get a lot of press... mostly because most science reporters can't understand the argument at all.
I'm a fan of Aether over Dark Stuff, but I'm just guessing, and going for the theory that looks more elegant.
Gravity waves, actually existing, works with either theory... Messes the heck out of some others.
As to the sensitivity... this is engineering at the very edge of what we can do. very cool stuff.
In either case, I don't think we should respond to any linkedin requests. |
Sifo
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 11:04 am: |
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I'm a fan of Aether over Dark Stuff
I'm afraid that this belief is going to force me to hunt you down and separate you head from your body with a rusty knife.  |
Hughlysses
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 11:08 am: |
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One suggests an underlying structure, a fabric to space time. Aether.
This is starting to sound like something from an H. P. Lovecraft story...
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Etennuly
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 03:49 pm: |
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All of this puts in mind my daughter's favorite high school bumper sticker....."If a fat girl falls in a forest, do the trees laugh?
And then there is.....
hunt you down and separate you head from your body with a rusty knife I always prefer to use something really dull so that it will take some time and cause maximum pain over said time.
Had this young dummy work for me, who on a good day only broke or messed up two or three things. I frequently told him I was going to cut his nuts off with a round face body hammer on a rubber block. It would certainly take some time and hurt like a bitch, I told him that because that was the kind of agony his work ethic and abilities brought me each day.
I'm sorry, what was this thread about?
Gravity.
While having a bit of an argument with him over some multiple choice test questions that could have gone either way, I told my senior year science teacher, "when I can see how gravity works I will know all that I will need to know about science". The argument ended and he went on with other business. |
Sifo
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 07:52 pm: |
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And then there is.....
hunt you down and separate you head from your body with a rusty knife I always prefer to use something really dull so that it will take some time and cause maximum pain over said time.
Had this young dummy work for me, who on a good day only broke or messed up two or three things. I frequently told him I was going to cut his nuts off with a round face body hammer on a rubber block. It would certainly take some time and hurt like a bitch, I told him that because that was the kind of agony his work ethic and abilities brought me each day.
Are you suggesting that I should sever Aesquire's seed sack with blunt automotive tools? Damn, that's cold Vern! |
86129squids
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 08:13 pm: |
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Ummm- Vern's a nice guy, but I wouldn't piss him off. Too creative and deranged, but sane. For now. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 12:04 am: |
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Well, that escalated quickly. |
Mr_grumpy
| | Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 02:45 am: |
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The trouble with all these theories about gravity is that the arguments inevitably fall down somewhere.  |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 11:00 am: |
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No Tom, my point is if the guy's head was removed from his body with any knife, the chances of his being dead is real high. Ergo.....the rust on the knife will not have time to cause any disturbing problems or infections.
If you are going to carve someone up with a rusty knife your only hope is that it would be really dull towards inflicting maximum pain or fear even. The rust could only have a momentary affect on the victim as in he would literally have only seconds to think about that rust. But then, would he care if his head was removed with a nice shiny new one? At best you would be causing the victim confusion as he expired.
My program has no intention of ending the relationship with the alleged victim, just equalizing the pain and suffering that was carried forth every day.
The moral of the story is you cannot inflict pain or suffering on an expired person.
This side bar has fallen from it's gravitational pull from this thread's main interest.
On that note I watched an interesting show on PBS about gravity where the scientists dropped a bowing ball and some feathers in a vacuum in a NASA test facility in Cleveland Oh. When air was removed from the equation, the feathers fell at the same rate as the ball. Pretty cool. Then they got into some observation that they were not falling at all, but traveling in space in a space. That I would believe if the same experiment on the exact opposite side of the Earth had them falling up.
That is my theory and I'm sticking with it. |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 11:32 am: |
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They're not falling, they're following the curvature of the space-time distortion caused by the combined mass of the Earth, the bowling ball, and the feathers. |
Sifo
| | Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 12:55 pm: |
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You will finally understand when you realize there is no bowling ball. |
Hughlysses
| | Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 12:57 pm: |
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