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From: Pat Flannery on 8 Jul 2010 14:25
On 7/8/2010 6:55 AM, John Stafford wrote:


> That goofy librarian could have rummaged about the earth for another
> pair of glasses, but that would be a sequel and they didn't do them then.

You probably don't have really bad vision like I do (and his glasses
made his look far worse than mine in that episode) I've spent half an
hour looking around the inside of my apartment for my misplaced glasses
before I could locate which particular blur was them. :-)

> Back to the subject: What is a light year? I think it is a year that has
> more taste, is less filling.

I'd say a light year was 1752, when 11 days were dropped from the year
to get the calender back into adjustment with the sky:
http://www.cslib.org/CalendarChange.htm

Pat

From: Androcles on 8 Jul 2010 15:44

"John Stafford" <nhoj(a)droffats.net> wrote in message
news:urOdnSPbFcl0Z6jRnZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d(a)supernews.com...
| In article <6NlZn.103683$We4.41427(a)hurricane>,
| "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_z> wrote:
|
| > "John Stafford" <nhoj(a)droffats.net> wrote in message
| > news:89KdnbrTYeRge6jRnZ2dnUVZ_ridnZ2d(a)supernews.com...
| > | In article
| > | <icydnd_xBbsKT6jRnZ2dnUVZ_tidnZ2d(a)posted.northdakotatelephone>,
| > | Pat Flannery <flanner(a)daktel.com> wrote:
| > |
| > | > On 7/8/2010 3:48 AM, bert wrote:
| > | > > Sam Einstein has "time" more important than space. He gave it a
| > | > > dimension.
| > | >
| > | > A dimension of sight and sound?
| > | > Where you are the last man on Earth, and you've broken your glasses?
;-)
| > | >
| > | > Pat
| > |
| > | That goofy librarian could have rummaged about the earth for another
| > | pair of glasses, but that would be a sequel and they didn't do them
then.
| > |
| > | Back to the subject: What is a light year? I think it is a year that
has
| > | more taste, is less filling.
| > |
| > Phooey - A light beer has less taste and is more filling.
|
| So the presidents of Guinness, Budweiser and Pabst go to lunch together.
| The waiter asks for drink orders, and the Bud boy says, "I'll have a
| Budweiser, and naturally the Pabst person orders a Pabst. "And what will
| you have, Sir", the waiter asks the Guinness guy, who replies, "Just
| water, please."
|
| "What?!" the other two exclaim, "Aren't you going to have a drink?"
|
| Guinness guy answer, "Well, if you chaps aren't going to drink beer,
| then neither will I."
|
Sounds like Stephen Hawking, he turned down a beer when it was MY shout.
No sane Englishman would ever commit such a sin. Perhaps it was the
thought of falling into the black hole of a pint of Theakston's Olde
Peculier
that upset him.
http://www.theakstons.co.uk/


From: Pat Flannery on 8 Jul 2010 21:23
On 7/8/2010 8:20 AM, John Stafford wrote:

> So the presidents of Guinness, Budweiser and Pabst go to lunch together.
> The waiter asks for drink orders, and the Bud boy says, "I'll have a
> Budweiser, and naturally the Pabst person orders a Pabst. "And what will
> you have, Sir", the waiter asks the Guinness guy, who replies, "Just
> water, please."
>
> "What?!" the other two exclaim, "Aren't you going to have a drink?"
>
> Guinness guy answer, "Well, if you chaps aren't going to drink beer,
> then neither will I."

Shar, and if that not be the truth of the matter too.

Pat

From: Sam Wormley on 8 Jul 2010 18:33
On 7/8/10 6:48 AM, bert wrote:
> On Jul 8, 12:10 am, Sam Wormley<sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/7/10 9:40 PM, Immortalist wrote:
>>
>>> What sort of things are they if they are things?
>>
>> Some Background
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
>>
>> "The concept of spacetime combines space and time to a single abstract
>> "space", for which a unified coordinate system is chosen. Typically
>> three spatial dimensions (length, width, height), and one temporal
>> dimension (time) are required. Dimensions are independent components of
>> a coordinate grid needed to locate a point in a certain defined "space".
>
> Sam Einstein has "time" more important than space. He gave it a
> dimension. Without time you can not be at a given place to meet.
> Without time how could we measure the size an age of the universe?
> TreBert


I'm surprised you don't have a theory that gives each of the four
dimensions equality--none being more important than any other and
yet all as one entity--Spacetime.


From: Sam Wormley on 8 Jul 2010 19:16
On 7/8/10 12:26 AM, Michael C wrote:
> Also, if a moment in time is a configuration of the universe, then it
> seems that traveling "back to" a certain moment in time is a little
> more possible in theory.

We are part of the universe--we can't step outside of it and go
where we choose as if we where "above it all".

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