----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Physics question
> Kevin Street wrote: > > The Fool wrote: > >> But what if the apparatus is cooled to very close to absolute 0? > >> Like some kind of bose-einstein condensate? > > > > I suspect that the theoretical lower limit of cooling would still > > fall short of the kind of stillness needed to get an interesting > > displacement in space. But I don't know, maybe the math would say > > different. > > My take on that question is that at the temperatures needed to cause > such a displacement, the theoretical space probe would lose structural > and operational integrity. > > At very cold temps some kinds of molecular bonds become very weak and > if the displacement transmission is in any way turbulentthe craft just > might disintegrate. Good try, but that's not it. You were right about there being no absolute space....it's just that even if the Fool properly referred to uncertainty in the momentum instead of absolute zero momentum, there would still be quite a few problems. Even at absolute zero, the wave function that describes the entire spacecraft has a delta-momentum as well as a delta-x. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
