On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:11 AM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au>wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:04:05AM +0100, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > Yeah, welcome to the list Russell. > > > > So question of energy has no place in a TOE? Can you point me towards > some > > examples (TOE's that are mute on energy/force and such things) ? > > The link posted was not about the physical concept of energy, but > rather about one of Elon Musk's ideas for transport. > ... tied directly to the question of how Musk would realize this proposition of a hyperloop based on solar energy. I was guessing that physicists and engineers reading this list on TOE, might have some sort of idea about say "limits and potential for maglev" or some other technology to do this. > > Also, what is the question of energy? Why are you interested in TOEs > that are mute on the subject of energy? Such a theory would hardly be > a theory of everything! > My point exactly: Why is a scientific question, regarding possible technology, directly linked to an indispensable part of any TOE out of topic? If you can speculate plausibly with a variant of QM, string, comp, some engineering background etc. how Musk could pull this off, then I'd be all ears. Thanks for clarifying that part. PGC ----- > > Cheers > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
