Which leads to this interesting tidbit: "A garden snail has a top speed of about 78 furlongs per fortnight."
http://www.cathedral.org/wrs/chamber/fortnight-explained.htm On Oct 25, 2013, at 12:02 PM, "Robert J. Cordingley" <rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote: > 1,799,884,800,000 f/f give or take, in a vacuum. > > Robert C > > On 10/25/13 11:37 AM, Steve Smith wrote: >> In the spirit of "will it blend?" and "how much is a buttload?" I have to >> ask, what is the speed of light in "furlongs per fortnight?" >> >> - Steve >>> So it sounds like during the expansion phase a lightyear was still a >>> lightyear but growing bigger? If you were there how would you tell? My >>> platinum standard meter bar is now a longer but still standard meter bar? >>> Has time dilated as well? If so what does the age of 13.5by mean? In what >>> dimensions could you measure these changes? [Confusion may be an >>> understatement.] >>> >>> Robert C >>> >>> On 10/24/13 10:12 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space: >>>> >>>> "Because of the changing rate of expansion, it is also possible for a >>>> distance to exceed the value calculated by multiplying the speed of light >>>> by the age of the universe. These details are a frequent source of >>>> confusion among amateurs and even professional physicists." >>>> >>>> -- rec -- >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Robert J. Cordingley >>>> <rob...@cirrillian.com> wrote: >>>> Regardless of the poetic 'outer edges' is it possible what might be meant >>>> is in the context of a hyperspherical universe where the radius is time >>>> and is 13.5 by? The center being when the big bang occurred. Then the >>>> furthest object would be diametrically opposite and hypercircumferentially >>>> at 13.5*pi bly or 42.4 bly away? So in the 'now' being at 30bly away is >>>> chicken feed. >>>> >>>> Robert C. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 10/24/13 9:20 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: >>>>> Where is "the outer edge of the Universe" and what sort of observation >>>>> would locate something there? All that the original report in Nature >>>>> established was redshift (7.51), age (700 Myr after the Big Bang), and a >>>>> surprising rate of star formation (330 solar masses / year). >>>>> >>>>> -- rec -- >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > > > From the BBC at >>>>> > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24637890 >>>>> > > > (today) >>>>> > > > >>>>> > > > /Because it takes light so long to travel from the outer edge of the >>>>> > > > Universe to us, the galaxy appears as it was 13.1 billion years ago >>>>> > > > (its >>>>> > > > distance from Earth of 30 billion light-years is because the >>>>> > > > Universe is >>>>> > > > expanding)./ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ============================================================ >>>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>>>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>>> >>>> >>>> ============================================================ >>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ============================================================ >>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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