Many thanks!
On Sep 3, 2010, at 4:28 AM, Horse wrote: > Hi Marsha > > If you google Petr Horava and read about his hypothesis (it's about gravity > but this affects C and Time as you'll find) you'll see what's going on. It's > to do with uncoupling Time from Space-Time and Lorentz Symmetry. > Also, try this link: > > http://eclectic.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=637233 > > it's a bit cheesy but an interesting introduction. > > There are also articles about this in both New Scientist and Scientific > American. > > > Horse > > > On 03/09/2010 07:09, MarshaV wrote: >> Horse, >> >> This sounds great! I love a sea-change! >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sep 2, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Horse wrote: >> >>> Hi Guys >>> >>> From what my friend was saying, this new ( and I believe it is very new ) >>> idea about C has completely screwed the old ideas about relativity, special >>> or otherwise and has, effectively, turned physics on it's head. It looks >>> like it's as big a change from what we have thought until recently as the >>> change from Newtonian physics to Quantum physics. >>> I've emailed him to see if he has any references that I can point you in >>> the direction of! >>> I know about most of what's already been mentioned, slowing light down in >>> different mediums, space stretching but remaining constant locally, >>> gravitational variance etc. but, if I understood him correctly and he's >>> normally pretty reliable on this sort of stuff, what he's talking about >>> could mean that large chunks of physics is just about to be completely >>> re-written! >>> I'll await his reply and let you know. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> >>> Horse >>> >>> >>> On 02/09/2010 19:58, Magnus Berg wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> On 2010-09-02 12:45, Horse wrote: >>>>> Hi Marsha >>>>> It probably depends on what you mean by a vacuum but I was having an >>>>> interesting conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about C. >>>>> Apparently, from what I gather he was talking about, C is no longer a >>>>> constant but is dependent upon the curvature of space - i.e. if there is >>>>> a gravitational difference in one area of the universe compared to >>>>> another area (E.g. a singularity) then there will be a difference in the >>>>> value of C! >>>> Actually, c will still be constant because even if space is stretched out, >>>> light will still travel so and so many km per second. It's just that a km >>>> gets longer if space is stretched out. So, *locally* (inside the stretched >>>> space), light travels at c, but from a point outside the stretched space, >>>> the light will have travelled faster than c. >>>> >>>> Magnus >>>> > > "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production > deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." > — Frank Zappa > ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
