Dr E D F Williams schrieb: > > 'Entropy' - another incomprehensible human invention. We will never > understand nature until a new way of looking at it is found. > > Don
Hi! In fact, sometimes I find the concept of entropy easier to understand than the concept of time. Especially, looking at my working desk in the morning. Well - that's every-day physics, hehe. ;-) Thomas > > H� > > > > According to Stephen Hawking time is just the direction of increasing > > entropy. That�s why any attempt to tidy up is hopeless, it only > > increases the entropy even more some other place.... > > > > DagT > > > > > > P� torsdag, 17. juli 2003, kl. 09:06, skrev Dr E D F Williams: > > > > > In fact we do it all the time. There is a considerable lag between the > > > registering of information on the retina and the final production of > > > information in the brain. What we see (always) has already happened > > > and is > > > in the past - there is no present. Another matter while I'm going so > > > far off > > > topic. There is no such thing as 'time'. Time is man-made -- just like > > > Mathematics, and all the wonderfully complex mathematical 'Laws' of > > > Physics. > > > Quarks and many other wonders exist, indeed they do, but not as we > > > explain > > > or imagine them. No one knows this better than the Cosmologists and > > > Particle > > > Physicists who investigate the nature of such 'things'. > > > > > > Now I'll duck. > > > > > > Don > > > _______________ > > > Dr E D F Williams > > > http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams > > > Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery > > > Updated: March 30, 2002 > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:21 AM > > > Subject: Re: Zooms vs. primes: the final word and ultimate wisdom > > > > > > > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> Thursday, July 17, 2003, 12:36:18 AM, you wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> On 16 Jul 2003 at 10:30, Michael Bergstrom wrote: > > >>> > > >>>>> I held out a fleeting hope that its ability to focus slightly > > >>>>> beyond > > >>>>> infinity would allow me to capture images of objects as they once > > > appeared in the past, > > >>> > > >>>> How cool would that be :-) > > >>> > > >>> it's what we already do. > > >> > > >> Well yes we do when viewing distant space objects but we don't have to > > > focus > > >> past infinity to do that :-) > > >> > > >> Rob Studdert > > >> HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > > >> Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > > >> UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ > > >> Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > >
