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Star-Trek Physics vs. Real Physics

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Traveler - 28 Jan 2006 23:38 GMT
The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
spacetime warps, etc... It's all driven by a desire to impress a lay
public that continually seeks mysterious or incomprehensible things to
worship, but it's Star-Trek physics crackpottery all the same.

What would be more in keeping with actual physics while being equally
astonishing, is instantaneous travel from anywhere to anywhere without
going through the intermediate positions. This is possible because
space (distance) is an illusion of perception. This is already
corroborated in experiments with quantum tunneling. In certain
circumstances, particles are observed going through barriers in a way
that defies classical physics. Interestingly, they seem to do so at
speeds greater than the speed of light.

For more on nonspatiality, see: Nasty Little Truth About Space:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/nasty.htm#Space

Quantum tunneling:
http://www.nature.com/nature/links/010705/010705-4.html

Quantum tunneling (long distance quantum jumps) is not to be confused
with teleportation which is just another example of Star-Trek physics
nonsense. Imagine a world where you can travel from anywhere to
anywhere instantly. Cheers!

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
Bill Hobba - 28 Jan 2006 23:49 GMT
> The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
> wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
> spacetime warps, etc... It's all driven by a desire to impress a lay
> public

Nope- it is driven by a desire to understand nature and evidenced by the
papers that are produced detailing it - they are aimed at other scientists
not the lay public.  It is the public that is interested in such things
after hearing about what scientists have found out.  But that proportion is
quite low as evidenced by the fact few are actually interested in or even
understand the basics of science
http://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/heavy_boots.html

Bill

> that continually seeks mysterious or incomprehensible things to
> worship, but it's Star-Trek physics crackpottery all the same.
[quoted text clipped - 23 lines]
> Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
> http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm 
Bill Hobba - 28 Jan 2006 23:56 GMT
>> The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
>> wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>
> Bill

Oh I forgot to add that Traveler as of course one of those that would say it
was heavy boots - that is of course assuming he could get admission to a
university.

Bill

>> that continually seeks mysterious or incomprehensible things to
>> worship, but it's Star-Trek physics crackpottery all the same.
[quoted text clipped - 23 lines]
>> Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
>> http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
heckuva - 29 Jan 2006 00:05 GMT
> > The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
> > wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> understand the basics of science
> http://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/heavy_boots.html

so are yo tellin ta me taht you understan?

this is bullshit, what is bullshit,

i am not talkin about time travel back to kill
the father of his own grandfather violating
that causality

i am  talkin on somthin complitlty else you
stoped mothofaka never understan

take an inert matterial, sh.t, whatever, you decide,
then send it back in time inert as it is

you are violating tha second law of thermodynamics,

are you makin the inevitable increassing entropy not
ta happen?

what are yo crazzy?

> Bill

stop redirecting tha posts you foken stoped moron

> > that continually seeks mysterious or incomprehensible things to
> > worship, but it's Star-Trek physics crackpottery all the same.
[quoted text clipped - 23 lines]
> > Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
> > http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
Bill Hobba - 29 Jan 2006 02:27 GMT
>> > The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
>> > wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 31 lines]
>
> what are yo crazzy?

As explained before we post in English on this forum - not moron

Bill

>> Bill
>
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
>> > Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
>> > http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
surrealistic-dream@hotmail.com - 30 Jan 2006 14:27 GMT
> > > The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
> > > wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 24 lines]
>
> you are violating tha second law of thermodynamics,

We only know the domain of applicability of a given law from our
experience with it under conditions under which it has already been
tested. We do not KNOW how laws operate under novel conditions.
Mark Martin - 29 Jan 2006 00:19 GMT
> http://www.milk.com/wall-o-shame/heavy_boots.html

  Wow, that's such an incredible story. I also enjoyed the ones about
the $2 bill and the million watt grease liquefier.

-Mark Martin
Traveler - 29 Jan 2006 02:44 GMT
[crap]

In 1949, Kurt Godel announce to the world that Einstein's spacetime
allows time travel to the past via time-like loops. Einstein agreed
with the fruitcake even though it is well known that nothing can move
in spacetime (see link below).

Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/notorious.htm

Tell me something, Bubba. What does Godel's dead a.s smell like today?
ahahaha... AHAHAHA... ahahaha...

Making phun of "physicists" is so much phucking phun! ahahaha...

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
Bill Hobba - 29 Jan 2006 06:30 GMT
> [crap]
>
> In 1949, Kurt Godel announce to the world that Einstein's spacetime
> allows time travel to the past via time-like loops.

That is not what he did.

> Einstein agreed
> with the fruitcake even though it is well known that nothing can move
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Tell me something, Bubba. What does Godel's dead a.s smell like today?
> ahahaha... AHAHAHA... ahahaha...

And here we have that wonderful engaging moronic laugh of yours.

Bill

> Making phun of "physicists" is so much phucking phun! ahahaha...
>
> Louis Savain
>
> Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
> http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm 
Traveler - 29 Jan 2006 12:59 GMT
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 06:30:49 GMT, Bubba wrote:

>> [crap]
>>
>> In 1949, Kurt Godel announce to the world that Einstein's spacetime
>> allows time travel to the past via time-like loops.
>
>That is not what he did.

But fruitcake Godel did exactly that, Bubba. Here's an article that
explains it all:
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?050228crat_atlarge

A quick search on Google will reveal many more references. You're in
denial, Bubba. Why? Obviously because your idols look stupid and you
can't stand it. That's the problem with being an a.s kisser, Bubba.
ahahahaha... Sometimes, the a.s that you kiss does not look so good.
ahahahaha...

So, why did Einstein act as if he was unaware of the fact that nothing
can move in spacetime? It was mentioned (see Karl Popper's
"Conjectures") by several prominent thinkers during Einstein's
lifetime. In fact, Gödel himself concluded that, if time travel were
possible, then the past is not past and one could no longer talk of a
passing time. In other words, if the past exists, time stands still
and spacetime is unchanging. Of course, this is a roundabout and
contradictory way of showing something that can be proven in a single
sentence, but this is to be expected of someone like Gödel. Why is
Gödel method contradictory? Because if time is unchanging (which it
is), any talk of time travel to the past via time-like loops puts one
squarely into crackpot territory. Gödel apparently failed to grasp the
obvious inconsistency. ahahaha... Once a fruicake, always a fruitcake,
eh Bubba?

Making phun of "physicists" is so much phucking phun! ahahaha...

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
Bill Hobba - 29 Jan 2006 22:56 GMT
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 06:30:49 GMT, Bubba wrote:
>
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> But fruitcake Godel did exactly that, Bubba.

Did he show the universe was rotating?  Unless he did that then he did not
show acasual solutions actually existed - they quite possibly are like the
acasual runaway solutions of EM with point particles ie invalid because
point particles do not classically exist.  But of course such simple
reasoning is way beyond your capabilities - I simply mention it for those
reading this thread that have a brain.

> Here's an article that
> explains it all:
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> ahahahaha... Sometimes, the a.s that you kiss does not look so good.
> ahahahaha...

Your a.s fetish needs treatment - seek it and soon.

> So, why did Einstein act as if he was unaware of the fact that nothing
> can move in spacetime?

Becasue he was not an undeducatible idiot like you.

Bill

> It was mentioned (see Karl Popper's
> "Conjectures") by several prominent thinkers during Einstein's
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
> http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm 
Traveler - 30 Jan 2006 02:22 GMT
Bubba wrote:

[cut irrelevant autistic crap]

ahahaha... What does lunatic Godel's dead a.s smell like today, Bubba?
ahahaha... AHAHAHA... ahahaha...

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
Dirk Van de moortel - 29 Jan 2006 11:32 GMT
> [crap]
>
> In 1949, Kurt Godel announce to the world that Einstein's spacetime
> allows time travel to the past via time-like loops. Einstein agreed
> with the fruitcake even though it is well known that nothing can move
> in spacetime (see link below):

Repeat after me:
 http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/Fumbles/AutisticSpacetime.html

Dirk Vdm
Traveler - 29 Jan 2006 13:01 GMT
Dick van de merde wrote:

[crap]

ahahahaha... The MAKS (Mutual a.s Kissing Society) is in session. Dick
kisses Bubba's a.s and Bubba returns the favor. ahahaha...

Making phun of "physicists" is so much phucking phun! ahahaha...

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
Dirk Van de moortel - 29 Jan 2006 13:02 GMT
> Dick van de merde wrote:
>
> [crap]

Yes indeed, yours actually:
  http://users.telenet.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/Fumbles/AutisticSpacetime.html
:-)

Dirk Vdm
Traveler - 29 Jan 2006 13:11 GMT
Dick van de merde wrote:

[crap]

ahahahaha... The MAKS (Mutual a.s Kissing Society) is in session. Dick
kisses Bubba's a.s and Bubba returns the favor. ahahaha...

Making phun of "physicists" is so much phucking phun! ahahaha...

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
Mike - 29 Jan 2006 23:55 GMT
> > The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
> > wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Nope- it is driven by a desire to understand nature and evidenced by the
> papers that are produced detailing it - ....

[snip apologies]

Yup, let's go ahead understand the world:

AXIOMS of SR:

Axiom 1: There are globally inertial reference frames -- falis
verification

Axiom 2. Space-time is a 4-D continuum -- falis verification.

Axiom 3. POR -- fails verification

Axiom 4. Constancy of the speed of light -- fails verifiction.

It is obvious that from a theory founded with four unverifiable axioms
only crap could could result. Hmmmm.....isn't it the same "mentality"
that created some other crap some time ago?....hmmmmm..... details are
left out for the educated reader.....hmmmm....

By the way, can you spot the hidden axioms of SR? A free picture of
Dirt ton de Merde for anyone who will explain correctly why a stupid
theory appears to be confirmed in "laboratories". No, we know about
those fraud cases. I am talking about guided experiments.

China exchanges currency appreciation status quo against the dollar for
delaying presentations of experiments falsifying SR/GR. Let us keep the
"tradition" a little longer even if it costs so much. Let us not lose
the "heritage"  we paid a fortune to establish. At least, let us divide
the world in two hemispheres of influence.

Mike

Mike

they are aimed at other scientists
> not the lay public.  It is the public that is interested in such things
> after hearing about what scientists have found out.  But that proportion is
[quoted text clipped - 31 lines]
> > Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
> > http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
Bill Hobba - 30 Jan 2006 06:02 GMT
>> > The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
>> > wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> Axiom 1: There are globally inertial reference frames -- falis
> verification

The claim of SR is not that inertial frames exist - it is they exist
conceptually like points having position and no size exist - which also do
not exist in your sense either.  Fully covered in grade 8 geometry - repeat
it until understood then repost.  But of course you will not since this has
been explained to you time and time again yet you can not grasp it.  I
suppose you will always simply be fodder for Dirks list;
http://users.pandora.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/ImmortalFumbles.html
Those that give us mirth and merriment have their uses; but I am
humanitarian enough to wish you at least had an inkling of a clue.

Bill

> Axiom 2. Space-time is a 4-D continuum -- falis verification.
>
[quoted text clipped - 59 lines]
>> > Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
>> > http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu - 30 Jan 2006 07:14 GMT
>>> > The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
>>> > wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 22 lines]
>Those that give us mirth and merriment have their uses; but I am
>humanitarian enough to wish you at least had an inkling of a clue.

I'll add here something, not for the benefit of the OP (who deserves
no attention) but for some educable folks who may be following this
thread.

Physics postulates (and yes, they're called "postulates", not
"axioms", and there is a reason for this distinction) require ***no***
verification.  In fact, they don't even require justification  (one
may be provided but it is not necessary).  What they require, in order
to be considered (provisionally) valid is:

1)  Consistency, i.e.that the postulates do not contradict one another.
2)  Independence, i.e. that none of the postulates may be derived from
the other ones.  Of course, if something like this occures, the one
derived is no longer a postulate and it may just be dropped from the
list.
3)  That the results derived using the postulates are not in
disagreement with observations.

To these one may add a fourth one

4)  Relevance.  That's a matter of Occam's Razor.  It is always
possible to complement any set of postulates with additional
postulates that have no bearing on *any* result obtainable from the
theory.  To use a recent example, ID, one can take the set of
postulates of any physical theory and add to it the extra postulate of
"things are this way because God ordained it so".  This extra
postulate doesn't violate the consistency or independence of the set
and, obviously, doesn't violate rule (3) since the results derived are
not changed by its inclusion.  For this very reason, though, it is not
relevant, thus it doesn't belong in the set.

So, these are the requirements.  And if anybody complains that "these
postulates aren't proven" the answer is "of course, if it would have
been possible to prove them, they wouldn't have been postulates".  And
if somebody complains that "there is no guarantee that these
postulates are true", the answer is, again, "of course".  Science
doesn't give you guarantees of Truth, and never will.  It gives you
models consistent with available information.  That's all.  

Mati Meron                      | "When you argue with a fool,
meron@cars.uchicago.edu         |  chances are he is doing just the same"
platopes - 30 Jan 2006 07:27 GMT
> >>> > The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
> >>> > wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 64 lines]
> Mati Meron                      | "When you argue with a fool,
> meron@cars.uchicago.edu         |  chances are he is doing just the same"

 Nice! Thanks!

 p
Sam Wormley - 30 Jan 2006 13:47 GMT
> I'll add here something, not for the benefit of the OP (who deserves
> no attention) but for some educable folks who may be following this
[quoted text clipped - 37 lines]
> Mati Meron                      | "When you argue with a fool,
> meron@cars.uchicago.edu         |  chances are he is doing just the same"

  Thanks Mati.
 -Sam
Bill Hobba - 30 Jan 2006 23:51 GMT
>>>> > The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
>>>> > wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 67 lines]
> Mati Meron                      | "When you argue with a fool,
> meron@cars.uchicago.edu         |  chances are he is doing just the same"

Thanks as well Mati.

Thanks
Bill
JanPB - 30 Jan 2006 02:46 GMT
> The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
> wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
> spacetime warps, etc... It's all driven by a desire to impress a lay
> public

No, you watched too many movies.

The real reason behind research into all that weird stuff is simply to
test the boundaries of the theories. As is well-known, GR and QM are
not reconciled and one method of looking for clues is to see HOW
exactly one or the other theory fails (or at least becomes "weird" in
some widely accepted sense). The type of failure can tell you a lot
about structure of weak points in general and is most helpful is
thinking up alternatives and enhancements. It's just a good engineering
practice.

Having said all that, I agree that there will be obviously lots of
people who want to cash in and write silly pop-sci books or make money
off Star Trek fans.

--
Jan Bielawski
Traveler - 30 Jan 2006 14:16 GMT
>> The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
>> wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>thinking up alternatives and enhancements. It's just a good engineering
>practice.

ahahaha... Equating time travel physics with boundary testing must be
the ultimate in a.s kissing. Time travel is unmitigated crackpottery.
And yet, history teaches us that Einstein believed it when Godel
announced to the world that spacetime allows time travel to the past
via time-like loops. Kip Thorne of CalTech Pasadena made a career out
of it. Most of the Star-Trek physics crap came directly from the likes
of Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking. Heck, the little con artist in the
wheelchair even had a cameo appearance in one of the Star-Trek
episodes where he was portrayed as the equal of Newton and Galileo.

>Having said all that, I agree that there will be obviously lots of
>people who want to cash in and write silly pop-sci books or make money
>off Star Trek fans.

Who do you think you're fooling? The fact is that crap like time
travel, wormholes, black holes, etc... are not the inventions of
pop-sci authors hoping to cash in on Einstein's fame. They are the
brain children of "serious scientists" such as Kurt Godel, Kip Thorne,
Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan and even Albert Einstein himself. The
record speaks for itself.

You know something, Bielawski. You've always been an a.s kisser and a
weasel, kinda like Mati Meron. You will be defending your turf and
your masters' reputation until they start oozing out of your pores.
ahahaha...

Making phun of "physicists" is so much phucking phun! ahahaha...

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
JanPB - 31 Jan 2006 02:22 GMT
> >> The theory of relativity has engendered a lot of weird physics:
> >> wormholes, black holes, time travel via time-like loops, tachyons,
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
> ahahaha... Equating time travel physics with boundary testing must be
> the ultimate in a.s kissing.

You make no sense - testing models for weird predictions is a standard
practice.

> Time travel is unmitigated crackpottery.

But that's the point. If GR allows it then it's an important clue. OTOH
it's quite possible something  more physical comes out of it.

> And yet, history teaches us that Einstein believed it when Godel
> announced to the world that spacetime allows time travel to the past
> via time-like loops.

Goedel's is a correct solution to the Einstein equation. It has plenty
of weird properties which tells you to what extent GR is not good
enough.

> Most of the Star-Trek physics crap came directly from the likes
> of Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking.

Again, these are valid solutions of the Einstein equation. But I agree
that most pop-sci books are entirely overboard in how they report these
findings.

> >Having said all that, I agree that there will be obviously lots of
> >people who want to cash in and write silly pop-sci books or make money
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan and even Albert Einstein himself. The
> record speaks for itself.

You are totally confused. It's not any "invention" - these are actual
solutions to certain PDEs. I agree that popularisations of these
results were in many cases inappropriate but people with an ambition
like yours should be able to cut through all that and see what is
really happening and why.

> You know something, Bielawski. You've always been an a.s kisser and a
> weasel, kinda like Mati Meron. You will be defending your turf and
> your masters' reputation until they start oozing out of your pores.
> ahahaha...

You talk like you were born yesterday.

--
Jan Bielawski
Traveler - 31 Jan 2006 04:42 GMT
[crap]

Eat sh.t, Bielawski. ahahaha... AHAHAHA... ahahaha...

Making phun of "physicists" is so much phucking phun! ahahaha...

Louis Savain

Why Software Is Bad and What We Can Do to Fix It:
http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/Reliability.htm
Chris - 31 Jan 2006 00:34 GMT
Very interesting.

Star-trek star ship (United States Star Ship) is a ion beam propelled
machine. Those long tubes are ion accelerator tubes called a Rhombadron in
which microwaves accelerate ions (protons) to 1 times the speed of light ans
a subsidery tube does likewise with elecrons to prevent charge building up.
They have much more thrust than a photon rocket but waste mass in the form
of hydrogen shooting out the back.  And so have an overall inferior
performnce to photon propulsion.

However they can do warps of about 100 and get there quite quickly and use a
lower power level that could be made by di-lithium a well known nuclear
fusion fuel (only found naturally on lithos).  The impulse power is just
charged capacitors that accumulate charge during normal powered flight and
are used in emegancy and for starting the di-lithium reaction which takes a
lot of power.  Tri-lithium is better but it saps energy to make.
Mono-lithium is the usual form and that is found everywhere especially in
London clay.  It is in the form of lithium-aluminium-silicate.  And is mined
for use in lithium batteries (I got one in my mobile phone).

(Oh by the way, before you laugh like a drain - lithos is greek for Earth)

The nearest worm hole is 65,000 light years away and ends in a mass of
superdens matter where hydrogen spins in and gamma jets come out at the
poles.

I would not go anywhere near it the non-linear gravity traps the star ship,
you can go in but you can't get out, you just get shredded to hydrogen and
then spat out as gamma radiation.

Chris.
 
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