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Comment on 25 Years Ago: Late July – 84 Pianos, Miss America, Bank Bailouts and Purple Rain by Olivia Smith

Olivia Smith — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:23:29 +0000

former miss usa Vanessa Williams is a beautiful woman even by Today’s standards-”~

Comment on 25 Years Ago: Late July – 84 Pianos, Miss America, Bank Bailouts and Purple Rain by Austin Cook

Austin Cook — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:50:05 +0000

i first saw Vanessa Williams on the Miss USA pageant, she was so beautiful in the old days”;*

Comment on Fundamental Space Science Fiction Problems: Part 1 by skiznot

skiznot — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:40:55 +0000

Thanks for reading, Martin. I’ll have to add that to the must read one day pile. I’ve been wishing for some good sci-fi in TV or movies where the science isnt just an afterthough but I guess it’s a hard sell.

Comment on Fundamental Space Science Fiction Problems: Part 1 by Martin

Martin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:45:49 +0000

Read “Forever War” by Joe Haldeman. It’s all about what happens when you come back from near-light-speed trip and centuries, and eventually millenia, have passed.

Comment on Jay Leno is like Kanye West only not as funny. by florida health insurance

florida health insurance — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:59:59 +0000

The media and airheads turned the issue into one where they blamed Leno for everything. Leno hadn’t anything to do with Conan’s demise. Both shows had bad ratings. Conan’s ego would accept the NBC offer to begin the Tonight Show a half-hour later, because he threw a hissy-fit and pouted. Conan is the one that threw Leno under the bus. Not the other way around. As for Letterman, he picked up less than a half-million viewers. His ratings still aren’t at levels of what Leno’s were. Leno had the leading show for most of the years he was at the helm. I’ll go back and forth with Leno and Night Line, which is what I previously did during that time slot. I detested Letterman and never found him very humorous or entertaining.

Comment on Fun with Relativity and Time Dilation by skiznot

skiznot — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:06:46 +0000

It just might be that sort of thinking that breaks the paradigm to the next level of understanding. Or maybe the Earth and the Ship are both static and the ship’s energy is just pushing more space between the two like puring water in a glass with both a marble and a piece of cork in it. The thing I know I don’t have a handle on is the math so I have to trust scientific consensus knowing that it is always suseptable to admenments.

I suspect that the big difference between the Earth and the Spaceship would be the enourmos amounts of energy acting on the ship to get it going that fast. If you have a record spinning on a turn table in a moving truck with a fly and a piece of tape on it the energy of the truck and turn table is acting on the tape and the fly but the fly can expend the energy to move across the turn table. The energy is not acting on the tape but It could also be moved around the turn table if you expended the energy to move it relative to the turn table, truck, earth rotation, orbit, galactic spin, universal expansion. The best resource I’ve found with people that know all the math etc is at http://www.bautforum.com. They have gotten me out of a few quandries.

Thanks for commenting

Comment on Fun with Relativity and Time Dilation by Bob

Bob — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:03:27 +0000

OK, so that all makes sense. Good explanation. I still have a nagging question, though. But I’m not sure if I can explain it clearly.

The problem I have is that there is no static frame of reference. There is no cosmic framework against which speed is measured. Everything is relative to the observer’s viewpoint. Hence, “relativity”.

So, if I’m on the platform, I might think I’m stationary when I see a train go by at 10 mph. If I’m on the train, I could just as well imagine that I’m stationary, and the platform is moving by me at 10 mph. Either view is equally valid, right?

But when I leave Earth, traveling close to the speed of light, somehow time slows down for *me*. When I return I seem to be younger than all my friends who stayed on Earth. Yet, by the same logic, I could imagine that the Earth is the one speeding away from me at close to the speed of light, and my spaceship is stationary. If that were the case, I would think time would slow down on Earth relative to me in the spaceship, and I would be *older* than everyone else when we were reunited.

It can’t happen both ways…there’s some asymmetry. But I’m not sure what causes it.

What gives?

Comment on Fun with Relativity and Time Dilation by obshestvo riadole

obshestvo riadole — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:00:13 +0000

Very interesting article.

Comment on Fundamental Space Science Fiction Problems: Part 1 by euclidcreek

euclidcreek — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:58:57 +0000

Interesting, food for thought.

Comment on Fun with Relativity and Time Dilation by Skizworld » Blog Archive » Fundamental Space Science Fiction Problems: Part 1

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:18:47 +0000

[...] called “light huggers”) but there is still the pesky relativity. The problem, as covered in my Fun With Time Dialation post, is that the closer someone gets to the speed of light the slower time moves for them. The [...]