Suzi Mayhem Outdoes John Cleese (page 5)

dark clouds

in the spirit of brevity and conciseness:

someone posed a question,

do you have any idea what an imaginary distance is? Or an imaginary time? Of course not, and neither does anyone else.

apparently Steve Hawking and the rest of the mathematical community do

ladies and gentlemen
this is irony
and/or a multiple personality disorder
for later he himself
yes fellow readers
the poser of the question
answered it with Steve Hawking's words. . .

Imaginary time may sound like science fiction but it is in fact a well-defined mathematical concept.

let the evidence speak for itself. . .

seems irrational
(with you being a doctor of physics and all)
ALAN
that you would forget having read hawking's writing
at some point during your education,
and considering you do know the page number. . .
that you would then ask such a proposterous question.

seems like the certificate is imaginary after all
and it exists in your conceptual reality
or should i say virtual reality

sitting high on your throne were you?
how's that for a slice of humble pie
your own words betray you

why don't you be a man about it and accept the fact that my use of the word is exactly whatyou misinterpreted and go back and read the first post
you totally understood and understand what i said
but you chose to be ignorant

in the words of the tralfamadorians
'so it goes'
chuck
ps. it is said that great minds think alike

apparently hawking and i have something in common

dark clouds

my oh my
that sounded like an ass being ripped anew

AlanF

To darkmind

It's truly amazing that someone can read words on a page and yet so completely misunderstand them. As a famous physicist told a colleague, "you're not even wrong".

You're even more completely in the dark than assAtlast, and there's no use trying to correct you.

AlanF

dark clouds

god dang it
the simplest things are soooo overlooked
excuse me while i gloat!!!!

hey alan-stein,
you know that c in the equation
the one that represents the speed of light
sit down for this one

well i'm sitting here, typing away
remembering a class i took back in high school as a sophomore,
astronomy it was called
and i remember c being nick-named the speed limit of the universe
now,
conceptually nothing is absolute,
example,
atoms were assumed to be the smallest particles until
protons, neutrons and electrons
were discovered
then those were followed by even smaller particles
im not a scientist
but i believe these were called
quarks
anyhows as to not go off subject
that c in the equation it is squared
like in
c * c
this implies that light has the potential to
go even faster
that is pretty fucking fast mate
will you now retort that c only represents 186,000 as a numeral in the equation?
c'mon alan if yu were so smart you would be in hawkings place writing those books
i simply speculate because i know how to
and im not afraid to share my views
im not absolute
just not afraid to question
and think
niter
fuzzy boy chuck

dark clouds

oh alan could it be oh could it be that you are still projecting
god diggidy dang
possibilities are so many

dark mind that is catchy i like it
seems that there is alot of activity in this darkness
more than you would ever allow yourself in the vacuum between your ears

"you're not even wrong"

.
he was talking to you wasn't he

It's truly amazing that someone can read words on a page and yet so completely misunderstand them.---alan

the reason you still won't get off my dick
this is exactly what i have been telling you

in your mathematical mind you misunderstood
it is that simple
deal with it will you

suzi mayhem

I now pronounce this particular horse to be of the DEAD KIND.

Thank you.

*taking a smartass bow*

Focus

darkcloud quoted Hawking in an attempt to refute AlanF:

Imaginary time may sound like science fiction but it is in fact a well-defined mathematical concept.

darkcloud, a 7-dimensional vector space is also a totally well-defined mathematical concept.

However, to assign real-life meaning to such is impossible, and it is in that context that the terms were used in the beginning of this thread.

I therefore think you are misinterpreting Hawking by, ummm, an angle of about pi: what you quote supports AlanF, rather than confounding him.

The usefulness of an imaginary dimension in all sorts of branches of physics stems (pun) purely from the fact that it is easier to add than to multiply [ e^(i*x) = cos(x) + i * sin(x) and all that ].

It does not make the imaginary real, You Know - merely useful.

Note that I mentioned 7-dimensional vector space before in my example of a well-defined mathematical concept. I did not mention 4-, 5-, 6-, 8-, 9- etc. dimensional vector spaces as the vector product (cross-product) cannot be defined for them (it has meaning only for 3- and 7- dimensional vector spaces). When you have understood this, and the proof of this, please do come and debate with me. Till then, kindly accept my assurance that AlanF is far more correct than are you.

--
Focus
(Topological Physicist of the CunningLinguist Class)

riz

CunningLinguist.

Hmmmmmm... Focus, oh nevermind.

riz

Insanity in individuals is something rare- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. - Nietzsche

Focus

riz noted:

CunningLinguist.
Hmmmmmm... Focus, oh nevermind.

Nor is it a question of tongue in cheeks!

--
Focus
(antitype of Master-Baiter Class)

larc

Hey Dark,

You assert that since "c" is squared in an equation, the light itself can go faster. This seems silly to me. Could you provide a quote from a physics book to back up this silliness?

Suzi Mayhem Outdoes John Cleese

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