12-19-2009, 11:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-19-2009, 12:11 PM by Questioner.)
Thank you for the translation, Ali.
I'd never heard of a physics formula as "an astonishing punch line" before. I really like that way of thinking. It makes physics so much more fun! Say, did you hear the one about the two masses? Turns out their attraction was the product of their masses divided by the square root of their distance. Ha ha! Guess what, it works no matter which two masses you use! Give it a try, this other mass walks into a bar... product, square root, same thing! Ain't that a knee-slapper.
"around each mass M a kind of hologram can be envisioned, a screen on which all the information about it's content is stored in the shape of bits..." I have trouble envisioning that, because I don't actually understand it. I know each of the words, but they don't add up to a story for me - not even an anecdote, let alone a punch line. I understand bits from decades of computer programming. I understand holograms and have seen holograms and laser arrays in person. I don't understand how bits have a shape in a holographic screen around each mass. "Can be envisioned?" Not by me, just can't envision it from this much description, sorry.
I realize the article is a journalist's summary of a physicist's summary of his theory. I'm afraid that I'm going to need something more detailed to help me understand this one.
"not being a fundamental theory, but rather a statistical theory about the behavior of a collective of individual parts, like thermodynamics or quantum theory" As a tangent, this reminds me that next year I want to discuss Colonel John Boyd's work here, including the OODA loop as a response to uncertainty. I think his work will be interesting to those interested in the Law of One.
Without going too far afield, could the Dutch folk sayings be explained?
I'd never heard of a physics formula as "an astonishing punch line" before. I really like that way of thinking. It makes physics so much more fun! Say, did you hear the one about the two masses? Turns out their attraction was the product of their masses divided by the square root of their distance. Ha ha! Guess what, it works no matter which two masses you use! Give it a try, this other mass walks into a bar... product, square root, same thing! Ain't that a knee-slapper.
"around each mass M a kind of hologram can be envisioned, a screen on which all the information about it's content is stored in the shape of bits..." I have trouble envisioning that, because I don't actually understand it. I know each of the words, but they don't add up to a story for me - not even an anecdote, let alone a punch line. I understand bits from decades of computer programming. I understand holograms and have seen holograms and laser arrays in person. I don't understand how bits have a shape in a holographic screen around each mass. "Can be envisioned?" Not by me, just can't envision it from this much description, sorry.
I realize the article is a journalist's summary of a physicist's summary of his theory. I'm afraid that I'm going to need something more detailed to help me understand this one.
"not being a fundamental theory, but rather a statistical theory about the behavior of a collective of individual parts, like thermodynamics or quantum theory" As a tangent, this reminds me that next year I want to discuss Colonel John Boyd's work here, including the OODA loop as a response to uncertainty. I think his work will be interesting to those interested in the Law of One.
Without going too far afield, could the Dutch folk sayings be explained?