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| Gravity, why does it hate us? | ||
| 2005-10-26 | ||
GRAZ, Austria (AP) - Thinking he was Superman and could fly, a drunk man leapt from a fourth-floor window early Tuesday and suffered head and back injuries, authorities said. Paramedics rushed the 23-year-old man to a hospital in the city of Graz, about 120 miles south of Vienna, after he jumped from the window. Police said the man - who apparently had drunk several bottles of red wine before attempting the jump - appeared at the window ledge at around 4 a.m. and shouted: "I am Superman! Nothing can happen to me!"
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #10 a force that is not present in the two-dimensional world but that materializes along with the emergence of the illusory third dimension.... A lame version of Bohm-Pribram's implicate order? Illusory it may be, but works like a real thing! ;-) |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2005-10-26 23:34 |
| #9 SciAm: The Illusion of Gravity The force of gravity and one of the dimensions of space might be generated out of the peculiar interactions of particles and fields existing in a lower-dimensional realm By Juan Maldacena Three spatial dimensions are visible all around us--up/down, left/right, forward/backward. Add time to the mix, and the result is a four-dimensional blending of space and time known as spacetime. Thus, we live in a four-dimensional universe. Or do we? Amazingly, some new theories of physics predict that one of the three dimensions of space could be a kind of an illusion--that in actuality all the particles and fields that make up reality are moving about in a two-dimensional realm like the Flatland of Edwin A. Abbott. Gravity, too, would be part of the illusion: a force that is not present in the two-dimensional world but that materializes along with the emergence of the illusory third dimension.... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-10-26 20:35 |
| #8 You are supposed to throw yourself on the ground and miss! Doesn't anybody listen anymore dammit! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2005-10-26 19:16 |
| #7 I fear you are right Seafarious. We can only wait for a quantum shift to make things right/left or East/north. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-26 19:05 |
| #6 Wont work, Ship. As usual, its grievance has something to do with Palestine, the failure to ratify Kyoto, and the fact that the cute little red-haired neutron turned him down in seventh grade. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-10-26 17:52 |
| #5 The strong nuclear force hates us. Ima feel low now. Is there anything we can do? A cake? Flowers? Perhaps a gift card from a high-end boutique? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-10-26 17:43 |
| #4 He should've just handed his friends a gun, have them fire a few rounds at him... and then duck when they throw the gun at him. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-10-26 17:03 |
| #3 Gravity finds us attractive, actually. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-10-26 17:00 |
| #2 Gravity doesn't hate us. The strong nuclear force hates us. Electomagnetism and the weak nuclear force are largely indifferent to us. |
| Posted by: Mark E. 2005-10-26 16:34 |
| #1 I don't know why you mock him...He did fly... Granted for about 3 seconds... Granted straight down... Granted with a rather sudden stop... but he did fly :-) |
| Posted by: Warthog 2005-10-26 16:34 |