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2005-10-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve 2005-10-26 15:32|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2005-10-26 16:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-10-26 16:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Gravity finds us attractive, actually.

Posted by lotp 2005-10-26 17:00|| 2005-10-26 17:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-10-26 17:03|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-10-26 17:43|| Front Page Top

#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">Seafarious 2005-10-26 17:52|| 2005-10-26 17:52|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-10-26 19:05|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-10-26 19:16|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-10-26 20:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-10-26 23:34|| Front Page Top

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