Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: CONFIG_RANDOM option for 1.99.2 [OFFTOPIC] | Date | Fri, 17 May 1996 21:19:24 -0500 | From | Alan Shutko <> |
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>>>>> "IM" == Ingo Molnar <mingo@teto.sch.bme.hu> writes:
IM> [ OFFTOPIC ]
IM> On Fri, 17 May 1996, Andrew E. Mileski wrote:
>> Gravity waves propagate faster (all points in space at once, if I >> recall the physics correctly <shrug>).
IM> General Relativity Theory builds gravity from a mathematical model IM> that has light-speed as the limit for information-flow.
Yup. Our simulations of gravity waves[1] use a number of techniques to ensure this. Besides, they're so hard to detect that our sims (for use in Project LIGO, a grav wave observatory) are for the case of two black holes colliding. Now, try to build a machine around that![2]
[1] http://jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ [2] Gives new meaning to the words "My machine crashed...."
-- Alan Shutko <ats@hubert.wustl.edu> - The Few, the Proud, the Remaining. Oxymoron: Plastic snow.
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