Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Andrew Walker) | Subject | Re: CONFIG_RANDOM option for 1.99.2 [OFFTOPIC] | Date | Tue, 21 May 1996 11:32:15 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > > [ OFFTOPIC ] > > On Fri, 17 May 1996, Andrew E. Mileski wrote: > > > > ps. money cant buy you faster electromagnetic waves :)) > > > > Gravity waves propagate faster (all points in space at once, > > if I recall the physics correctly <shrug>). > > General Relativity Theory builds gravity from a mathematical model that > has light-speed as the limit for information-flow. Though it's hardish to > prove it (unless you can build galaxy-sized accelerators), it's quite > logical and there is no reason (and no experiment) which indicates that it > would be wrong. > > translated into plain English: light-speed is a hard limit :(
Scientists can experiment all they want, but I refuse to believe that light-speed is a hard limit. Its just an arbitrary number!
ulimit speed `expr $light * 4`
There, that put the cat amongst the pigeons.
-Andy
-- Andy Walker Kvaerner Engineering a.s. Andrew.Walker@lysaker.kvaerner.no P.O. Box 222, N-1324 Lysaker, Norway
......if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence......
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