Messages in this thread |  | | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_RANDOM option for 1.99.2 [OFFTOPIC] | Date | Tue, 21 May 1996 21:05:17 -0400 (EDT) |
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>> [ 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 :(
Maybe. According to _Physics_Classical_and_Modern_ (1993), the Aharonov-Bohm effect suggests that action at a distance is possible. (this is quantum mechanics) Oddly, this does _not_ violate the limit of signals not going faster than light.
Perhaps someone can explain? (in under 1000 pages!)
BTW, I think linux-kernel has enough nerds to make this close enough to being on topic. It's more on topic than MIME, more interesting than flock() warnings, and it's _not_ a penguin-based Gnu...
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