Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 May 1996 16:27:48 +0200 | From | "Dr. Werner Fink" <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_RANDOM option for 1.99.2 [OFFTOPIC] |
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> From: Albert Cahalan <albert@ccs.neu.edu> > Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 21:05:17 -0400 (EDT) > > >> [ 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!)
Explain ? --- You can not explain the result of physical experiments. You can describe the results using mathematical methods to build a model like QED (quantum electro dynamics). And you should remember: the model is only a model of the reality seen by the measure machines and/or your eyes.
> > 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... >
Werner
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