Comments on: Coast to Coast http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:43:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-22674 John Fri, 19 Jan 2007 07:07:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/#comment-22674 It has been observed often but not consistently that when spacecraft appear over a certain area or terrain, shortly thereafter there is a significant seismological event. These entities have the power to pull the electro-magnetic strings so to speak. From their ships, which are operating on principles of anti-gravity, they can alter time/space energy fields, fracturing electro-magnetic vortices, causing any level of disturbance they desire. Naturally, they are capable of much more than this. They could probablly destroy the planet if they desired. As an experiment genetically created aboard their spacecraft, we are in a sense their children. I'm certain they mixed either their genetic material with a Cro-magnon or Neanderthal or some other species to create us. It 's that simple. Religion has an enormous influence on these entities, especially ceremonial magick and the like. It has been observed often but not consistently that when spacecraft appear over a certain area or terrain, shortly thereafter there is a significant seismological event. These entities have the power to pull the electro-magnetic strings so to speak. From their ships, which are operating on principles of anti-gravity, they can alter time/space energy fields, fracturing electro-magnetic vortices, causing any level of disturbance they desire. Naturally, they are capable of much more than this. They could probablly destroy the planet if they desired.
As an experiment genetically created aboard their spacecraft, we are in a sense their children. I’m certain they mixed either their genetic material with a Cro-magnon or Neanderthal or some other species to create us. It ’s that simple.
Religion has an enormous influence on these entities, especially ceremonial magick and the like.

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]]> By: Moran http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-22679 Moran Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:15:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/#comment-22679 sean do you have a link to a free mp3 of the show? sean do you have a link to a free mp3 of the show?

]]> By: Eugene http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-22670 Eugene Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:04:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/#comment-22670 Sean, Yes yes yes! I'll love a 30sec version of why quantum entanglement does not allow superluminal communication. My version runs more than a minute, and it uses hard words like "correlation". It's one of the most popular questions out there, and it's really such a good question it deserves it's own CV post methinks! Sean,

Yes yes yes! I’ll love a 30sec version of why quantum entanglement does not allow superluminal communication. My version runs more than a minute, and it uses hard words like “correlation”. It’s one of the most popular questions out there, and it’s really such a good question it deserves it’s own CV post methinks!

]]> By: Sean http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-22662 Sean Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:55:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/#comment-22662 Jack-- yes, we have equations for all of those things. You might look at the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gravity-Ground-Up-Introductory-Relativity/dp/0521455065/" rel="nofollow">Gravity From the Ground Up</a> by Bernard Schutz, which explains things with very simple math. Jack– yes, we have equations for all of those things. You might look at the book Gravity From the Ground Up by Bernard Schutz, which explains things with very simple math.

]]> By: TBB http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-22661 TBB Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:20:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/#comment-22661 >>I do need to work on a better 30-second description of entanglement, and why it doesn't allow superluminal communication. I thought that was funny. Don't you know you spent all those years in school so you could condense your knowledge into 30-second soundbites? ;-) >>I do need to work on a better 30-second description of entanglement, and why it doesn’t allow superluminal communication.

I thought that was funny. Don’t you know you spent all those years in school so you could condense your knowledge into 30-second soundbites? ;-)

]]> By: Jack http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-22663 Jack Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:00:01 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/#comment-22663 I have another question, the two different times you were talking about. Is there and equation to discribe the relation to each other. Like you said we travel through time at 1min/min. except when we are traveling at high speeds or are close to extream Gravity. So as we aproach the speed of light, inside the capsule we slow down in relation to someone on earth. Do we have an equation to discribe this relation? in other words, do we have an equation for the accelleration of time verses time, or the velocity of time verses time? I have another question, the two different times you were talking about. Is there and equation to discribe the relation to each other.
Like you said we travel through time at 1min/min. except when we are traveling at high speeds or are close to extream Gravity.
So as we aproach the speed of light, inside the capsule we slow down in relation to someone on earth. Do we have an equation to discribe this relation?
in other words, do we have an equation for the accelleration of time verses time,
or the velocity of time verses time?

]]> By: Jack http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-22664 Jack Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:57:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/#comment-22664 Sean, I understand that the amount of matter and energy in the universe is reletively constant. that was the whole point, nothing is distroyed, it just changes states. ie. if I take steam and remove energy from it, it will turn into water, remove more energy and it turns into ice. so what would happen if we remove all energy? We would have a particle that would be totally neutral. At absolute zero. from what I have read, most dark matter is only two or three degrees kelvin. The conservation of Energy and Matter is an established theory, that, according to your own standards is a requirement for any new theory. I also read that a resent experiment that colided two neutrons together, in order to create an extremely high temperature, found that the particles reacted as a liquid instead of like a gas. This might also show different states of energy itself. So, if Dark matter and energy are in this universe then we must include them in the total and we should see some sort of interation between known matter and energy and Dark matter and energy. Just because we haven't found any relation yet doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It could also be that the answer is so simple that we exnore it. Thank-you for your response. Sean, I understand that the amount of matter and energy
in the universe is reletively constant. that was the whole point, nothing is distroyed, it just changes states.
ie. if I take steam and remove energy from it, it will turn into water, remove more energy and it turns into ice. so what would happen if we remove all energy?
We would have a particle that would be totally neutral.
At absolute zero.
from what I have read, most dark matter is only two or three degrees kelvin.
The conservation of Energy and Matter is an established theory, that, according to your own standards is a requirement for any new theory.
I also read that a resent experiment that colided two neutrons together, in order to create an extremely high temperature, found that the particles reacted as a liquid instead of like a gas.
This might also show different states of energy itself.
So, if Dark matter and energy are in this universe then we must include them in the total and we should see some sort of interation between known matter and energy and Dark matter and energy. Just because we haven’t found any relation yet doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It could also be that the answer is so simple that we exnore it.
Thank-you for your response.

]]> By: Sean http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-22666 Sean Tue, 05 Dec 2006 02:25:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/#comment-22666 Thanks, TBB. Sorry that the archived shows cost money to hear; they have to pay the bills somehow. I do need to work on a better 30-second description of entanglement, and why it doesn't allow superluminal communication. Thanks, TBB. Sorry that the archived shows cost money to hear; they have to pay the bills somehow.

I do need to work on a better 30-second description of entanglement, and why it doesn’t allow superluminal communication.

]]> By: TBB http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/comment-page-1/#comment-22667 TBB Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:18:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2006/12/01/coast-to-coast/#comment-22667 Sean, I heard the entire show while up all night sniffling and sneezing, and I thought you did a great job - it was an interesting show (haven't listened to C2C since Phil Plait was on with George Noury). You treated the callers respectfully, in fact, you probably made the security guard who described a black hole feel quite good. I knew someone would call in with question regarding UFOs, and the ex-airforce man's time-travelling UFO scenario was nicely answered, though probably to his disappointment. I also thought you handled the Einstein-quoting/Big Bang caller's comments very smoothly - a bit of a deflection and segue into the nature of "cause" in one swoop. Nice. (Having just received one of those slide-show emails at work on Friday that quotes Einstein, I thought, "Oh, no, here we go again.") I realize you cosmologists and physicists get frustrated when laypeople try to grasp quantum theory ideas without really having a solid foundation in classical physics, but these terms are thrown around on the Science Channel (or worse, by Deepak Chopra), so in regards to the bit about about observing your particle in LA and Art observing his particle in the Philippines - his confusion and saying "There has to be some communication between them!" was confusing, and he brought it up several times. People like spooky ideas (or they wouldn't believe in ghosts and alien UFOs), and better that people wonder about black holes and dark matter of which there is some evidence, but the quantum part <i>was</i> confusing. If you were to go on the show again, it seems further explanation of the Big Bang might be useful, and more about time travel and relativity. I've mentioned on Jennifer's blog that Professor Wolfson uses a nice example of a spaceship travelling at .8c to a star 10 light years away (how 25 years pass on earth, 15 for the traveller on the ship), which he explains in less than 10 minutes. The guy asking about looking back at the dinosaurs might have benefitted from such an explanation. Anyway, it was a long show but it was fun listening. I concur with Cindy's last sentence above about method, and you're a good speaker as well. Thanks. Sean, I heard the entire show while up all night sniffling and sneezing, and I thought you did a great job – it was an interesting show (haven’t listened to C2C since Phil Plait was on with George Noury). You treated the callers respectfully, in fact, you probably made the security guard who described a black hole feel quite good. I knew someone would call in with question regarding UFOs, and the ex-airforce man’s time-travelling UFO scenario was nicely answered, though probably to his disappointment. I also thought you handled the Einstein-quoting/Big Bang caller’s comments very smoothly – a bit of a deflection and segue into the nature of “cause” in one swoop. Nice. (Having just received one of those slide-show emails at work on Friday that quotes Einstein, I thought, “Oh, no, here we go again.”)

I realize you cosmologists and physicists get frustrated when laypeople try to grasp quantum theory ideas without really having a solid foundation in classical physics, but these terms are thrown around on the Science Channel (or worse, by Deepak Chopra), so in regards to the bit about about observing your particle in LA and Art observing his particle in the Philippines – his confusion and saying “There has to be some communication between them!” was confusing, and he brought it up several times. People like spooky ideas (or they wouldn’t believe in ghosts and alien UFOs), and better that people wonder about black holes and dark matter of which there is some evidence, but the quantum part was confusing.

If you were to go on the show again, it seems further explanation of the Big Bang might be useful, and more about time travel and relativity. I’ve mentioned on Jennifer’s blog that Professor Wolfson uses a nice example of a spaceship travelling at .8c to a star 10 light years away (how 25 years pass on earth, 15 for the traveller on the ship), which he explains in less than 10 minutes. The guy asking about looking back at the dinosaurs might have benefitted from such an explanation.

Anyway, it was a long show but it was fun listening. I concur with Cindy’s last sentence above about method, and you’re a good speaker as well. Thanks.

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