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- From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - THE ENVIOUS REACTION OF TALBOT
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 11:04 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <abian.721860217@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu> abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian) writes:
- >(A2) TIME HAS INERTIA, i.e., TIME IS MATTER and that some energy
- ^^^^
- How much ? Some is a little bit vague.
-
- > is irretrievably spent by Cosmos to move TIME forward. Thus,
- > in particular, the Principle of Conservation of Energy must be
- > rejected.
-
- Apologies to Indra, but Abian, you are a blithering fool. If you would
- take a few minutes to learn some real physics before trying to revolutionize
- the world, you would save us all a good deal of time and wasted energy.
-
- Everyone who has studied General Relativity knows full well that
- conservation of energy, though valid locally, is not believed to be
- valid on a cosmological scale. In other words, everyone but you seems to
- know that energy is not conserved in the Universe according to our best
- model of how these things work.
-
- I suggest that your "sacred principle" is a figment of your own imagination,
- born of your complete ignorance of the physics which you are pretending
- to discuss.
-
- Anyone who wants to learn something real about conservation of energy
- is invited to read the FAQ, which has an article entitled "Red Shift
- and Conservation of Energy," which is the summary of a thread on this
- subject which we had about nine months ago. It contains a fair summary
- of the collective understanding of the readers of this group at the time,
- and some references to texts which discuss the idea further.
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "It is not a simple life to be a single cell,
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV although I have no right to say so, having
- been a single cell so long ago myself that I
- have no memory at all of that stage of my
- life." - Lewis Thomas
-