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Bake

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7. It's not three, dammit, it's FOUR!! FOUR!!

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #5)

Thu Feb 23, 2012, 12:12 PM

Feb 2012

Got to put time in there! Anything else, a la the string theorists, is just to make their mathematics work!

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About those Faster Than Light neutrinos...nevermind. [View all] edhopper Feb 2012 OP

Those what??? Skidmore Feb 2012 #1

corrected immediately edhopper Feb 2012 #3

Damn. There goes my best joke.... FSogol Feb 2012 #2

That's pretty good. edhopper Feb 2012 #4

Why the fuck are people still thinking in three dimensions? HopeHoops Feb 2012 #5

Faster than light edhopper Feb 2012 #6

Einstein was wrong. There is no limit. Think about it, what is outside of the universe? HopeHoops Feb 2012 #10

Do you honestly believe you've had an insight Einstein didn't? tkmorris Feb 2012 #11

Living around the corner from his cottage in Princeton you could meet regular folks who grantcart Feb 2012 #16

He also didn't memorize his phone number on the grounds that he could always look it up. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #20

That's not my own thinking, just a theory I believe to be possible. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #19

It's not hard to have an insight that Einstein didn't have... JHB Feb 2012 #36

Einstein would look at you, make no comment then walk away. nt Javaman Feb 2012 #13

Probably because he wanted a doughnut. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #21

Possibly... Javaman Feb 2012 #22

Or stoned. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #23

okay then... Javaman Feb 2012 #24

No. I still contend that the universe is multi-dimensional by necessity. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #25

okay then... Javaman Feb 2012 #28

It's not three, dammit, it's FOUR!! FOUR!! Bake Feb 2012 #7

Actually it is 17. At least it was during the Big Bang. The fourth is time. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #9

String theory is multi-dimensional metalbot Feb 2012 #29

Yet. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #30

I mean really, look around you. Bake Feb 2012 #32

It's sort of one of those Flatland problems - we know what we directly observe. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #35

I effing told you! Bake Feb 2012 #8

It still made people think a little differently for a while... Javaman Feb 2012 #14

Deep within the science lab... Javaman Feb 2012 #12

The Italians made their measurements cloudbase Feb 2012 #15

Oh, come on now! Ikonoklast Feb 2012 #31

Amazing what some neutrinos will go though just to avoid a speeding ticket. hughee99 Feb 2012 #17

99% of problems lie on the physical layer Taverner Feb 2012 #18

Great thread! ananda Feb 2012 #26

"The bottom line is that we will not know until... stlsaxman Feb 2012 #27

"Every mountain is unclimbable until it is climbed. Every ship is too large to sink until it is sunk LanternWaste Feb 2012 #33

It's not a speed limit. edhopper Feb 2012 #34