-----------------------> space B responds instanteniously to A's retarded wave. ^ B t | / i | / <- quantum transaction m | / e | A | -----------------------> space NOTE: both particles send advanced and retarded waves but they get canceled out everywhere in the universe. --- FMail 0.92 # SLMR 2.1 # This tagline stolen by SillyLittle Mail Reader! * Origin: The Programmer's Oasis on FIDONET! (1:348/203) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 180 ASTRONOMY Ref: EG^00006 Date: 12/30/97 From: ADAM MAJER Time: 12:11pm \/To: BARTON PAUL LEVENSON (Read 3 times) Subj: Gravitons BPL> AM> There's no second question. It's an idea. If gravity was travelling BPL> AM> through space time and not on spacetime (2D universe view) then it wou BPL> AM> never be affected by the curvature of spacetime. BPL>According to General Relativity, gravity _is_ the curvature of ace-time! Yes, but since gravitons curve spacetime producing gravity; gravitons are not affected by the curveture of spacetime that they generate. --- FMail 0.92 # SLMR 2.1 # Ivo Andric - Yugoslavia's First Nobel Laureate * Origin: The Programmer's Oasis on FIDONET! (1:348/203) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 180 ASTRONOMY Ref: EG^00007 Date: 12/30/97 From: ADAM MAJER Time: 12:11pm \/To: TIM EDWARDS (Read 3 times) Subj: Gravity TE>AM>What about Venus? Hit so hard it almost stopped rotating. Actually it TE>AM>rotates the 'other' way. Sun rises in the west and sets in the east. :) TE>????! Really? Which feature on the map is the crater-scar? You are TE>_assuming_ that it was a single, large impact, but you present no TE>evidence that it is not residual motion from the original formation. There is no proof since a planet would re-melt from such an impact erasing all hard evidence. --- FMail 0.92 # SLMR 2.1 # I'm in shape ... round's a shape isn't it? * Origin: The Programmer's Oasis on FIDONET! (1:348/203) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 180 ASTRONOMY Ref: EG^00008 Date: 12/19/97 From: JEFF KINCAID Time: 12:52pm \/To: ILKAY UZUN (Read 3 times) Subj: Re: Venus IU> FB> Can anyone tell me why Venus appears to have been a lot brighter over IU> FB> the last few months?? IU> It may help to know that Venus also has phases like our Moon. We have ull IU> moons, we have full Venuses. The bright periods of the planet accounts or IU> a large portion of UFO sightings, which show a dramatical rise during the IU> period. The really interesting thing about this is that Venus is brightest in it's crescent phases, when we see mostly the unlit side. This is because it's closest to us then. Regards... ___ X QMPro 1.53 X ... A social life? What board can I download THAT from? --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Long_Island RB VAX/EC (V34/HST) [310] 370-4113 (1:102/138) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 180 ASTRONOMY Ref: F1100000 Date: 12/23/97 From: LANCE BARRETT Time: 05:51pm \/To: LANCE REYNOLDS (Read 3 times) Subj: Venus & milky way |---------------|Lance Reynolds wrote to Lance Barrett ABOUT Venus & milky way ON 12-21-97 00:58 |------------------------------------------------------------| LR> Hyya Lance! LR> LR> Cool name! Thank you, < gives a low bow> It's surprising how few Lance's I have met in my life thus far, one of my brothers has the longer name of Cameron, and I have met or heard of many more cameron's. LR> LR> LB> one of the spiral arms approx 30,000 light years from the centre LR> LB> (the whole galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter. A LR> LB> light-year is used to represent large space distances and is the LR> LB> distance light travels in one earth year. One light year =approx LR> LB> 10 million million kilometres or 6 million million miles. LR> LR> Sounds sorta big, eh? It does rather, and in fact your remark reminds me of one of my favourite books:- 'Space' it says, 'is big. Really big. You just won't belive how vastly hugely, mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but thats just peanuts to space ....' "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" see comment below LR> LR> I have a wee problem visualizing a measly million miles, let alone LR> millions of millions... I think our minds just tend to shut down when it tries to visualise such large figures. LR> LR> Good exercise for them what are off on ego trips, eh? If you have ever read the "Hitch hikers Guide to the Galaxy" series of books ( a wierd satirical science fiction work), there is a device - based on a piece of fruit cake - that allows somebody to see themselves in relation to the whole universe. The usual result is that they find themselves so insignificant that they go insane. Lance (B.) QuoteX Pro v1.3 ... "42? 7 and a half million years and all you can come up with is 42?!" ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- EzyQwk V1.48g0 01fd016b * Origin: Fox's Lair BBS Bris Aus +61-7-38036821 V34 +Node 1 (3:640/238) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 180 ASTRONOMY Ref: F1100001 Date: 12/23/97 From: LANCE BARRETT Time: 05:50pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 3 times) Subj: Orion |---------------|Christopher Greaves wrote to Lance Barrett ABOUT planets ON 12-20-97 08:17