'Entropy' - another incomprehensible human invention. We will never understand nature until a new way of looking at it is found.
Don _______________ Dr E D F Williams http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery Updated: March 30, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dag T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:31 AM Subject: Re: Zooms vs. primes: the final word and ultimate wisdom > Hø > > According to Stephen Hawking time is just the direction of increasing > entropy. That´s why any attempt to tidy up is hopeless, it only > increases the entropy even more some other place.... > > DagT > > > På torsdag, 17. juli 2003, kl. 09:06, skrev Dr E D F Williams: > > > In fact we do it all the time. There is a considerable lag between the > > registering of information on the retina and the final production of > > information in the brain. What we see (always) has already happened > > and is > > in the past - there is no present. Another matter while I'm going so > > far off > > topic. There is no such thing as 'time'. Time is man-made -- just like > > Mathematics, and all the wonderfully complex mathematical 'Laws' of > > Physics. > > Quarks and many other wonders exist, indeed they do, but not as we > > explain > > or imagine them. No one knows this better than the Cosmologists and > > Particle > > Physicists who investigate the nature of such 'things'. > > > > Now I'll duck. > > > > Don > > _______________ > > Dr E D F Williams > > http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams > > Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery > > Updated: March 30, 2002 > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Rob Studdert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:21 AM > > Subject: Re: Zooms vs. primes: the final word and ultimate wisdom > > > > > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Thursday, July 17, 2003, 12:36:18 AM, you wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 16 Jul 2003 at 10:30, Michael Bergstrom wrote: > >>> > >>>>> I held out a fleeting hope that its ability to focus slightly > >>>>> beyond > >>>>> infinity would allow me to capture images of objects as they once > > appeared in the past, > >>> > >>>> How cool would that be :-) > >>> > >>> it's what we already do. > >> > >> Well yes we do when viewing distant space objects but we don't have to > > focus > >> past infinity to do that :-) > >> > >> Rob Studdert > >> HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA > >> Tel +61-2-9554-4110 > >> UTC(GMT) +10 Hours > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ > >> Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 > >> > > > > > > >
