"Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causalty Violation"
A paper on a possible 'time machine' using known physics, and a Larry Niven short story of the same title, that involves one. Read the latter, if you can find it. It's rather relevant to this speculation... http://news.larryniven.org/biblio/display.asp?key=124 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tipler_cylinder http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=6414 Frank Check out my web page at: http://delphinus100.angelfire.com/link3.htm Astronomicon SF convention, November 6-9,2009 http://www.astronomicon.info/ On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:22:28 -0400 Eric Scoles <[email protected]> writes: Yes, but it probably wouldn't be very good. Unless the Higgs God (or is it the Higgs Demiurge? Anti-Higgs God?) intervened to make it wildly successful as a means of stopping the LHC once and for all.... I do find this fascination with stories about quantum theory to be ... fascinating. Meta-fascinating, I guess. It seems to me that people are fascinated with something quite other than what the theory's actually about. All these personifications of the concepts involved -- doesn't that make anyone uncomfortable? It makes my freaking head spin. We might as well be talking about angels -- I suspect it would have as much bearing on the actual physics involved. On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote: This just has "fodder for a science fiction story" plastered all over it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?_r=1&partner=r ss&emc=rss -- Jonathan Sherwood Sr. Science & Technology Press Officer University of Rochester 585-273-4726 -- eric scoles ([email protected]) ____________________________________________________________ House Rescue Bill Passed $133,000 mortgage under $679/mo. Compare rates and save! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=e85iDx3fAUBrAkd4QQjcFgAAJ1AEYZeOUyybMIUW7PXbh2Z1AAQAAAAFAAAAAMWzpD4AAAMlAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaTcQAAAAA= --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
