Re: Is everybody gone?

Dr Jones ( maitland@icarus.ihug.co.nz )
Fri, 20 Mar 1998 22:15:57 +1200

At 01:49 20/03/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>I was thinking about an arguement that someone made against the aether and
>it really did get me thinking... the aether was described by Bearden as
>being a sea of pure scalar charge. But wait - how can space be composed of
>charge? Charge is a spatial property - implying it is made of discrete
>units, rather than a continuous flow as many think.

Has anyone got any info about the Silvertooth Experiment? Silvertooth
thought that he'd proved the existence of the ethers in 1986. If anyone has
the info on the experiment could they post it? it would be a good starting
point.
>
>This also brought up another point -- why is the universe
>three-dimensional? What is the mathematical process that made the universe

Is it? Y not 4 dimesions? Would it be 4 dimensions if humans existed in a
different dimension? For example, if humans were simply drawings on a sheet
of paper, our understanding of geometry would be limited to a square. A
cube, existing in the 3rd dimension, would be like out there (did anyone see
the Simpsons episode where Homer went into the 3rd dimension?)

>I kinda like the idea of a holographic universe -- brings up a host of
>ideas for using interference patterns to allow instantaneous transit
>between any two points in spacetime (can you say "fold drive"?) ... heh.

well, going back to the 2 dimension humans idea, a fold drive would consist
of bending the paper to put the traveller close to the desired destination.
The problems with this are: who would bend the paper? how wouldthe traveller
move from the piece of paper to the destination area - would they have to
leave the paper altogether? If so how?

also how is this modelled in the 3rd dimension?

>meteorologists attribute to thermal effects are actually electrical in
>nature.
>
that would then have to deal with charged particles and how that amount of
charge could be supplied to the tornado (and why electrical activity isn't
always seen around them) I mean, some of these tornados are humungous
bastards, large trucks can be picked up by them and flung hundreds of meters
- even kilometers - and they look like matchsticks next to the tornado.
You're talking serious gigawattage, which, IMHO, can only really be supplied
by massive thermal effects.

DrJ