> 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.
Was the Silvertooth experiment the same as the Michelson-Morley
experiment, or am I getting confused?
> >
> >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?)
We percieve it in three dimensions. This does not mean the universe is
limited to three dimensions, but regardless, the universe must have a
mathematical basis for dimensionality itself.
> >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?
No - if you've ever seen a hologram then you'd know where I'm going with
this. Holograms are formed from the interference patterns of coherent
light. The purpose of a fold drive, then, would be to alter those patterns
so that energy is reflected to a different location -- thus --
instantaneous transit.
> >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.
I'm not saying it's EXCLUSIVELY electrical -- all weather is
thermoelectric in nature. I'm saying that one should not discount the
possibility of electrical effects playing as a factor in the physics of a
tornado.