Showing my ignorance:If light comes in "quanta"...

[alphabits]

Einstein didn't worry about 'time' and neither should you.

Then why the heck did I have to set my clocks back an hour this past weekend?

Time is merely a concept put forth by the ancients to make worriers of us all.

-what time do I pick up my daughter?
-what time is that interview?
-what time is dinner?

yea, I gave that shiat up long ago!
The correct time is NOW

I don't think I have time for this.

[alphabits]

I think I just instantaneously disappeared in BN and reappeared in an alternate universe.
Wait a sec ...... is there still a "u" in "universe" ..... or is it "niverse"?

There's a "u", but apparently not a "n" or "i"

Well that's just a-inine.

[Frank4]

Well, for the first time here at BN. I am totally lost in this conversation

[Staredge]

There is no "u" in Qantas.

There is no "I" in team.......

........but there is an "I" in "pie". "Meat pie". And "meat" is an anagram of "team". I don’t know…

[Workin' the Room]

I thought Quanta was that Australian airline.

Nah, that's Quantas and they are the only airline to not have a an accident. Or did they have one recently?

So, if you fly on Quantas, are you in one large continuous plane or is it actually a series of unspeakably tiny "quantas"?

And if when flying you step from one quanta to the next in line are you traveling faster then the speed of light?

If you're traveling faster than the speed of light and you flip a light switch ..... what happens?

the room remains dark. but the one behind you lights up for a flash

[chippewa]

Well, for the first time here at BN. I am totally lost in this conversation

Sometimes, the best thing that can happen to a thread is a good 'ol-fashioned hijacking.

[STL PARROTHEAD]

I thought Quanta was that Australian airline.

Nah, that's Quantas and they are the only airline to not have a an accident. Or did they have one recently?

So, if you fly on Quantas, are you in one large continuous plane or is it actually a series of unspeakably tiny "quantas"?

And if when flying you step from one quanta to the next in line are you traveling faster then the speed of light?

If you're traveling faster than the speed of light and you flip a light switch ..... what happens?

the room remains dark. but the one behind you lights up for a flash

you flash??????
can't you get in trouble for that?

[flyboy55]

There is a small (let's be real - a VERY SMALL) but finite probability that when you fly on Quantas, you and your fellow passengers, along with the airplane itself, could instantaneously disappear in Sydney and reappear in Los Angeles, in much the same way that electrons change energy levels.

the probability is 1 x 10^38 universes. it's the one thing i remember from my quantum physic class in college.

Not so fast.

Did you include Einstein's cosmological constant to achieve a static state? As you know, Einstein himself considered it his greatest blunder. You have to allow for expanding universes, which will change your calculations somewhat.

[FunkHouse9]

Well, for the first time here at BN. I am totally lost in this conversation

Sometimes, the best thing that can happen to a thread is a good 'ol-fashioned hijacking.

[FunkHouse9]

There is a small (let's be real - a VERY SMALL) but finite probability that when you fly on Quantas, you and your fellow passengers, along with the airplane itself, could instantaneously disappear in Sydney and reappear in Los Angeles, in much the same way that electrons change energy levels.

the probability is 1 x 10^38 universes. it's the one thing i remember from my quantum physic class in college.

Not so fast.

Did you include Einstein's cosmological constant to achieve a static state? As you know, Einstein himself considered it his greatest blunder. You have to allow for expanding universes, which will change your calculations somewhat.

Oh boy... There's that pain in my brain again! Someone please grab me a Kleenex.

[UAHparrothead]

Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.

[chippewa]

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Explain that one, quantum physicists.

[Spider Johnson]

Since Uni means 1, and that means there is supposedly only 1 universe. Why do we have talk of a multiverse or would that be multiverses. ( No that does not refer to poetry or songs. It only applies to the space-time continium.)

Perhaps a better question is, when did time begin and who resets the quantum clock?

[UAHparrothead]

Ludicrous Speed GO!!!

[tikitatas]

Most fun we've had here in WEEKS!!!!!!

[pbans]

There is a small (let's be real - a VERY SMALL) but finite probability that when you fly on Quantas, you and your fellow passengers, along with the airplane itself, could instantaneously disappear in Sydney and reappear in Los Angeles, in much the same way that electrons change energy levels.

the probability is 1 x 10^38 universes. it's the one thing i remember from my quantum physic class in college.

Not so fast.

Did you include Einstein's cosmological constant to achieve a static state? As you know, Einstein himself considered it his greatest blunder. You have to allow for expanding universes, which will change your calculations somewhat.

how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

sorry....that's all I've got......


hee hee I said wood.

[LIPH]

hee hee I said wood.

A long time ago, in a universe far, far away I might have had a response to that.

[alphabits]

Nah, that's Quantas and they are the only airline to not have a an accident. Or did they have one recently?

So, if you fly on Quantas, are you in one large continuous plane or is it actually a series of unspeakably tiny "quantas"?

And if when flying you step from one quanta to the next in line are you traveling faster then the speed of light?

If you're traveling faster than the speed of light and you flip a light switch ..... what happens?

the room remains dark. but the one behind you lights up for a flash

you flash??????
can't you get in trouble for that?

But if you flash in a dark room, who would know?

[The Lost Manatee]

I thought Quanta was that Australian airline.

Nah, that's Quantas and they are the only airline to not have a an accident. Or did they have one recently?

Qantas is one of several airlines that hasn't had a fatal accident in modern times. They've had numerous accidents, just none resulting in a death. Other airlines that can claim that include but are not limited to, Air New Zealand, Jet Blue, Jet, Ryan Air, SN Air, Virgin Blue, Virgin America and a bunch of others.

[jonesbeach10]

Well, for the first time here at BN. I am totally lost in this conversation

For the first time in months, a thread has been properly hijacked.