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6-13-2007 5:40 AM900 views
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6-13-2007 5:45 AM
pokkets
Things follow the path of least resistance.
6-13-2007 5:47 AM
wildcat
of course, the trick however is the ability to define (and predict) said path
6-13-2007 9:20 AM
pokkets
There is no doubt physics will tie out brains in knots for a while (eons), but we can make the mistake of complexity when, the universe developed in the simplest way possible.Maybe we are looking for a metronome, when there is more chance of being a pendulum. I was reminded of fractal geometry ,and the way something like a mandelbrot curve (They are something to see.)continues to have the same complexity, no matter how much it is magnified. There is also the principle that "Nature abhors a vacuum" where if there is a gap or a space it tends to be filled in the most practical and efficient way. A space filled makes another somewhere else. Nature has plenty of time, It uses no energy due to t...
6-13-2007 1:21 PM
thisnamecantbetaken
In any beam of light, at any point there will be no photons located, only passing. They are always before or after the point. Things do not have a position as much as they have a trajectory.
Only because of the timescale do we even think of things, as things. In *reality* things are only events. An atom in you, will have been part of an ancient star eons ago and will be part of a tree or something else in the future. Things are ever changing and rearranging. Even all the atoms in your body will be exchanged during the course of your life, so are you still really you?

Photons can also be either particles or waves and they are both. If we drag Heisenberg and quantum theory in...
6-13-2007 5:43 PM
skwirlinator
Thanx for the headache
6-14-2007 12:12 AM
pokkets
Einstein was bugged by particle/wave nature of light, he got a Nobel prize for the photoelectric effect before much of his work on relativity was done. Light cannot display properties of particle and wave at the same time, the paradox as referred. Light acts like a wave going through things, and behaves like a particle when it hit's something. Can it be the peak/trough nature of the wave appearing to behave like a particle. A wave can seem inoffensive until it breaks on the shore.
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