JaKiri

This doesn't disagree with my post, you know.

Actually, the big difference with Newton was entirely relative space; everything before that had presumed an aether. And of course Relativity doesn't presuppose an absolute; Relativity says an absolute doesn't exist. Nope, for the reason I explained above. Also others, but they're less relevent. The rest of the post also assumes that the expansion of the universe is uniform, and away from a certain point.

To accelerate, you need a force. SR does surprisingly little to forces.

I told you to stop posting this, and still you persist! This time, perhaps a 2 week gap will distract you from this tiresome subject.

The only reason that Freeman doesn't speak in Half Life is an immersive one. Obviously, it would be counter-immersive for him to be silent in a film, so he would speak. You don't just show a game at the cinema, you have to adapt it.

Electron microscapy is the only plausable way under current technology, I'm afraid. It's quite possible that there will be others, but that involves finding a charged particle of extremely low mass. Oh, and I for one don't want a laser shooting randomly into my bloodstream.

You're no gamer, you're a fraud!

Becuase you can't do that in integration. Just look at the 1/x^4 - x^4 curve in isolation; is integrating that between 0 and 0.9 really what you want to do?

You can't stop time, so basing thought experiments around it is rather stupid.

No, you're misunderstanding. In constant velocity interactions (ie one where are the parties are going at a constant velocity), all Lorenz Transformations are SUBJECTIVE. They only apply to each individual rest frame, and are different for every one. That's what I meant by a measurement difference; because all rest frames are equally valid, there's a difference in measurement that's reflected by no physical change over all the rest frames, unlike Bill, undergoing acceleration to come back to earth.

Except it is incorrect. You forgot that part.

Whatever programming language the author chose to write the program in. Perl, Javascript, C++, Java... you name it.

The mobo cd is useless until you've installed windows anyway, you did the right thing in that regard. It obviously seems like something burnt out, which implies a lack of cooling somewhere, most likely on one of: the processor (not enough/any heat conducting paste on the heatsink? fan not working? insufficiently good heatsink?) the northbridge (although that should have just shut things down) the graphics card (likewise) the psu (could be) I'm surprised that it would get that far, though; in my experience of building computers (which has all been with AMD chips) computers shut down before they overheat, but I'm not sure how intel does it.

If it is, then integrate x^2 between 0 and the x value of the intercept with respect to x. This will give you this area; http://img140.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img140ℑ=grapha6sz.jpg Then, integrate 1/x^4 - x^4 between 0 and the y value of the intercept with respect to y. This will give you this area; http://img133.exs.cx/img133/6342/graphba5su.jpg Then, you need to subtract this rectangle; http://img133.exs.cx/img133/5333/graphc2se.jpg to give you this area; http://img133.exs.cx/img133/5889/graphd7ds.jpg You now have the 2 pieces of the right hand side, add them together and multiply by 2 (to get the LHS), and you're done.

Which bit? The small, visably finite bits?

There would be a force acting on you. It would be fairly trivial to arrive at that conclusion because, even if you're not in contact with anything, you're not a rigid body. Sort of both. Constant velocity interactions are the former, acceleratory thingies are the latter. It changes from one to the other, depending on what you're talking about. The basis of this formula is that the speed of light is constant for all observers; time dilation, and all the other lorenz effects, are upshots of this. It's a literal, physical effect of the inertial frame. Scientifically, this statement is meaningless; the only way we can say that time exists is through our experiences of it, measuring it. The only way we can test time dilation is through measuring it. Hence, we cannot say that time exists independent of our measurings, and to say that there is a universal 'clock' is unscientific, and an untestable hypothesis. This is a science forum. Science. It is perfectly scientific to say that the earth is flat, if all the evidence you have gathered suggests that it is flat. You cannot say things, from supposed authority, without evidence. Furthermore, since we are discussing an abstracted part of science ('Einstein's Relativity'), you can be absolutely correct or incorrect about it. Oh, and re: witches, the way the drowning test was that if you survived you were a witch. And then you were killed.

Didn't know that one! I'll have to add it to my vocabulary. Mr Person Who's Name I've Forgotten, I've done you a disservice!

To be fair, it isn't clear whether the website he was linking to was his; the english wasn't utterly different, the information content was similar to his posts, but it still could have been coincidence; the latter point has a fairly obvious explanation, and the former can easily happen. Of course, I suspect it to be true, purely by his continual reference to it, but there we go.

[edit] You know, this whole argument could have been avoided if you understood how the word 'ability' works. It's a digital thing; you either have the ability (to accelerate, in this case) or you haven't. My posts were based on the assumption that you knew the definitions of the words you were typing, although, from this post, it's clear this isn't the case. [/edit] Perhaps 'a lower magnitude of acceleration' would have sat more happily with you? No difference to me, the implication is the same. Of course, I'm not sure what you're trying to say exactly, given that 'to jibe' means 'to taunt/deride'. Perhaps, if you swing by some time in the future, you'll be able to explain to me your lowly servant. You're an amusing fellow. Stick around for good times! The fact that you're immensely arrogant, opinionated and assuming doesn't change that!