geordief

You mean parallel transport?(it has been on my mind)

I am not sure .I have tried to find the posts or threads you are referring to. It is not this one is it? I would need to know the ground I was standing on before taking up your time and my own -although going over old half worked ground is something I would normally expect to be particularly rewarding.

Would complex numbers be classed as an example of phase space? I think we have to ignore any possible relevance of QM to my question for the purposes of this thread....

Is it possible to use phase space to make predictions in scenarios involving classical spin that are impossible using other methods?

No , very severe..Because I was sure you could not get it twice and because I hate going to the doctor (and it being a weekend) I was a bit late getting diagnosed . It was a good week in hospital albeit with my own room so as not to communicate the illness to other patients. I felt weak walking out and onto the bus back home but soon picked up.

That's true.I always get Measles,Chicken pox and Smallpox muddled up. Measles is a more serious disease I think and Smallpox worse again.

I had my second dose of shingles some 3 or 4 years ago.The phn that followed,while not excruciating was annoyingly persistent It would fade only to represent . At the time I think I assumed that the older you were the longer it would take to ease I also learned there is a statistically higher risk of stroke in the years following on so possibly there may be attention given to that possibility also and perhaps measures taken if that would be a concern. Shingles itself cannot be completely extirpated from the system .I think it is introduced when we get the Measles and thereafter hides in the nervous system in a dormant state

Philosophy(as the word is presently used) is at its core a subjective process and inversely scientific discovery aims to find and understand processes that operate independently of the observer. Both aims fail as the subjective and the objective are interlinked at some level but each discipline is "top heavy" in its own arena. drawing on the other for verifications along the way. The scientific method aims to entirely remove subjective elements but cannot and similarly philosophy may build castles in the sky but has to come down to earth when its reality does not match up with the way it has imagined. Religion may have squared the circle in that its "reality" is a mirage that can never be disproved and so attempts to lay claim to both philosophical and scientific authority. (a bit tendentious since I have to get a dig in at the charlatans and their apparently docile victims )

Can anyone guess them? They need to be easy to remember.

Are you confident he can remember the nuclear code? (or where NKorea is)

Could the processes mutually reinforce one another?

I can't help but notice that we are having a bit of a series of Atlantic storms (even one Hurricane Ophelia earlier) The thought has crossed my mind that all this stirring up of the atmosphere might lead to an increased warming of the Arctic. Anything in that?

Yes,thanks for the correction (esp when I was "citing" you. btw I did work out the constant was c -after I posted </slaphead>)

Global Expansion seems like it should have a quantifiable rate . .Would this rate of expansion have any relationship or connection to c? Was there any value for c (according to the model,I guess) in the inflationary period?

I did make/draw/assume that distinction I did not mean "pick up" in a critical way I was just surprised at this statement until I realized he was just restating the commonplace observation that all objects move through spacetime at the speed of light. A slow learner ,sometimes I can't even keep up with myself! I also like your red light/blue light description Is there an intersection between the two expanding spheres?

I was just picking up Swansont who referred to the "speed of spacetime" being constant http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/112539-time-and-speed-and-how-speed-impacts-time/?do=findComment&comment=1031526 Not realizing this "speed" was c I wanted to know more about this strange constant speed.

But it is c surely ?(as I realized after posting)

What is that speed? Is it the same for all objects in the universe? Some kind of a universal constant?

Both clocks are at rest(and so move only in time) in their own frame of reference But both also are in motion (and so move through both space and time) when viewed from the frame of reference of the other clock (or any other moving object)

That's because the lines connect where the expanding sphere of light is absorbed:/reflected by the top and bottom surfaces of the clock apparatus?

Are there any real or thought experiments that might make it easier for people to accept that the clock and the biological processes cannot be separated and that provided there is no physical separation between the two the one "maps" to the other directly? How to disabuse someone of the absolute(or "detached") time notion in an obvious way? Would "mental prosthetics" if they become (are?) available achieve that ? What might be the top speed of mental processes if they use electrical currents?

Thanks for that encouragement. And a happy new year to all