On Friday, November 7, 2003, at 12:42 AM, S-P & M-M Sirag wrote: Jack, "Witten (in *Superstring Theory* by Green, Schwarz and Witten) has the string tension T reciprocal...

George Dishman" wrote in message However, I too have made a mistake. The final line should say "Both angles are approximately 1 degree."...

Quotes below taken from: GENERAL RELATIVITY FROM A to B Robert Geroch The University of Chicago Press CHICAGO & LONDON c. 1978 ...

General Relativity Examined In 1915 Dr. Einstein published the General Theory of Relativity. It accepted the Principle of Relativity (the laws and constants of the...

In recent discussions about the Kochen-Specker theorem some posters pointed to finite precision of measurement as a possible refutation of the theroem. As stated in other...

International Journal of Modern Physics A (IJMPA) Vol. 18, No. 27 (30 October 2003) Articles are available at...

I started a thread about the twin paradox and cross-posted it to three newsgroups. I am grateful to those who discussed it, even though it got a tiny bit personal at times...

Q to Ed Witten: How can the cosmological constant be so close to zero but not zero? Ed Witten's answer: "I really don't know. It's very perplexing that astronomical...

I have been trying to find out how the mass value of an electron volt was determined, without any luck. Can anyone recommend a source of information about the history and/or...

Even though many people have made a lot of noise about how this theory either can't be right or that it had already been conjured up a decade ago, I noticed that nobody...

"You ain't in Kansas anymore." Our Topsy Turvy Universe - A Hall of Funny Mirrors in The Cosmic Coney Island of a Lunatic Mind? ;-) This make you feel like a goldfish in a...

Paul B. Anderson thinks that *energy* of a laser beam striking a mirror, both in the same frame, will be measured as different according to an observer at rest wrt laser...

On Wednesday, November 5, 2003, at 07:02 PM, Paul Zielinski wrote: Jack Sarfatti wrote: On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 01:44 PM, Paul Zielinski wrote:

Before computers were in regular use there were those calculating endlessly numbers to solve problems. It seems string theory looks a lot like that once again. It seems with...

I wonder if anyone can help me with a confusion that I've got into concerning special relativity. I think I've found a method by which an observer can measure his absolute...

I would very much appreciate if someone could find a reference that I lost some time ago... if not I will have to sallow a lot of dust!!!... I saw a spacetime diagram...

Is There a Force of Gravity? In undergraduate physics, the Newtonian concept of an attractive force between masses that is proportional to the product of the masses...

There are two identical twins initally at rest wrt to each other. One twin is at x=-1000 and the other twin is at x=1000. They each have an identical clock The clocks...

He made a special three-hour Nova show explaining ST. It just ended. Then he went online at pbs.org to chat with anyone... including the unworthy me! There were only...

The Brilliance of Our Teachers A recent newspaper question and answer column raised an interesting subject. The query noted that, for a science course at a local...