Re: OT: Setiathome "User of the day" award goes to.....

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"Mark Bedingfield" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:90Pag.5983$S7.5367@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Grinner wrote:

"Mark Bedingfield" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47Aag.5374$S7.3699@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


VampiressX wrote:


ME!!

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

I'll only be appearing for a few more hours. LOL. Oh the fame; the fortune.....
*cough*

Usurper. Got 2 years and 100,000 hours on me. Did you find ET yet tho?

It is a good cause. They would be hosed otherwise. Congrats.

Mark


Seems like they are taking the wrong approach . . .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4647142.stm

Cool, thanks for the link.


My pleasure, always happy to stay on topic ;-)

Though you'd think they would have said a little more, it's all well and good to say they are finding these Earth-like rocks planets but unless they are in a star's liquid water zone (for us its outside of Venus's and inside of Mars's orbits) chances are they will be unihabitable, then there's the question of gravity if it is larger than Earth. On someting 60% larger than Earth we would weigh twice our weight. if there /are/ aliens on these larger worlds they would need to be matchstick men almost. The flora and fauna would be incredibly different, even if it has a N/O2/CO2 atmosphere, just due to gravity.

So basically they need to be looking for Earth size world's in the star's liquid water zone which would increase the odds of not finding an EarthII dramtically. So far none have been detected.

I don't think they'll find one soon. Earth has benfitted from having Jupiter and Saturn where they are which attract comets and meteors away from the inner rocks, allowing life to have evolved without many more metoer impacts and the dramatic climate changes following.

I think the greatest advances have been in Heim's theorems being taken seriously with regard to an 8 dimensional universe and his propositions for converting electromagnetism to gravity and back, which goes a long way to explain the unified field theroem. Many have quaffed but NASA certainly hasn't and is interested from the point of view of developing propulsion units from his theorems.

From what I understand of it, rotating some sort of disk over a high enough elctromagnetic field will decrease the mass of an object. ie gravity is lessened for that object. Heim postulated that given enough current the object will transend into 8 dimensonal space where the speed of light is much faster than in our normal 4 D universe. Hyperspace. Where do quarks and those sorts of things go when they jump in and out of existence and appear at other points apparently faster than the speed of light anyway ?

It must be remembered that Heim's thereoms could predict weights far more accurately than with conventional quantum physics, but so far there hasn't been a peer review of his work and much of it has gone straight over many physicists' heads.

Heim. Crank or genius?


I'm hardly in a position to say;-). I did read a little on the subject a couple of weeks ago. I was discussing time travel with a bloke and relativity. So naturally....

Personally I think we compare our own planet too much. I read a book years ago that suggested we would be simply unable to comprehend what we will find, if we do at all. I reckon the author is probably right. The first problem we have is understanding our own world, especially the unified field theory.

I have to agree with Einstein tho, can't see us doing FTL using conventional methods. Just don't watch "Event horizon" before any alternative methods;-)

Mark
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