Re: Uh Oh, Discrepancy Alert



Ivan wrote:




Even worse news - light can go backwards!!! 8-)

http://lfw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&ARTICLE_ID=219798&VERSION_NUM=2

Ivan:

But is it true time-reversal? Or is that just a catchy phrase created
for effect in this instance? Something actually going backward in time
would tend to violate causality (which is one of axioms of science which
is taken on faith). It would be tantamount to future events influencing
and perhaps changing the past. Throwing the long-standing scientific
principle of causes happening before effects into a tizzy.



When propounding the established views, remember:

1.) "Reality is not only stranger than we imagine,but stranger than we
can imagine" - J.B.S.Haldane

2.) "Your theory is crazy,but not crazy enough to be true" - Neils Bohr

3.) "When an elderly but distinguished scientist says something is
possible he is very probably correct,when he says something is
impossible he is very probably wrong"- Arthur C.Clarke

4.) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

5.) "There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in
your philosophy Horatio" - Shakespeare

The nameless is the boundary of Heaven and Earth.
The named is the mother of creation.
Freed from desire, you can see the hidden mystery.
By having desire, you can only see what is visibly real.
Yet mystery and reality
emerge from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
- Tao te Ching
Lao Tzu

Those can be collectively summed up by the phrase: "There are few
absolutes".

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