Re: Toys that are 1) Shiny, 2) World's Largest, and 3) Broken
- From: Steve VanDevender <stevev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 15 Aug 2005 23:09:01 -0700
TimC <tconnors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 2005-08-16, David Cameron Staples (aka Bruce)
> was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> > It begins to look like the only trustworthy matter is H at 0K, and
> > quantum implies that not even that...
>
> Ionised H at 0K, that is.
Don't the quarks wiggle around inside the proton? And you can't get
them out, either.
> And yes, even a vacuum sucks.
If the observational evidence for the accelerating expansion of the
universe is true, and due to so-called "dark energy", that actually
suggests that on a large scale vacuum blows.
> Damn you, casimir effect! Go to hell, quantum froth!
It is, however, consistent with previous observation that things with
moving parts suck, and the quantum vacuum is chock full of virtual
moving part(icle)s.
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