Re: Questions (Space)

David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx (Tina Hall) wrote:

I'm going to have to think about this, Tina. Clearly you have a
real problem with /abstract/ -- that is, with things that don't
have a solid, concrete "thing" that they refer to. Most of this
stuff is like that. There isn't anything at the core that's solid,

If there isn't anything, there can't be anything that travels. Not
solid doesn't matter, as long as you explain what else it is. Right
now, I don't have an alternative to 'solid'.

What there is is a magnetic and electric field, at right angles to
each other

Do you want me to get a headache?

(I have no idea what you're trying to say, it looks just like those
things that don't explain anything and just lead to frustration. If you
want to talk about this, explain it in a way I understand.)

and to the direction the light is traveling.

The light that travels has to be something. There's something that first
hits the cupboard, then my eye, for example. Or comes from a distant
star.

Do you actually understand it, or do you just talk about the effect?
Because the effect isn't the issue.

A collapsing magnetic field generates an electric field, a collapsing
magnetic field generates an electric field, so the pair alternately
(as it were) generate each other while zipping along at 180,000 mps
more or less.

Whatever that means.

--
Tina
WIP: Space: 1123 words
WISuspension: Seasons & Elements trilogy | Magic Earth series
Posted to Usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.composition.

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