On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:59:17 +0000 (UTC),
glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:
> In article <kjb7t11v4ef23vl3116gq34p0uivf5d1us@4ax.com>,
> Traveler  <traveler@nospam.net> wrote:
>> On 22 Jan 2006 07:55:33 -0800, glhansen@indiana.edu wrote:
>>
>>
>> > Traveler wrote:
>> > > On Sun, 22 Jan 06 13:31:20 GMT, jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >Another problem that you are having is that you're one of the
>> > > >physics gods.  This means that you have risen from sitting
>> > > >at the feet of gods and taken a chair.  When you look back
>> > > >into the past you think how nice it was.  I recall posts
>> > > >of extreme frustration from you as you wrestled with your
>> > > >homework and groused about not enough time to learn anything.
>> > > >
>> > > >A side effect of becoming an expert is one no longer encounters
>> > > >new information at the same rate as before.  And the new
>> > > >knowledge one does encounter is more difficult to learn (you've
>> > > >already done all the easier stuff).
>> > >
>> > > ahahaha... Hem, I got a few pertinent questions that need answers,
>> > > enquiring minds and all that. ahahaha... If Hansen is a physics god,
>> > > how come he can never understand that spacetime and everything in it
>> > > is frozen motionless?
>> > 
>> > Are you still confused by stupid semantic issues?  A world line, which
>> > represents the entire history of a particle, is frozen motionless.  But
>> > when we talk about particles we usually talk about them at a particular
>> > moment in time, not their entire history as a whole.
>>
>> Repeat after me: NOTHING MOVES IN SPACETIME.
>
> World lines don't move in spacetime.  When people talk about the motion of 
> a particle they refer to a succession of points on the worldline, not the 
> worldline in its entirety.  

Repeat after me: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING MOVES IN SPACETIME!
NOTTHIINGGG!!!!

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