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by Synedri
Tue Feb 10, 2004 7:44 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Is there a fourth Dimension?
Replies: 17
Views: 9582

as for slowing down light the only way to do it is to send it through einstien boson condisate. (matter that has been frozen to such a degree it seems to phase out(not the proper word just what it looks like on the computer models and in the microscope). light cannot be slowed down using convention...
by Synedri
Mon Feb 09, 2004 6:55 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Is there a fourth Dimension?
Replies: 17
Views: 9582

unless of course you were made up of photons.. then you could never slow down below the speed of light Room temperature ruby slows light 28 March 2003 US researchers use a ruby to slow light to 57 meters per second at room temperature. Using a technique known as spectral hole burning, US researcher...
by Synedri
Mon Nov 10, 2003 10:28 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Establishing a Basis for Improbability
Replies: 27
Views: 15098

Now we are dealing with syntax. What you and I think a word means. For me the word improbable denotes that it probably wont happen. Which is what I was thinking when I said that anything with less than a 50/50 chance is improbable. Whereas, anything with greater than a 50/50 chance PROBABLY will ha...
by Synedri
Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:42 pm
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: The concept of life outside our little box
Replies: 21
Views: 12996

I guess this is a good place to try this one again. http://www.philosophers.co.uk/games/god.htm Flawed in a few ways but interesting nevertheless. I take Calvin and Hobbes view that the proof that intelligence exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us yet. I took t...
by Synedri
Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:36 am
Forum: Deep Thoughts
Topic: Broken Links
Replies: 2
Views: 2751

Broken Links

Perhaps now would be a good time for the links on the main TTI page to correctly link to the new forum, instead of the old?