Posted by Aditya »
Add Comment »I blogged about a random thing (as usual) a couple of days ago. I spoke about the Unstoppable Force and the Immovable Object. In that article I mentioned that CERN had apparently measured that some neutrinos were traveling faster than the speed of light. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe seemed a reality. Then came the blow – in a paper Ronald A.J. van Elburg, Times Of Flight Between A Source And A Detector Observed From A GPS Satellite,arxiv.org/abs/1110.2685: explains how.
The relativistic motion of clocks on board GPS satellites exactly accounts for the superluminal effect in the OPERA experiment, says physicist Ronald van Elburg at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, The Physics arXiv Blog reports.
“From the perspective of the clock, the detector is moving towards the source and consequently the distance travelled by the particles as observed from the clock is shorter,” says van Elburg. By this he means shorter than the distance measured in the reference frame on the ground. The OPERA team overlooks this because it assumes the clocks are on the ground not in orbit. [Read more →]
Posted by Aditya »
Add Comment »Oh, you. You just couldn’t let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You are truly incorruptible, aren’t you? Huh? You won’t kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won’t kill you because you’re just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.
- The Joker
From a logical standpoint, considering the logic as we know it, if there exists an infinite force, an unstoppable force, then it stands to reason that there cannot exist an immovable object. The definition of the immovable object similarly eliminates the possibility of having an unstoppable force because if we have an unstoppable force even the immovable object won’t be able to stop it thereby making itself movable and voiding the existence of itself or by stopping the unstoppable force and putting a rest to it once in for all. [Read more →]
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5 Comments »It may be too soon but that’s the way it is. Last week after the death of Steve Jobs the world flooded with the news of his death. Everyone from the kid who owns an iPod to the major giants in the IT industry. They all showed that they care but all they were doing is showing how big of an ass-licking hypocrites they are. Apple is the most valued company after all. They wept and they shed tears. Every company posted a link to Steve Job’s obituary. Apple, Google, Amazon. Everyone. And all this happened within an hour of Job’s death.
I don’t have a problem with that. Heck, I know no one cares what I have a problem with. But I am going to say it anyway. Dennis Ritchie is dead and right now not a single company seems to care. They may post things up tomorrow but that is not good enough. That just shows how much they care. [Read more →]