Re: Who will stun the world as next Einstein?

From: Ahmed Ouahi, Architect (ahmed.ouahi_at_welho.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:20:02 +0200

.......... ...My interest in science was always essentially limited
to the study of principles, which best explains my conduct in its entirety.
That I have published so little is attributable to the same circumstance,
for the burning desire to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my
time on fruitless endeavors!!!!!!!!!!!!!............ ...

-- Albert Einstein 

-- 
Ahmed Ouahi, Architect
Best Regards!
"Mike" <eleatis@yahoo.gr> kirjoitti viestissä
news:1107079019.400551.287960@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> Tom Roberts wrote:
> > zzbunker@netscape.net wrote:
> > > Jesse Mazer wrote:
> > >> [a geodesic in GR] is not the path through curved space with the
> > >> shortest length, it is the path through curved spacetime with the
> > >> *greatest* proper time.
> >
> > Right.
>
> >
> > > It is the shortest length, [...]
> >
> > Wrong. Simple example: throw a baseball straight up and catch it.
> > Clearly it does NOT follow the path of shortest length in space from
> > throw to catch (the shortest spatial path is to just hold it). But it
>
> > does follow a geodesic path through spacetime (neglecting air
> resistance
> > and other miniscule effects).
> >
> > Note there are many different geodesic paths from throw
> > to catch, which you will know if you ever actually do this.
> > The initial conditions of the throw determine which
> > particular geodesic path the ball will follow.
> >
>
>
> When throwing a baseball, you affect a deviation from its geodesic
> motion, in which the baseball is in in the first place. The rest you
> refer to is abuse of terminology and your own misconceptions.
> Mike
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Tom Roberts tjroberts@lucent.com
>