Re: Vector field
From: Dirk Van de moortel (dirkvandemoortel_at_ThankS-NO-SperM.hotmail.com)
Date: 02/03/05
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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 21:59:41 GMT
"Mike" <eleatis@yahoo.gr> wrote in message news:1107467462.297603.103270@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>
> Dirk Van de moortel wrote:
> > "Randy Poe" <poespam-trap@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1107464354.998658.233520@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > > Mike wrote:
> > > > That's what we are saying but you miss the point. Events in
> spacetime
> > > > do not form a vector space because they do not have an inverse.
> > >
> > > The assignment of an origin is arbitrary. I can assign my
> > > current position at 4 PM Eastern time the coordinates
> > > (0,0,0,0).
> > >
> > > > A
> > > > requirement of a vector space V is that its elements have an
> inverse:
> > > >
> > > > (X)+(-X) = 0
> > >
> > > So?
> > >
> > > With the above origin, an event with coordinates
> > > (1 m,1 m,1 m,10 m) happens 10 seconds after 4 pm,
> > > at a point just about at the upper right corner
> > > of my cubicle.
> > >
> > > The additive inverse: (-1, -1, -1, -10) corresponds
> > > to an event which happened 10 seconds before 4 pm,
> > > at about where my trash can is located.
> > >
> > > Since I'm very confident that my trash can existed
> > > at 10 seconds before 4 pm, I feel confident that
> > > both X and -X can meaningfully be assigned as
> > > spacetime coordinates for events.
> > >
> > > - Randy
> >
> > Randy, just a little warning....
> > Androcles is immensely stupid and disgustingly malicious, as
> > you well know. I think you will find that Mike (aka Bill Smith,
> > aka Undeniable aka Eleatis aka ...) is slightly less stupid, but
> > vastly more malicious...
> > Enjoy anyway ;-)
> >
> > Dirk Vdm
I forgot to mention that he is also vastly insignificant of course,
even more insignificant than... take Ken Seto for instance.
>
> Dinky-Donkey is both highly stupid and vastly malicious, that is the
> union of the sets he described.
>
> I vonder Dinky-Donkey, vouat do you think about the subject? Do voui
> live in a block universe?
>
> I voud highly appreciate to be included in the highly respected Pandora
> site along vi the oder dissidents of Relativity, a.k.a. Theory of
> Absolutes (didout absolute time) a.k.a. Theory of Invariants, a.k.a.
> Theory of the Grand Stupidity.
Your dramatic insignificance is one of the reasons why you
will not find yourself on that page, so you have no reason
to be afraid :-)
Dirk Vdm
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