Re: Vector field

From: Mike (eleatis_at_yahoo.gr)
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: 3 Feb 2005 14:04:36 -0800

Dirk Van de moortel wrote:
> "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

I npromise I vil try hard. What about if I say that 1+1=
124,894,189,123

Is that good enough to be included in the respectable, significant
endevor of yours?

Idiot

Mike

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