tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post1418136547844406916..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Without TimeSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-9083866232743892632007-04-29T09:15:00.000-04:002007-04-29T09:15:00.000-04:00Bee,the singularity evaporates or rather vaporises...<EM><B>Bee,</B><BR/>the singularity evaporates or rather <BR/>vaporises into Quark Gluon Plasma<BR/><BR/>After all the QGP contains all the energy, mass and gravity which is later turned into light & clarity.<BR/><BR/>What else could you condense the universe into, or do you still prefer 'it' seeping into the vaccum of Space thru a pinprick in a prior bubble</EM><BR/><BR/>PS - did you catch that QUASAR9https://www.blogger.com/profile/00593390598251093182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-43581403908168464102007-04-29T09:11:00.000-04:002007-04-29T09:11:00.000-04:00lol Amara,so that's how the initial big bang creat...lol Amara,<BR/>so that's how the initial big bang created the universe, a 'spontaneous' explosion between two astronomers - like a clash of minds, or a storm in a tea cup.<BR/><BR/>PS - I prefer passing Time<BR/><BR/>"I was doing Time<BR/>in The Universal Mind<BR/>pom pom pom ...<BR/>I was doing fine"<BR/><EM>Jim Morrison - The Doors</EM>QUASAR9https://www.blogger.com/profile/00593390598251093182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-66851873529321331422007-04-29T08:48:00.000-04:002007-04-29T08:48:00.000-04:00Dear Amara,thanks for that story, I love it :-) It...Dear Amara,<BR/><BR/>thanks for that story, I love it :-) It is so true, we all have our ways to waste time. The tragedy is if one doesn't realize it. It seems to me everybody of my friends is always busy, busy, busy or tired, tired, tired - including me. Yes, multitasking 200% of the time is a good description. Is it surprising if there is no progress in physics? <BR/><BR/>Best luck with the Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-81239349268158877532007-04-29T08:19:00.000-04:002007-04-29T08:19:00.000-04:00Quasar9: Heh. Here is a story for you about time a...Quasar9: <BR/><BR/>Heh. Here is a story for you about time and messes.<BR/><BR/>When I first arrived in Italy, I shared my office with a Linux-hacker-chain-smoker named Giuseppe, who has a thing for clean floors. He artfully demonstrated a skill of holding two contradictory points-of-view, simultaneously, because I saw him shake ashes from his cigarette onto the hallway floor at some times, and amaragrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15769062084934190681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-4658636658062563552007-04-28T16:53:00.001-04:002007-04-28T16:53:00.001-04:00>Life is a passtimeSome pass the time making a mes...<B><EM>>Life is a passtime</B><BR/>Some pass the time making a mess<BR/>Others pass the time tidying up the mess</EM>QUASAR9https://www.blogger.com/profile/00593390598251093182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-75860847228128888302007-04-28T16:53:00.000-04:002007-04-28T16:53:00.000-04:00lol Amara!that's one way of defining the biologica...lol Amara!<BR/>that's one way of defining the biological clock<BR/>I musn't forget you believe the tale of Abraham is no more than folk-lore<BR/><BR/>But not interested in starting a family - never too late you know.<BR/>One can adopt, saves having to go thru the nine months of pregnancy, the big bang or pangs of childbirth<BR/><BR/>or all that messy & tiresome nappy changing, and all that silly QUASAR9https://www.blogger.com/profile/00593390598251093182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-88940213722395731252007-04-28T16:16:00.000-04:002007-04-28T16:16:00.000-04:00Oh no, Thomas - now you are one of THEM! Everybody...Oh no, Thomas - now you are one of THEM! Everybody knows that <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy" REL="nofollow">Bielefeld doesn't exist...</A><BR/><BR/>-B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-32109556523668972292007-04-28T15:40:00.000-04:002007-04-28T15:40:00.000-04:00Just a few days I went to the second Kosmologietag...Just a few days I went to the second Kosmologietag in Bielefeld - the relevance is that last year at the same meeting I managed to be late for my own talk.<BR/><BR/>This is relatively easy to do if you have a 5-hour journey to make in the morning and the meeting starts at 2pm. Even easier if the journey takes place with the assistance of Deutsche Bahn (German train system). We had planned to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-49623824322334547462007-04-28T15:26:00.000-04:002007-04-28T15:26:00.000-04:00Dear Bee,Your "Without Time" post set off a cascad...Dear Bee,<BR/><BR/>Your "Without Time" post set off a cascade of thoughts in my mind. I realized that I have a peculiar relationship with time, in part because I live in Italy (slow time) but was born in the U.S. (fast time) and I'm an astronomer (long timelines, but I usually study short timeline solar system events), who is fascinated with history and archeology (past human time) as well as amaragrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15769062084934190681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-23233754181874574672007-04-28T14:25:00.000-04:002007-04-28T14:25:00.000-04:00lol Bee,the slowest elevator in the world at the P...lol Bee,<BR/>the slowest elevator in the world at the Periphery?<BR/><BR/>The should have put PI on the top floors of <A HREF="http://quasar9.blogspot.com/2006/06/taipei-101.html" REL="nofollow">Taipei 101</A>QUASAR9https://www.blogger.com/profile/00593390598251093182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-32584613369042628512007-04-28T13:11:00.000-04:002007-04-28T13:11:00.000-04:00Dear Bee,now I understand my dear german colleague...Dear Bee,<BR/><BR/>now I understand my dear german colleague Horst! He always wrote these c.t or s.t things when calling for a meeting. We never knew what he meant. Of course we were always late. :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68390405897441298082007-04-28T12:00:00.000-04:002007-04-28T12:00:00.000-04:00Half the secret to creativity is boredom over time...<I>Half the secret to creativity is boredom over time. </I><BR/><BR/>What about a interest in one's being? It can be quickly sidestepped while alloting it to boredom? <BR/><BR/>While, "searching the aspects of creativity would be like trying to "stop time." You know it can go forward and (backward?)<BR/><BR/>You recall "all the time." Qui! Non? <BR/><BR/>So if you have the perfect fluid (Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-18075183161950573162007-04-28T11:29:00.000-04:002007-04-28T11:29:00.000-04:00Hi Uncle,Half the secret to creativity is boredom ...Hi Uncle,<BR/><BR/><I>Half the secret to creativity is boredom over time. </I><BR/><BR/>As usual, you bring it to the point. I will include that in the proposal for my institute ;-) Someone should have told Mike. <BR/><BR/>Reg. wandering minds, see also<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2007/01/where-is-your-mind.html" REL="nofollow">where is my mind?</A><BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/><BR/>Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-84569970780239640232007-04-28T11:25:00.000-04:002007-04-28T11:25:00.000-04:00Half the secret to creativity is boredom over time...Half the secret to creativity is boredom over time. Brains cannot abide emptiness. Absent input they create filling. Amputated limbs become "phantom limbs" that hurt! Hearing loss includes maddening ringing in the dimmed frequency window. The cures for both are obvious - and work.<BR/><BR/>Google, PI, old Bell Labs, and few other venues rock. Google hires only the most Severely and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-64533078292268660942007-04-28T10:35:00.000-04:002007-04-28T10:35:00.000-04:00Lack of time and passing of time are both increasi...Lack of time and passing of time are both increasing functions of the time since you were born.<BR/><BR/>The older you get, the less available time you end up finding to do the things you need (and/or want) to do, and the faster the days pass by. (Some people, however, seem to be able to overcome one or both of these phenomena... which are in certain instances related. Perhaps you are one of themAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-52202305249863667832007-04-28T08:24:00.000-04:002007-04-28T08:24:00.000-04:00Time is always running away so fast... Just now at...Time is always running away so fast... Just now at lunch, I had a funny conversation with my brother and my mother, starting with the piezoelectric mechanism in a new lighter, via Pierre Curie and quartz clocks to the definition of the second and the magentic moment of caesium in atomic clocks... Maybe I could turn it in a blog post sometime, if I find some time ;-)<BR/><BR/>Best, stefanstefanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09495628046446378453noreply@blogger.com