Spacetime

[thylacine]

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Okay, I know you are being tactful, but no need for
exaggeration! Don't you know there are super-nits on SMP ?

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Hyperbole much?

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You think I don't know the difference between 99.999%, 99.9999%, and 99.99999%?

[FortunaMaximus]

I'm sure you do. Your ego's spewing though. It's not all that classy. But if it makes you happy, go ahead.

[thylacine]

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I'm sure you do. Your ego's spewing though. It's not all that classy. But if it makes you happy, go ahead.

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I was just letting "MoreGentilythanU" know how far off base he was. I was just stating the facts. "MoreGentilythanU" essentially said I was a clueless idiot, so I thought I would carefully quantify how wrong that characterization was. It's a pity it gets misperceived, but so be it. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

BTW you, "FortunaMaximus", actually got the original post much better than "MoreGentilythanU" did.

[FortunaMaximus]

Why not. I mean, gum is an spacetime artifact. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Cheers.

[thylacine]

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Why not. I mean, gum is an spacetime artifact. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Cheers.

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I don't disagree with you. Maybe you could have a survey with more options.

[FortunaMaximus]

Eh. I suppose. Then again, I'm fond of contrarian attitudes that still bring my point across.

Besides, I don't have to prove anything to anybody but myself. If others get helped because of that, well, that's a causative effect I'll never be ashamed of.

I've always gone out of my way to help others when I've felt in the correct frame of mind to do so. Costs nothing, really.

And for good reason. A net gain's a net gain, and the effects involved aren't -EV where I'm concerned.

[FortunaMaximus]

Cute-looking animal. Bet it's rather fast too.

[Speedlimits]

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Those are not good words to describe spacetime. Please refer to books on the subject known as GR (general relativity) this should clarify for u maybe ( not really u won't be able to understand it because u need a Phd or to at least be hella good at math srry)

CHEERS!

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LOLROFLMAO

Firstly, these surveys are for entertainment purposes only. I know perfectly well the limitations of these words. Secondly, I know about GR and QFT and I know what the various new theories are. I have a better understanding of mathematics than at least 99.9999% of people.

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yeah right rofl. Why don't you have a phd then

[MoreGentilythanU]

I think my post was a tad harsh, I didn't mean to offend.
I have studied "spacetime" i.e. General Relativity to some extent.
The idea is that time is not so easy to define, and to do a rigourous mathematical definition of time we need to alter the standard (Newtonian) idea of a constant independent time parameter.
Of course that is just the main idea in Special Relativity. General Relativity links space, time and matter.
It shows that Gravitational forces are caused by the "interaction" (for lack of better word, I'm srry this is not too precise) between space and matter. Together with the special relativity this forms a very complete picture of spacetime and matter at normal energy levels and sizes.
Srry for the lecture, but I just wanted to state what is obvious before getting to the point. My main point is that if you want to construct some general description of spacetime it would generally take years of studying the finer points of the GR theory.
I think you obviously know a fair amount, probably more than me. However, if you want to describe spacetime I think you shouldn't trivialize it since it is deep and fascinating subject.


edit: I believe what I meant by the "interaction" of space and matter is that matter "curves" space in a well defined way. Distance is no rather simple and is a complex function known as the "metric" in GR.

[evank15]

Discrete as in quantized?

Graviton?

Am I missing something?