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Comment Time is just an illusion (Score 1) 600

I firmly believe that time does not exist. It is just a creation of the human mind as we are aware of the past, the present and the future.

Yeah, I know about "time" slows down in a strong gravitational field or if you approach to the speed of light. But "time" slows down for you (which you do not notice of course) because the particles in your body do not have "time" to interact with each other. I mean, they are busy going into a particular direction and cannot go into another one as the resulting speed vector would be greater than c.

If there is no interaction between particles then there is no change in their states and the result will be as if "time" stands still.

The problem is, as you can notice in my explanation, that such words like "change" and "speed" implicate time. But that does not mean time is a real physical dimension. Reality does not execute our equations in order to work.

Comment Re:A win for me (Score 1) 716

This is FUD and the general response if someone suggest government is evil.

However, those hellholes which you suggest are basically governed. So, they have government because the definition of government 'is an organization exerting centralized control over a community' (from wikipedia). It is an entirely different issue that those governments wages war against each other and if they are recognized by other governments or not.

Comment Why use GR for FTL? (Score 2) 265

I don't get it. Why do physicists use GR for FTL? That does not make sense. It is the same as using Newtonian physic for relativistic speeds. GR was not designed for FTL, obviously.

All of the examples of violating causality is based on defining "now" in two different frame of reference. However, this "now" is established using GR while the "signal" (or bullet or whatever) uses FTL. That does not make sense.

If you have FTL you use FTL for everything including determining "now". Of course, you need new physic to do that. However, disproving FTL with GR is pointless using these examples.

Instead, why not use the curvature of space for disproving FTL?
Every particle travels through space, even the photon. According to GR space itself also changes with the speed of light. This means space itself cannot react fast enough for an FTL particle. It would be similar as if a ship did not disturb the water as it passes. And that is impossible.

Science

Submission + - Possible Cracks in the Standard Model (stanford.edu)

little1973 writes: From the article: The data from BaBar, a high-energy physics experiment based at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, show that a particular type of particle decay called “B to D-star-tau-nu” happens more often than the Standard Model says it should.

Comment Richard Feynman (Score 4, Interesting) 107

I do not believe in particle-wave duality. I believe in Feynman's path integral formulation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation

Read QED if you want to know more of this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED:_The_Strange_Theory_of_Light_and_Matter

Using path integral a particle does not need to interference itself in order to produce the interference pattern.

Comment Re:Shape? (Score 1) 370

Exactly. All the elementary particles are 0-dimensional , point-like particles. As they are 0-dimensional they cannot have a shape. Also, this means only head-on collisions are possible in particle accelerators.

Some geniuses, like Feynman, tried to model the elementary particles as 3-dimensional bodies, but to no avail.

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