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| Thread ID: 42853 | 2004-02-24 23:37:00 | OT: What is the length of a piece of string? | Billy T (70) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 217955 | 2004-02-25 18:53:00 | Pi times D The circumference is the same as the length of the string |
MrBeef (342) | ||
| 217956 | 2004-02-25 19:19:00 | Nice to see you back Susan B. :-) |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 217957 | 2004-02-25 19:41:00 | Yay for TonyF and me! :D | mark c (247) | ||
| 217958 | 2004-02-25 19:47:00 | > Okay folks: > > Loved the logic, learned some new ideas, baffled > beetle (sorry beetle, it was just a touch of whimsy > to celebrate 2500 different ways to waste time when I > should be working) and created a mild stir of > interest in string lovers everywhere. > > Drum > roll.............................................. .... > > > > And the winner > is................................................ .. > > TonyF (second on the list) for the undeniable, > millimetre perfect, incontrovertable answer: Exactly > twice the distance from the middle to one end. You > are a man after my own heart Tony.:D > > Runner up.................... > > Mark P for speaking out on behalf of the > longitudinally challenged everywhere. > > Cheers > > Billy 8-{) :) > And I've won a few bets with that one > ]:) > > Shucks Thanks |
mark.p (383) | ||
| 217959 | 2004-02-26 00:01:00 | no...........MrBeef I reckon a circle has NO length...........it DOES have a diameter/circumfrence etc but length ?.........hmm...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 217960 | 2004-02-26 00:07:00 | > Nice to see you back Susan B. > :-) Thank you Neil, it is nice to be back. :-) And I have a sore throat, not "sort" throat. Shouldn't have been up posting so late at night. :8} :p |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 217961 | 2004-02-26 00:07:00 | > Nice to see you back Susan B. > :-) ditto |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 217962 | 2004-02-26 22:12:00 | Of course Billy overlooks Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which says that the act itself of observing the string will affect it's properties . And if the string is with Shrodingers cat in its box then we have a real problem : is the string there or not? Does it exist in another universe? How can it be measured? At least the relativistic problem is neatly solved by Tony's solution: the length of a fast moving string yields two results in terms of the remote observer and the string itself, but both are equally valid . And then there is Superstring which gets into quantum physics and unfortunately Tonys answer is of no help . :( |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 217963 | 2004-02-26 22:41:00 | > > At least the relativistic problem is neatly solved by > Tony's solution: the length of a fast moving string > yields two results in terms of the remote observer > and the string itself, but both are equally valid. > > And then there is Superstring which gets into quantum > physics and unfortunately Tonys answer is of no help. Not so, my friend. If you place yourself at the centre of the string, which ever way you look the string halflength is the same. The Superstring folk are all in a twist right now trying to work inflation into the eq so that they can deal with the "flatness problem". But then, what is the length of this thread ?? |
TonyF (246) | ||
| 217964 | 2004-02-27 00:06:00 | "But then, what is the length of this thread ??" Infinite |
Chris Randal (521) | ||
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