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| May-21-04 | | trogdor: M theory does not stand for anything in particular. You can put anything you wnat in the M, there is no official name for it. Scientist's like string theory because it describes things in the 'best' way possible and seems to unify other thoeries. Scientist's don't even know what atoms are 'really'. Scientists only know what an atom is like by testing it in certain ways. Has anyone here read the book 'Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality'? |
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May-22-04
 | | paulalbert: We apparently have discussions of theoretical physics going on at several locations in chessgames.com. I think I am guilty of getting one going by my reference to Richard Rhodes book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" in the kibitzing to the Einstein vs. Oppenheimer chess game.
Given the discussion here, I would like to call those interested in cosmology to an excellent article in the May 2004 Scientific American called "The Myth of the Beginning of Time" written by Gabriele Veneziano ( he is a theoretical physicist at CERN and considered the father of string theory). It summarizes the current state of play of the origins of the universe including new theories suggesting time existed before the Big Bang. It's good for layman because you don't need a knowledge of theoretical mathematics to understand it. Paul Albert |
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| May-22-04 | | Lawrence: The article Paul mentions is available free at http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?ch... |
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| May-25-04 | | Geronimo: Overheard in a cafeteria: "Well, it doesn't take an Einstein to know that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line." ! LOL. |
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| May-25-04 | | maoam: LOL, that'll have me in stitches for quite a while... |
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| Jun-04-04 | | poktirity: Geronimo that's quite an ironic thing to say. =) |
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| Jul-08-04 | | talchess2003: <Creator of Time: i think einstein could probably beat the world champion today!!!> Thats a funny statement, it could bring up a lot of discussion. I personally think that the thinking behind chess and science lies in two different parts of the brain. Whereas chess involves visualization, memory, instinct, strategy, and mental endurance... science is more about reasoning, logic, and critical thinking (i.e. providing proof to theorems). Science, unlike chess, doesn't involve the element of mental calculation and visualization, and so I dont think that Einstein would elevate to more than a master if he played and studied today. |
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| Jul-08-04 | | Marquis De Sade: So this is where people go to display their theoretical physics/cosmology chops? |
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| Jul-09-04 | | Marquis De Sade: Good picture of Einstein--or as I like to call him, Al. |
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| Jul-11-04 | | matthewgoodband: I don't know science and I can't play chess well. What I can do is say Einstein could beat any chess master at their peaks throughout all time if he dedicated his entire life to chess, which I doubt he would under any circumstances. |
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| Jul-11-04 | | nikolaas: <These stories, to date, have all been used to fill a lack of real news> Yes, every year it's what I call komkommertime. Nothing real to say so they just write nonsense. |
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| Jul-11-04 | | Geronimo: It's really nonesense to make up things like <"Einstein could beat any chess master at their peaks throughout all time if he dedicated his entire life to chess">. Would you say that if he dedicated his entire life to "playing the violin" he'd be able to play better than any concertmaster/concertmistress? Of course not, because associating chess skills to music skills isn't as acceptable (and tired) a cliché as the supposed math and physics connection (always so popular amongst math/physics patzers). The brain is responsible for ALL cognitive functions. And although Einstein was undoubtibly a genius in some areas, and in other areas he was not. |
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Jul-26-04
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To hear Einstein in his own voice summarize the notion that "mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing -- a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. . .", visit this site: http://www.aip.org/history/einstein...
Choose the MP3 version of the audio file if you're on a slow connection. (: Bishop Berkeley :)
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| Jul-27-04 | | chesscookie: <BishopBerkeley> Thanks, thats very interesting |
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| Jul-27-04 | | arielbekarov: <BishopBerkeley>
Thank you for the recommended site !
BUT, isn't there a misspelling here ?
<mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing -- a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind ..." ; shouldn't it be "MESS and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing ?" This makes perfect sense to me ! How I have been messing things up with a lot of energy, and this mess causes even more energy and so it goes on in all eternity.
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| Jul-27-04 | | zb2cr: <I think the particles were bosons and according to Resnick and Halliday, there is a highly likely chance that this is possible bcoz bosons are extremely (X 5) light.> You've got that one garbled. Bosons are not one particle, they're a <class of particles>, distinguished by having
integer values of spin (0,1,2...) as opposed to half-integer values. Bosons
are not "extremely light", because the class of bosons contains lots of particles both light and heavy. For example, pions are bosons of mass approx. 135 MeV/c**2, D-mesons have mass approx. 1869. MeV/c**2 (roughly twice the mass of a proton), and Z-mesons have mass about 91.1876 Gev/c**2. There's a lot of very massive particles in that particular zoo! <Sneaky>, I wouldn't be too swift to write off superluminal research. The most respectable results seem to focus on observing effects propagating through a dispersive medium at greater than "c". Information should only propagate at the group velocity--less than c in the case of dispersive media. Nonetheless, if the presence of a pulse is considered as information, there do seem to be some respectable results out there. Try this article:
http://physicsweb.org/article/world... |
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| Jul-27-04 | | zb2cr: <arielbekarov>,
< "MESS and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing ?" > LOL. That would explain a lot. However, the equivalence of MESS to the
energy required to either create the MESS or clean it up is a concept that is very familiar to most people. :-) |
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| Jul-27-04 | | OneBadDog: <Creator of Time: i think einstein could probably beat the world champion today!!!> Gary's a good kid, nut he ain't no Einstein. LOL |
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| Aug-15-04 | | popski: Anyone knows for some chess games of Nicola Tesla? I've heard he was chess player too. |
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Aug-23-04
 | | cu8sfan: Today's quote of the day by Robert Huebner <Those who say they understand chess, understand nothing.> reminds me of what is said about quantum mechanics: If you think you understand quantum mechanics you don't really understand it. Einstein for that matter didn't understand or accept it which led to his famous quote <God doesn't play dice>. This quote is often misused by fundamentalists who don't know what Niels Bohr answerd when Einstein said that: <Stop telling God what to do>! |
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Sep-07-04
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Excerpts from "My First Impressions of the U.S.A." by Albert Einstein (1921): "What first strikes the visitor with amazement is the superiority of this country [the U.S.] in matters of technology and organization. Objects of everyday use are more solid than in Europe, houses much more practically designed. Everything is designed to save human labor. Labor is expensive, because the country is sparsely inhabited in comparison with its natural resources . . . "The second thing that strikes a visitor is the joyous, positive attitude to life. The smiles on the faces of the people in photographs is symbolical of one of the greatest assets of the American. He is friendly, self-confident, optimistic -- and without envy. The European finds interaction with Americans easy and agreeable . . . The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being . . . I have a warm admiration for the achievements of American institutes of scientific research. We are unjust in attempting to ascribe the increasing superiority of American research work exclusively to superior wealth; devotion, patience, a spirit of comradeship, and a talent for cooperation play an important part in its successes." --From "Ideas and Opinions", a collection of Einstein's writings (arranged in collaboration with Einstein himself) published by
The Modern Library, p.5; translated by Alan Harris; Reprint edition (March 1988); Bonanza Books; ISBN: 0517003937 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t... (: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :) |
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Sep-07-04
| | BishopBerkeley: <arielbekarov> Hello Ariel: I'm sorry I missed your post some time back! If you're still tuned in, it makes very good sense to me. (In fact, it makes good sense even if you're NOT tuned in!) Ah, it is easy to make a mess of things with energy. Curiously though, I've also noted an inversion of Einstein's model. Einstein taught us that a small amount of matter can yield a vast amount of energy, but I have learned that a small amount of energy can yield a vast mess! Perhaps we shall have to add to the General and Special Theories the Hostile Theory of Relativity! (: ♗B :) |
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| Sep-29-04 | | yoozum: do they have any other "celebrity" games other than einstein, napoleon, oppenheimer and castro? |
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| Sep-29-04 | | iron maiden: <yoozum>, check my Game Collection: Games by Famous People for some more celebs playing chess. |
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| Sep-29-04 | | yoozum: LOL. go karl marx! it would be so much better if they had a record of stalin's games, if he ever did play them. unfortunately if he lost we can be sure that the games would never exist and the players promptly killed. so yeah. |
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