Sunday, March 18, 2007

real physics, crappy book club

Also! "We" just "read" Calamity Physics, yes? I found this article on retrocausality today, it seems appropriate. I don't understand word one of the physics of it, but...retrocausality!

Such are the perils of retrocausality, the idea that the present can affect the past, and the future can affect the present. Strange as it sounds, retrocausality is perfectly permissible within the known laws of nature.[...]Dating back to Newton's laws of motion, the equations of physics are generally "time symmetric" -- they work as well for processes running backward through time as forward.
How awesome is that?

Anyway, Clint and I are of the opinion that both The Vast Unthinking Masses book club and DISPERSION(s) have died slow and painful deaths. If other members of TVUM and Team DISPERSION(s) would be interested, we could continue to update this blog with the periodic musings that would have found homes in the pages of DISPERSION(s) if we were better at meeting deadlines. What say you?

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