What about him disturbs you?

He's a complete asshole who's indulged because he's bright, and I can't see the business reasons for keeping him around. Also, the shows tend to follow a fairly predictable format, but that's not a fault in the character. Just another thing that helps keep me at a distance.

But it's not a quality of time, per se, but of the entropy.

Does this mean that entropy reversal is impossible, or that it would result in a difference in how time is perceived?

Is it just me, or does this look photoshopped?

I think they photoshopped the license plate (for privacy reasons) but nothing else seems obviously photoshopped. However, I didn't look too long, as I have actual work to do.

Yay Jesse on giving notice

When I lived in France, I got fluent enough at thinking in metric that I was able to handle all the length, weight, and volume stuff without having to consciously convert back and forth.

Temperature, I am almost bilingual in, but though Canada is officially metric, if anyone told me their height and weight in metric terms, I would pretty much give them a blank stare. I still use Imperial measurements for cooking (cups, tsps) but when a recipe asks for 3 oz of somethng, I am totally lost.

Is it just me, or does this look photoshopped?

It kind of does - some of the spray paint marks seem superimposed. But I wouldn't say for sure.

Shoot, does quantum mechanics imply asymmetrical time? As in you can't uncollapse a wave function? I'm pretty sure in some interpretations it does, but I think there are some interpretations that maintain symmetrical time.

Oh, Sue, I hope that all the sleeping will make you feel better.

This is pretty much how I feel about knitting and crocheting and the like.

People are so different. One of my roommates, who looks at me like I'm completely insane for playing with jigsaw puzzles (or knitting/crocheting, for that matters), loves making jewlery. It doesn't demand less patience, and yet, that seems like a perfectly relaxing activity to her.

Are you saying that the concept of something happening simultaneously (or an hour and a half apart) on opposite sides of the universe is bollocks?

Even in Special Relativity (which is way simpler than the General one), you have to define in which system of reference you speak when you say "simultaneously". When you have different systems, who move relative to one another, events that happen at the same time in one, happen in different point sin time in the other (since time moves differently in those systems, because of their reltive movement).

He's a complete asshole who's indulged because he's bright, and I can't see the business reasons for keeping him around.

We have some professors here who are like that. Minus the accent, of course.

Does this mean that entropy reversal is impossible, or that it would result in a difference in how time is perceived?

On its own, it's irreversal, and therefore if it happens spontaneously, it may look like the time is goind backwards (a broken mug gets whole). You have to invest energy for it to happen. [Edit: therefore many processes and equilibrium-points are found as a result of a balance between the desire to enlarge the entropy and to minimize the energy.]

Oh, Sue, I hope that all the sleeping will make you feel better.

Thanks Nilly. I do feel better this afternoon, just very stuffed up.

I can buy Dr. Wilson as Dr. Watson, who puts up with the pricky H* for his own reasons, but at least Holmes wasn't so thoroughly and every-day indulged by as many people, and sought out on a case by case basis.

It's a bugaboo of mine, both in fiction and in real life. You really have to go some distance to convince me why the asshole is so required.

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On its own, it's irreversal, and therefore if it happens spontaneously, it may look like the time is goind backwards (a broken mug gets whole). You have to invest energy for it to happen. [Edit: therefore many processes and equilibrium-points are found as a result of a balance between the desire to enlarge the entropy and to minimize the energy.]

I'm assuming it doesn't happen spontaneously where we can see it. So I want a machine.

Even in Special Relativity (which is way simpler than the General one), you have to define in which system of reference you speak when you say "simultaneously". When you have different systems, who move relative to one another, events that happen at the same time in one, happen in different point sin time in the other (since time moves differently in those systems, because of their reltive movement).

I think you can use the cosmic background radiation to give you a frame of reference for time, hence the ability to put an age to the universe. I'm not disagreeing with Nilly, I'm just trying to add on.

Is it just me, or does this look photoshopped?

OK, the second picture is a larger version of the first one. But the third and fourth pictures are from a slightly different perspective than the first/second picture. Which means they were taken seperatly, so if they were photoshopped, the photoshopee would have to have done the exact same effects on the two (or three) unique pictures. So by photoshopping more than one uniqe photo the photoshopee would have increased his/her work tremendously, as there'd be two or three times as much photoshopping, plus a lot of extra work to make sure that the effects for the different photos matched each other closely.