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Article #353305Re: Lightspeed constant...
From: jimbo
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 00:00
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Gor...@ThePentagon.Com (Gordon Swobe) writes: > bo...@linknet.net (Bob Adkins) wrote: > > >On 14 Nov 1996 02:07:34 GMT, cam...@ix.netcom.com(A. Campbell) wrote: > > > > > >>>In some very basic, essential sense, if you ever find yourself going > >>>"faster than the speed of light in our universe", you will also find > >>>that you are indeed not in our universe. > >>> > >>>[I had a roomate who once would start a conversation with something > >>>like "But let's say you _could_ go faster than the speed of light." > >>>How can you start a conversation by invoking magic? I just wonder why > >>>people so seldom say things like "What if pi was exactly 3.5?" or > >>>"What if e was 3.1415926...?" or "What if i was not imaginary?"] > > > > > > > >Could this phenomenon be responsible for unexplained computer hangs? I > >mean if the electrons traveled through some weird path and got to their > >destination faster than light could have, well....it could cause chaos > >in there.....=:-) > > > You may be right about that, Bob! Electrons moving faster than light > must also travel backward in time. So perhaps an electron involved in > your own normal exiting of the program taveled back in time and tried > to exit the program before its time. At least it's as reasonable an > explanation for unexplained hangs as I've heard so far. :) > > The solution, then, is to slow down the electrons. This must be what > Norton's new CrashGuard program does. > > These newsgroups are great. I learn more about computers every day. > > I worked as an electron in a previous life and can only confirm your suspisions.
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From: jimbo <Matta...@ans.com.au> Subject: Re: Lightspeed constant... Date: 1996/11/15 Message-ID: <56gqug$fbf@mippet.ci.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 196588469 organization: Corinthian Internet Services, Sydney, Australia. newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.multimedia,comp.graphics.animation,alt.games.doom,alt.games.descent,alt.games.warcraft,comp.graphics,comp.graphics.animation,alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.object,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.security.misc,comp.security.unix,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,news.admin.policy,fr.comp.windows.drivers,alt.windows95,soc.culture MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit