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drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 21:34,
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Whatever we do now or in the future won't avert the ultimate heat death of the universe.Which is a comfort of a sort.
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Mr. Tea dole-nonce-amuser extraordinaire, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 22:03,
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we need to evolve spiritually until the point that we can transform ourselves into gravityand live forever inside black holes.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 22:08,
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Robin Johnson has already achieved this state through cycling everywhere and being morally correct on the internet, I hear.(
Mr. Tea dole-nonce-amuser extraordinaire, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 22:10,
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not quite.he's not been cycling to work so much lately. Then again he doesn't live that far away.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 22:16,
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alright MGTAny new theories lately?
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Mr. Tea dole-nonce-amuser extraordinaire, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 21:55,
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yes actually.i've been investigating the possibility that there exists a local symmetry of the Lagrangian represented by the indefinite unitary group U(1,3) that allows one to transform curved space into gauge fields.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 22:07,
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Groovy. Any hints at the phenomenological properties of the corresponding gauge bosons?(
Mr. Tea dole-nonce-amuser extraordinaire, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 22:11,
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well they seem to be self-interacting.and some of them couple to spin.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 22:14,
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Doesn't this just duplicate general relativity, though?I mean, GR is a sort of gauge theory in itself, if you take the unit vectors of the local spacetime to be components of a gauge 'field'.
Tallbeard knows about this sort of stuff but I've not seen him here in years.
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Mr. Tea dole-nonce-amuser extraordinaire, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 22:27,
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it's kind of supposed to,but curved space is kind of awkward to quantise, but it occurred to me that local Poincare transformations could correspond to a rotating or accelerating reference frame. so i was kind of hoping that local *complex* Poincare group transformations would have sufficient degrees of freedom to allow a co-ordinate transformation from a real metric to Minkowski space. Local real Poincare group doesn't have enough, you end up with 20 free components of the Reimann curvature tensor. It's a sort of generalisation on the equivalence principle, i suppose. You change the basis and change the physics, like how "centrifugal force" appears in a rotating reference frame. Flatten space entirely, and get various fields popping out instead.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 26 Feb 2015, 22:35,
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There was one Thursday evening in 2008 that was pretty good.Can't remember owt else. Soz.
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mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 0:36,
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april 2015, when it was finally closed for good(
drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 27 Feb 2015, 0:53,
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Alright. It's alrighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BwQBjJvN5Y
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 26 Feb 2015, 21:35,
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