Try this one: The Trouble with Physics, Lee Smolin.
What Lee smolin has to say about the 5th dimension theories and all like it is a trouble with the actual little loops postulated by these theories, the problem being they have to be fixed at a certain size and if they wander around size...
If the observer effect changes the results of measurements in QM, would the rules be different if there were no observers? Like on Earth a billion years ago, there was nothing like an active mind around, just microbes. You couldn't count them as effecting QM could you?
Likewise, if you posit...
Hi chroot, warren. Thanks for the advice. When you say give it a bath you mean just slosh the water around in the mirror kind of like the guy does when panning for gold?
Can I run the faucet water over the mirror? Would that cause scratches?
The mirror does have a coating, its VERY...
Hi all, just a thought about the rotation idea:
It occurred to me reading the statement that if the universe was rotating, we would see differential motions in certain directions which we don't therefore there is no rotation. The thing I was thinking is this: first, if the universe were...
Hi all. I have a very heavy 9" reflector but it is has spherical curve.
It was made for a semiconductor projection aligner which was being scrapped
and I saved the mirror from going into the trash bin. I saw an article in
one of the rags about making a frame on the back of the mirror where...