Recent content by Vir27

Well, there you go, Buzz Bloom :)

I really don't know. Is it skipping points or taking an alternate, presumably shorter set?

Neat. I am glad I came back to check something, or I'd have missed your addition. That's a good page. If I had found that page, I'd have been satisfied without asking. Thanks! Thanks for posting!

Ahhhh, thanks for the detailed replies, fellows! I appreciate your time. From jbriggs, I see why there is this "very big if" and why the question is slightly askew of proper physics discussion. I remotely of knew those things about there being a tension between classical and quantum mechancis...

Could anyone say whether I have understood olgerm, or else speak to #8? Much appreciated. Being new here, I am not sure if there just isn't much to say about this "continuity of trajectory" thing or what. It seems like it's a question for physics to me.

Is perception of reality not part of reality? If it is neither unreal nor contiguous, is reality contiguous? :)

Finishing(?) the original question So this seems a decisive answer. The "trajectory is continuous" phenomenon doesn't have a name (in current usage, at least: see below). Further, I am hearing that this isn't as interesting a find to the informed physicist as to me, the amateur, because the...

Possibly you're thinking I'm asking about points mathematical "space" instead of points in physical space, jbriggs444? (lol, I hesitated to use a math analogy in the first place because it might mislead people in this exact way ;) ) Is there a physics version of the intermediate value theorem?

Yes, those look like other ways to put it to me.

I am wondering if there is a term for a certain phenomenon. I tried to search (here, google, asking folks whose coursework had more physics courses than mine [1 :) ]). But I have trouble coming up with specific terms to search, which is the original question anyway? I found several topics...

Right, that's just what I was saying. You could communicate a coded number for your recipient to match to a rod by whatever means: a number of torch raises, in your example. As I see it, the water clock appears to increase the entropy in the system. This has the remotely conceivable advantage of...

Sure. In this case I'd have been doing the opposite of improving, replacing perfectly good mirrors designed for the purpose with bits of polished metal. I just was curious to what extent the earlier technology (polished metal) might have accomplished the task of the mirrors--in some world where...

That's certainly true, rootone. Did I say something to suggest it wasn't so?

I think I mention that one in the light thread, but haven't been discussing it because it seemed to me its advantage is more data rather than more distance. Though if you wanted more data you could work out some other signal than a torch. But now you bring me to consider it further, the water...

Great. I've found tables for what sort of modern instruments (at least) hit what frequencies. Thanks.