Re: Analog is bunk

Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:56:32 -0500


John K Clark wrote:
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> >Me:
> >Analog processes do not exist, never have never will.
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> >Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker@calweb.com>
> >Oh, so you've discovered the graviton, and quantized spacetime.
> >Congratulations. When does your report come out?
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> Mass, energy, momentum, electric charge, spin, charm, and color, are all
> digital quantities. It's true that nobody has found a quantum theory of
> gravity yet, but there is not a Physicist alive who doesn't think we need one,
> General Relativity is not compatible with Quantum theory and breaks down
> completely when things get smaller than the Plank Length or less the
> Plank Time. The idea of continuos spacetime is looking increasingly suspect.

I was under the impression that gravity, like intertia, was an effect of
the Zero Point Field of virtual photons, a quantum link if ever I saw
one...

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