Post #125,657
11/14/03 10:18:44 AM
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What are you searching for?
I'm assuming you're looking at the IWETHEY EZBoard?
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Post #125,660
11/14/03 10:21:06 AM
11/14/03 10:23:23 AM
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Re: What are you searching for?
Elsewhere in this forum, Folkert challenged me to discover what the GRR was and what it's significance is. :) I've discovered the first, now I'm searching out the latter.
(The thread starts as: "Okay what's an Obligatory LRPD" It's really a funny thread, my husband laughed after reading it).
Folkert said I was warm, with my explanation, and I discovered the original conversation was on the EZ board for iwethey, (from a post in here), but all attempts to search the EZboard site claim it's down.
"a fishin we will go......"
Nightowl >8#
"I learned to be the door, instead of the mat!" "illegitimi nil carborundum"
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Nov. 14, 2003, 10:23:23 AM EST
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Post #125,663
11/14/03 10:32:45 AM
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Probably goes back farther than that
I remember the lengthy discussions on the GRR on EZBoard. But I'm thinking that GRR was a subject of discussion back on the original Infoworld forums. Karsten put up a copy of the orig IWE forums somewhere (which brings us back in a circular form of logic).
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Post #125,665
11/14/03 10:37:21 AM
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Re: Probably goes back farther than that
I remember the lengthy discussions on the GRR on EZBoard. But I'm thinking that GRR was a subject of discussion back on the original Infoworld forums. Karsten put up a copy of the orig IWE forums somewhere (which brings us back in a circular form of logic). Well, I searched the following last night (to the best of my know how so far) 1)Here in these archives 2)Twiki Iwethey, but found no archives or reference 3)Slashdot.com but found no reference 4)EZ board but the site is down 5)Static's site but couldn't figure out how to generate a search 6)Infoworld site but also couldn't figure out how to locate where to search and 7) Googled all kinds of terms. :) Best info I've gotten so far has either been from posts by Ashton or posts by Conrad, also a few random posts here and there have given me a lot of clues. Nightowl >8# "I learned to be the door, instead of the mat!" "illegitimi nil carborundum"
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Post #125,740
11/14/03 6:08:12 PM
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It was a discussion back on Infoworld
And I was the culprit. So I should remember.
It stands for a device which general relativity predicts should allow time travel back to when the device was made. The device in question is rather beyond our current ability to create though, so at most it allows people in our far future to get back to our future.
I heard about it in discussion with an old math professor of mine, Dr. Gary G. Miller.
I'll let you puzzle over the particulars of what this device might be and why it would be called GRR until you either give up and ask or else find it on your own.
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #125,743
11/14/03 6:16:30 PM
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Re: It was a discussion back on Infoworld
I'll let you puzzle over the particulars of what this device might be and why it would be called GRR until you either give up and ask or else find it on your own. Well, Greg had challenged me to find out a) what it was and b) what it's significance to iwethey was and why all knowledge was derived from it, in another thread in this forum entitled "What is an Obligatory LRPD?" Apparently I succeeded, because he welcomed me as a new acolyte, although I never quite knew which answer was right, (I'd made several guesses in the thread). It was instead a response to Chris that seemed to do the trick. ;) Nightowl >8# "The difference between being immature and child-like is that one is what you are, and one is what you choose to be."
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Post #125,833
11/15/03 2:19:58 PM
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Time travel has always facinated me
I never knew what a GRR was, I must have missed that thread. Still give me a TARDIS any day, telepathic interface, time and space and relative dimensions. I might even take it for a spin into E-Space. :) Plus it can look like anything if the Chameleon circuit is not broken.
I always felt that there was a link to time travel between gravity and speed/velocity. In high school I took Physics and got an A out of it and wrote some time travel equasions based on existing equasions for gravity, speed, and other factors. Too bad I lost it and forgot what I had written down. There was a square root involved because I also used E=MC^2, so it could go forward or backward in time, but I had no idea how to control that.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #126,666
11/19/03 1:11:10 AM
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I'm sure that it was wrong
Highschool physics won't go beyond special relativity, within which you can't get time travel. It does give you enough to play with to confuse yourself into thinking that you found something that you didn't, and I did that to myself a few times in highschool as well.
For enough physics to really understand the detailed predictions of time travel, you have to go a lot farther than that.
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
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Post #126,721
11/19/03 3:39:51 PM
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It may have been wrong
but it was fun trying to figure it out. We had a motto in our class, "Phsyics is Phun":)
Of course in order for time travel to work, we need to have the ability to move in space as well as time. This is because the universe is moving and where the Earth was say 100 years ago, could be empty or or have something else there. The TARDIS took care of this with its massive computer model of the universe. Too bad it is just SciFi, but you can see they thought about it a lot when creating the show.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #125,728
11/14/03 4:32:23 PM
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Inactive Ezboards
I got a notice from my EzBoard that any EzBoard that has not been posted on since May 2003 will be deleted to make room on the servers. EzIwethey has not been posted on for a while and may be lost forever.
Last know address for it was:
[link|http://pub13.ezboard.com/biwethey|http://pub13.ezboard.com/biwethey]
It no longer works. I hope someone archived the messages somewhere.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #125,811
11/15/03 9:28:31 AM
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I didn't get everything.
I'm not sure I got a great deal, actually. But like I said up above, they're not in any fit state to re-host. :-)
Wade.
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #125,832
11/15/03 2:16:50 PM
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Some things are better left alone
I guess it was not meant to be to save every post from EzIWETHEY. Thanks for trying. I am sure that Ezboard may have the board backed up on tape somewhere. Too bad we don't have a member who works for them anymore to retrieve it.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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