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Jun 7 2008, 03:09 PM
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For me it's either 1970's or 2070's
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Jun 8 2008, 04:55 PM
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QUOTE (shellshock1911 @ Jun 8 2008, 11:35 AM)  Holy sh*t! And I thought U.S. gas was bad at $4.00 a gallon, well I guess it is still kinda similar since your guys' salaries and money spent on consumer goods is probably proportional to ours. Good idea though, I would go back in time, get like 100,000 gallons of gas, and come back and sell it for $3.00 a gallon, which people would kill for. Not true! In the US we have it great believe it or not! Even at $4 a gallon I just laugh and fill up the SUV - gas was twice this price in the UK when I moved over so it just doesn't upset me. One of the reaons I moved to the US is that the cost of living gives us more disposable income
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Jun 8 2008, 05:28 PM
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I think gas/petrol is about 1.25 per litre in the UK currently - so about 5.63 pounds sterling a gallon or just over 11USD. Salaries in the UK are usually something like 60% of the US equivalent. To put that into perspective the UK equivalent gallon, factoring for salary differences, is 18.56 Dollars - about 4.5 times the cost in the US. So all in all people who live in the UK get hit from every angle.
In the UK the tax on fuel is something like 70% of the price so fuel comparisons UK to US is difficult as the US tax levy is much smaller. Another way of looking at comparative cost differences though is how much a Big Mac costs: As of @ June 2008 US it's 3.10 USD; UK 1.95 Sterling or about 3.90USD - now factor for salary difference and it's 6.5USD or just over twice the relative cost in the US. So basically the cost of living is double in the UK compared to the US. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jun 9 2008, 01:07 PM
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QUOTE (FrankW @ Jun 8 2008, 09:59 PM) I think it's going to take a while... You could be right  But at least the human race has discovered the guitar, that has to be a step in the right direction!I believe as well that we are "not alone" but I also suspect that the chances of 2 intelligent races finding each other are on the low side, much as I would love that to happen! On the subject of time travel, its an interesting fact that nothing in the basic equations of physics as we currently understand them forbids time travel in either direction. At the very basic quantum level, many events have alternative interpretations involving particles traveling in time. In fact, when building a world out of these very equations, it is a huge mystery why time flows in a particular direction at all - the best explanation we currently have revolves around entropy, and the ordered state of the universe just after the big bang. Scaling that up, and moving into Einsteinian physics is actually a discontinuity until we have a unified theorem for Quantum gravity, however, Einsteinian physics suggests a few different ways in which time travel might be possible, most revolving around black holes - theoretically possible but technologically way beyond us. Of course, time travel into the future is possible - we all do it, at the rate of 1 day per day This can be increased if you travel at a significant percentage of the speed of light, and this has been experimentally verified using atomic clocks on planes. The effect is tiny at speeds that we can realistically obtain with current technology, but that is perhaps our best shot for time travel forwards. Time travel backwards remains extremely challenging though not forbidden by theory.Man, I love Physics! -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Jun 9 2008, 02:04 PM
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On a philosophical level time is more complicated then the simple, linear clock time of Newton. It isn't just the standard accretion of seconds in to minutes in to hours... There is also time that we experience: when you're bored time slows to a crawl, when you're happy and enjoying yourself it flies by. For someone missing their absent loved one it becomes an eternity to endure. None of that is clock time but a time that we intuit. There is furthermore Time (with a capital 'T') as the temporal container of all times without which there would be no experienced time and no clock time. All of these were discussed by Henri Bergson - a philosopher who was also a contemporary of Einstein.
If you follow through on Bergson one thing he is very clear about is that thinking time as 'clock time' spatialises it. From this we can say that it is this spatialisation that defers the possibility of time travel because each moment becomes infinitely separate. Time as what we intuit though returns us to the possibility that time is not a series of separate discrete moments but more an indivisible whole - each moment bleeds in to the next. With intuited time all times are present in every moment - hence there is the possibility of time travel. We do it every moment - we remember the past and we look forward to the future. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jun 9 2008, 02:34 PM
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Philosophy vs Physics - 2 completely different (and complementary) views of the same thing!
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