Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with physics
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Time And Crime
Gravity does not, in fact, exist. The universe itself exists in a dimension known as spacetime. There are Doppler shifts where gravity is no longer regarded as a thing, but is more like an outcome. Not a force but a biproduct warping spacetime distortion. It would be more than a…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Why Are You Here When we try to answer the question: why are you here, we do not mean your house, we mean on the planet. The forest. The trees. The ill-at-ease. Follow the rituals for comfort. Everywhere you care to look, you can’t stop looking. All of them riding…
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There Are No Aliens
Tim Barrus, New York Times Hollywood. Box office. As if, to spark our imaginations, what we buy is a paranoia of exploitation. Buy some plastic aliens for the kids. Homo sapiens have no problem destroying other species. We feed the fear of invasion (by Americans), facilitating fear of technology, corporate…
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the field
The gravitational field is more than just a region of influence within time and space. The gravitational field is spacetime. There was no one on the swings.
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Editorial Prerogative
This is what my work kinda looks like after some editoral gnome is done with it. Editors have no reason to live. “You are not your work. Your work is your work. You and all your second selves are you, and all your second selves.” “This is one of those…
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Physics
At first, he could not sleep because the nightmares of the assault and rape were far too vivid. He wanted me to sit with him, and then, he would fall asleep. I read a series of books out loud, all of them on some pretty radical visions of what physics…
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What is Time
It is hard for human beings to understand that a thing might exist in the same moment it does not exist. It is an enigma. Electrons, too, can be in different parts of the universe even as they exist individually in totally different locations. How does one thing exist in…
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Divergent Outcomes
yielding widely diverging outcomes flapping wings and randomness analytical techniques doubling the forecast time proportional uncertainty so much external noise not unlike the supersymmetry or trajectory of being inside him repeating a history of the intuition of periodic orbits scattered infinite-dimensionally points of large arrays whose resonance in fluid motion…