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- From: lnh@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (sometimes a Wombat)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA - FOR ABIAN'S AMUSEMENT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec9.153252.2751@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 9 Dec 92 15:32:52 GMT
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- abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian) writes:
- > The tendency of maintaining the status-quo, reaction to provocation and
- > the tendency of maintaining again a status-quo.
-
- This sentence no verb.
-
- (I'm reminded of the old joke about the behavior of students of certain
- windier lecturers in Germany. They spend several minutes listening
- raptly, then suddenly scribble furiously. The professor had finally
- reached the verb at the end of the sentence and the students had learned
- what the prof had been talking about. Those who don't know any German
- can look puzzled now.)
-
- > TIME HAS INERTIA and some energy is lost to move Time forward
-
- Please explain what you mean by inertia. This is not a challenge, this
- is a request for an explanation. Please state as clearly as possible
- what is the behavior of a thing that has inertia as opposed to that of
- a thing that does not.
-
- Larry "Once more into the breech" Hammer
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- \ The work is rather too light, and bright,
- LNH@physics.arizona.edu \ and sparkling; it wants ... a long chapter
- sometimes a Wombat \ of solemn specious nonsense. -- Jane Austen
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