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Written by johnleemk on 12:34:53 pm Feb 2, 2007.

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As you can see, the site now has its own domain name: http://www.infernalramblings.com. If you link to this site, it is highly recommended that you update your links to reflect the new address. For the moment all our old addresses (including iroatm.cjb.net and infernalramblings.uni.cc) remain supported, but this support may be withdrawn at any moment.

Anyway, we (rather, I) found that my old webhost could not cope with the traffic. The services they offered were not cost-effective, and their support was almost non-existent. A traumatic incident I had with them in the beginning of the year also shook my confidence in them, when the site went down for almost a full day. The final straw was when I found that some pages could take up to almost a minute to be downloaded. I began shopping around for new web hosts, and finally settled on a one which offers more services and better service as well.

All this means is that now you won't encounter speed problems (or at least as many as you used to), and that you should use the new and simple address of http://www.infernalramblings.com. If you are curious about what is in store for future articles...well, I have over 40 currently in the works. Prioritising them is a real problem, since I have limited time to spend, but I will (for the foreseeable future) continue updating the site with one article every one or two days, and on occasion two articles when possible.

Enjoy the new server.

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johnleemk Infernally Rambling Thoughtless Mind Head Administrator Posts: 948 IP Logged	Posted at 11:12:15 am Oct 2, 2005 One of the most puzzling conundrums in modern physics today is the incongruence between Einstein's theories of relativity and quantum theory. Basically, Einstein's predictions break down when applied on the sub-atomic (quantum) level. They also break down in certain places/objects like black holes. What I find interesting is the obvious parallels between relativity and quantum theory with Newtonian physics and relativity. You see, although Newton's theories (such as for each and every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, or F=MA, etc.) work at relatively slow speeds, they completely break down when you're travelling at say, light speed. However, nobody noticed this until Einstein put forth his theory of relativity. The reason? Because their technology in those days was incapable of detecting the errors caused by Newtonian physics at light speed. Take this example. You're standing on the top of a bus travelling at 100 meters per second. You kick a football off it in the same direction as the bus's movement. The forced used will normally cause the ball to travel at say, 10 meters per second. According to both Newtonian and Einstein's physics (as well as the real world), the ball's speed will be 110 meters per second. However, if you shine a light instead, the speed of that ray of light will be 300,000 kilometres per second, its normal speed in air/a vacuum. There is no addition performed. However, this paradox was not noticed because it was simply impossible to measure the speed of light in those times. I think quantum physics applies to relativity in a similar way. The only difference is, due to our advances in technology, we've noticed the problems relativity has when it comes to quantum theory before discovering the theory that explains why this is so. Therefore, the next frontier of physics should be discovering and/or proving a particular theory about why relativity and quantum theory have trouble meshing. What surprises me is that all the magazines I've been reading (Scientific American, Reader's Digest, National Geographic) that ran articles about Einstein this year (it's been a hundred years since he published several papers about light, Browning motion and special relativity; 1905 is considered his "golden year" have not noticed the parallels between relativity and quantum physics with Newtonian physics and relativity. This is even more surprising considering Einstein was very troubled by quantum physics not meshing with his theories of relativity, the point that he felt quantum theory was simply wrong. Perhaps I'm missing something here.
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Posted at 11:12:15 am Oct 2, 2005

One of the most puzzling conundrums in modern physics today is the incongruence between Einstein's theories of relativity and quantum theory. Basically, Einstein's predictions break down when applied on the sub-atomic (quantum) level. They also break down in certain places/objects like black holes.

What I find interesting is the obvious parallels between relativity and quantum theory with Newtonian physics and relativity. You see, although Newton's theories (such as for each and every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, or F=MA, etc.) work at relatively slow speeds, they completely break down when you're travelling at say, light speed. However, nobody noticed this until Einstein put forth his theory of relativity. The reason? Because their technology in those days was incapable of detecting the errors caused by Newtonian physics at light speed.

Take this example. You're standing on the top of a bus travelling at 100 meters per second. You kick a football off it in the same direction as the bus's movement. The forced used will normally cause the ball to travel at say, 10 meters per second. According to both Newtonian and Einstein's physics (as well as the real world), the ball's speed will be 110 meters per second. However, if you shine a light instead, the speed of that ray of light will be 300,000 kilometres per second, its normal speed in air/a vacuum. There is no addition performed. However, this paradox was not noticed because it was simply impossible to measure the speed of light in those times.

I think quantum physics applies to relativity in a similar way. The only difference is, due to our advances in technology, we've noticed the problems relativity has when it comes to quantum theory before discovering the theory that explains why this is so. Therefore, the next frontier of physics should be discovering and/or proving a particular theory about why relativity and quantum theory have trouble meshing.

What surprises me is that all the magazines I've been reading (Scientific American, Reader's Digest, National Geographic) that ran articles about Einstein this year (it's been a hundred years since he published several papers about light, Browning motion and special relativity; 1905 is considered his "golden year" have not noticed the parallels between relativity and quantum physics with Newtonian physics and relativity. This is even more surprising considering Einstein was very troubled by quantum physics not meshing with his theories of relativity, the point that he felt quantum theory was simply wrong.

Perhaps I'm missing something here.

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