Re: this is the time to pray

From: Herbert Kleebauer (klee_at_unibwm.de)
Date: 02/02/05

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    Beth wrote:
    > Herbert wrote:

    > > > > > But time _IS_ discrete...that is a known observable fact...

    > > Can you please tell me the name of the giant on which shoulders
    > > you stood when you saw, that time is discrete. I'm sure this giant
    > > will get the Nobel Price in Physics this year.

    > Karl Schwarzschild
    > Max Planck
    > Werner Heisenberg
    > Stephen Hawking
    > J.A.Wheeler
    > Quantum gravity theory

    > nature...hence, even in "duality", as with light before it, the contention
    > of spacetime as discrete is perhaps "incomplete" but it is not "wrong" in
    > any sense...it _IS_ discrete...whether it may also be continuous by
    > consequence of duality?

    I don't know how to interpret your post. Was this just an attempt to
    make your claim sound serious by listing the names of a few important
    physicist or do you really want to discuss quantum theory here. We
    can do this, but then this has to be a discussion about the subject
    and not a disputation between people about the subject (I don't
    argue against YOU but against your arguments).

    > > Maybe we should suggest a Nobel Prize for assembly programming.

    > Indeed, as the Nobel Prize is instituted on the will of the late Alfred
    > Nobel, is it in any way possible at all to introduce new Prizes? Did he
    > leave that possibility in his will?

    There is already an alternative Noble Prize (http://www.rightlivelihood.org/award.htm).
    Why not also make one for assembly programming. It could be funded by
    selling CD's with both, RosAsm and HLA on one CD (or the prize is this CD).

     
    > Mind you, like gold or plutonium (and soon enough, fossil fuels), the
    > "preciousness" of the Nobel Prize is, indeed, in its scarcity...if everyone
    > and their donkey had a Nobel Prize, then it would be so sought after in the
    > first place...
    >
    > > But before anybody starts to write assembler programs to get
    > > a Nobel Prize, a simple test to filter all unworthy:
    > >
    > > Write an assembler program which inverts three variables a,b,c.
    > > You can use any number of MOV, AND and OR instructions but
    > > only two NOT instructions.
    >
    > Ummm, one wins a Nobel Prize for _DISCOVERY_ and _INNOVATION_ and finding
    > things people _DON'T_ already know...for _progressing_ the art...this is a
    > test of current knowledge and, hence, would be irrelevent to judges
    > considering any award of a Nobel Prize...

    But also the person must be worth the Nobel Prize, not only the discovery
    made by the person. We don't wont that a monkey gets the Nobel Prize
    for typing the Unified Theory into a computer by randomly hitting
    keys.

    And the above brain-teaser is an example for a simple task with a
    simple (but hard to find) solution. I needed many hours when I solve
    this puzzle 20 years ago and when I tried to find the solution
    again before I posted the question, I gave up after a hour and
    asked Google.

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