Daz 3D is part of 
Connect
DAZ Productions, Inc.
7533 S Center View Ct #4664
West Jordan, UT 84084
Licensing Agreement | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | EULA
© 2026 Daz Productions Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Comments
From the Casimir effect, you are led to this one, which could be the real warp drive of Zefram Cochrane:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
Gravitational waves, not gravity waves. They're two different things.
http://news.discovery.com/space/gravitational-waves-vs-gravity-waves-know-the-difference-160208.htm
Oh.
OK, I understand the gravity of it.
And while we're on the subject of "Know the difference," there's another term being conspicuously misused lately. Even in the Daz store, there's a camera and script product that purports to enable you to render and show Holograms on your smartphone. YouTube is ablaze with them. These displays are *not* Holograms. With a true Hologram, you could move around to the other side of the display and see the other side of the figure being displayed. A true Hologram usually involves lasers. These smartphone displays are a fun toy, I've made one to play with, but they are not Holograms. What these displays most resemble is a Heads Up Display (HUD) from a fighter jet, or flight sim game. Anybody who ever spent time in a flight sim knows what a HUD is. A HUD is basically a beam splitter. You can see through it, but you can also see some image projected towards your eyes by the reflective surface. The gimmick on the smartphone uses clear pieces of plastic so that the projected image appears to "float" above the surface of the phone. Neat trick, but not a Hologram. You also cut the image on the smartphone screen down to 1/4 of the full screen.
Yeah, I caught that too. I used to pounce on it but have given up. The word "Hologram" has become property of the masses and must now be considered in context whenever it's seen. True holograms are wonders but are rarely seen outside of hologram museums. There was one in Washington DC that had a marvelous hologram of a microscope complete with a holographic subject on the holographic microscope stage and you looked through a holographic eyepiece that stuck out about 8 inches from the wall toward your face. Marvelous.
I thought the "holograms" sounded more like a min-Pepper's Ghost effect, a view formed from absolutely no in-depth research.
Read the comments. Luboš Motl, a physicist, appears there and says that among scientists themselves it doesn't really matter which term you use.
I read the comments. That is, until I started to roll my eyes. I can see how at one time people argued about how many angels could stand on the head of a pin. Oy
I'm glad nothing like that happens here. 
My philosophy is I don't argue. I say what I believe, I smile if someone seems to agree. If they don't agree I'll try once or twice to clarify my wording, but failing that will stamp the dust off my feet and move on. 
It's no skin off my nose. And if someone actually says something well enough that it changes my mind I'll admit it instead of dogmatically defend my honor like some wound-up puppet as many arguers tend to evolve to.
Yeah..and especially arguing which term to use seems rather silly. I mentioned it only because I know and respect Luboš on things scientific.
Gravity? Sounds familiar. What does it do again?
Don't think about it too hard. Just relax, you'll fall into it.
or
"Gravity": It's what you put on meat and potatoes.
or
It's the hole into which the Universe drains.
...gravity sucks.
If I remember right light speed satisfies the Lorenz invariant (covariant?) for symetries in for instance quantum chromodynamics, which predict light and gravity and (I forget what else) travels at c in a vacuum (I think)
"...they've gone to plaid..."
Let me restate my question. It looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but why is there a duck?
No, the arguments were about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, not just stand there. There were vatious branches of reserch covering ballroom dancing, tap dancing, line dancing etc. But since modern dancing seems to be just standing in a warehouse and jiggling around a lot maybe the topic should be re-visited. There might be a research grant in it for someone
If a man and a half can dig a hole and a half in a day and a half, how far is it from here to Chicago?
Pepper's ghost is also a beam-splitter effect, but it's based on changing the light levels between the real and reflected image. It's the old girl-turns-into-gorilla trick.
It's no trick. Happens to too many women after marriage.
Because they ran out of geese?
With men, it's usually the opposite. After a few years of listening to She Who Must Be Obeyed, the hairy ape she married might be considered somewhat civilized ... except on game day!