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paisano
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Message 31 of 34 (288128)
02-18-2006 2:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 30 by cavediver
02-18-2006 2:09 PM

I guess you may have learnt QFT entirely from the perspective of Path Integrals, missing out canonical quantisation, in which case you will have by-passed much of this.
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Pretty much, and I haven't used it since grad school. Enjoyed the discussion.
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Message 32 of 34 (288177)
02-18-2006 6:06 PM 		Reply to: Message 18 by cavediver
02-18-2006 7:42 AM

Re: what's in the vacuum?
Well, a side-point but maybe a very important application might be to figure out a way to pull energy out the vacuum. Not to distract too much, but do you think that is possible?
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I know this gets into conspiracy-type stuff, but there are many that think Tesla figured out how to do this, but was shut down essentially since the financial interests were in the process of building out his first generation technology, the power grid, and they stood to lose a lot...as well as Standard Oil and it's offshoots.
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Message 33 of 34 (288179)
02-18-2006 6:12 PM 		Reply to: Message 23 by cavediver
02-18-2006 10:52 AM

Re: what's in the vacuum?
Don't worry... fundemental physics has a more firm bedrock of evidence than probably any other area of science. It's just not appreciated.
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I don't know if it's not as appreciated really. It's just that it breaks down some previous paradigms and so some have trouble accepting the conclusions.
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Message 34 of 34 (288181)
02-18-2006 6:16 PM 		Reply to: Message 28 by 2ice_baked_taters
02-18-2006 12:21 PM

Re: To see beyond the pond.
Though it cannot be described mathimatically, "yet" I would put forth that the force of will should be entertained by the science comunity.
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the power of intention has been viewed as a religious or spiritual concept, but you are correct that science should really look into it....
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