[WikiEN-l] WIKIPEDIA FOREVER

[Carcharoth]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:52 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Keegan Paul <kgnpaul at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> A DIAMOND IS FOREVER.
>
> stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> That's not exactly true. Sol will consume Terra in only about 3.8
>>> billion years, which, as anyone knows, < forever.
>>> And if whoever the previous owner of the Koh-I-Noor is in fact still
>>> alive in some alternate afterlife reality, I'm sure they really
>>> couldn't care less about where it is now.
>
> Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> The alternate afterlife reality is contained *within* the Koh-I-Noor.
>
> That's absurd. While it is true that studying rocks like the
> Koh-I-Noor *can* yield insights into the physics of matter ('this rock
> seems to be really hard'), *can* be useful in very serious
> applications (~diamond-housed beryllium atoms as qubits), and that
> other-dimensional "objects" *can* exist within the "objects" we can
> deal with (stuff passes right through the Earth all the time), it is
> *not true that regular-dimensional objects like that really small rock
> actually"contain" transcendental realities.

You've clearly never watched Star Trek. "Ship in a bottle" was the
episode, I think.

> Please stop deliberately spreading misinformation.

:-)

Carcharoth