I know of at least one provider and one hobbyist who are self admitted science nerds, and I count myself in that catagory, even though I'm semi-illiterate computer-wise.

Here's a story of interest to hobbyists:

When they get this perfected, you'll be able to repeat the same session over and over.

Imagine the possibilites!

Have you looked at the book and asian boards lately? And don't get me started on local regional boards, plenty of dead ones, including NM, CO, Seattle etc.  

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I've been trying to tell anyone who will listen for years that time is an illusion, and only exists where it is a convention agreed upon by society in order to organize the random activities that we call reality into some kind of order we can deal with.  The name of this order we call causality.

I think it was Nils Bohr who said something like:  Anyone who is not completely shaken by Quantum Physics doesn't understand it.

almost as much as I like pussy!  I, too, am a science nerd and physicist by occupation.  It would be real cool to share and discuss new discoveries like the "time cloak" with other people with similar minds.  From what I have read, it seems like we have a lot in common; similar age, interest in science, hobbying, and even live in the same general area. Based on your posts we share a lot, a lot, except the little dick (lol).  By the way, I have been reading some interesting things about time in the scientific literature.  There is one interesting theory that time only exists in our minds. In other words, our brain seems to organize events (that exist in our universe) into a form we recognize as time.  It is sort of the brain's way of making sense and organizing simultaneously existing events.

And don't get me started on photons, because I don't believe that they are massless, or else how could they bend when passing large gravitational fields like the sun?

I only need to drink one beer to appear bent.

I brings up a question about photons too.

If a photon is resting, is it a photon any longer?

New theories on time suggest that time as "we" know it does not exist in, nor is it part of our universe. Scientists that "maintain" the atomic clock of time at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) explain that their clock does not measure time, rather time is defined by what their clocks measure. As I am sure you are aware, time at the quantum level is very different than time at the relativistic scale.  At the quantum level, time has no preferred direction as it does (time moves forward) at the relativistic level.  One possibility is that if physicists ever manage to unify quantum theory and general relativity, space and time will be described by some modified version of quantum mechanics. In such a theory, space and time would no longer be smooth and continuous. Rather, they would consist of discrete fragments—quanta, in the argot of physics—just as light is composed of individual bundles of energy called photons. These would be the building blocks of space and time. It’s not easy to imagine space and time being made of something else. However, I believe that a more complete understanding of space/time already exists, we just have to find it.

Photons have no resting mass, but have mass when moving and their mass is proportional to the frequency of the photon.  The relationship is: m = hf/c , where h = Planck's constant.  If you do the calculations, the mass of a photon traveling at the speed of light comes out to 10^-43 kg (very small). This is much smaller that the mass of an electron 10^-31 kg.   Another explanation for bending of light by huge mass is: the bending of light by a mass such as a star is caused by the warping of space by that large mass.  Even a massless particle (yeah, sounds contradictory) would have to travel through the warped path and thereby appear bent.

In short, the answer is no. The "resting" photon state, where the photon velocity equals zero, never exists.  By the way, when physicists talk about the rest mass of a photon being zero, they are not taking about mass in the classical sense (a measure of the amount of matter).  Rather, they are talking about relativistic mass where energy and mass are equivalent.  So, a better way of explaining the problem is: at rest, a photon has zero relativistic mass and a photon has relativistic mass only when moving at the speed of light.

a wormhole transportation pass for anyone who needs to travel far distances. I wonder if I would be able to place an ad every 7 days.

The natives have two anuses, one for each stomach.

I grow old ... I grow old
I shall wear the bottom of my trousers rolled.
[Prufrock]

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
[Hollow Men]