Sunday, 14 February 2010

Newmains Trees






Sunday 8:45 p.m.
A computery person told me all about how emails happen. It seems they do not travel at the speed of light.

The road view is down the hill at Clermiston Road.
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7 comments:

Marie Rex said...

Pretty trees. That is quite the hill. I'm impressed.

Email is just a modern form of magic. Magic is anything that can't be easily understood by anyone but specialists. Like Witches or Engineers. *grin*

15 February 2010 at 01:02
Hotboy said...

Marie! The email boy knows how it works, but wasn't interesting in talking about whether there might not be very much there at all. Hotboy

15 February 2010 at 01:10
rob said...

You're right there's not be very much here at all except photons. My colleagues tell me that the emails, which are just a load of old electrons, do indeed travel at the speed of electricity, but only while they're actually moving. They don't zap straight from your PC to mine. They have staging posts along the way, where they rest up before the next leg. Does that help?

15 February 2010 at 04:46
Hotboy said...

Albert? That's what the computery boy said. But what is the speed of electricity? And what does that mean? Does anything actually move along the wire? And what about when it goes wireless? Is anything actually moving? So the comment was no help at all, and I had to go and ask someone else first. Hotboy

15 February 2010 at 07:00
rob said...

Hotters, for people beyond help it doesn't matter whether anything's actually moving, so long as the earth moves for you.

Also, I think electricity moves a bit slower than light.

15 February 2010 at 14:17
rob said...

PS going to a decent school means never having to doubt what the physics teacher says.

15 February 2010 at 14:19
Hotboy said...

Albert? Thank God I forgot all the crap they told me! Hotboy

16 February 2010 at 00:31

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