On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:31:59 -0700, Jim Kelley
wrote:
Richard Clark wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 12:59:02 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:
Exactly how does the irradiance from Alpha Centauri get to
us without propagating?

A smile a minute ;-)

How does a money wire transfer get into your account without moving
from the mint? [Hint to the literate: irradiance does not move,
neither does the money in a wire transfer.]

Cecil says that a credit card is money, and presumably so is a wire transfer.

It doesn't look like reciprocity would work. Is money a credit card
(promise to pay instead of actual payment)?

All things are indeed, equal - apparently.

Ah yes, appearance, the bane of bandwidth limited perception.

Amazing analogy though - a power debit from one account, a power credit
at the other - without power (or irradiance) having actually traveled
the distance. All owing to the facility that transfers energy.

The power of analogy can be stretched further. Actually money is the
energy (potential for trade) and is exhausted (power dissipated) when
transferred to a debit account. If you tender more money than
required (mismatch) some is returned to you to dissipate later. If
you tender less than required (mismatch) some is expected from you to
make the economic engine go.

If you start trying to substitute, like say explaining in terms of
optics why your bills are chartreuse where most are green - they push
a small hidden button and you are Abu Ghraib bound.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC