XPost: rec.sport.pro-wrestling, alt.pro-wrestling.wwf, rec.arts.tv   
   XPost: alt.tv.lost   
   From: seanc130@hotmail.com   
      
   "Bev Vincent"  wrote   
      
   > The part where they lost me was the discussion of "previously unknown"   
   > wavelengths (or frequencies) being used for their secret communications.   
   > That just doesn't make any sense at all. It's like saying they've   
   > discovered a new speed or a different variety of inch.   
      
   Well, I'll admit it doesn't make all that much sense the way they said it.   
   But it is certainly *possible* that there could be other frequencies of   
   electromagnetic wave beyond the ones we are already familiar with. It's not   
   as if we've categorised everything from zero to infinite wavelength.   
      
   It would have to be either *very very* short, or *very very* long, to fall   
   outside the range of waves we know of, from microwaves to cosmic rays. But   
   it *is* theoretically possible that we could have missed such a new form of   
   wave, either due to limitations in our instruments, or to the simple fact   
   that they don't occur naturally in this neighbourhood of the universe and we   
   haven't the technology to make them yet.   
      
   OR ... I don't remember the exact words in the episode -- perhaps they were   
   not electromagnetic waves at all, but some other form of wave. I mean, there   
   are sound waves and water waves and solid-matter waves and gravitational   
   waves, and there could certainly be other kinds we don't know of yet.   
      
   Of course, like I said before, I don't really expect any serious attempt at   
   scientific accuracy or plausibility from this show. Chances are they just   
   decided to string together a bunch of words that sound vaguely scientific in   
   order to get the plot to the point where they could deal with good   
   old-fashioned psychic communication. I really don't think that all that much   
   research went into their explanation.   
      
   Nevertheless, there have been many times in scientific history when   
   something was really discovered that 'didn't make any sense at all'. What do   
   you think Newton or Maxwell would have made of the idea that subatomic   
   particles are actually interfering packets of probability waves in an   
   abstract state space, which have no fixed physical properties until they   
   interact with a measuring device, at which point a mysterious and   
   unpredictable statistical process that no one yet entirely understands   
   causes them to instantaneously 'choose' to fall into one state or another?   
   It sounds like pure nonsensical rubbish, until you've studied quantum   
   theory -- at which time you discover that it's actually *true*.   
      
   --   
   --Sean   
   http://spclsd223.livejournal.com   
      
   House: [yelling up the stairs] People used to have more respect for   
   cripples, you know! [looks over at guy in a wheelchair] They didn't, really.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)