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  Re: Feeling the pinch yet?  
From: St 
Date: 21 Mar 2008 10:33:33
Message: <47e3d54d@news.povray.org>
"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote in message 
news:47e3d167@news.povray.org...
>
> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:47e3be7f$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>>       Ah well, that would explain why it hasn't been done yet, but I 
>> still
>> think that with our great engineering brains, it 'might' be possible.
>
> It's not a failing of engineering. It's a limitation of the laws of 
> physics.
> It's no more possible than travelling faster than light or creating matter
> out of thin air. In fact, it's less possible than both of those (which
> theoretically do occur under strange circumstances)

  Yes, to me as a non-scientific person, I'm thinking that this is, and 
should be, achievable/possible, but alas, something that *seems* so simple, 
is clearly not the case.

    Back to the PoV drawing board, methinks. Good little debate.

      ~Steve~


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