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(Permalink) Posted: Jan. 28 2008,07:39   

I haven't read the previous thread, but if I understand it correctly, TP is arguing something physicists and mathematicians have known for a while: a zigzag path in a spacetime with a metric signature (+,-,-,-) has a shorter length than a straight line.  Duh!

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