Film at 11: Equal Time

[athelind]

It infuriates me that, while almost every prime-time show we watch regularly has at least one ad supporting the reprehensible Proposition 8, I have yet to see a single ad opposing it. What happened to "equal time"?

Or is this a situation where those foul "pro" ads work just as well to stoke up the fury of any thinking person against this?

From the bile these people spew, you'd think that they believe that if their proposition to Eliminate Rights* doesn't pass, same-sex marriage will become mandatory for everyone.

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*Bless you, Jerry Brown, for renaming this Act to accurately describe what it means.

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Comments

[starblade-enkai.livejournal.com]

I can try. Unfortunately I don't know enough about physics to actually put this knowledge to a test. All I can do, at this point, is speculate.

Actually I do know that Unruh Radiation occurs whenever there is a horizon, and in a black hole it is called Bekenstein-Hawking Radiation. It has been explained to me that if you are constantly accelerating then some events will never interact with you. There is a surface beyond which light from those events cannot interact, and this creates the observation of thermal radiation.

What I'm saying is that if expansion creates an actual horizon (which it should if cosmic acceleration causes light from other parts of the universe to then be unable to reach us due to faster-than-light velocity differences) there should be black-body radiation coming from that horizon.

Oh, and maybe I will just write a paper on it. Who knows? Maybe that cosmic microwave background radiation will turn out to be just this black-body radiation. It could even be the source of global warming! :P