I would only change it to make warp drive and transporters possible.

Hey, once a geek, always a geek, and "I'm gonna wave my geek flag high," as Jimi put it. Kinda.

But yes, a wish is just as valuable as a wish - which is to say: not very - and in context of wanting to change physics, a wish for a shortcut to effort. IOW, I'm confident we'll get something very much like ST's warp drive (it's already in the works, with promising prospects - http://www.geekologie.com/2012/09/to-inf... ) and maybe even a matter-transporter, though this latter would raise some interesting dilemmas vis-à-vis bank vaults (or any other store of valuables, like one's home or business,) teenagers and the opposing sex's locker rooms, etc.

Not sure if this would be a change or if we just haven't figured it out yet, but with a universe this vast; to not have faster than light travel seems like a waste.

The laws of physics are perfect. It does however require a love of mathematics.

I would have published a Universal Physics Users Manual

now, Buridan was fun -- postulating the absurd
helps us to appreciate reality!!! -- j

I remember those episodes. Q was the first TV character I can remember ever getting angry with.

either that, or taking g down to about 3 ft/sec/sec -- j

I would replace human perception of time. Sequentiality as opposed to history and prophesy; which is what consideration of time realizes. Tense is only a grammatical construct for ordering sequential events within printed word. Other terms are meaningless across the mean of time in an infinite Universe.

It's truly a wonder that I ever got through school at all. With a few notable exceptions I was always at war with my teachers. One of the reasons, I understand now, is what you just expressed. At the time, I thought that either there was something wrong with the teachers or something wrong with me.

Both Herb and JohnMahler would like the "Q" episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation if they would like to look at time from outside of time. As "Q" said, you would have to change the gravitational constant of the universe.

Is it time for warp drive engines?

I would formulate a system allowing you to step "outside" of time in order to travel through space many times faster than the speed of light. However, I fear that programs of this sort can have the effect of the user eschewing reality by acquiring god-like powers that make reality seem dull. It could be easy to slip into unreality and get lost there. Also, I don't think that this program is for the weak minded or unimaginative, but the smarter you are, the more susceptible you'd be. Look art me -- I just got sucked in at my very first sentence. Wouldn't everyone like to be Alice if you could
control the wonders?

I'm only 47, Herb. I probably wasn't born yet. Making the complex understandable generally isn't the way most college professors work. They think that their objective is to make the complex obscure to protect their positions of Robert Stadler-like academic authority.

Where were you when I was in school? oh yeah, probably not born yet.

I agree about not changing anything but it's not that's it's tuned to us, we have adapted to it so far.

I would change nothing, because it is already perfectly tuned to support us.

The essence of genius is the ability to isolate simple rules from the complex chaos presented to our senses.This is the reason that we study Kepler, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein but don't study Buridan. This professor seems to be substituting subjectivism for objectivism. I'm with you pre, the one we got is tough enough.

The climber in me would like to do something with gravity. We've lost too many.
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I would create a separate Gulch dimension for us to shrug to.

I would eliminate the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, but that is not really what this article is about.

How about several moons orbiting the Earth? Imagine the show at night.

I would change nothing about physics. A = A. However, I might change how it is taught. Rush Limbaugh has often remarked about "making the complex understandable". That is a rare gift that I use as often as I can.