Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.us.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 02:25:34 -0500 Message-ID: <595B42EC.4E66@ix.netcom.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2017 00:25:32 -0700 From: The Starmaker Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,rec.arts.sf.written,alt.astronomy Subject: spooky at a distance Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 170703-2, 07/03/2017), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.219.229.47 X-Trace: sv3-ZPAKKCwXky5AtggWP/AzNBO+Fk+/CnaUMSSNB8SVcrQpws8Hq9M7fK3eKwhp5sSvLmx6nFa49YJWrsF!HZJyL4dKznGDcsRVD+0gXzfFnC+vLhy/qVaHT7OtQck95tWPM+4vnAnup8yC2xiFOEnN/d6mvYFs!JbqrHyg34PM= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1926 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:638737 sci.physics.relativity:423916 rec.arts.sf.written:474319 alt.astronomy:291888 spooky at a distance was Einstein's way to describe 'thought travels faster than the speed of light.' In other words... anything that travels faster than the speed of light is...spooky. synonyms: eerie, sinister, ghostly, uncanny, weird, unearthly, mysterious; frightening, spine-chilling, hair-raising; informalcreepy, scary, spine-tingling, uncanny, sinister, ghostly, unnatural, unearthly, supernatural, otherworldly; strange, abnormal, odd, weird, freakish; creepy, scary, spooky, freaky, frightening; bone-chilling, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling, terrifying 1. (of a manifestation or event) attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature. spooky really means....'I fuckin told you nothing travels faster than the speed of light!'