Is it time for Random Thoughts - Part 4?

[Jonathan Scott]

"Ratione" is the ablative of ratio. Ratio = "Reckoning, account, reason, judgement, consideration, system, manner, method" The ablative has manifold functions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ablative_(Latin)

and I can't definitively sort out why it's used here, but the following prepositions take the ablative case:

• ab, a -from
• coram -in the presence of, before
• cum -with
• de -down from, from
• ex, e -out of, from
• in -in
• intus -within
• palam -openly in the presence of
• prae -in front of, before
• pro -before
• procul -far from
• simul together with, simultaneously with
• sine -without
• sub -under

None of these mean "by".

You don't need a preposition. If I remember correctly (it was only about 47 years ago) at school we were taught that the ablative on its own usually means "by, with or from".

 

[Danger]

It caught the attention of a pretty spectacular guy who is now my husband

Lucky bastard...

do you know Lisa Randall?

Never heard of her until you posted that.

 

[Lisa!]

Lucky bastard...

Never heard of her until you posted that.

Anyway thanks to RonL now you know her...

 

[Danger]

Yeah. Thanks, Ron.

Now another damned thing to keep me awake at night...

 

[OmCheeto]

...
Never heard of her until you posted that.

I'm not sure I've heard of her until just now. Though, having a full brain, I may have chosen not to remember another Lisa.

Randall–Sundrum model
In physics, Randall–Sundrum models (also called 5-dimensional warped geometry theory) imagines that the real world is a higher-dimensional universe described by warped geometry. More concretely, our universe is a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space and the elementary particles except for the graviton are localized on a (3 + 1)-dimensional brane or branes.

The models were proposed in 1999 by Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum because they were dissatisfied with the universal extra-dimensional models then in vogue. Such models require two fine tunings; one for the value of the bulk cosmological constant and the other for the brane tensions. Later, while studying RS models in the context of the anti-de Sitter / Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence, they showed how it can be dual to technicolor models.

That's exactly how I would describe things, if I knew what I was talking about.

I think I will make room for this new Lisa.

 

[nuuskur]

Youtube hates me, can't watch anything, error error error error :<

 

[Danger]

That's exactly how I would describe things, if I knew what I was talking about.

I think I will make room for this new Lisa.

There's room for only The True One on my desktop, but I'll copy the other to my iPhoto library. Like our Lisa to my niece, this one bears a striking resemblance to our Canuck actress Jessica Steen who Yanks might remember from her guest-starring as a Special Agent in several episodes of NCIS. I don't know of her working in any Brit productions, so you might not have seen her.

 

[RonL]

Yes, that's me. The photo was taken about 5 years ago at the base of Crystal Mountain ski resort...summertime, of course!

Funny thing about that photo. It was the same one I used on a dating site, when I was single. It caught the attention of a pretty spectacular guy who is now my husband ;).

Yeah. Thanks, Ron.

Now another damned thing to keep me awake at night...

The reason I can never use either as my desktop, it would make my computer useless I could not bring myself to remove the check mark in the selection box "always on top"

 

[Danger]

I could not bring myself to remove the check mark in the selection box "always on top"

I'll just take your word for it that such exists. I don't have one.

 

[zoobyshoe]

You don't need a preposition. If I remember correctly (it was only about 47 years ago) at school we were taught that the ablative on its own usually means "by, with or from".

Yes, it could be the ablative of instrument. However I don't want to certify that it is with the phrase not in context, due to having been corrected in the past by Roman soldiers with a gladius at my throat for guessing at meanings I wasn't completely certain of.

 

[Danger]

gladius at my throat

So many, oh so many, possible comments... must resist...

 

[OmCheeto]

So many, oh so many, possible comments... must resist...

I was going to comment, that, the word: "ablative", sounded like something that happens to small yippie dogs, that yanked the leash from their owners hands, whilst wanting to eat a cat, across the street.

Sally; "I haven't seen you walking Fluffy in awhile. Is he ill?"
Sue; "He got ablated, by a large truck".
Sally; "Oh. Sorry..."​

 

[Danger]

Sally; "I haven't seen you walking Fluffy in awhile. Is he ill?"
Sue; "He got ablated, by a large truck".
Sally; "Oh. Sorry..."

 

[Evo]

Time to start "Random Thoughts - part 4"

Here is the link. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/random-thoughts-part-4.786642/