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At 2/8/04 10:47 AM, bumcheekcity wrote:

At 2/8/04 10:27 AM, Judge_Dredd wrote: "would it be better use of one's time to design a time-machine or a near light-speed spacecraft? which & why?"

Near-Light Aircraft, because a time-machine is impossible to build. *Phew* something I understand!

well, i'm glad i didn't say "faster-than-lightspeed" as i was intending to then :-0

"the 1st rule in metaphysics; nothing is impossible"

what happens near the speed of light?

yes, the apparent and measurable speed of time slows down. So, theorhetically, if i could build a machine to transport myself across the room and back again at close to the speed of light (..and repeat the process a few trillion times) then when i emerged from my room i'd notice that i was younger than everyone else - QED - you are wrong in the first instance :)

At 2/8/04 12:36 PM, Judge_Dredd wrote: yes, the apparent and measurable speed of time slows down. So, theorhetically, if i could build a machine to transport myself across the room and back again at close to the speed of light (..and repeat the process a few trillion times) then when i emerged from my room i'd notice that i was younger than everyone else - QED - you are wrong in the first instance :)

So, you didn't actually travel in time, you just slowed it down a little/a lot? I thought going at the speed of light was impossible, because mass reaches infinity.

At 2/8/04 12:36 PM, Judge_Dredd wrote: "the 1st rule in metaphysics; nothing is impossible"

I really hope you don't mean this.
The most glaring error in the statement 'nothing is impossible' is "is it possible for there to be an impossible thing?" If you say yes, then you have contradicted the hypothesis, as something IS impossible. If you say no, then you have contradicted the hypothesis as nothing is impossible.

At 2/8/04 05:58 PM, Dr_Arbitrary wrote:

At 2/8/04 12:36 PM, Judge_Dredd wrote: "the 1st rule in metaphysics; nothing is impossible"

I really hope you don't mean this.
The most glaring error in the statement 'nothing is impossible' is "is it possible for there to be an impossible thing?"..

well that's just as bad as saying "if God made the Universe, who made God?"

Even thou it's prolly a mistake to delve into absolutism, metaphysics is a philisophical view of science.. like saying "if it can be imagined it can be created" (Star Trek scriptwriters logic ;)

So in English we can say things like "nothing is impossible" or "everything is plausible" ..but this is more of an attitude than a demonstration of absolute science, because even quantum physics has shown "science isn't an absolute science", which is kinda why there's a need for more Metaphysicists in the world!

Oh no! I bumped it!
Just an interesting article for those who might care.
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At 2/16/04 02:30 AM, BWS wrote: Oh no! I bumped it!
Just an interesting article for those who might care.
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Nice article, but what do Brown Dwarves have to do with anything?

At 2/16/04 02:30 AM, BWS wrote: Oh no! I bumped it!
Just an interesting article for those who might care.
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Wow! That's actually pretty neat. I learned about brown dwarfs in astronomy lately and I thought that they were really interesting.

I kind of like the fact that they are reject stars ejected at birth, in theory, because I always like to see a connection to comsmic events and social events.

By the way, Judge Dredd, I noticed that you have Squarepusher as one of your favorite bands in your profile. Rock on!

At 2/6/04 12:28 AM, BWS wrote: It is interesting to learn about the Universe. If you take higher level astrophysics classes you learn that the Universe actually has a critical density (Im pretty sure this was the term used). You see gravitational forces act on mass. The Universe has a mass, and it has an aggregate density as well. [...] critical density of the Universe so that we can determine something very important: will it continue to expand for ever in at "constant" rate, will it exponentially expand and eventually "hyperexpand" upon itself, or will it simply hit its maximum and recollapse? This is quite interesting as it leads us to understand the geometry of space. I think that Hubbles Law is somewhat used to calculate this rate, and of course vector calculus is used as well. [...]

I found an interesting article that relates to this and so im going to post the link to it here. There are links within the article that lead to other interesting reads. The article essentially explains that scientists are discovering that dark matter probably exists and is what defines the geometry of space; Einstein realized this, but dismissed it as a mistake. Anyway, good read; follow a few links too.

um i got an telascope

Do any of u guys really believe in Brown Dwarves?Theyre invisible, why?And the Nemesiss theory been proven yet? What about black holes?Black holes are cool.Everyone loves black holes...I have a question about them...What if the sun DID (Even though it cant) become a black hole?Would the planets orbit around it exactly the same around it like nothing happened?And is the gravity the same outside the event horizon?And what are Red Dwarves?Another word for Brown Dwarves?

Dark matter has been proven a long time ago.Without it there would be only one ball of matter left of the universe.Thats just freaky.What if Dark Matter exceeded its limit and wend beyond 99% of teh universe?Would we feel the big crunch?How fast would it go?

bull, everyone knows that the world ends December, 2012

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