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How were the ancients able to determine one planet from another thousands of years ago, and even name them, especially Poseidon (Neptune) which is invisible to the naked eye? Did they have telescopes?
I beginning to appreciate the way you must feel when we talk about God.You'd stretch out, because the force pulling your feet would be greater than the force pulling your head in. Your feet would accelerate towards the singularity faster than your head, so your entire body would stretch out.
Meh, I'm not a big fan of wavesParticles, all the way down!
Maybe, if you get caught in the accretion disk and don't actually hit the singularity.
Sure. It's a big, black vacuum! Things enter a black hole just as easily as asteroids hit Jupiter.
It manifests as a bigger black hole. Black holes have only three properties: mass, spin, and charge. So whatever falls into a black hole can only affect those three properties (and the various phenomena that come from them).
Because... an 'inside out' black hole doesn't make much sense. The universe could be a black hole.
There's a delicious idea I once read. Basically, black holes create universes within them, and the properties of the universe are derived from the previous universe, and the black hole. So, in a cosmic version of natural selection, the multiverse becomes disproportionately filled with black hole spawning universes: the majority of universes are going to be those that just so happen to be good at making black holes, since they themselves come from a black-hole-forming universe.
This is one possible way for a multiverse to exist, and it explains away any 'fine tuning' arguments people might have. Fun!
When you lack the sensory-overloading devices of the modern age, you have a lot more time to appreciate the stars. Even now, we can readily recognise large patterns in the sky: Orion, the Milky Way, etc. To someone who had absolutely no light pollution, who spent their entire lives looking up at the night sky, remembering major stars and seeing how the progress across the sky is quite easy.
That's either a compliment or an insult...I beginning to appreciate the way you must feel when we talk about God.
Depends what you mean by 'frequency'. If you mean something like "Angels exist, but we can't see them because the light they emit is in the ultraviolet", then, no, that wouldn't work. Even if the light they emit is invisible to our fleshy eyes, we still have machines that could detect them. And, if nothing else, they'd still physically be there - we could walk right into them.
Research into the supernatural is ongoing, but most areas have been thoroughly debunked. All the classics have, unsurprisingly, failed to stand up to scrutiny: ouija boards, telepathy, telekinesis, faith healing, remote viewing, fortune telling, prophecy, etc. Newer forms of spiritual hooey, such as 'whale music therapy' and homoeopathy, are less obviously debunked, but debunked they are.
I doubt it. Vibrating air won't change the wavelength of light passing through it. We can use machines to view non-visible light, and there are (impractical) ways to shift an object's entire spectrum so that the desired part becomes visible.
I remember mentioning somewhere that even a brick wall is opaque to x- and gamma rays.
I'd be surprised if bricks were opaque to high energy photons... but I've been wrong before
. In any case, what we see is a lot less than what there is.
That's why I always tell these guys to 'keep looking', eh?
If your view is based on the Bible, I suppose I'll have to leave it at that
Personally, I find ghosts to be more probable than angels (though still remotely unlikely).Shifting one's spectrum doesn't make you invisible per se; shifting your visible light into gamma rays may make you invisible to human eyes, but machines are quite capable of detecting them (that, and the cancer gamma rays cause). Other forms of light aren't invisible either: insects can typically see quite far into the ultraviolet, and some birds can see into the infra-red.
A dimension is a degree of freedom, such as up-down, left-right, and forward-backward. Some alternate reality or universe is certainly possible, but how could we tell if such a thing even exists?
That's always a possibility. But speculating about things beyond human understanding is a doomed exercise: it's beyond human reasoning
. On the other hand, angels themselves seem pretty simple to understand - sentient automata in the guise of winged humans.
Just curious -- why do you stipulate 'even now'?
Because some mysteries have been solved. Thus, there are less mysteries now than there were, say, a thousand years ago. My point was that even with our cutting-edge knowledge, there are still mysteries to solve.
The idea behind science is to learn. One question answered may lead to a hundred more, but, slowly, methodically, we learn.
Well, I am modern. 'Modern' means 'of the present'. I'm not sure what your point is...He suffers from contemporary bias. He thinks he's "real modern", just like everyone has always thought they were real modern.
He suffers from contemporary bias. He thinks he's "real modern", just like everyone has always thought they were real modern.
