Ask a physicist anything. (8)

[Doveaman]

If you want a thread to die, then don't post in it. Simple.

Oh, my, was it that simple?!

 

[Doveaman]

Why would you want this thread to die?

Did I say I did?

 

[pgp_protector]

Quantum Levitation - YouTube

Hovercars: now made of ice!

I want my Room Temp Superconductors

 

[Wiccan_Child]

I believe the correct emoticon is .

It's not so much about convincing others (heck, some people are way too easy/hard to convince...) but being able to independently verify an observation. The availability of objective evidence doesn't depend on the observer being you.

In principle, all evidence is subjective, as there's some epistemological uncertainty that we just can't quite shake.

 

[Elendur]

In principle, all evidence is subjective, as there's some epistemological uncertainty that we just can't quite shake.

True, but I think there is merit to draw the line somewhere.

Found some definitions for objective evidence:

Information based on facts that can be proved through analysis, measurement, observation, and other such means of research.

and

Information which can be proven true, based on facts that substantiate the change being made. The evidence must not be circumstantial but must be obtained through observation, measurement, test or other means.

 

[David Jerome]

Do you think time travel is actually possible? Or is it just science fiction?

 

[Redac]

What's your opinion of string theory?

Sorry if you've answered that, but I'm certainly not going back through 7000 posts to find it.

 

[pgp_protector]

Do you think time travel is actually possible? Or is it just science fiction?

yes*



*Directional Depending

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Do you think time travel is actually possible? Or is it just science fiction?

I flip-flop on this. Time is much weirder than our Western cultural preconceptions make it out to be (simultaneity? Please...), but the existence of paradoxes throws it up in the air - how can we travel back in time without causing paradoxes? Does the universe split into many? Is history fixed and immutable?

And then there's the time-traveller paradox - if we can time travel, why don't we see people time travel?

 

[DennisTate]

I flip-flop on this. Time is much weirder than our Western cultural preconceptions make it out to be (simultaneity? Please...), but the existence of paradoxes throws it up in the air - how can we travel back in time without causing paradoxes? Does the universe split into many? Is history fixed and immutable?

And then there's the time-traveller paradox - if we can time travel, why don't we see people time travel?

It took me quite a while to arrive at this conclusion but it seems that time looks far more so like a menorah than as a straight line as we had tended to think!

I am a theist who considers that we are dealing with an intelligence and power so great that any moment in what we think of as the past, can be entirely and fully recreated...and a vastly more positive future can be spun off from that instant.

In other words Ezekiel 37, rather than being a one time event may occur again and again as many times as the Creator wishes in order to go all out to attempt to lead all of us to what could be thought of as "salvation."

If you do a search for Chaim Tejman hypnosis and time travel you will run into some interesting material on this.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

It took me quite a while to arrive at this conclusion but it seems that time looks far more so like a menorah than as a straight line as we had tended to think!

I am a theist who considers that we are dealing with an intelligence and power so great that any moment in what we think of as the past, can be entirely and fully recreated...and a vastly more positive future can be spun off from that instant.

In other words Ezekiel 37, rather than being a one time event may occur again and again as many times as the Creator wishes in order to go all out to attempt to lead all of us to what could be thought of as "salvation."

If you do a search for Chaim Tejman hypnosis and time travel you will run into some interesting material on this.

Isn't he the same guy with the... unorthodox views on masculinity and femininity? And the outright dangerous ideas on the origin of cancer? And the demonstrably false opinion on what causes cancer?

 

[Naraoia]

In principle, all evidence is subjective, as there's some epistemological uncertainty that we just can't quite shake.

Gah, philosophy. Kill it with fire!

 

[Elendur]

Gah, philosophy. Kill it with fire!

Nice one

 

[Nabobalis]

Gah, philosophy. Kill it with fire!

You seem to be killing it a whole army of pi men!

 

[Doveaman]

And then there's the time-traveller paradox - if we can time travel, why don't we see people time travel?

You would think we should have met someone from the future by now if time traveling was possible.

Unless the telephone booth got sucked out of time.

 

[Naraoia]

You seem to be killing it a whole army of pi men!

I didn't even notice that. I just googled pitchfork emoticon and grabbed the first picture I liked.

You so made my day.

 

[Nabobalis]

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[Nabobalis]

I didn't even notice that. I just googled pitchfork emoticon and grabbed the first picture I liked.

You so made my day.

I aim to please

 

[Non sequitur]

Gah, philosophy. Kill it with fire!

Heh

 

[DennisTate]

Isn't he the same guy with the... unorthodox views on masculinity and femininity? And the outright dangerous ideas on the origin of cancer? And the demonstrably false opinion on what causes cancer?

Yup, that is him but obviously I disagree with your appraisal so far!




Grand Unified Theory: Wave Theory and Life

"In this chapter, I will discuss biological, living beings in terms of chemistry and physics, since basic energetic matter creates everything. The existence of living objects entails many substances. The main components, however, of energetic waves and basic atoms are hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. This applies to other atoms, as well. Life is not an accidental event. Where methane, ethane, propane and other similar compounds are present, organic creations can easily be created without further assistance. Carbon atoms are plentiful in all energetic formations, even young galaxies.

Hydrogen atoms were one of the first
creations, before other atoms, and are widespread in the universe. Where there are two main components such as hydrogen and carbon, chemical compounds, which are the basis of high-energy bonds, can be created." (Dr. Chaim Tejman)