davidivad

neither. just because there is a field there does not mean we have the ability to measure it directly. we still haven't detected gravitational waves yet. while i can prove nothing as an absolute fact, this is the best explanation i have found so far. what isn't a theoretical postulate at this point? i would refer to the discovery of the higgs boson to support my claim. i am claiming no more than the existence of the higgs field.

space itself is quantifiable as a field. any effects of gravity cancel out the expansion. imagine a huge field the size of the universe that contains huge amounts of energy per cubic meter. there is also an opposing force that is almost the same amount of energy. the difference between these two fields is very small but in the end you get an excess of it. this is dark energy. gravity overcomes this field where mass is concentrated at a value above it. so, in places where there are only a few particles in a large area, the "background" is greater and expands.

you may want to be a bit more clear by giving an example for contextual purposes.

i personally think that the human ability to ask a question is one of the greatest abilities we have as a species. in a sense, one might suggest that it is mother nature's current answer to the universe in which we exist. quite literally mother nature's answer is the question itself. without it, would we have science or religion? would we have anything more than stick and rocks?

may i just say that, in life, the question is the answer. seems almost quantum mechanical to me. what could be more clever than that? and what a better place to hide it?

imagine if we were precise enough to measure time all the way down to the planck time. would or would that not be a basic unit of time. what i think time actually boils down to is your requirements of it. you use a hammer for a nail and a wrench for a bolt. there is more than one useful definition of time and each has its own advantage. isn't that great?

in my own opinion, a firewall is an example of the impact that computer programming has on the field of physics. this makes sense to me since they are trying to solve the problem of losing information. i have watched all the lectures of suskind only to recognize the many instances where he uses computers to explain things. this does not mean you are wrong. firewalls could very well end up being the most correct idea to explain black holes. my only question for you would be whether or not black holes can grow in size. do you have a way to account for the various sizes of black holes?

what was the question?

you make a good point. i may have dismissed the book early, but i would argue the point of it's creation as unfortunate.

you sure pick a book... remember that this book was written in a time that opium and the likes were a major contributor to life in general. in a nutshell, the book makes no sense.

a black hole, in theory, would not immediately start evaporating until background radiation levels fall below that of black body or hawkings radiation. consider when all the materials close enough to black holes has been consumed and the amount of time it takes the last stars to burn out. in these dark ages, according to current theory, even the cmb will no longer be noticeable. but the point is that you can put a definite age on this. anyone for a guess?

i think that steven was pretty much saying he would bet his career against a firewall (a bit overzealous as this is not really what he did). i believe he gave three different versions that refuted the firewall idea. http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.5761v1 i do not believe some of the theories that suskind supports but he knows how to break things down for newbies. his lectures are great.

0 on a grid is a real coordinate. if you are at 5 on the grid, then you are describing a position that is five points away from the origin. this is an artifact of your number system which gives you a point of reference.

that is a great way to express positions at a given point in time. i see you like computers. here is einstein's version.

we would have to master the extraction of energy from space itself which seems to be ever increasing. space has a huge amount of enrgy within it. the discovery of the higgs supports this idea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_CA1-I9_4

what will happen at the singularity?

cars are man made objects. they are a result of life which goes against entropy. the fact is that we create ordered systems at the expense of our surroundings like you said. in the end, our actions create more entropy than without us. we consume systems that are at maximum entropy. to survive.

there is no doubt that they are often drawn to risky activities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_hypothesis_of_schizophrenia these people have actual physical abnormalities in thier brain wiring and you can find abnormalities in the shape of the brain in many cases. it has been suggested that people who are serial killers do it for the high it gives them, so in a sense you are right. they often end up increasing the violence of such crimes likely because they do not get as high as the time before. the prefrontal cortex shows up as a location of abnormality in these people and this is where higher thought processes come from. i seem to have confused schizophrenia with psychopathic behavior. i wonder how often that happens?

here you go. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/trials/index.shtml http://www.clinicalconnection.com/joincc.aspx?gclid=CJCK0ubDk7wCFY1AMgod72QA6g be careful signing wavers though. you do not want to sign up as a cadaver.

that would be an unneeded expense; and you would be laughed at for it. for the average board, placing it on a shelf would do well. however placing plastic against it and then pulling the plastic away could cause static issues. you can purchase special anti static bags but they are expensive. i have several and do not use them at all. vaccuum sealing a board will not make it last any longer. the greatest threat to a board is static discharge. always remember to ground yourself out before touching electronics (especially in the winter). you can do this by touching something metal.

are you required to use a specific game engine? i think that "recycling" objects so that you can do more than one thing with them would be an idea. consider a simple object you find and use for one thing and hold onto. later, you can either do something else with it or combine it with something else found to create a new object. clearly recycling and resource monitoring are already part of a typical game so it will likely be a matter of presentation. perhaps a journey that is a struggle of creating awareness and, in the end, results in global awareness.

it was not my intent to offend you. my intent was to get your math out onto a page for critique. while i know more math than the average person, i lack accuracy. i often forget small yet crucial things. however, there are people that are on this site whom have far superior math skills compared to me. they are a resource so use them. it is not how smart you are that gets you through life but how well you use your resources.

interestingly enough, you cannot see light unless you interact with it. if you shine a laser at a target, you can see the result but cannot see the light directly. put it in fog and you have ruined the experiment still only seeing the result of interaction. even if you use a flashlight, you may see the light coming out at you but not the light in question. your eyes do the same thing a camera does. in the duality experiment, there was a need to minimize any extranious interactions because it would ruin the experiment. to say that observing the experiment with a camera changes the results is silly. it misinterprets the very basis of the experiment.

without a response, i must then assume you cannot do the math. i can only logically assume you have read a few articles and stitched them into an incomplete idea. this is where math comes in. that is a shame as i might have been able to help you realise your idea with graphics.

there was once a great country that had such ambitions not all that long ago. do you have an opinion on corporations and small businesses?