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I sure am, and I really hope that pursuit of science especially pure science will yield results that are unimaginable to us today, but would be second nature to future generations. Oh yeah, and if someone created perpetual motion, or a time machine, even better, lol! (I know that its impossible)

Thank you for that detailed explanation. I am not that good at programming, so unfortunately did not understand everything that you said. I was wondering if you had a different recommendation for simulation software that would not be buggy, would be easy to setup, would be relatively easy to use, and would be free. Thank you for your suggestion.

I was wondering if there is an easy answer about this. There are multiple versions of Latex, and I'm still a newbie to it. I was wondering if you guys knew which version is best to use and why? Also is there any fundamental differences between the different versions, and how much of the latex is standardized?

It is despicable to see how people abuse their power to control people. I wonder about this bishop though... Is he really doing this to gain political power. Based on what I saw it is more because he is insanely ignorant, and afraid and therefore passes his paranoia onto other people. This whole part makes me question more the intelligence level of religious leaders, and if there is a way to ensure that it is relatively high. Perhaps better education is the answer... What do you guys think?

Ha. That's a good one. You should post it in the political humor!

Actually I was just hungry for the sausage that got electrecuted multiple times. I wonder how it tastes, and if you can actually tell that it was prepared by very unorthodox method

I think the bottom line is our understanding of time, space, etc. is all limited by our observations. Based on what we observe we came with a model that differantiates time and space, and yet at the same time allows us to use the time-space 4 vector. 150 years ago no one would have considered arguments that we are making today, limited by one's experiences, and the whole idea that time space is a function of one's velocity was pretty unorthodox. 200 years before that, you would most likely be burned for such reasoning. I really wonder how well we will understand the subject in another 100-150 years. Perhaps at that point our ancestors will read arguments on blogs like this and laugh at how primitive our thought pattern was...

So why were there no "churches" that used science as the absolute truth and put to death anyone who didn't approve? There has to be a fundamental reason why that never happened because scientists, and minister's/bishops, etc. are both people that have similar strengths and weaknesses and that could exploit other people for their personal gain.

Maybe it's just me, but this video made me hungry

I can tell you the result. It would be similar to performing fourier analysis of brownian motion

This is the kit I ended up getting: http://www.amazon.com/Molymod-Inorganic-Organic-Molecular-Student/dp/B005NWGISS/ Now I have plenty of things to try. I haven't downloaded the software yet, but thank your for that suggestion, Enthalpy. I anticipate that using a computer simulation, I can make some crazy biochem molecules. Wonder if you spent enough time on it, if you can actually form a model for the DNA... probably an unrealistic task that would take a lifetime to accomplish.

So what is the punchline, stayoffmylawn? I know it contains K, N, O, C, H and Fe, lol

Well you can think of something as having a size in terms of time. All it means is that for a certain period of time there indeed was matter at a certain position. So a box at rest will also look like a box at rest from this point of view. What do you think?

I see, but what is the fundamental principle from not viewing it from the other point of view, where your virtual vector is constant and is space, and time is the associated vector?

Welcome. I'm assuming you want someone to calculate an empirical formula. A physicist here, so even if I did the composition would not speak to me, lol. I am curious what material you are referring to though...

Is that story of the flying capacitor that's caused by a large magnetic field similar to how a rail gun works? Does anyone have insight on how exactly it accelerates the "bullets", and/or if you can effectively treat it as a capacitor?

So what do you think prevented a scientist from acting in a similar way to the figure head you just described. Why didn't aristotle, wind up the people by showing them his discoveries and using them to instill faith in science, and gain control of the masses to gain political power and displace the pope, bishop, or whoever else?

Two mathematicians are having lunch at Starbucks. They are in a deep discussion about how well on average people know math. One argues that on average nobody cares or knows math, and the other one argues that they do. The optimist says, let's have a test. I bet you that our waitress can solve a math problem. Let's ask her to take an integral of x. I bet she knows that it's x squared over 2. The other one says, fine, but I will bet $10 that she won't get it right. The optimist excuses himself and pretends to go to the restroom, while approaching the waitress, and asking her to respond to the next question they both will pose to her by "x squared over 2". It's pretty hard for the waitress to remember, but finally she repeats it back right to him, the optimist gives her $10 for her troubles. He then returns and shortly afterwards the waitress appears. The pesimists asks her what integral of x is, to which she proudly responds "x squared over 2". The pessimist upset gives his colleague the $10, who is smiling at his clever scheme. The waitress starts heading away, then stops for a second, turns around and adds "plus a constant"...

Does a radioactive cat have 18 half-lives?

Just wanted to update you guys, the kit that I got is awesome. Thank you so much for helping me. Definitely brought back college memories

So let me see if I understand. What you have is a virtual constant vector, which has associated space-like vectors at each one of its values? Is that an accurate description of what you mean?

It seems like a lot of people agree that the differences are made by men involvement, I would thinking from a scientist point of view that it would be really good to quantify it. In effect I'm interested in the history of both science and religion from the point of view of different people that either brought the two closer together, or pushed them further apart. I'm sure there's multiple examples with inquisition, scientology, etc. that people can come up with. If you're up to the challenge please contribute an event, an approximate date, and how it effected the conflict. Thought this would be a stimulating exercise!

Love the drawings. My friend in High School installed a 1 Farad capacitor in his car. Took up all his trunk, and really amplified his base. Not only was it a extreme base, but also when he did connect the capacitor his car would shake violently, and his headlights would go dim.

So let's take this to a simple case where space is only in one dimension x, so we have a 2D space of (x,t). In that case do you mean to say that i cannot think of some sort of a profile (whether linear or curved) in the XT space, but instead a whole bunch of points in X dimension that are just taken at different times? Am I thinking about the "curved space" in a wrong way? Thank you for your contribution.

That was a great summary. Really hard to follow that up. Thank you. One thing that I observed over the years is that people turn to religion when they are in a tough place. When you are faced with huge obstacles and problems that you can't do anything about such as death, divorce, illness, poverty, etc. and you cannot rationally accept or even begin getting over what is happening you turn to god to find comfort. In reality people just want to believe in something that cannot be proved by science, but their beliefs help them function so to them it doesn't matter if it can be proven or not, it works for them and therefore it's as good as a fact that can be proven using scientific reasoning. Unfortunately, and this has been going on for thousands of years, they can be manipulated by other people who position themselves as religious leaders, and then use their power for their own personal agenda. You are completely right a lot of religions are very similar, and the fact that there's conflict is more about conflict between religious leaders, or social position of different religions today, rather then battle of ideologies. Wow, that got way too political. On a lighter note, need to believe in something that is beyond us is very human, and not logical, so I really wonder if you can make an artificial intelligence machine that is not programmed to be religious, but figured out on its own that it wants to believe and be part of one religion or another.