Lord Antares

Really? This is an incredibly unreliable way to test for IQ. How does an intelligent person spend their time? They read books and study all day? How does an intelligent person interact with others? This implies that every person of a given IQ responds exactly the same way a different person of the same IQ acts. That is a ridiculous claim. That is even worse advice. He is no professional (neither are you) and even if you were, it would still be bad advice. IQ tests are done by several people who have studied this and know what they are doing. Even they may not output a reliable test. And don't encourage him to do even more unscientific hypothesizing. I'm sure if he came up with an IQ test, it would completely confirm his hypothesis in this thread. Firstly, ''scientist'' is a broad term. You can't challenge a mathematician or a chemist to design an IQ test based on the fact that he is a scientist. Secondly, ''why don't you do it?!'' isn't a valid response in proving or disproving a theory. It's like when you criticize a movie and call it bad and someone says ''why don't you make a better movie??!?''. That's not how this works.

You're lucky to have a wife. A doctor wife, too.

Why not just quote the post you're talking about? It's even more convenient to the person who you want to quote it to because they don't have to go back and search for posts. The only time I would consider referencing posts by number more useful is if you're quoting someone from a different thread. But then again, you could just link the exact comment and it's easier again. Actually, I can see why post numbers aren't deemed necessary. I'm not sure what their role is if there are other (IMO more efficient) ways of referencing posts. Plus, mods cannot recognize the post you're referencing because they are showed the hidden posts which we aren't. Sure it is. It's next to the clock on the right. My ''unread content'' page looks different than yours. Which browser are you using? Here is how I see it: https://imgur.com/Q0G2MoZ Ahhh. I think I know why. I think you're using the condensed view, rather than expanded. You see those buttons on the top right of my screenshot?

Not anxiety. It's just that because I focused on it, I noticed (or thought I noticed) it. It's like, you know if you showed 2 identical objects to someone and asked if one was bigger and told them to really focus on it, a lot of people would conclude that one is slightly bigger? It may be a weird example, but I think it works.

Exactly. I think this is it. I woke up this morning normal. Only when I consciously tried breathing it in did I notice something. So yeah, I'm finally sleeping well and that's the end of that.

Tastes like closed windows. Have you ever been to an overcrowded club in a closed (preferably underground) place? Do you know that feel when you just feel like you don't have enough air to breathe properly? And then you get outside and you take that sweet breath of fresh air. It just feels like you're breathing less air; like you're taking very short breaths of air. I don't know how to describe it better. If you are still perplexed, try keeping the windows closed in your room for a long time and close the door. When you come in, try to notice the difference in how the air ''feels''. Of course, I might just be talking shit and it's just psychosomatic.

I don't want inner peace; sounds boring. Anyways, I closed my windows and slept. When I woke up, the air was hard to breathe and it felt stale. It ''tasted'' like breathing cancer. But it's ok, I didn't get awoken prematurely, so I'm satisfied.

Yeah, tell me about it. In the summer, a house like 10-15 m away from mine was being built. I didn't even hear the dogs over that noise. The city is not too polluted, I guess. It's not that large and seeing how tapwater is drinkable and tasty, I wouldn't assume otherwise of the air.

I know it does because they never wake me up when I do that. I was just wondering if if would be healthy to keep the windows closed like that every night. Apparently, there is no reason not to do that. That's where the thread ended for me. Well it's not my choice. I can't function very well with no sleep like that. If you can, then that's very good for you.

I don't think you quite understand. The sound of their barking is waking me up. I would like to do something as trivial as closing my windows in order for them not to wake me up. Your suggestion that I should accept it and let it happen instead of doing something as trivial as closing my window and solving the situation does not sound sensible.

I would like to see your inner peace if I screamed in your ears while you were sleeping.

I'm not interested in your inner peace advice. I've got quite a bit of peace in my mind, much more than I used to. And this is not a topic where inner peace is relevant at all.

Please stop that.

Oh I didn't know that. If humans can't hear it, it seems like an appealing option. If the dogs can troll me all the time, I can troll them a little bit as well.

I would literally have to call the police on my entire street. Plus, it's not at a completely ''socially unnaceptable'' hour like 3 A.M. (even though they've known to do that a few times), so I doubt the police would care much. Not in the US, but that reminds me of what happened pretty recently (this summer). There was yet another dog and it was the worst one because it was old and unattented for so it would bark all the time. One time a guy who lived in the same building as the owner of that dog was chainsawing something outside and as the owner came by, he angrily started revving his chainsaw and screaming ''I WILL KILL YOU! I WILL KILL YOU AND YOUR DOG IF YOU DON'T SHUT HIM UP!''. The owner ended up putting his dog down the next day. I suppose that's one way of dealing with things, but I'm not quite at that level of rage yet. It would do nothing. I would wake up completely by the time I did that. And it would wake up whoever was still sleeping. A fan wouldn't work at this time of year and onward, obviously, but I do that at summer. I haven't tried white noise on my phone. It sounds like a sane suggestion but I think it would be simpler to just close the windows.

Yeah, literally all my neighbours have dogs. They all keep them on the balconies because they thought it would be cute to own a dog but they realized they don't have the time to take care of them. I've tried talking to them, but you know how it is. Dogs are precious, you can't say anything about their dogs. They said they would take care of it but they never do. Yeah, that would probably work, but I'd rather just close my windows than wear earplugs. Since you are largely deaf, as you say, I am guessing you've never tried wearing earplugs (it depends on how long you've been that way). Anyway, my head hurts after a long time wearing those and they're not that comfortable, they can always slip out, they can get wet, etc. I can sleep with them, but they're not my preferred choice. Yeah, earplugs are a solution if the noise is coming from withing the house. I prefer the window for outside noise. What?

It's not the traffic. It's the dogs. There is literally a dosen of dogs I can hear barking and it's erratic and loud and annoying which is why I can't get used to it. It's been going on for a long time. Usually I just wake up, close the windows and fall back asleep. But sometimes I can't fall back asleep, especially if I have to go take a piss. I can hear them through closed windows but they don't wake me up through closed windows (or earplugs). I have gotten used to it but I shouldn't do that. I know I won't suffocate. I was just worried it might cause headdaches through prolongued periods of sleeping with the windows closed.

Yes but then you would always have to have windows closed in the winters for days on end. I usually get air on cold winter days by sleeping with the windows open. Every day. That's why I will do it.

How unhealthy would it be to go to sleep every day with the windows closed? Would the lack of air give me headaches in the morning? Or is it fine? On another note, it would probably be better to sleep with earplugs, but they always give me headaches when used for a couple of hours + it's finicky when you have an alarm clock to wake you up.

You sound like a complete tool. So, in another words, it's unscientific garbage you thought up on a whim. You're another one of those ''I don't need any academic knowledge because something something Nikola Tesla out of the box genius I can see beyond the rules'' crackpot. Have fun proving whatever you think you're conjuring up here.

Swansont is an actual physicist and has been for a long time. I'm sure he can handle your questions if you phrase them correctly.

But that doesn't mean you are up to it at this point in time. I'm telling you, focus on classical physics for now. Even the simplest classical physics is much more complicated than what you are being taught at school. At school, you are just taught to know some information about physics, you aren't necessarily taught to understand anything.

I wouldn't trust any online test. But if wanted to get as close to a legitimate test, I guess you could use the online mensa test. I suppose you're using this to collect data about your speculation. Well, at least you're doing something right. Make sure to report back here once the data doesn't match your predictions.

You shouldn't be able to learn about ''quantum stuff'' at any useful level at this age. Mayb you get get an idea of what it is, but not much more than that. When you get to college, then you can study physics and hopefully be able to grasp this stuff. The majority of people have trouble with it. That being said, you will need more than ''a little bit about physics'' to make a perpetual motion machine. You'd need magic.

One day you'll look back at this and laugh at how young and naive you were. It will be a good lesson for you, I suppose. I don't think anyone can change your mind anyway, judging by your replies.