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I feel you man. You have no idea how much I get what you are saying. You have to understand a few things... firstly, I did not suggest you go to the gym to pickup girls, I suggested you do so to start your mental healing. You have to try to meet me on this and trust me. Getting those endorphins flowing in your brain is the best thing that will ever happen to you. It's better then any drug or any psychotherapy (trust me on this one) You say you can't work out - BS! Go to a sports doctor, let him guide you, do physical activities that will suit your capabilities & needs and don't ever tell me or anyone else again that you can't workout because it's an insult to people far more screwed up physically than you who work their butts off. You will never meet more open hearted, dear people who will never let you down and always help you than at a gym, any gym. I have an amputee at my gym, he's missing both his legs, he's a monster, can do 40 pullups easly and can crush my hand in a handshake - he's awesome! There's a cancer survover who could barely move, the first time he came in was still with some equipment attached to him - he's doing crossfitt with us big boys now. A champion MMA fighter standing next to an amputee and a fit girl - everybody smiling, helping each other out, supporting each other - THAT is why you want to go to the gym. Secondly, listen and concentrate on people who tell you positive things and direct you to positive directions. Don't listen to morons. Thirdly and lastly, please take a good look at this and think about it: PM me for more personal advice if you feel like it. More personal meaning things that arent necessarily for everyone to read. Edit: You need to know one more thing...At any gym you will find that a lot of people think that Newton invented the phone. You will find that you can count on majority of these people, they will not sell you out, they will support you and most of all they will respect you for who you are. Having knowledge, you will be perceived by them like someone "better"

On top of the fact that I never questioned that, I also admitted it in one of my comments above. ?

Memammal I read your long post in that other thread you dirercted me to. Very interesting and very intriguing - I will need to dig into this subject a lot deeper. Unfortunately some of the commects you, studiot and sethoflagos since my last comment are challenging to me - I lack background. I will need to fill in some of the gaps before I can attempt to continue - hopefuly this thread will not get locked and I will have a chance in the future I will be lurking though

This is an interesting alley but I doubt it will render any definition as we are not 100% sure of the process. Also...hypotheticaly even if we had the complete knowledge on the process of the non-life to life progression still I doubt it would help us in this case. This is disputable. Delta, you are drifting in the middle of an ocean right now, by youreself, naked and with no boat. Your nostrals are being glazed by water and you are choking from time to time and.. it's going to get dark soon. I suggest we drop this right now.

My definition migh very well be faulty, I know as much about DNA as you about armwrestling (probably an exageration) but flawding my definition of life on the basis of alien life doesnt seem wise. If we find alien life one day (which I very much hope we will) and my definition of life would become obsolete then so be it. By the way, I am also overwhelmed by your unsureness of a sterile specimen being considered life or non-life. I have a female friend who is sterile and its beoyond me how could anyone even think about stating a question like that.

No Delta1212. Please answer my question first.

I'm just trying to understand this statement. i dont think I can wiggle out of this one Stringjunky, nor do I want to

Isn't this a strawman? - Im refering to Stringjunkies comment. Strange - Whether we call it DNA or other hypothetical carrier whats the difference?

If it would be DNA or something profoundly different, there are exactly as many reasons to expect it as there are not to expect it. I would imagine that alien life forms would have some carrier of information passed from one generation to another. Ofcourse we can argue that aliens could have a basis of life which excludes generations, they could be plain energy, etc but still...

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2016/08/wake-up-people/

Could you explain why ?

Right. Thank you for explaining. As I mentioned above, I've had a temporal epsiode of twisting concepts around :/

I just realized how incredibly dumb my 2 previous comments are. I will leave them to remind me what happens when I do 10 things at once.

Spacetime with zero mass "in it" is flat and there is no gravity in that scenario. Spacetime with mass "in it" curves and there is gravity present in that scenario. If this is correct how can gravity stem from spacetime curvature, isnt it the other way around?

That might be possible.

That is how I see it as well. I don't think that the Agent, considering him being God, cares about your opinion that the block universe precludes him from tinkering with whatever he wants. In other words - the Agent is not bound by any laws. If he wishes he could remove an event from the block universe and fix the consequences throughout the whole continuum from T-0 to T-~ in zero time. Its nutts, I know.

Gravity probe B confirmed the frame dragging effect which suggest to me that spacetime is indeed being "hit" Or am I mistaken?

Tampitump, first off let me tell you that I am 42 years old, I'm divorced with 2 kids, I have a third kid with a new woman now, have had multiple girlfriends in my life, have had casual sex doesens of times and...I lost my virginity when I was 24. Secondly, you are looking for scientific reasons for your problem - you won't find them, because the reasons for the bad place you are in are purely emotional and cannot be answered by scientific reasoning. Thirdly, you are far from being alone in this. Believe me, there are more people with exactly the same issues than you imagine. In my opinion it is important to interact live with people even if the idea is not comforting to you. This is the fight you have to put up - talk to people (the right people ofcourse, the ones who will not hurt you) about your issues, be sincere which in effect will make the person you talk to open up - draw comfort from these interactions. Lastly...the issues you are facing are within you and only within you - keep telling that youreself. Getting to know sides to yourself which you haven't explored yet always works well. Facing your fears and insecurities and being comfortable with youreself is the key to well being and these are the qualities that every woman is looking for in a man. I would suggest one tangible action for you to take - buy a gym membership.

I'm not sure but if this comment refers to me I have to clarify that I do not take any positions on this, what I wrote is just a loose, subjective observation based on a very small number of people.

I apologise to be late on my introduction. I did look for an introductory thread a few days ago when I joined but didnt find it, it popped on my phone in recent contents just now - nevertheless a faux-pas so I do apologise. Im middle aged, I teach engineers as a contractor for a coropration, I'm putting my life together after a 6 year long divorce, I have a 4 month old kid. I build flashlights for fun, I like armwrestling, cars, used to make my libing as a dj, played snooker semi proffesionally. I also like jack & coke and physics.

I found a very interesting 23 minute video of Lee Smolin talking about what we are trying to crack here. Can I post it here? Edit: I will post it without waiting for an answer, I hope I'm not breaching the rules. His speach is actualy 15 minutes long, the rest are comments which I skipped. I find that I deeply agree with Lee Smolin on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hi4VbERDyI

Yes, the results of the frame dragging effect near the Earth were comfirmed.