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Thanks. The Baumann PDF download was fine, but the wikiped...tate link only leads to a second link suggestion, which does get straight to the article.( I think it's just because of the brackets around " cosmology ", in the first link above, not matching. ).

There is an enthralling book, readily available, entitled " The Ending Of Time " ( sometimes subtitled " Where Philosophy And Physics Meet " ) which is the record of several discussions between the eminent physicist Dr, David Bohm and the metaphysical philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti. It makes for fascinating reading, and fits comfortably into both worlds. The discussions, or dialogues, are also the subject of numerous videos, under the same title, on YouTube.

Ha,Ha!......... 55 years and a cybernetic rhino make all the difference! Brilliant.Good luck.

In the case of dark matter, does it have a direct effect on centrifugal force, which otherwise would not be strong enough to sustain galactic integrity? In the case of dark energy, is it identical to observable energy and just more of the same,but unobservable apart from it's effects; or is it possibly a different type of (kinetic) energy - if these are not silly questions?

Yes, there are a few more elaborate ways of presenting the denouement, based on the bare-bones described in the first post but ,still, how does it work?

Take 21 random playing cards, in any order, one of which is the Joker, and shuffle as many times as you wish. Deal them , face up, in 3 vertical columns in this sequence: 1st card 2nd card 3rd card 4th card 5th card 6th card 7th card and so on. ......... ........... ................ 21st card. Note which column has the Joker in it. Now, carefully gather the separate columns into 3 separate piles, making sure to keep the cards in the order they were dealt.( It helps if the cards in the vertical columns are dealt slightly on top of each other ), Next, put the 3 piles together, making sure that the pile containing the Joker is placed between the other 2 piles Turn the joined pile over, ready to deal again. Repeat this whole process 2 more times. After the joined pile is turned over for third time , discard the top10 cards in the joined pile and also the bottom 10 cards in the pile. The card left in your hand, the 11th card,is the Joker. How does this happen? note: if you want to go through the whole process again, give the 21 cards another good shuffle so that the Joker is not the 11th card to begin with and, by the way, i don't know how this trick works myself!

Thanks,K. Very helpful.

Ha, Ha! Nice one. That would be brilliant in a film-sequence. It would be hilarious,too ,to see the bike go through one window and then go straight out again through another window on the opposite wall! What do you think, Deseoso? ( You can use the Idea if you think it's any good and fits your book - i'm not copyrighting the idea!)

Sounds like good fun. Just one question: how would the guy on the bike stop once he'd gone through the window and was still airborne and couldn't use his brakes? The room he crashed into would have to be very wide or he would go straight into the opposite wall - maybe right through it and out the other side.But that would be good fun too.

Yes, that would be a very wise course of action - maybe get a boost from slingshot too. Thanks.

Thanks V_B. What you say is correct: if the cut is exactly in the middle it works, but i have also had the same result when i took 9 cards off the top and put them underneath for the first split and then took 5 cards from the top and put them underneath for the second split. Again ,4 top cards for the first split and then 4 top cards for the second split worked as well, just as imatfaal has explained, and what was especially impressive, in this second example, is that i dealt each of the 4 people 4 cards together in turn, not 1 each at a time, and they all ended up with a Royal Flush ( minus the 10 ,of course). I believe that in Poker, the chance of getting a Royal Flush is 1 in 649,740! ( Thanks Google.) By the way, you don't have to use JQKA- it works with any sets of 4 consecutive cards.

Good point- i didn't know that. Is that why the Apollo spacecraft went into earth orbit for a while instead of heading straight for the moon?

The Wiese PDF downloaded fine this time. Thanks again for your help.

Thanks. I accept your reply unreservedly.In the absence of facts in this matter, we can only have opinions and yours are as good as mine and as good as anyone else's

Is it too simple to say that " God ", or whatever term is used in any faith or language, is but another way of saying " the source of all energy ", and just leave it at that?

Yes, that's it, and no, the first person doesn't actually have to get a Jack- the first card dealt could be any of the four in the pack. Great answer. Thank you.

Yes, but that would be sleight of hand. wouldn't it? It also works with 2 random cuts , roughly in the middle, without a reverse cut. Would the answer be the same without the reverse cut?

If you take the Jack, Queen, King and Ace of Diamonds, then the JQKA of Hearts, JQKA of Clubs and JQKA of Spades and place them in a pile in that order and then cut the pile twice in the middle, then deal them - one card at a time- to four people, they all end up with four cards of the same value: four Jacks, four Queens and so on. Does anybody know how this works?

I think escape velocity is the speed needed to escape gravity without further propulsion. For example, once a rocket launched to the moon from earth has reached a speed of about 25,000mph, it can turn of it's engines and still carry on to the moon without using more propellant to get there, and so save on weight, cost etc. ( It would still need fuel , although less, to escape the moon's gravity on the way back.). The rocket could still, i think, get to the moon at 10.000mph, or any other speed, but it would have to keep it's engines on all the time and burn fuel all the way there, with all that implies, or it would eventually be dragged back into orbit around the earth if it did turn off it's engines at those lesser speeds.Please someone correct me if i'm wrong.

I've had time, now, to digest the fascinating articles on the websites and download the PDFs ( though i couldn't access the Wiese.itp PDF for some reason: 404 etc.). I just have one more question that i hope is not irrelevant in this thread : as an inflated balloon is completely full of gas, is Space/Time completely full, too, of gases,dark energy and matter etc., with no complete emptiness anywhere; and does this question have any relevance to the space inside atoms etc?

Wonderful! Thank you,Mordred.

Death is oblivion or it is not death, and because we cannot face that, we invent such nonsense as reincarnation , resurrection, and heavenly reward etc ( and hellish punishment for the poor sinners! ) If nothing ever dies there can never be anything new. It's not as bad as it may seem though - we are all immortal because we'll never know we are dead...... and in the words of the great philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti: " Death is the end of everything and the beginning of everything. "

Allow me, please, for a moment, to bring things down to my level and ask this: as expansion is accelerating, does this acceleration increase the total mass of the Universe? Also, is there a method, a formula perhaps, or even a law, used in determining the ratios in the changing of mass, volume and density in acceleration? In passing, can i add that Dr. David Bohm said he believes that the human brain is infinite, but that may be a topic on it's own.

A lot of what you write seems right to me; a lot of it i don't feel qualified to comment on , but may i say, in friendship, that i feel quite differently about the Zeitgeist/ Collective (Un)consciousness you write about. I think it is more important to be an individual, ( not individualist ), not part of the Zeitgeist. For example, billions of people say " I am a Catholic ", billions of people say " I am a Muslim ", billions of people say " I am Chinese " , billions say "I am Indian" , others say " I am a Communist ", " I am a Conservative ". Many say " We must go to war " or " We must kill unbelievers " etc. etc., and in all this there is division and conflict. Then someone says " I am nothing " and leaves this wellspring of thought , free of the collective influence and becomes an individual ( i.e. undivided ) . only then can there be any radical change in Humanity. We really must step out of this stream of consciousness, however frightening that may be. Forgive me if i have misunderstood you.

YES! The whole of Life is in each moment- the eternal present. Time doesn't exist apart from the clock and the calendar which are just useful tools so we don't miss our doctor's appointment. Distance/Space as Time? The same darkness touching me in my garden last night was the same darkness that touches all the planets and stars in the Universe at the same moment. Age is only relevant if we think we are separate from this whole movement - which we do - but we aren't.