darkkazier

Why do i get the feelign this is how Planet of the Apes started out... On a serious note, i don't see how running tests on a self aware creature can ever be good, no matter the benefits. their has to be another way.

well i for one believe in the M-Brane/Ekpyrotic Universe theory, it explains pretty much all the problems of the big bang, it tells what was it actually was and what was around before it. you can go here for a brief introduction to it. http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/~steinh/npr/

^^ i agree with him, and i think string theory will be the next big revolution in physics once it is all sorted out and proven. The ESA will luanch two satallites called LISA and LAGO (i believe that's it correct me if i'm wrong) which will detect gravity waves, and as i understand it string theory predicts a certain frequency and i guess if the two match up then we can assume that string theory is closer to being right.

any urban area in the US: tight=good playa= guy or girl with a lot of women or men hood= neighbhorhood you grew up in; in some more rual regions it means bad part of the city bling=shiny jewelry fo shizzle= for sure getting crump= feelin good or enjoyin yourself Dope=phat=really good And on a side note most people i know who live in da hood love that fly azz british accent, can't wait to holla at a shorty wit one

Michio Kaku says that one way to prevent any paradoxes is that perhaps you don't alter your own past, but that of another version of yourself. so you wouldn't kill your grandfather but another version of your grandfather. Or he says that something could stop you from doing it. Either way i think that we will eventually accomplish time travel eventually.

then how do you explain virtual particles? how can they do what they do?

Well, how do you explain the fact that virtual particles can carry amounts of energy not normally allow by the laws of motion" that quote right their proves that something CAN have more energy than you put into it which means it can produce more energy than was put into it. (thanks to usenet physics for the information http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/index.html)

Yeah it was just a thought i had, as i said i'm no physicist or anything like that, i'm a writer, And just because our current physics say something is impossible doesn't mean that in , one hundred years from now, or a thousand it won't be possible. Contrary to what some people might think, we humans don't know EVERYTHING their is to know yet...

and the main problem is scicentists and bible beating people are very similar, they both believe in their "theories" as fact, until they are proven wrong. (how long did "scientists" believe in Newton's laws before Einstien showed us how flawed his "theories" were) just like one hundred years from now the Scientists of today would probably be laughed off the planet if they talked what will look like nonsense to the scientists. But the religous types aren't any better, they run around preaching from their book that was re-written a thousand times saying it's from god and whatnot. Evolution as a whole is never in question, everyone accepts that things evolve. But some people have a hard time believing that humans evolved from some primordial ooze in the ancient ocean. that's where the problems come from. But i think Evolution should be taught in school because their are some facts to back it up. and think about it, science can only explain so much, so of course people will turn to a higher power to explain things. but hey, i will never fault science because without it i wouldn't have this nice car of this lovely TV.

i don't see the problem, you can use the interpretation of the bible for certain things, like we know that human beings were not first on the planet, we know animals were, we know that earth was created before human beings. Maybe the folks that wrote the bible were primitive scientist that just didn't understand things the way they're understood now. the bible says: Earth then animals then men, science says the same thing. Besides most parts of the bible were also found in Sumerian stone tablets as well, so i think it was just primitive scientists that didn't understand how things really are(although scientists today are barely any smarter, considering how much farther we have to go).

Wow, mention religon here and you get sent to the firing squad lol. I never saw so many morons and idiots in all my life used in a single thread. LOL

what's the point of free speech if it will be limited in some way? We should not call it free speech, but we should call it "speech that does not upset someone". I live in America and i think our polices at home and abroad are crap and we're going to end up causing more harm than good. should i be thrown in jail for my views? No. People should be able to say whatever they want as long as it doesn't cause direct physical harm to others(i.e. screaming fire in a crowded movie theatre).

"You'll probably go to jail before you write your dissertation So prepare your asshole for some internal fragmentation" LOL this is funny as hell

Their is a problem with several areas of the big bang and the Ekpyrotic Universe theory explains it. which is why i said that. and you can have a "universe" floating in a higher dimensional ocean with other "universes" floating in it as well. It would be like a 2-d character on a book. to him that page is his universe, he can't leave it, but to us 3-dimensional beings it is merely one "page" in a series of other pages. Same thing with our universe.

well, if you remember you asked me how did i know that humans are the most complex beings on the planet, and i gave you my answer, our brains, their is nothing as complex and as advanced in nature as the human brain. that's where everything else came from.

and intelligence on our level has not been demostrated by another species, if it was we'd have fish debating you all on this forum, but we don't because they can't. their brains aren't complex enough to grasp the subject, and even if a lot humans don't understand physics they can be taught too, to my knowledge their is no other species that can be taught something that complex. Even the most complex species next to humans can't grasp what our minds can, which proves that humans are the most complex, we can explain invertabraes and why they are the way they are, but no scientist can explain the brain in its entirety(meanng how it functions and why it does things it does).

Well if their was a species that had a brain as evolved and as complex as ours they would realize that it's better to stick together and form small packs or colonies, they would also realize that the greatest threat to their survival was us and we would have come into conflict with them. Seriously, what part of the world have we not left our mark on, for better or worse? We have polluted the seas, destroyed the forests and jungles and farmed out the grasslands (which a lot of that we have to do to support our lifestyles so i'm saying we shouldn't farm or anything like that). and we would have stumbled on bones or some kind of proof of them already. It's the same reason big foot does not exist, if they existed their would have to be a rather large population in North America somewhere, but seeing as we have not come across any bones or remains of them, or any other kind of proof then it is safe to conclude that were are the most advanced species on the planet(unless some super advanced race is hiding from us, but i really doubt that).

Well this article i read at space.com possibly explains what you're asking: Details of the Ekpyrotic Universe theory The following technical description was provided to SPACE.com by the authors (Justin Khoury, Princeton; Burt Ovrut, UPenn; Paul Steinhardt, Princeton and Neil Turok, Cambridge): Our paper proposes a new theory of the very early universe that resolves the famous puzzles of the hot Big Bang picture -- the horizon, flatness and monopole problems -- and that generates fluctuations in energy that seed galaxy formation and produce temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background. The model is based on the idea that our hot Big Bang universe was created from the collision of two three-dimensional worlds moving along a hidden, extra dimension. The inflationary model of the universe, developed in the 1980's by Alan Guth (MIT), Andre Linde (Stanford), Andreas Albrecht (UC Davis) and Steinhardt, was designed to resolve these very same problems, relying on a period of exponential hyper-expansion, or inflation. Conceptually, the ekpyrotic model is very different. There is no inflation or rapid change happening at all. The approach to collision takes places very slowly over an exceedingly long period of time. It is quite fascinating that rapid change and very slow change can produce nearly the same effects. The difference results in one distinctive observational prediction, though: Inflationary cosmology predicts a spectrum of gravitational waves that may be detectable in the cosmic microwave background. The ekpyrotic model predicts no gravitational wave effects should be observable in the cosmic microwave background. In the ekpyrotic model, when the two three-dimensional worlds collide and "stick," the kinetic energy in the collision is converted to the quarks, electrons, photons, etc. that are confined to move along three dimensions. The resulting temperature is finite, so the hot Big Bang phase begins without a singularity. The universe is homogeneous because the collision and initiation of the Big Bang phase occurs nearly simultaneously everywhere. The energetically preferred geometry for the two worlds is flat, so their collision produces a flat Big Bang universe. According to Einstein's equations, this means that the total energy density of the universe is equal to the critical density. Massive magnetic monopoles, which are over-abundantly produced in the standard Big Bang theory, are not produced at all in this scenario because the temperature after collision is far too small to produce any of these massive particles. Quantum effects cause the incoming three-dimensional world to ripple along the extra-dimension prior to collision so that the collision occurs in some places at slightly different times than others. By the time the collision is complete, the rippling leads to small variations in temperature, which seed temperature fluctuations in the microwave background and the formation of galaxies. We have shown that the spectrum of energy density fluctuations is scale-invariant (the same amplitude on all scales). The production of a scale-invariant spectrum from hyper-expansion was one of the great triumphs of inflationary theory, and here we have repeated the feat using completely different physics. The building blocks of the Ekpyrotic theory are derived from Superstring theory. Superstring theory requires extra dimensions for mathematical consistency. In most formulations, 10 dimensions are required. In the mid 1990s, Petr Horava (Rutgers) and Ed Witten (IAS, Princeton) argued that, under certain conditions, an additional dimension opens up over a finite interval. Six dimensions are presumed to be curled up in a microscopic ball, called a Calabi-Yau manifold. The ball is too small to be noticed in everyday experience, and so our universe appears to be a four-dimensional (three space dimensions and one time dimension) surface embedded in a five-dimensional space-time. This five-dimensional theory, called heterotic M-theory, was formulated by Andre Lukas (Sussex). Ovrut and Dan Waldram (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London). According to Horava-Witten and heterotic M-theory, particles are constrained to move on one of the three-dimensional boundaries on either side of the extra dimensional interval. Our visible universe would be one of these boundaries; the other boundary and the intervening space would be hidden because particles and light cannot travel across the intervening space. Only gravity is able to couple matter on one boundary to the other sides. In addition, there can exist other three-dimensional hyper-surfaces in the interval, which lie parallel to the outer boundaries and which can carry energy. These intervening planes are called "branes," short for membranes. The collision that ignites the hot Big Bang phase of the ekpyrotic model occurs when a three-dimensional brane is attracted to and collides into the boundary corresponding to our visible universe. The term ekpyrosis means "conflagration" in Greek, and refers to an ancient Stoic cosmological model. According to the model, the universe is created in a sudden burst of fire, not unlike the collision between three-dimensional worlds in our model. The current universe evolves from the initial fire. However, in the Stoic notion, the process may repeat itself in the future. This, too, is possible in our scenario in principle if there is more than one brane and, consequently, more than one collision. We plan to discuss this possibility in future work, along with further speculations about what preceded the collision that made our present universe. As a final remark, we feel that it is important to realize that Inflationary theory is based on Quantum Field theory, a well-established theoretical framework, and the model has been carefully studied and vetted for 20 years. Our proposal is based on unproven ideas in String theory and is brand new. While we appreciate the enthusiasm and interest with which the paper has been received, we would suggest some patience before promulgating these ideas in order to leave time for us to produce some follow-up papers that introduce additional elements and to allow fellow theorists time for criticism and sober judgment.

Why? i'm not a physics expert so could you explain to me why it work in layman terms? i mean if it is creating the energy needed to keep the magnets working, which in turn keep the pivot balls spinning which keeps the magnets working et al then why wouldn't it work?

tell me if this will work: you have a metal rod and at the end is a swivel that can go 360 degrees, you place that device in a tube with two magnets on opposite sides, and both are attractive, you also have both magnets hooked up to the spinning object in the middle, and you start it spinning. Now let's say you set up a program that will switch the magnets on and off, meaning that the attracting magnets switch on when the metal ball is coming towards them on the swivel but switch it off before it pulls the ball all the way to the magnet. Kinda like the sling shot effect caused by planets on space probes. Wouldn't the small generator be self sustaining if it is getting its energy to power the magnets from the spinning the magnets are causing the swivel to do?

see, i knew i was all off. I thought string theory talked about higher dimensions, like 12 of them, well it's the same as layers in my mind, and basically you're saying there would have to be a new kind of mass that would not destroy me but also produce the need gravitational effects i want? how can one go about "creating mass?" i thought you couldn't?

big problems usually get people to make discoveries. If we faced a severe over population problem, then maybe we'd figure out ways to travel in a meaningful time to other planets and make them able to support life.

well after going throgu the many books of his i came to the conclusion that space has to be layered and the only way to achieve faster than light speeds is to go "up" into the higher layers of space where the speed that light travels is not the maxium that any object with mass can travel. Kinda like a express toll lane on the highway, where you can pay to go a faster speed than the other lanes. i did some more reading and discovered that my idea of space being layered could be true, after all black holes rip holes into space and they have to lead somewhere right? so i then i thought, what would you need to break through our space(like a blackhole does) and i did more research and discovered something called planck energy, which is supposed to be able to do it. So, i said to myself, how does a black hole get that much energy, and i saw the key was gravity! It could create enough energy in a small space a tear could be formed in space and you could possibly gain access to the higher dimensions/layers of space. so then i had to think, how can i tear a hole in the fabric of space, and i did more searching and found out that once something reaches lightspeed it gains infinite mass, if that's true then wouldn't infinite mass rip a hole in space? So, if i could get something to lightspeed to achieve infinite mass couldn't i open a hole in space that leads to the higher dimensions that this super string theory talks about, and hence quite possibly enter "a higher layer/hyperspace" and emerge in a distant part of the universe? Please don't destroy me i am a writer, but i find these type of things very interesting.