Star-struck

Peter, Some people are much more interested in discrediting other people than in partaking in the type of creative thinking that really solves problems. Don't waste your time arguing with them. They already know everything. This being the case I'm not sure why they haven't solved all the worlds problems yet. Seems the responsible thing to do if one knows everything.

So is what the EGGS measures caused by collective thought...or are collective thought events caused by what EGGS is detecting? Which came first

That is a great quote I think that we need to back up and tackle gravity. It's as if we are trying to get to "B" by going around "A", vice confronting it, in hopes that we will work our way back around to figuring out "A". Figuring out gravity would answer so many other questions along the way.

Yes sir, Dave, you are correct. It is entirely possible that gravitons exist as some say they may. I would not go so far as to rule out other possibilities based on the chance that they exist. At this point, gravitons are to scientists what Santa Claus is to a 5 year old. It is a possibility that would help to explain a lot, but we may find out that it was our parents the whole time

On the following: three men enter a hotel and ask a clerk for a room for the night the clerk tells them that the cost for the room is $30.00. each of the three pays $10.00 (totalling $30.00). the manager later sees the guest book and realizes that he know these men and decides to give them a discount. he tells the clerk to refund the guys a total of $5.00. the clerk takes out $5.00 and thinks to himself, how do i divide $5.00 between three people? ultimately, he decides to give the guys $1.00 each ($3.00 total) and keep $2.00 (totalling to $5.00 as the manager requested). where the problem occurs is when you try to add it all together and you try to muliply and blah blah blah. if each paid $10.00 (totalling $30.00) and was refunded $1.00, you would get $27.00 (10x3=30. 10-1=9. 9x3=27) you then add that to the $2.00 that the clerk kept for himself to try to didvide things evenly (27+2=29). where did the last dollar go to? You did 30-3+2=29 when you should have done 30-3-2=25. This is simply one of those brain-teaser questions.

The existence of gravitons is highly speculative and nothing more than conjecture. Why one would speak of them so matter-of-factly evades me. Newtonian gravity is flawed. It fails to take into account the law of conservation of energy. Einstein's theories are losing credence, with many, as more and more thought is given to redefining our understanding of gravity. Is it a simple matter of mass? Probably not. Is it magical little particles? Probably not. Is it an electomagnetic field, created by objects in motion, in which positively and negatively charged particles attract and repel each other? Maybe. I'm glad people are giving this some serious thought and I hope nay-sayers don't discourage them. It is about time we find a better understanding of gravity!

Navajo, I agree with you totally and take no offense to anything you said. My exception was with Sayonara. Sayonara, I don't mean to judge you personally except that the point of Navajo's post is exactly how you seem to be. You seem very close minded to possibilities that don't exactly mesh with well established theories. You are very quick to tell someone they are wrong then, in the next breath, admit that everything you base your OPINIONS on may be incorrect. There is no room for rigidity of thinking in science. Often times, the biggest breakthroughs come from deviation from normal thinking.

Funny that you should be the first to reply. You are a perfect example of what I am talking about. You say that, "any alternative that has LESS EVIDENCE FOR IT will be MORE WRONG." When you don't know anything about 85% of what you are dealing with, that type of conclusion may be leading you entirely in the wrong direction. Although you admit that everything we know could be wrong, you continue to put too much stock in it. You are too quick to tell someone they are wrong when, for all you know, they may be entirely correct. It is this type of egocentric elitist attitude that hurts scientific progress.

Sorry, I incorrectly attributed to NSX when it should have been NavajoEverclear.

Go with it NSX!!! One thing that irritates me to no end is how much "faith" people put into all these theories given that we can't even comprehend what 85% of the universe is comprised of. Our little theories work within the confines of our limited knowledge, sure enough, but in reality we may be as far from the truth as can be. That being the case, I don't understand how people can tell others, unequivocably, that they are wrong. In reality, they may be on the mark. I can't respect someone who familiarizes him/herself with a bunch of someone else's theories and argues them as if they were their own. Pseudo-intellects! Think out of the box! None of these people, of whom can't even break out of their own mental paradigms, will ever contribute anything of value.

I watched a program last night in which an astro physicist said that dark energy, which is different than matter, anti-matter, and dark matter, makes up 60% of the universe and that they know less of it than they do of dark matter...of which they know virtually nothing.

LOL!

What do y'all think of the following: http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/dark-energy.html

If I interpret the article correctly, it isn't actually a penis but rather a fleshy cylinder that is "shaped like a penis". So, while this young man will again be able to stand and pee, which is a gift in itself, I doubt he will be able to perform sexually. Poor sod! Then again, do we really want someone like this reproducing?

For instance, how, if at all, would pheromones from both same and opposite sex subjects effect a homosexual physiologically? There have been experiments where pheromones, from both the same and opposite sex, have been introduced to a heterosexual subjects vomeronasal organ. The subject experienced certain physiological reactions to the pheromones from the opposite sex while the pheromones of the same sex had no effect. Would a homosexual experience exactly the opposite effect by reacting to the pheromones of the same sex subject vice the opposite sex? If homosexuality is a congenital defect, vice a psychological matter, couldn't we expect this?

I wonder, if homosexuality is congenital, how far does the defect go? I say defect based solely on the basis of coupling for procreation.

Has there ever been any testing done with pheromones and homosexuals. By nature, a man/woman should not be effected by pheromones emitted by another man/woman. Given that a homosexual is attracted to members of the same sex, will a homosexual actually experience a physiological effect from the pheromone emissions of a member of the same sex? This would lend credence to one view, which is that homosexuals are born as such.

You are correct, it can be called racism. You would be incorrect but you can certainly call it that. Discrimination of homosexuality is unequivocably NOT racism. The definition of racism is as follows: 1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Therefore, discrimination based on any factor other than race is NOT racism.

Discrimination against homosexuality isn't racism for the simple fact that it has nothing to do with race. Discrimination against homosexuality would have to be classified as sexual orientationsim. I believe discrimination against homosexuality is based on the fact that it is not natural. The penis is meant, by nature, to be inserted into the vagina for the purpose of procreation. Don't get me wrong though, I don't condone this mentality. If we as humans are so intent on abiding by the laws of nature then we shouldn't be flying, driving, or doing anything else that we can't inherently do via using only our bodies as nature intended.

Very interesting. What is the overriding cause of their decay? Are they just lazy? Do they lack the desire to participate in society? Are they like other disenfranchised demographic groups in that they feel that they are owed a certain debt, based upon their past suffering, and, rather than partake in any betterment, spend their lives complaining that they have been victimized? The latter seems like a common mentality amongst groups that had once been dominated over by another.

I have not had the pleasure. Their extermination at the hands of the Nazis, in conjunction with the changing of the times, has relegated them to a few small droves. The advent of Hollywood has really taken it's toll on live performers. The modern world isn't really conducive to a nomadic lifestyle either.

The article goes on to say that NEC won't publicly comment on the experiment until it is reviewed by Nature, a weekly peer-reviewed science journal. Great thing about the truth; It is true whether or not anyone believes it!

Next question...We know that a wave in water isn't actually water moving but energy moving through water. In a light wave, are the electrons/photons actually moving or is the energy just transferring through stationary electrons/photons?

Many questions come to mind. When we speak of the speed of light are we speaking of gamma rays travelling at 186,000 miles/second through a vacuum? What if the electromagnetic spectrum goes beyond gamma rays and we just haven't discovered or observed this yet? This may be entirely possible and who is to say that the properties of light that could exist beyond gamma rays, in the electomagnetic spectrum, can't have properties vastly different than those of the types of light we have observed thus far! I submit the following for review just because I found it interesting: " In one experiment performed by researchers at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J., a pulse of light was sent through a transparent chamber filled with specially prepared cesium gas and was pushed to travel at speeds of 300 times the normal speed of light. The light travels so fast that the main part of the light pulse exits the chamber even before it enters. Theoretically, this means that you could see a moment in time before it actually takes place."

Aside of sickle-cell anemia, and the inability of Japanese to metabolize alcohol, there aren't enough of these instances to validate the need to breed a genetically superior human. Even if we breed the "perfect" human, who was resistant to all diseases, this human would only be resistant until diseases, say those caused by virus', mutated. Look at the flu virus, for instance, and how quickly it mutates. We can't even keep tabs on it from year to year.