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not yet, probably this weekend. have you seen phonebooth yet? I liked it unique movie.

I bless you with another homemade graphic. We're always traveling through spacetime at C, though most of our motion is through time.

Agreed. I should have clarified my position a little. Fully automatic weapons and other guns designed soley to indiscriminately kill should not be legal. The private citizen has no business with those. I also agree that certain people shouldn't have access to guns. People with a history of anger management problems, criminal backgrounds, psychiatric disorders, etc... should not be afforded guns. That doesn't sound very fair I guess, at least for those with psychiatric disorders since its not really their fault.

Photon that emerged from the big bang is the same age today as it was then. Time does not pass at C

He's talking about the speed of light being constant for all observers relative to their own motion.

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Think of it as C as the limit. You can never reach C, and hence time can never stop. You can get infinitely close to C, and time will go infinitely slower, but it will never stop completely.

Without certain standards we could have no number system that would work for anyone, anywhere, any time. Thats the whole point of having it organized the way it is. Of course, anyone can create a new number system where 3 comes before 2, but it wouldn't work the way our number system does and produce results without serious modifications to the rules.

I think Glider would be most appropriate to answer this question. A lot of placebo's work because our expectations of something effect how we perceive it. In other words, I expect that when I take a a certain medication that it will have a certain effect on my body. I'll look into it a bit more tomorrow and give a better response.

I'd like to see! How fast you're experiencing time is quite subjective though. You would really never know if you were experiencing time faster than anyone else, because unless you had personally experienced their perception, you would figure what you were experiencing was normal.

eek!! I'm not sure, I'm sure you've dove into google looking for this stuff, so I wouldn't be of much help. How much background in chemistry do you have? Some of that sounds like physical chemistry. Some of it is available on the periodic table (mass). You'd have to have pretty extensive knowledge of chem to be able to predict complex compounds. I'll ask my chem prof. and see what he says.

Less cars, less automobile accidents. Its quite difficult to assert the role firearms play in homicides. We can throw around numbers showing that Japan has a lower gun-related death rate than America, but when you take a look at their non-firearm related death rates compared to ours, its extremely low. Nations like Israel and Sweden also throw a wrench into statistics like that because their gun-ownership rates are near that of the United States, but their homicide rates are way lower. Even though Britain banned guns in (what year? 97?) their murder rates were at 100-year highs this past year. Violent crimes are also on the rise in England, yet the rate of violent crimes (and murder rates) in the US [which allows carrying of concealed weapons] are falling to 50-year lows. Of course, this study was performed before the civil disarmarment, so the rise in English crime cannot be attributed to the absence of guns. I'm merely showing that even though the US has a higher rate of gun ownership per 1,000 people, our crime rates are still falling. Crime and Justice in the United States and in England and Wales, 1981-96 "the U.S. robbery rate as measured in the victim survey was nearly double England's in 1981, but in 1995 the English robbery rate was 1.4 times America's (figure 1) the English assault rate as measured in the victim survey was slightly higher than America's in 1981, but in 1995 the English assault rate was more than double America's (figure 2) the U.S. burglary rate as measured in the victim survey was more than double England's in 1981, but in 1995 the English burglary rate was nearly double America's (below, and figure 3 of the report) the English motor vehicle theft rate as measured in the victim survey was 1.5 times America's in 1981, but in 1995 the English rate for vehicle theft was more than double America's (figure 4) the U.S. murder rate as measured in police statistics was 8.7 times England's in 1981 but 5.7 times in 1996 (figure 5) the U.S. rape rate as measured in police statistics was 17 times England's in 1981 but 3 times in 1996 (figure 6) the U.S. robbery rate as measured in police statistics was 6 times England's in 1981 but 1.4 times in 1996 (figure 7) the U.S. assault rate as measured in police statistics was 1.5 times England's in 1981, but in 1996 the English assault rate was slightly higher than America's (figure 8) the U.S. burglary rate as measured in police statistics was slightly higher than England's in 1981, but in 1996 the English burglary rate was more than double America's (below, and figure 9 of the report) " The violent crime rates of England and Wales exceed the US, but we still got you beat on murders, although if the trend continues the figures will converge in the next decade. In conclusion, statistics are confusing. I just think I should be able to protect myself and my family with lethal deterrance.

Feh, I've seen so many statistics and studies both for and against gun control. For everyone that shows gun control effective, I could produce one that shows it ineffective. In 1987 Florida (my state) passed a "right to carry" law. Everyone said it would lead to an increase in violance, yada yada. Between 1987 and 1996, the homicide rate went down 36%, and the firearm homicide went down 37%. Handgun homicide went down 41%. All this while the national averages were -.4%, +15%, and +24% respectively. ===================== Like fafalone said, if guns were illegal, only people bent on breaking the law would have them. PLUS HOW WOULD I GO A HUNTIN'?

Aye! Perfect timing, I just told faf last night there needs to be rules for homework help.

yea, this is why eventually everything (even things at the bottom of the ocean) would probably freeze; though I'm not sure about the organisms that live around hydrothermal vents.

Here's the article: Tech Jobs Projected to Double by 2010 (free registration required). Here's the slashdot comments (just as informative as the article): slashdot

Mostly to protect myself and my family. I'd probably hunt a little if I lived in the right area.

I've seen these goggles that flash faint red lights in your eyes when you're in REM sleep. Supposedly they help you enter the zone between sleep and awake, where you can "control" dreams.

You should consider punctuation Its hard to say, really. I would say 6-8 months?? (just a guess). Once photosynthetic plant life dies out, we're pretty much in trouble, since all of our food relies on plants. I'm sure there would be some autochemotrophs at the bottom of the ocean that would survive on unaffected by the sun's disapperance, though eventually I would imagine the effects would be so drastic everything would be wiped out.

Perhaps there is a universe where Zarkov and Adam both have PhDs in theoretical physics and are respected members of the scientific community! Theres also a universe where fafalone makes bad grades, has a two-digit IQ, and plays tennis well. imagine that!

Scientific American has a free, online article on Parallel Universes thats quite interesting. Parallel Universes intro: "Is there a copy of you reading this article? A person who is not you but who lives on a planet called Earth, with misty mountains, fertile fields and sprawling cities, in a solar system with eight other planets? The life of this person has been identical to yours in every respect. But perhaps he or she now decides to put down this article without finishing it, while you read on. The idea of such an alter ego seems strange and implausible, but it looks as if we will just have to live with it, because it is supported by astronomical observations. The simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 meters from here. This distance is so large that it is beyond astronomical, but that does not make your doppelgänger any less real. The estimate is derived from elementary probability and does not even assume speculative modern physics, merely that space is infinite (or at least sufficiently large) in size and almost uniformly filled with matter, as observations indicate. In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere. There are infinitely many other inhabited planets, including not just one but infinitely many that have people with the same appearance, name and memories as you, who play out every possible permutation of your life choices. " Personally, I've never been big on supporting an infinite universe. In an expanding universe, wouldn't that mean an infinite amount of space between each atom? SA cites the recent WMAP results: "COSMOLOGICAL DATA support the idea that space continues beyond the confines of our observable universe. The WMAP satellite recently measured the fluctuations in the microwave background (left). The strongest fluctuations are just over half a degree across, which indicates--after applying the rules of geometry--that space is very large or infinite (center). (One caveat: some cosmologists speculate that the discrepant point on the left of the graph is evidence for a finite volume.) In addition, WMAP and the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey have found that space on large scales is filled with matter uniformly (right), meaning that other universes should look basically like ours." (here's the full sized image) I havn't read the whole thing yet, just thought I'd give a heads up.

Just a quick glance at the polls and I'm sure me and faf are the only people who voted "yes".

Guns...

Haha, no need to be so defensive. No one accused you of "believing in it". We were responding to what you asked: " Do certain colors have specific meanings as to the psychological state of the persons mind or are they just abstract and just exist for no apparent reason. "