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The assumption is we are a simulation used to "see" back in time and for (i): yes, chances also are that the lower level civilization is simulated as well. (ii) perhaps, but do they not obey wide ranging but fixed rules anyway? For example.. we cannot create something purely original with our minds.. like a new color for example. Well the main idea is that either: "(1) The chances that a species at our current level of development can avoid going extinct before becoming technologically mature is negligibly small "(2) Almost no technologically mature civilisations are interested in running computer simulations of minds like ours" -or- "(3) You are almost certainly in a simulation." So take your pick. http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html is the actual paper and has the formula in it.. it makes sense.

16 Tauri On my b-day last year, it was discovered to have a planet orbiting it. BTW it's my B-day in 144 hours, 37 mins, 6 seconds.

Votes meteor.

Woot. Too bad it looks so amazing I got them after bending backwards very quickly and to a great extreme. Why would that cause retinal separation? And, how does retinal separation cause those comets? Now that I think about it, the patterns looked alot like tearing fabric or bubbling plastic film on, say, a CD that has been heated. Yah, I also was able to recreate them by moving my eyes quickly for a short time after they appeared. It ended after about 30 seconds though.

I think that is pressure on the optic nerve causing that. I am talking about a couple different things though.

Yah, I figured "Why waste all that money on someone I actually know?"

We dont know what forces are at work in things like this but I would imagine distance between the participants plays a pretty big role. Then again, these distances relative to the universe are negligable and probably so are the forces behind this as well. Good luck in the next few weeks anyway but I doubt it will work unless you manage to recruit a goodly ammount of the planet.

What are those little pricks of light you see in perfect darkness? There seems to be waves of them moving in organic looking shapes and patterns. Also, sometimes I see these sparks shoot past my eyes after doing intense or sudden physical activity. They follow perfectly smooth, curved paths and move quickly. It is not a mass of sparks. . . just one at a time. They look alot like shooting stars, but obviously are not seeing as I have seen them inside the house. What are they? They are actually quite beautiful and want to be able to make them appear on command like an X-Man. *family drags off to crazy house*

Whoops most of that was just repeating what y'all just said, I think.

Whaaaa? You accellerate until you reach escape velocity (not necessarily, but that is an extreme example), at which point the gravitational pull is not sufficient enough to pull you back in. The total energy used going to and from a point in an orbit would be equal and opposite, but seeing as the object reaches escape velocity (or whatever velocity it needs to reach its final destination) before it has a chance to lose kinetic energy to gravitational energy, we do not observe the total conversion of energy. And when accellerating, you might just accellerate past escape velocity all together.

I don't get it That ball is the universe. ~_~

It's not really predictable to the point that I am comfortable with giving an answer other than "I don't know." Chances are such that the sun will swallow the earth in the red giant stage of its life assuming our predictions that it will get to that stage are correct and something much more destructive does not happen in close proximity to the sun prior to that.

Another interesting thought: Perhaps our reality is the training ground for future minds of a lower level reality. Much like the learning to learn model of public schooling, perhaps things like Christian law etc. are the rules that guide the mind until "birth" into the "real" world, and pergatory is where you are picked to move on and uploaded into a physical body. That is what I would call a model society.

Read this: http://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix.html Basically it is telling us that: "(1) The chances that a species at our current level of development can avoid going extinct before becoming technologically mature is negligibly small "(2) Almost no technologically mature civilisations are interested in running computer simulations of minds like ours" -or- "(3) You are almost certainly in a simulation." With simulated minds, only the input and output of the mind is really important and the physics of the universe takes a back seat, but a simulated universe would obviously put physics first. Anyway, in a simulated universe, where exactly would the past and future be stored for a real-time simulation? Could this perhaps be the reason we have not determined the possibility of time travel.. or even the origins of the universe? Discuss SVP

Bon Pasco! Boas Festas! Happy Christmas! Joyeux Noel! Nadolig Llawen! Merry Xmas!!!

M theory needed 11 just because of the math eh? And I think time is only our perception of movement through one of the dimensions. Physical change and progression probably happen outside of any particular dimension. Jeez. It's all like video games anyway. All this "dimension" percieved out of the same flat fabric of spacetime. Just bad math created in a big ole' cosmic joke of a universe. Branes and branes of minute quantum disturbances resulting in the false hope of life meaning more than an amplitude reading on a multidemsional UHF canvas.

Irish Creme baby. The best of both worlds. As for income tax.... Canada & the US both take about a 3rd, but we Canucks separated peacefully, pretty much.

First I'm gonna find the b*tch who invented income tax.

Ha.

No fancy photographs of those supposed blobs as large as a dime? I read somewhere about videos showing a blob of BEC but have yet to find them.

I failed life. This is detention.

Yah. had a icyfrappamochachino a couple hours ago and aint gonna sleep. I am getting my first paycheck from my job tomorrow so I'm happy as a crustacian with a spine. So. I insure my car, get a cell phone, and the rest is history. Then: Party.

I've looked for a while now... I need to see a BEC. I need to....

I'm voting for plasma. edit -- NOPE!! http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20011210/bose-einstein.shtml Is that cool or what? edit again -- !!! The size of a dime !!! Think that could have been the source of the big bang? Supercooled +0.00000000001k universe condences into a giant BEC? Rad. .... Just read the article okay?

Bose-Einstein condensates? What would that be like? Plasma from things entering the atmosphere is easy to understand but what is this other type of matter?