Radical Edward

bouncing threads is bad mmkay? nano machines could work, though I doubt they would work with gears. they could be constructed in a way that they can construct new ones, but this would be a highly dangerous thing to do. as for refined matter. It is all well and good people making things up, but what are the properties of this refined matter? it makes no sense.

yes it did, but it was spam. this is a science forum not a fantasy one, so I removed it.

and even A Level students will have precious little idea about the things Young did.

It's not a matter of right really, I think of it more as a way of avoiding endless circumlocutions to get to the intended question asked. But then even the question "who has made the biggest contribution" is a difficult one in a way. Personally a favourite of mine is actually Thomas Young , though not many people have actually heard of the guy. and yeap, Euler was fairly prolific, though I didn't realise how much so until I looked him up just now

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it already is a paradox, that's why

heh... the most intelligent known person in science then.

because everyone's brains work in the same way and the laws of physics apply to everyone equally. you can change the words, but it doesn't change the physics. if you teach a child that down is up and up is down, and they won't suddenly plummet off into outer space because you told them the wrong words.

who do you think is then?

it is unlikely that things are entirely random like this, even on a quantum level. in each interaction, there will be a finite number of things that can happen (for example, electrons can only spin up or down, and so on), and should the alternate universe theory be true, then a finite number of universes would be spawned from each "random" interaction.

well the inclusion of nanotechnology into the body would be a very interesting one, but based on many of the methods that nature uses being probably the best ones, alot of biologically compatible nanotech would probably look an awful lot like a biological system anyway (since nature has come up with amazing ways of cleaving and constructing particles to order) The Control systems would probably have to be very local, hence making the systems even more biological in their makeup... in essence I don't think it will be awfully different from genetic engineering at the end of the day, since there will also need to be an efficient construction system. In essence, if we follow this route of body modification via nanomachines, it will look so integrated and biological, that this is what is will be. nanomachines for mechanical devices would probably look different though, as the things they construct are totally different. incidentally I agree with fafalone. you have alot of interesting ideas, and you can't be blamed for not having an in depth scientific education (yet ) Just try to calm down a little please, keep your posts a bit more on topic and don't worry so much about getting banned. If you want to chat about all sorts of things, there is General Discussions and other topics to look at.

this is self contradictory. besides good and evil are not quantifiable, they are merely concepts.

it is the definition of planck time; the time it takes light (in a vacuum) to travel one planck length.

I strongly suggest you do it by row reduction; follow all the usual rules until one row or (column) has all but one zeros. then you have a number to multiply the rest of the matrix by. if the reduced matrix is still larger than 3x3 then carry on doing that with successively smaller matrices. Sorry I am terrible at remembering terminology so I can't explain it well.

don't look down on yourself too much, just keep working hard and you an succeed!

that was my old university, Imperial College London. You don't need to go to some fancy place like a military research institution to get interesting stuff done, if anything alot of those will be the opposite, since the focus will be mostly on maiming and killing and how to slaughter humans more effectively than ever before. Just work hard, and get to a good university, and you too can do stuff like that.

I heard that it was done with a hamster.

maybe they are caught in some sort of TC loop.

I think that is as far as we need to go

I haven't tried.... incidentally, I was thinking how cowboy bebop came up with bullet time before The Matrix, in the Red Eye episode. Granted other people might have done it as well, but not with bullets (do not insert reference to the bullets not.... thread here).

it is even copyrighted.

it requires modification though to include time cycles now though I think. because so far it has both zarkovian and Adamesque qualities, but it is lacking a contribution from our latest oracle of pseudoscience.

I know that when you are cold, seconds feel like hours, but time doesn't stretch with temperature. in fact, in particle accelerators high energy (and hence bloody hot) particles last alot longer than low energy ones. Granted this is to do with special relativity, but having said that it desn'T sit well with what you said.

It makes you wonder if he did actually have a solution though. How big is Wiles'? I only saw the program on TV about it, and he was working on it for quite a while, so I imagine it must have been quite substantial.

they actually edited the episode? heh... neat. do you think that they will edit it again of someone comes up with a more innovative proof than Wiles in the next couple of hundred years.