Sayonara

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: Physics can be fun! - very little to do with Heisenberg, but there's some funny stuff on here. Like "Dubious fact of the month".

The written word. Antibiotics. Computing machines. The scientific method. Atomic power. Fudge.

I wasn't even talking about you. Re-read.

Go on, have a guess :-D

I certainly can't disagree with that.

210 lol

No. That would be like scraping butter off a piece of toast and spreading it on another piece. You get more toast out of it, but each piece has less butter than the original. We can't operate outside the laws of thermodynamics (or butter dynamics if you don't wish to mix metaphors).

Let's make absolutely sure everyone knows this: HUMANS HAVE UNEQUIVOCABLY DEMONSTRATED FORWARD TRAVEL IN TIME.

"Space Odyssey".

\o/ 10 megs!!!!!!!!11112 \o/

Jeez.

You aren't too big to go over my knee missy.

HEY THERE, BLIKEY BOY, FLYING THROUGH THE SKY SO FANCY-FREE

Replace the word "hacker" with "internet geek" and it all works. I mean, for god's sake, everyone who said "ooh that fits me perfectly,wow", keep your hand in the air if you have ever used usenet.

How about "Nopadopamopalis"?

And in "Outbreak"

And the prize for most concise and effective explanation of Gram tests goes to.... SKYE!

Depends which model you subscribe to. Best not to contradict MrL with only Hawking's worst work to back you up, you'll be sore for weeks

Come again?

It's easy, and we've already done it (albeit by a minuscule period of time). Berlingoff Rasmussen ah0y! (How come I remember his name but not the episode?)

No, I mean how does an action in one universe affect events in the other?

Daisy cutter explosions pull in everything in a huge radius, including the air.

I understand the general idea, but... how?

... oh yeah. While it's true that one atom is pretty much identical to any other of the same element, this is where the similarity with the coins ends. The virtual coins in the bank can't interact with each other or the virtual coins in other accounts, but real coins get all over - for instance I might withdraw 50p and get it changed into 10p pieces, but I am still at -50p, whereas in this model I should have a balance of 5(-10). Also, if you make a withdrawal of £10 and spend £5, you still have -£10 compared to your original bank balance - so in the universe model this would translate to one universe exerting consequences upon the other, but not necessarily suffering them itself. Atoms arrange themselves into molecules, and objects at a macroscopic level, but the critical element here is that they don't stay that way. Water freezes, ice melts, steam condenses, suns die, rocks break, stallagtites grow, plutonium decays... So what mechanism keeps both universes "in synch"? I guess that was a lot to write for one simple question

The bank balance analogy is quite good for describing a universe and, for want of a better term, an anti-universe created by the same event. However, your negative penny is defined only by its monetary value, because the coin itself does not exist. Since this is the only common attribute between the coins, this would be why we said they were identical. If you took 10p out of your account you would have no way of identifying which penny matched which negative penny, as they all have an identical monetary value and there is no physical common factor between penny and -penny. ... I've forgotten where I was going with this now