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Are things which are inherently knowable, theoretically measurable, or is it just that they become unmeasurable through observation? If, for example an electron does actually have a specific location at any given point (its just that we cant measure it) Then surely that implies that all events are predetermined.

heat is just aggitated particles. as there were so many particles in such a small space, the temperature would need to be very high, as the particles moved away from each other, the heat becomes dissipated. so basically that heat is now spread throught the universe

thank you sun spot, thats very enlightening. its not all about money. although quite a large part of me still feels that with more funding, more would be possible. therefore we are not working at our maximum potential.

I am talking about the rest frame of the earth. How wouldnt the bullet stop?. i can understand that the train neednt stop as the metal can be deforemed. but in all frames, the bullet stops doesnt it? Thanks for your help, it has been most helpful

we could be using a lot more resources than we are then

i think thats what i am saying. so does that mean that as you approach a black hole, space itself shrinks. As space is expanding, could this be driven by the opposite of a black hole, e.g a white hole.

sorry waht do you mean by classic runs into quantum mechanics

Sure a lot of money is spent on scientific research, but money is finite, mans capacity for knowledge isnt. Am i wrong in saying that our development is directly related to money, and i feel that it is a sad restriction. Is it a restriction that is created by man.

If you know everything about events leading up to a future occurance, then surely you can predict its outcome, does this mean that is outcome is predetermined. For example. In the lottery, if you knew the exact weight of the balls, the height they were dropped from, all of the coefficients of friction and all other information, e.g. air resistance etc. then surely you could program it into a computer and find the outcome. This Is already being done, to a certain extent with mapping weather systems in supercomputers. e.g. they predicted the effects of hurricane Katrina to a certain extent. If you had a powerful enough computer, and could program in sufficient information, also an in depth knowledge of chaos would need to be known, but we should be able to predict all future outcomes from a single event, even me pressing this fullstop.

I think I remember hearing about this years ago, but I cant remember what was said about it. If a bullet is fired into the front of a speeding train, then the bullet has to change direction, which means it will momentarily stop. If the bullet stops, then so must the train, how can this be possible. Is this xeno/zenos paradox?? or how is it connected to it

If a black hole is a point in space from which nothing can return, does this mean that space itself is lost, and a black hole is actually a genuine point of nothingness, not even vacuum. I know that black holes originate from collapsed stars, and are a very high concentration of mass, but has this collapsed mass has actually fallen through the fabric of space-time. I have heard the question asked, “ since the big bang, what is the universe expanding into?” to which I heard somebody suggest the answer “nothing, absolute nothingness, not even vacuum.” Could black holes therefore be a link to whatever it is that is outside of our universe. Even if that happens to be pure nothing. Over the course of time, wont black holes go about hovering up all of the matter from the universe. Is it ever possible over trillions of trillions of years that all of the black holes will have absorbed everything. Will the universe still exist then? as the black hole has to be in something. Is there a maximum size a black hole can reach? I am sure I have made some terrible mistakes in my reasoning, but if somebody could set me straight, it would be most appreciated.

This is partly biology based, but it is mostly a financial thing. i have been thinking it for a while and would just like to see what people think. It appears to me, that money is halting our own evolution and development. The humanrace, has the knowledge, or the ability to obtain the knowledge, to further our species. We also have many of the raw materials available. the only thing we lack in order to conduct reasearch into new technologies is money. Can you imagine what we would be able to do if there was an endless supply of funding for scientifi reasearch an development. It seems a bit ironic that money is a man has made, and yet it is holding us back from our full potential. Is there anyway, without crippling the economies of the world, that endless funding could be given to the sciences? couldnt money just somehow become obsolete in a few instances?