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I was looking for some resources online about the shape of photons, and came up with this: https://www.icfo.es/images/publications/J05-040.pdf I can barely make out anything, this is waaaaaay over my head in scientific specifications... but perhaps someone can make somethin gout of it? I think I've heard somewhere that it was possible to "film" or "look" at a single photon. If that's true, then its possible to get a "shape". I'm... guessing here? Err. This is just very interresting indeed. Would love to know if there actually is a hypothesized shape for a photon. ~moo

Woah Glider THANKS!!! That was an awsome response, now I know how to sort out the condition of my currently dying character without rewriting my story! Awsome, thanks!! If I may, only last subquestion: What are the physical conditions, or "stages" that accompany that type of bloodloss? From my time in the military, I remember learning that bloodloss is accompanied, first, by numbness of the limbs, and that the action of "fainting" - falling to the ground - is the body's defense mechanism, allowing blood to reach the brain without the interference of gravity. What are the following physical stages / "signs" of bloodloss, or internal bleeding? And another thing. In movies, we seem to always see someone spitting blood when injured in the abdomen. From what I could read, this is not true for abdominal injuries, but only for chest injuries -- the blood entering the lungs. Is this true, or am I wrong? I am trying to do what some movies (and stories) fail to do, and make this situation realistic. My character is currently lying on a floor, stabbed in the stomach 4 times. I want her to end up alive, but I also want her physical state, throughout the story, until she is found at least, to be realistic Thanks!!!! ~moo

well, my character is a female. Story, remember? Now answer and stop nitpicking! ~moo

Hi, Well. This is for a story I'm writing. Sorry to be so "scientifically-shallow" in my motives If a person gets stabbed, concidering the fact most abdomen stab dangers are internal bleeding, how long can he survive without someone taking him to a hospital? What can that person do in order to prolong that survival time? I'd appreciate responses, even if it does sound a bit weird of a question.. Thanks guys ~moo

Hehe. Okay, well, it could've been a nice concept. Thanks

I also looked up and found this site: http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/entop.html Does this has any scientific basis or is this total crap? ~moo

Yeah, it wasn't pure water anymore after the "effects" or whatever it was. So basically, theoretically.. it might be truely affecting our surroundings: if we're angry, we might be drinking different kind of water than if we're happy and in love? Interresting. Remind me not to order a glass of water from a gruntled waiter ~moo

I couldn't agree more, but I'm not claiming this is a proof, I"m trying to figure out if it's possible.. How can we explain this scientifically -- those "emotional emmissions" we all feel around us (person lookin at us behind our backs is quite the example) in a scientific way, then?

I actually liked that movie. I love phylosophy, and it seems to give some ideas (I didnt concider the movie scientific proofs ) about the connection between phylosophy and things we can't yet explain in science. In any case, JesuBungle, I see what you mean, but I have to raise a question: If we 'emmit' some sort of "wave" or something of this sort around us that depends on our "feeling", then what difference does it make if the matter that we "affect" can feel or not? When you use Radiation on biological matter, that can't produce that radiation by itself, you are still affecting it, and changing it. Can it be done with "psychological" emmissions? Or.. bah.. whatever we do while "feeling"? Plus, I don't presume to explain it, and I'm not a spiritual person either, but there is some weird effect in "feelings": Didn't it ever happen to you that you entered a room and emmediately FEEL the vibes in it? Anger, Confusion, whatever, you didn't have to actually see the faces in the crowd to emmediately feel SOMETHING. And the feeling we seem to get while someone's staring at us behind our backs. There's gotta be some scientific explanation to these.... right? ~moo

Hi all, I'm not even sure this is the right place to put this thread, I was guessing according to the subject, sorry if I got it wrong, feel free to .. uhm.. relocate me.. I was watching (Again!) The movie "What the @$&^%^#!@ do we know" and there was something there that got me wondering about one of the things said there in particular. In the movie, they showed an experiment done with water and different "moods" -- blessings, curses, words written on pages and such. The water looked different in the microscope in each different canister, even though their initial state was exactly the same. Can that be possible? Is that a working experiment, or just a "movie-effect" thing? The movie seemed to be using scientific data to support some of its ideas, phylosophical as it may be, but this specific thing got me wondering about reprecussions, in case it really does exist. Can "feelings" and "Attitudes" really affect the matter around us? Are we emmitting some sort of "wave" every time we "feel"? Anyone knows perhaps? Thanks ~moo

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It is cute, actually how 'bout Do you sleep on your stomach? [any answer] Can I? or Nice legs, lets eat out. Which is another way of completely distroying a perfectly good compliment And here's one that got me to laugh (though I doubt the person saying it to me would leave with anything less than a black eye): The word of the day is "legs." Let's go back to my place and spread the word. ~moo

Here are a few of mine: That's a few years ago though, in my "Matrixlike-sunglasses"! I'm such a geek another me from my military time: and a recent one: Is it just me, or do you see a resemblance to my avatar? ~mooey

Kids, Kids!!! Instead of lecturing us, try to listen to us. Share your ideas with the expectation of input, not with the attempt to "educate" us. My physics education is quite limited to High School major, and to my curiousity and love of the subject. You will NOT see me argue with those who actually have degrees in it. They've studied it long, hard, and know much more than me. I might ask, doubt, and raise questions, but lecture them? Not really. You don't yet have your own proffessurship. Don't lecture. Listen. It just got me frustrated; instead of people showing you why you are wrong in some points and right in others, people mock you. They don't mock you because your are wrong, they mock you because you presume to lecture them. It's really too bad. You can have such insightful input that will lead you to better conclusions. Debates and Question-asking and DOUBT is what science relies on. Don't keep your noses so high up, you ignore scientific advancements. Geesh, you're only 16, you got your entire life to lecture people. ~moo

There's something I must ask, in light of this entire post, and in light of these nice young boys' site. See, I've been reading around your site, seeing books about "Einstein's Mistake", "Against the Laws of Physics" and such and such.. These are quite heavy subjects to publish books about, when only 16. I must ask you: Where do you study these things? Where did you bring all these new theories from? I've read some of your books from Lulu, the ones that are free (Sorry, but I'm not throwing money around for these ) and they're absolutely, totally, and rediculously unfounded. Now. It's wonderful to explore - it is! And specifically at such relatively young age, to be interrested in physics and science, and to try and find new theories and new ways to explore the existing ones. I, myself, am an agnostic. I believe everything should be doubted, and I see no problem with you doubting - or trying to rewrite - the laws of physics. But there are ways to do that. The ways are through logical review of the existing facts, by conducting experiments, explaining them, resorting to the rewriting-of-physics in case the laws don't apply to that experiment's results. You don't do that. You just arbitrarily suggest to change the laws of nature. If you want to study physics, you need to understand the basic form of handling scientific methods and research. I do believe that your misconceptions and flawed logical exclamations ("perpetual motion machine that works for 2 cycles"..) are driven from your young age. It's okay, we've all been there I'm assuming. When I was 14 I created a drawing (quite elaborated, I must add) of a new way to fly, using electrecuted boots and an electromagnetic floor. Good thing I wasn't a builder. Before you go out lashing at the laws of physics people have worked hard to write - years and decades of research and experiments - the least you could do to honor those people - even if they're wrong - is to support your own work with research. Until you do that, you'll be concidered juvenile flukes. And no one will listen to your ideas. And that - TRUELY - is really a shame. It's with the likes of you - young minds that are interrested and curious - that the next generation of science will grow. I just suggest you learn how to approach it correctly, so you could one day join the list of scientific success. Perhaps you will build a perpetual-motion machine one day. It will take much studying and quite a heapload of experimenting from the point you are in now. Good Luck! ~moo

First of all, The brain doesn't Shut Down. When it does, you die. The brain is always active. Perhaps you meant that your "higher functions" shut down? as in.. R.E.M in sleep? or hypnosis? or.. subconscious thoughts rising to the surface? I didn't really understand waht you meant. The brain never shuts down though. That is a fact. Second, about Deja Vu, there are so many theories revolving that, it is very hard to keep track Personally, I do believe it has to do with our brain recieving many images we dont always remember. Specific locations and events trigger those memories and get that "deja vu" feeling. Beyond that, I tend to think also that people don't "think the same" but rather have similar trails of thought. I am a writer, and I adore movies. When i watch a series I like, I have ideas for episodes in it, scenarios, plotline ideas and such. Sometimes (to my great horror, it can be quite scary ) I see an episode, a short while after I thought of a plot idea, with the same idea. My mother once told me something very logical: I'm watching so many movies, and I read so many "how-to-write-screenplays" books, and am interrested in the subject in such a way, that I "got into the minds" of the writers of a series. I can expect what will come next, because I know the subject. I am not sure if it's true or not, but it can certainly explain it better than me thinking someone's reading my mind Keep dreaming ~moo

I always found these to be extremely amusing, and depends on who stands in front of me saying them (say, a gorgeous young man [or woman]) I might actually come through: "What's a sexy woman like you doing in a dirty mind like mine?" (10 points for the 'sexy woman' compliment, though 4 points for the slightly sleeziness hint on the rest) Can I flirt with you? 10 points if the person in front of me is a geek. Heck, odds are that if that person is giving me a pickup line, we're in a pickup bar, or similar place, where this line is quite to-the-point and obvious. Why would I sit there if I wasn't asking for a flirt, right? and on another note, here's one I read long ago, and found utterly distasteful, but it got me to laugh for a while: Excuse me, miss, do you give head to strangers? No. Well, then, allow me to introduce myself. ~moo

I am not much of a biologist, nor do I know too much of medical science, BUT, out of my experience, specifically my time in the military and in bootcamp, the body can "get used" to sleeping hours. Perhaps you're "used" to sleeping at noon (either after school or after soccer) and your body demands it, so then at night you're not tired. Try not sleeping at noon for a few days, sleeping in early at those evenings. It might feel awkward at the first two to three days, but you should get used to the sleeping times. I remember when I first arrived to bootcamp, the hours were not what i was used to entirely. I was used to going to sleep at very late hours (about 2amish) and getting up late (at about 11amish). When I started working out, running around, and getting to bed at 11pm, just to wake up at 5am, I thought I was going to die of exhaustion. But then, after bootcamp (which was a mere 3 weeks I found myself unable to sleep more than 6 hours a night, and getting tired at about 11pm to midnight. The body gets used to sleeping timings.. I suggest you try getting used to regular times. It might help. Those were my entirely non medical and completely out-of-experience two cents. You may keep the change ~moo

If you've seen Startrek (as long as we're discussing "scientific" shows ) then perhaps in the future they figured out that coming back to warn/change the past will cause bigger damage..? Bah. I don't know, but that actually was one of the better-explained things in sci-fi throughout the movies; the "Rule" of no-manipulating-the-past. The fact we didnt have anyone coming from the future doesn't mean they didn't try and were stopped. If you have timetravel, you cannever fail - if you failed stopping a "time-snitch" once, you just go back again and try again.. until you get it right.. I think... ~moo

Wow, so it's going to take a while. How long does it take to go from Earth to Mars? When are we expecting the Rover to come back? And another question: If there actually is a 'global warming' effect on Mars that shrinks the polar caps and releases the gasses into the atmosphere - should we expect some kind of thin atmosphere on mars within the next millenia (or less?) or are those gasses being released completely to space..? ~moo

Great place to watch an explanation about String Theory and the expanding universe: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html ~moo

About the samples -- do we have to get those samples back on earth for analysis or can the Mars Rover analyse them on-the-spot? Sorry for asking stupid questions, but this is quite interresting and I know quite nothing about it ~moo

I guess it depends what theories you built your belief on time-travel on. Personally, I love the way "Back to the Future" trilogy did the paradox-solving, as they had "seperate timelines", kind of like having different universe-dimention to each change they did in the past. Sounds pretty good to me, though, naturally, it's not the only theory out there, and it might create other paradoxes aswell. ~moo

That actually raises a question.. What are the odds of finding anything resembling life (or life-supporting environment) in the Ice-Caps on mars? If it's frozen CO2 then slim, no?

Wow, ethical issues in this are breathtaking. I can't avoid but remembering the movie "Gattaca".. are we about to "eliminate deseases" and "create better humans" while actually creating a new "HighSociety"? Yikes. I also have to wonder if this is not going to end up biting us in the ass at the end. How far can we really play with "nature" without having it play back..? It's known - or theorized, at least - the nature aspires for constant balance. As was said and shown in "Jurassic Park" - mother nature always finds the balance. I wonder if we're not openning a crack here for a new type of genetic deseases.. there IS (sadly) a point to deseases, so perhaps if we "eliminate" most known ones, we're creating the unknown harder to fight with ones.. scary. ~moo