[Tycho?]

I dont have an opinion on it. I read stuff about it, and assume its fairly correct, as I have no other source of information on the subject.

"If indeed the universe was created by an intelligent designer, then it would only be natural that said being would create the majority of mater on one side of the “globe” and have it spread out from there." What are you basing this assumption on? I dont see how doing it that was is any more natural than another way. Also, from everything we've seen matter isn't hugely concentrated in one area, the densitity seems to be about the same no matter where you look.

I'm against capital punishment because of the possibility of getting an innocent person, or or of using it as a tool for discrimination, ie being more likely to execute someone who is of a different race, religion, ethnic group etc. Otherwise, people like serial murders and rapists should be summilarly killed.

Huh, I didn't know Venus was so far off, I thought it was pretty stable. But then it does have a retrograde rotation, so thats pretty wierd, I guess that kinda shows that its orbit isn't all that it should be.

Isn't the throwing of the ball be an kinetic energy transfer from you into the ball? Whouldn't the energy from you throwing the ball still affect it's motion? So even if the force you applied doesn't affect the ball, wouldn't your energy? Yes, throwing the ball transfers energy from you into the ball. In what you are thinking of, energy and force are the same thing. Your arm exerts a force on the ball, causing it to accelerate. Your arm transfers kinetic energy into the ball, giving the ball kinetic energy. The force of gravity acts downwards, slowing the ball. The balls kinetic energy is transfered to potential energy as it slows down, so when its at its peak and not moving, it has potential energy (because it can fall) but no kinetic since its not moving.

I always tend to have to get up while in the midst of a very deep sleep (usually after quite a while of tossing and turning) and so I am usually quite tired in the morning.

I agree with Sayonara³ on this one. It is probably easier for live to begin on a planet like earth, compared with a comet, or wherever that comet happend to come from.

2200 billion years eh? Did you mean 2200 million years? Because that would be within the lifetime of the universe, which is a start.

Note: these are equations for the man falling. If he jumps upward, it would be a different number.

You are correct, and your friend is not. Plus signals used by the brain move at less than c anyway, so it doesn't even matter.

Titat is not habitable. There is a chance it may have life of some sort, just because of the abundance of orangic compounds present in its atmosphere. But its extremely low temperature would make any life very difficult.

I tried making that stuff once at a friends house. We melted the saltpeter together with the sugar for a while, then lit it. It burned blue, and fast. It produced almost no smoke, so we either mixed it incorrectly or heated it for too long/ not long enough.

Yeah me too. Although for some things you need to just remember it, things like constants, equations that cannot be easily derived, a complex name of something or what have you. I still dont like mnumonics however.

I've heard about this, but only in the context of an effect that wasn't really repoducable in experiments and probably had some simple cause. These articles suggest that it is real, and not so simply explained. This remindes me of the mystery of the... gemini probe? I dont remember which probe it is, but one of our oldest probes is receding from the solar system at slower than it should be. Nobody has thus far been able to explain this. Very interesting stuff.

I'm not really sure whats being asked. They would look like very fast moving cars.

The 2d system you see is just something used to make the concept easier to understand. Curvature in 4d space is not something a human can accuratly visualise. When this is used, it is vastly easier to see the basic results of something. The representation should not be taken too literally, its just a mental aid.

Yeah, i didn't even notice that until I read it through a second time. It should be positron.

If you measure the speed of light in vacum, you always get the same value, no matter how you move.

This has already been posted here, I dont think anybody replied the first time.

This totally answers my question, thank you very much, great explanation.

Is there a way to find the frequency of emmited radiation of a black body when only the temperature is known? Does it depend on the material, another quality, or is it possible at all? Perhaps this doesn't reffer to black body radiation at all, but from what I've read it seems to be what I'm looking for. I just think of something like the tungsten in light bulbs. At very high temperatures, it emites light in the visible range. Is there a way to (preferably simply) explain this relationship?

It would be pretty darned difficult not to have photons in a certain area.