thedarkshade

Perhaps they do things of irrational things, and among them the concept of time might be included, but there is quite a little probability that we share the same ideas and point of views about time. Perhaps they already know what time is and don't give a damn about it any more! It's all 'perhaps' in this world we have to chose among the best and most logical among them. Yes, basically! Being aware means knowing that something or someone or whatever exists, is! And a perception is a direct contact of the reality with you senses (empirical), or in this case with your rational side! Great! Now think of the differences on the perception of time between us and animals. That is due to what we have managed to understand so far! Because we don't literally percept time in the way we percept color, mass, form, taste, smell. Time is subjective. You can hold it, move it around and play with it. We understand time as something that is in our mind. It's apriori! I completely agree! But they still remain as personal opinions until they are confirmed or denied scientifically! Because we have not yet managed to achieve something like: "There you go, this is time and this is the procedure it is created and we can do that over and over as much as we want in out labs!" But anyway, we are talking about a subject which includes only personal opinions and point of views so this does not mean that I or you have to be right. It's just a free discussion about a subject within which everyone can share their opinions about it!

OGM... this is freaky funny. See what imagination leads too?!?!?!

I don't know the answer really, but someone here could help you figure that out. I never was the chemkid!

They were (are???) considered as protectors from the demons in China. They even have the year of Dragon!

yeah, wasn't it?

Man I can't wait for that to start. I've filled all my room with all the photos of it I could find in web and my real player library is full LHC CERN videos. I think I'll take a little trip to Switzerland in May and stay there all the month just to feel the excitement!

pH does affect the speed of the reaction. Here's a short quote from newton website:

Well she did read my essay though!

Dragons as creatures that pour fire out of their mouth, have a 'snake' body with legs, and have wings so they can fly, are really mythical creatures. I made a google search right now and all I got was "fantasy, mythical, fiction, legends .." and stuff like this. But is there a link you could post where could see what you mean by "proved'?

Here is a link to Wiki. As it says that it decomposes spontaneously in water and oxygen gas, then probably the best pH value is neutral (just guessing)!

Sure! I got some papers here that have a photo from STM in which xenon atoms are arranged in a nickel surface to for three letters IBM... guess who they work for? More on that

Suppose we travel at 0.8c, and have a mas of 50kg. So: [math]f=\sqrt{1 - \beta^2}=\sqrt{1-(0.8)^2}=\sqrt{0.36}=0.6[/math] .. do [math]\sqrt{1-\beta^2[/math]=0.6 and gamma function: [math]\gamma = \frac{1}{0.6}=1.666666......[/math] then mass: [math]m=\frac{m_0}{\sqrt{1-\beta^2}}=\frac{50}{0.6}=83.333333...[/math] and there is some relation: [math]\frac{m}{m_0}=\gamma[/math] [math]\frac{83.33333.....}{50}=1.666666...[/math] [math]1.6666....=1.6666....[/math] See!

On earth they are artificial allotropic modifications, but I think scientist managed to find them on some meteors. Care to share a link?

You see! It's all biochemical, a rational scientific explanation. What would make love more special than the other biochemical stuff? Perhaps the intensity of the process, its effects, but nothing special really!

Well the fact that we "think" of time, and are conscious about the time "phenomena" makes us special enough. We are aware of time, are certain that it is, and if our perception of time is an illusion or not that is a different thing. We (the organic world) do get born, develop, reproduce and die. WE literally feel time. This does not completely stand for inorganic world too. They too do suffer changes as a results of interaction occurring between them, but they do not have a perception of it, they no nothing about something called 'time', thus by 'their' point of view there is no time. Humans have different perceptions for many things. We can have different perceptions about he same thing depending by the way we judge things, but this does not mean that one of us MUST be right and the other wrong. But if you are referring to the fact you and I experience different time, then there are factors that influence here. The most 'primitive' of all is that you might be older than, thus you have experienced much time. Then the 'traveling or nor factor'. And yes indeed we experience different time, but we both experience time, no matter if you do less or more than I do. Well because human mind likes to explore, to know how things work, why they work the way they do, and what really are they. The ignorance toward the true nature of time would be foolishness, no matter if we will ever truly understand it. We get a very concrete understanding of things with the help of science, which experimentally and practically shows how things work. But this does not apply to time. There is no complete understanding of time in science yet and which would say :"Here you go, this is how time works. This is how it was created and we can create it over and over if we have these specific conditions." And as a result of the absence of a clear scientific understanding of time, we have to lean on the most logical conclusions. And this is what philosophy offers, a lot of ideas and hypotheses!

OMG ecoli, you could at least have chosen a better statement!

Absolutely! It wouldn't make any difference!

You got a point. I mean, the creation of everythingness from nothingness simply violates logic. The same goes for the Big Bang. How did life appear is a big question. So far there is no CLEAR view for how did it exactly being, though there is this experiment! If you stop for a second, think of the life that stand everywhere around you and ask how did all this appear, then you really realize how less we know about the nature. How small are to understand this world, and tend to understand the infinite universe. It just is absolutely exciting to think of stuff like this. I mean, you think of how life showed up, you make your own picture of it, think of it in the way you want and so might do everyone. That's because there is yet nothing that would decisively say "This is how life appeared. It started exactly this way and if circumstances somehow manage to come like this again, life would again begin." And I have no problems understanding your english. I'm not a native speaker either edit: BTW ecoli, this somehow word really does not fit pure science. Science is about how and why!

That sounds like a 5th fundamental force:eek:... but there is nothing which would support what you say, right? This "force" reminds me of "vis vitalis", a "force" or ability which was thought was the reason that organisms make organic substances. It is certain that all the life today is as a result of that single cell that was the first thing to live. How that was "created"? Well, we have Miller's experiment which is a sort of scientific back up. But I'm sure there is something a lot lot more complicated behind that. The origin of life is indeed an interesting issue. But shouldn't threads like this be on speculation sector?

It's going to start operating in may.. and it takes just a google search to find that out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

a very simple equation would be: molarity=moles of solute\liter of solution BTW, check this!

Avogadro's number? What does it have to do with the OP's question anyway...

Not that's exactly why I said "I can't even imagine"!

I got that red underlining all the time but I simply ignored it. Not that I had no time but just didn't try to get the right word. Thanks for correcting;) edit: there is another identical thread here by the same user but with 0 replies. Some mod please delete it!

After all that hard work for getting a PhD, a word of respect for that would be no harm:P