antimatter

Okay, but then back to the original ideas, how would you get two such black holes two orbit each other?

About the first one, if a black hole's gravity is so powerful, woudn't the antigravity destroy the gravity?

I was recently reading the science-fiction thriller Deep Storm by Lincoln Child, and in the novel there is a massive extra-terrestrial weapons dump in the mo-ho. These weapons, known as Sentinels, are described as being As it turns out in the end, the weapon consists of two black holes, in a tiny,tight orbit, one made of matter, the other, antimatter. 1. First, would that be possible? 2. and second, in the book, characters mention 'disarming' the weapon by separating the two black holes. how would that be done? by the way, it was a very entertaining book, for people who're interested.

Definitely not self-destructive...it's in no way meaning self-harm, just a feeling of apathy and defeatism

Okay, that makes a lot of sense now, thanks.

Does that just happen automatically? Or do the dendrites just sort of die like flowers? Sorry if these are stupid questions, I'm not really to confident of my knowledge of the nervous system yet.

Thanks, I think that's one of the first times someone's been nice to me here! But uh...I have one question, can there be a sort of..surplus of nerves? Like if too many dendrite connections are formed

heh I can't tell if you're being sarcastic in the first line, but oh well... Okay, so I see what you were saying now, I guess it all makes slightly more sense, thanks for the links.

Not really Would you giving me a basic explanation? If not that's alright, I might be able to find a website with some information on it.

How would the new connections form if it was crippled?

Right, but that's not really what this thread is about... Would there be permanent nerve damage from IGNORING a stimulus, and sure agentchange, maybe even an imaginary stimulus.

Okay, so there's the word that was escaping me at the moment. So would instinct be able to over-rule your subconscious?

Not really, see, I'm having a little difficulty formulating the ideas in my head into words, please go a little easy on me... I'm saying that maybe we can do something without or subconscious 'knowing', and that's where the 'other subconscious' came in, although that wasn't what I was getting at.

Well, afterwards when you realized that you clicked on a different link, but that's what I'm saying...sort of...it's your subconscious against your...other subconscious

Right, that's true, but I mean more...sort of fighting against your subconscious, subconsciously... It makes one decision ahead of time, and you do something completely different.

Not really, at least, I don't think so. The article (the link was in the word 'this', so I did cite it), and it was talking about how the decision is already made, but what if you somehow managed to make a different altogether spontaneous decision, would that be possible?

Seriously?

I recently read this article and got me wondering; could we be thinking about doing one thing, and then do another? or would it be all planned out in our subconscious so that we can't really do anything 'spontaneously'? Sorry if it's a little vague, I'll try and clarify if someone (or everyone) is confused.

That's pretty disturbing stuff, Pangloss, I actually hadn't even heard that particular story, though events similar to that have happened before. I really don't think video games have all that much to do with it though, some kids are born with an overly-aggressive mindset, and some kids are pushovers who're willing to join those kids.

Frozen Nitrogen would kill the laptop. Period. You also wouldn't want to lick it...or touch it in any other way...

So would that mean you would never have that itching sensation again?

nihilistic-defeatistic apathy.

Right, but that's basically the workings of the material that's causing the itch. My question more relates to the neuroscience point of view; will there be any damage nerve-wise from not responding to an itch? I was thinking that maybe it's one of those things, that when you ignore it long enough it stops working...but this is all guessing. Can anyone shed some light on this?

Gore was definitely not a scientist, nor was he an observer. He graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in government, and then he later went to law school, but he never was a scientist.

All these threads in Anatomy, Physiology and Neuroscience about itching have gotten me curious. When a stimulus causes an itch, what will happen if we never respond to it? Aside from the intense frustration and annoyance of having a perpetual itch. Will it cause any after-effects if you don't itch? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I just started thinking about it when I was getting my hair cut and some hair landed on my nose, and it started itching.