Baby Astronaut

Not hemispheres, two whole brains (or more). aka zombie food. 15) Imagining a new sense.

14) Having two or more brains

The correct phrasing: if someone happened to die by accidentally slipping on a banana peel, will mentioning it cause giggles at their funeral? I'm sure the mime's parents care. (we all know mime school's very expensive) (on a side note, wonder if anyone posting on these forums is a mime?) As others have said, the naked eyes without viewing instruments aren't likely to change what's being observed.

If so, then each black hole would suddenly be inside a larger event horizon and neither one could escape. Therefore the particle's never going to leave anyway in your scenario, as the black holes each would be stuck in the newly formed/merged event horizon. But do we know for sure the event horizons would instantly become one? Now that I'm visualizing it, you deduction seems highly possible, but I'd like confirmation.

What's CMS stand for?

...it does make a sound. Why? The universe doesn't need our presence for its laws to function. How do I conclude that? Because the universe has existed longer than our fossil record indicates. And sound waves do occur without the presence of a biological listening apparatus. It can be tested: just place a glass chalice along with a machine that emits a high pitched electronic sound deep into the woods away from human ears, come back and observe if the glass shattered. Voilà

Hurtling fast enough through space? But remember, an event horizon isn't a real physical object and so can't be trapped by gravity anyway...I presume.

Thanks guys. Just to ensure that we're all on the same page...you knew I meant giving control not just of the website, but of the server that it's residing on? (partial control though, like being able to navigate the server itself and make permitted changes -- in specified/limited ways only)

Un-freakin-believably astounding pics. Some have me thinking of what you'd see under a petri dish of alien microbial stuff, others have me thinking of water ripples. Many just really strange looking. Thanks Martin.

You sure it can't be made into a productive discussion? Let's see. "I believe the universe is trying to kill me. Really sucks you know, having that feeling. There's no escaping it because no matter where I go, the freakin thing is already laying in wait for me. I think it's going to do it soon, just feels that way." "bummer dude. You should really get help." "Didn't you understand? The "help" would still be part of the universe, and it wants to kill -- not help -- me. "well, I personally don't think the universe can kill anyone or is even conscious. Really, if the universe wanted you dead so bad it could just open a black hole inside of you or more simply just have prevented your birth in the first place. Ask yourself: does it really make sense? Unless you're having fun with us all..." "Maybe you have a poin---waaaait a minute, y--y--you're up to something, right? No good I bet...you're part of the universe and tricking me into letting my guard down. It won't happen! I'll not be such an easy lunch! You'll never see me posting here agaaaain!" Dammit...you were right JillSwift. I totally agree with you, just being helpful towards the proposed idea.

That's just it. Personal belief can be labeled as such, thus wouldn't be a claim, just a belief specific to that person's reckonings.

Or it could've just entered one first, moments before the second overtook it.

9) Infinity. 10) Omniscience. 11) sun's temperature

....a particle's caught. The situation: two black holes passed near each other, like so... Their event horizons slightly overlap, with a particle caught exactly in the middle of this overlap. Now the black holes continue on their merry way. The particle must leave with one black hole, yet at the same time it must leave the other black hole. Thus does it violate a scientific principle? For now there would be something able to escape an event horizon. A side question...if a photon were caught instead of a particle, does anything interesting/unusual happen to its movement?

But we can measure a number beyond the calculated total energy of the universe

Can one make a website that gives full editorial control to someone, allowing them to upload content and make any kind of changes, but you still have a master key just in case you need to override that control? And if so, how possible is it to allow full control to either just one part of the website -- for example to the menu system, or images, or css scripts, etc -- or to just a certain number of functions -- such as permissions/access to one, two, or more server-side scripts (but not all of them), or even to particular functions of the server itself...like a person being able to update/edit/delete scripts yet has no control over their archiving into back-ups?* *(for example if a script is deleted/erased it automatically gets backed up first, nothing the person can do about it)

If someone typed up a post, didn't hit "Submit", abandons the computer, meanwhile the branch of a falling tree eventually hits the Submit key, while no one's around.....Does it get posted?

If no one tried to make unsupported claims or dismissive remarks, I think a faith subforum discussion area could work. What if the bibles just mixed in sprinkles of real history with its stories? The problem anyway is that finding circumstantial/supporting evidence for one biblical description isn't whatsoever proof for the other biblical descriptions. I thought catch-22 meant the "solution" was in reality just an instant shortcut back to the problem. Edit: or that a feedback loop's created either between a problem and its solution, or between two problems.

Thanks swansont, everyone. Wow. I had thought it a far more organized and universal system. If mathematics is the best (i.e. universal) language for contact with aliens, how's an extraterrestrial going to unravel what the letters represent in our equations? Hypothetically speaking

[math]r[/math] stands for...? Is there a website anywhere that briefly explains all such letters, i.e. what each represents?

Edtharan did you catch my last post #132?

I'd like to see the data on that, if you would. A google search based on the quote above turned up nothing relevant. The key words I used... models of human behaviors in last decades reveal much we didn't know

Thanks, swansont. Got it: just observing isn't enough to stop the wave behavior. One must attempt to detect its path. Attempting to detect which slit the particle has entered. Does it become a wave again if no such detection exists at the second pair (by the time the electron reaches it)? True. Drawing on a forum post is quite limited and so I did my best Just ignore the extra shooter. Wow, yeah. Hadn't even occurred to me that indirectly, the divider would reveal the electron's path. Let's assume the height of each slit is 20 inches, they're just not level -- one's bottom is higher than the other by a few inches. So perhaps the single electron becomes a wave of potentials (3:10 in the vid) and goes through the lower slit as normal, but for the slightly higher one the bottom part of its wave is blocked -- thus only the top portion of the wave goes through. Interesting in such a manner.

From a letter by Darwin... "I have been now ever since my return engaged in a very presumptuous work & which I know no one individual who wd not say a very foolish one." Pretty close to the way I feel (or perhaps how others will in due time). Been going it 5+ years. Just curious though, does anyone else here feel the same way, or has in the past? Do hope so (Credit Sisyphus for introducing that website previously)

It seems the meeting of particle/antiparticle keeps the violation of conservation from occurring. But if Hawking Radiation is a vast group of particles composed entirely of the one particle that didn't fall into the black hole, then can't we safely deduce the escaping particles won't be annihilated in the near future? Yet if that's the case, has the violation occurred? Another question on Hawking Radiation: it follows that about half of the particles falling into the black hole by that process will be "anti". If so, the black hole itself surely is made of regular particles. So as soon the anti- enters the black hole, shouldn't it annihilate with a random particle?