Go | New | Find | Notify | Tools | Reply | |
| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon  |
What s the difference between mostly sunny and partly cloudy? Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
|
semi-reformed sailor |
42 Ok, seriously, I wonder if when we die and go to heaven do we get to know how things were in history and can we see those kinda things? Like you could go back to Ancient Greece and watch the city states fight each other, or could you go see DaVinci draw his vitruvian man... "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
|
| Unapologetic Old School Curmudgeon |
But when you leave the surface of the ball, by going straight up for example, you are entering something else. So you can't just take away a dimension, that dimension is there and exists. Kind of like how imaginary numbers can't exist based on the rules of math, but if they don't exist whole disciplines of math dont work. Maybe, we just don't really understand a damn thing after all. Don't weep for the stupid, or you will be crying all day | |||
|
| Member |
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain | |||
|
Member |
It's commonly believed amongst physics nerds that the 4 commonly known diminsions, are not the only ones that exist. They just happen to be the only ones our senses can detect and brains can understand. Like, Pac-Man can't see up or down. The ability wasn't useful, so evolution ignored it. Picture a 3 dimensional torus, turned vertical, superimposed through pac-man's 2 dimensional universe. He would see 2 seperate points in space, and could mathematically measure heat transfer, electrical current, vibration, etc being transmitted magically from one point to the other. I always wondered about how gravity, magnetic forces and electromagnetic radiation would look if we could access other dimensions of our universe. Perhaps if, in addition to X, Y, Z and T, we could see into dimension B, things like magnetism and gravity would be easier to understand. | |||
|
| Staring back from the abyss  |
Our universe itself could be finite. But our universe has to be in something. Something has to contain it. But what is that? And what contains whatever contains our universe? It hurts my brain. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
|
Member |
Sure, because we're looking at a 2D surface in a 3D space, to make it easy to visualize. This is helpful because the surface-of-the-ball 2D surface is a curved space, and at the level that we interact with space on a day-to-day basis, space is flat. We have no experience with curved space, so we have trouble visualizing or even imagining it. It's just an analogy. You can have the surface-of-the-ball 2D surface be a 2D space, with no other dimension to go "somewhere else," too. You just can't visualize it. | |||
|
| Member |
The latest theory ,do we exist in a simulated setting created in posterity by man. This theory is being touted by several respected theoretical physicists. | |||
|
| Member |
Actually, the generally accepted theory is that the universe is all there is, and that in fact there CAN'T be anything outside it to contain it. | |||
|
Dinosaur |
Why don’t hot dog and roll packages contain the same number of contents? | |||
|
אַרְיֵה |
It can be partly cloudy either day or night. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
|
| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
Go back to page 3 and look at the picture I posted. Taken by Hubble in a region thought to be empty of any celestial objects. They were wrong. They found thousands of galaxies where there was supposed to be nothing. There's your answer. The universe never ends.  Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
|
Lost |
The most basic Zen koan is mu, "nothingness". If I ask you to think of nothingness, most people picture blackness in their minds. But that's wrong, as blackness is something. Whatever that not-blackness is, the Universe is sitting in it. | |||
|
| Staring back from the abyss |
That don't make no sense!
I've got a headache. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
|
| On the wrong side of the Mobius strip  |
Donovan Leitch has the answer. First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is. | |||
|
| Cruising the Highway to Hell  |
If there is only one god, why so many religions? “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” ― Ronald Reagan Retired old fart | |||
|
| Member |
Similar to unishot, but different - Sometimes it is not as important to have the right answer... as it is to have the right question | |||
|
Unhyphenated American |
Why do we drive on the parkway and park in the driveway? __________________________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M Nixon It's nice to be important, it's more important to be nice. Billy Joe Shaver NRA Life Member | |||
|
| Master of one hand pistol shooting  |
In creation theory, who created the creators? In big bang theory, what was before the boom? SIGnature NRA Benefactor CMP Pistol Distinguished | |||
|
Member |
If I can always hit the low 6 option in skeet, why couldn't I hit it the first time? I must ask the Dahli Llama CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
|
| Powered by Social Strata | Page 1 2 3 4 5 |
 | Please Wait. Your request is being processed... |
|
© SIGforum 2024