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InventionA Better Parking Lot
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It's frustrating finding somewhere to park in a busy car park. Then when you've finished shopping, you need to remember and find your parking space.
When parking on the weekend I came up... |
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Physics & CosmologyWhat does it mean there are Four Dimensions?
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I'm not sure what you mean, cturtle. Typically 4 dimensions refers to spacial dimensions: 3 of space and 1 of time. Since space and time are interchangable depending on the observer, the whole th... |
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Can science explore nothingness?
30 Posts • 7595 Views Philosophy Forum |
Thankyou roninheart that is exactly where I was going with this, the fact that nothing is in essence just space or a point in space, still means it does exist, therefore in some way we should be able... |
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End Of The Universe?
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Angel, you say that "space can't be created and it came into existance when matter was created". That seems like a paradox. I think that matter must have needed to be created within spa... |
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Physics & CosmologyThe Edge of the Universe
32 Posts • 9481 Views Science & Technology Forum |
I love the way people talk about bent space or the curvature of the universe. If the universe was infinite, its curvature could not be defined. Bent space is an experimental expression that is so abst... |
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Physics & CosmologySomething out of nothing
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This is from the Rutledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. It pretty much says what I have always been taught about what Kant's views on space and time were...I've found numerous scholarly works... |
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Physics & CosmologyWhere does the material from black holes go?
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The matter that is unfortunate enough to go into a black hole can do several things:
A) Get sucked in a stored in an infinite amount of space
B) Get shot out the other end and in to a different p... |
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The Zero Conjecture
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Human beings are drawn to simplicity. We have an intuition that no matter how intractable a problem may seem it must ultimately be reducible. And as to confirm our hunch the path of enquiry has led us... |
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Physics & CosmologyThe Edge of the Universe
32 Posts • 9481 Views Science & Technology Forum |
"Think about it this way. Empty space infinite. Clusters of clusters of galaxies slowly apear over infinite time and space only to grow hot and then expand and become cold and sterile. It happens... |
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BiologyEvolution
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Hmmm. Well, I've mentioned this idea before--maybe from our extremely limited spacio-temporal perception the physical evidence would suggest the process of evolution, but from the perspective of... |
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Physics & CosmologyBlack Holes
25 Posts • 9492 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Maybe space is empty and thats why it is called space |
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Expanding Universe?
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So what is space? is space and the universe the same thing? |
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God in ReligionIf there's a god, why is there evil?
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Ok, but why would *anything* be too mundane for an all powerful God? Space and Time are his inventions, and he should not be limited by them. If he is all powerful, he should be in complete control of... |
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FuturologyThe end of the universe
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I think we have a failure to communicate if I ever saw one *lol*
"think the theory I am referring to is actually opposite. You get a larger amount of space in between the matter, i.e. planets... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsDoes Time Even Exist?
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I may be wrong but im sure that a compass will just spin round and round in space, the milky way doesnt appear to be one mass like the earth, hmm and i've never heard of any magnetic poles in spa... |
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ARE YOU CYNICAL OF…...?
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I'm cynical of Outer Space exploration.
'Space...the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of...'
Children are malnourished, college costs $70K+, millions are unemployed, and so on.
- Cynical o... |
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Physics & CosmologyCAN WE SEE INTO THE PAST?
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If space is infinitely expansive and if we learn to fold space time we can move into any area of the universe so theoretically we could not only catch up but get in front of that light. Which raises a... |
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mysterious light travel
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Most people who look at the universe, as in galaxy position and moment, see a group of stellar bodies(galaxies) moving away from each other by some unexplainded force.
I see a group of stellar bodi... |
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Physics & CosmologyWhere does the material from black holes go?
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I may have missed the point so excuse me if I have.
Could it be that blck holes are just sper-condensed forms of mass. Therefore when mass becomes super confined and the space about it whirls up t... |
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Can science explore nothingness?
30 Posts • 7595 Views Philosophy Forum |
"the fact that nothing is in essence just space or a point in space"
- no. Nothing is just that. it is nothing; non-existence. there is radiation in every point of space. In the very least... |
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Reality & MetaphysicsIs nothing something?
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well, void is space, which is a physical property, so i would say that physically it is something. still, it is about the minimum amount of physical reality that can exist before becoming nonexistence... |
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Physics & CosmologyThe Edge of the Universe
32 Posts • 9481 Views Science & Technology Forum |
Empty space seems like it would be infinite. Matter (stars, planets, comets, dust) seems to be expanding in the empty space. The only edge of the universe would be the furthest matter that is expandin... |
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Society & SociologyOver population and the effects it has on the human psyche.
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I believe it makes us intreverted. We can't have our space around us, so we move inward and develope a space within us. We learn more about ourselves and less about others. Though we might live i... |
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