Shoutbox

Wow... a lots been said since i left... lets address a few things...

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Originally posted by Chloe
I said ...Cant think that further
meaning that  our minds can only think to a certain extent..got it?

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thousands of years ago the earth was our universe (people believed that stars were lights on a dome which surround the flat earth) and people could not even think that maybe there were other things called planets out there.
hundreds of years ago the solar system was our universe and people could not even fathom the thought that the earth was in fact not the centre of the universe
today most people can't imagine the universe being "flat" or "not closed".... even the best theoretical physicists don't fully understand it... what do they say is outside of the universe

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It is useless to try and find out because the universe is everything

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So what im saying is that while today it may seem that humankind will never understand the universe.... maybe in a thousand years maybe in a billion we will understand how the universe came to be.

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Originally posted by sasquatch
errr, u just proved energy isn't matter, e=mc^2

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Okay lets get rid of the myth once and for all... this formula interelates mass and energy... basically where there is energy there is mass and where there is mass there must be energy... let me give an example...assume you are standing still you have some amount of energy in you (the binding energy of all the atoms in you body and what not fr outside the scope of this post) now you start running... congratulations you just got heavier.... how can this be? when you start running you changed energy into kinetic energy.... now since E=mc^2 then m=E/c^2 so you would've got heavier (created mass). Now for all of you out there wondering why we can usually see this change in mass its simple... were dividing by c^2 (about 9*10^16 i think could be wrong) so the little change in energy you created leads to a miniscule change in mass. Now if you were creating large amounts of energy then you would create large amounts of mass.... this is why you theoretically can't travel at the speed of light. KE=.5*mv^2 if at speed of light v=c KE=.5mc^2 now
E=mc^2
.5mc^2=mc^2
.5=1 (a ridiculous result) so it seems impossible to travel at exactly the speed of light... you can approach it but never attain it... light (photons) gets around this by having zero mass thus that is why it can travel at the speed of light (and purportedly faster somehow) okay that was kinda off topic

Now in regards to dark matter/dark energy scientists still cannot agree whether it exists or not.... and if it does exist it points towards a universe that is likely not closed

finally scientists cannot why more matter exists than anti-matter.... was it some kind of fluke i hardly think so.... if the big bang theory is correct then why was more matter created than anti matter (it shouldn't happen) or... where did all the anti matter go...

okay enough blabbing on for now... interested to see your thoughts