A thread to make you think...

[Trov]

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I you jumped of the highest building in the world is it going to hurt when you hit the ground legs 1st

It depends on the strength of the person who jumps. The stronger the leg muscles, the more likely that the shock from falling off a tall building will be absorbed. BUT, you have to be insanely strong to survive from jumping off the tallest building.


How about this Question.

If Time travel is possible, and you had locked yourself outside your house. And you said this "I will go back in time, and get my key from inside the house and lay it under this rock."(And you actually go back in time to do this) Does the key suddenly reappear under the rock?

 

[Galst Vic]

Well I have some questions...

- How was everything created the world the humans everything???

-Is there really a god watching us ???

-Is there a hell and heaven or when you die is just like going to sleep forever?

 

[TwisteR]

personally i don think the usiverse has an end. maybe at some point theres an asteroid field or something else that causes you to not go any further. theres so much "space" out there its hard to comprehend. just thinking about something like that, something so infinite makes my head hurt.
(thats my opinion, i dont wanna start some war about space does have an end and all that crap)

*Edit*
and i wouldnt start talkng aobut god and if hes real or not. people have their thughts, some believe and some dont.

 

[Sparr]

You see, time travel is very simple, and not as complex as everyone makes it out to be. I suppose sci-fi and the like make it seem amazing just to keep the story-line going, but think about it for a second, as I ask people this all the time....


"What if you were to go back in time, and kill your grandfather?"

Everyone promptly answers...

"You would disapear, and wouldn't exsist"

And as always I answer...

"Then you wouldn't be born to go back and kill him, would you?"

This is around when people get confused, and give up. This is obviously a paradox, as time would loop forever destroying itself, but the simple answer is(if it could be called correct)is that as soon as someone alters time....time is altered ONLY FOR THEM.

Think about it...Time Travel is the most selfish pursuit ever imagined. You would go back in time, kill your grandfather, and NOTHING would happen. As SOON as you went into the past, you would never be able to return to the future you left exactly as it was. If you killed your grandfather in the past, nothing would happen to you. You simply wouldn't be born IN THAT TIMELINE, and therefore, wouldn't have gone back in time, within that timeline, though you would be totally unaffected. Therefore everytime you did anything in the past OR future, time would alter and split into endless sub-paths. So, it ends up sort of like the show 'Sliders'; things exsist as they always do, just from different events played out different ways, over and over forever.

So, say a villian goes back in time to save Hitler or something, those who he left in the 'present' would never feel the effects, and never ever see the villian again, as he would be trapped in his own timeline. Of course, people from the future could be time traveling all over the place, but no harm would be done, though it may account for UFO's and the like. Now, if someone were able to jump between these 'dimensions' at will, then I suppose everyone could be affected, although I'm not sure why anyone would need more than one universe to begin with.

 

[Smith|]

How about this Question.

If Time travel is possible, and you had locked yourself outside your house. And you said this "I will go back in time, and get my key from inside the house and lay it under this rock."(And you actually go back in time to do this) Does the key suddenly reappear under the rock?

Well, if you did that then time would continue to go back and forth because the time AFTER it, you didnt have a key but it is under the rock but you didnt know. :/ err ya.

 

[Sparr]

If you did the rock thing and then went to the future, of course it would be there, you put it there. See...people think in terms of 'Back to the Future', where if you do something in the past, it affects the future, but I think its perfect logic to say this isn't true. As soon as you got your key, where normally you're outside forgetting about it (wow, if you time-traveled in the same spot you were standing, Im sure something strange would happen, lol) but, you would have the key, you would tell yourself to go back in time, soon after you would reappear, with the key already under the rock, and your done. Of course, I dont know why you couldnt simply unlock the door....

And no, things cannot travel faster than light....in theory, but then again Tachyon's exsist....in theory...

Tachyon-The name given to a speculative particle that follows a space-like trajectory through spacetime. That is, the particle must travel faster than the speed of light.

Edit: Heres a decent website on Tachyon's with diagrams and everything....problem is the background will literally destory you eyes. Copy and Paste, or strain into oblivion, lol, your pick.

http://aetherics.chaosmagic.com/tachyon.html

 

[Smith|]

Pfft... star trek owns end of story.
"Warp 5"
"Ey ey Captain."

Warp 5 is alot faster than light :/

 

[Sparr]

Lol, StarTrek is hardly anything to start taking information from (although I know you were joking). The trademark 'beam' that teleports people was only used because they didnt have enough money to use models of ships coming and going, so they took the easy way out, lol.

 

[Loki]

Well I have some questions...

- How was everything created the world the humans everything???

-Is there really a god watching us ???

-Is there a hell and heaven or when you die is just like going to sleep forever?

Your questions depend on Faith not on Science. No one CAN say and KNOW for sure that the Big Bang created the Universe, or if God created it. Its all Faith

 

[Smith|]

I know everything about star trek tng, . There was one episode when Picard was going from the present time to the past or the future and then back to the present again because of a space anomoly. Well, in the future, the Enterprise-D was supposidly repaired and taken from the moth balls, except they made a flaw, Commander Riker says "Warp 14" if Im correct, which would create such a tremendous stress on the hull that it would completely be destroyed, and lets not forget the fact that the enterprise-d was destroyed in the movie "Generation" .

 

[Scorcher2k]

Well if you don't believe that the big bang happened than you can believe that there will be one in the future. Of course not the near future but it will happen.

 

[MysticUub]

Ok...about the whole time travel thing....i think it is totally possible...but instead of thinking in terms of 'Back to the Future' think of it this way...what if when u went back in time instead of there being two "U's" u acctually participate in the events that take place...what im tryin to say is that what if goin back in time is just u going back...period...there is no change in timelines no alternate timlines made by the decisions u make and no memory of what goes on in the future...u just relive what has already happened...kinda like reliving a memory only it doesnt feel like a memory cause it hasnt happened yet...

and about death...to me what death would seem like (and this would acctually answer the heaven and hell thing too) is a big dream...and the life u led would effect the 'dream' just like in life..ya know how if u have somthin kinda tramatic or exciting happen to u u tend to dream about it...well the same goes for death i think...if u led a happy successfull and generally 'good' life then your dream would be 'good' which would basically be 'heaven' whereas if u had a ****y life then your dream would be 'bad' which would basically be 'hell'...but thats just me

 

[DiZzyBonne]

You just got me started...here it goes:

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Millions and millions of years ago, God was just...there. If God wasn't just there, who created him/her/it?
Is the Universe infinite?
If the Universe has an ending, what's after it? Is it just something else, or when you reach the end, it takes you back to the start? Also, what shape would it be?
If you were playing a sport, soccer for example, and the opposite team scored a goal, would they of still scored a goal if you were doing something else? Like instead of walking, running, or instead of stading at one point, standing at another.
If Adam and Eve were really the first two people on Earth, and they had babies, wouldn't we all be related? Also, that means that when you're in a relationship with someone, wouldn't you two be related?

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If I can think of more, then I'll post them.

 

[Scorcher2k]

Like I said earlier. The universe expands and shrinks. Right now its expanding but its starting to stop. Once it stops expanding it will shrink. In so many billion of years we will have yet another big bang.
Of course we're all related dude. We're all the same species I hope...

 

[DragonDude]

Time travel is a very interesting subject.
Myself, I believe it is possible, but it is not the way the media has made it. Just keep in mind these are all my opinions, with small research.
There are no time machines. How you step through time is with wormholes.
Throughout his life, Einstein proved one thing along with many others, this one relevant to time travel.
The faster you move, the slower time moves.
An experiment took place in which an aircraft carrying a clock traveling very quickly (I can't remember exactly how fast, my bad) was compared to the same kind of clock on the ground. The clocks were both set to count to 60 seconds.
At the end of the experiment, the clock on the aircraft differed from the clock on the ground by aproximately 400 nanoseconds.
A negligable ammount of time, but imagine the difference once we attain much faster levels of speed. (Not jumping into the "light speed" debate )
In short, Einstein was correct.
Now back to the wormholes.
Say, someday, an infinately advanced race (there could already be one out there, that is not humankind) is able to harness enough energy to keep both ends of a wormhole open, and large enough to step through.
Now, that advanced being leaves one end of the wormhole on the planet, and takes the other on an aircraft with them.
By the time they land back on the planet, the difference in time could equal anything as far as we know, let's just say it would be one day.
They would step into their end of the wormhole, and pop out the other end, one day earlier
You're probably skeptic, I kind of am too, but this theory atleast rules out paradoxes, by showing it would not be possible to travel to a time before the time "machine" was created.
That's my two cents on time travel, I nearly all of that from a show on TechTV, they have some interesting stuff once in awhile.

 

[xerraire]

The biggest brain teaser of all time. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? oooh.

Xerraire says
Uhhhh... don't you know! The chicken came before the egg, read gensis chapter 10 part 52.

HEHEHEH Go da Chicken.

Are there no Females here? tHEY CAN TELL US.

 

[Ultimate 17]

A question I often think of is what kind of music will people 20 years from now be listening to when they are our age? Will music continuously loop around and start back to the beginning like in the 1920's when blues and jazz first came on the scene? Its hard to imagine that another genre of music could arise. What would it sound like? Will my kids be listening to rap and rock or will they have another form of music not yet invented?? If I share my cd collection with them, will they like the music that I liked? What will the media type be when they are teenagers?? Its hard to imagine that the CD will be replaced. Maybe they will get smaller like a mini-cd. Its weird, but one form of art that will always prevail is music. Its with us when we wake up, when we work, go to class, go to sleep. Somewhere, there is music playing.


Another thing I wanna ask is why is there no record of dinosaurs existing in the Bible? Accord to "The Good Book", the first lving creations made by God were Adam and Eve... but we have physical evidence that dinosaurs existed millions of years before this. I've often thought that God placed dinosaur bones upon the earth to create controversy over whether the Bible is a true document or not. Maybe God wanted to create a little controversy to get more people interested in religion.

Science is a great tool we can use to explain such things, but what about the Big Bang Theory?? Its a half-assed idea that the earth and everything in the universe were created by particles that crashed into eachother at incredible speeds. Where the hell did these particles come from? And before the universe was created, was everything white like a sheet of paper, or black because there was no source of light. and who created God? Did he just appear? Everything has to come from something. Atleast science says it does.

 

[DiZzyBonne]

Well, one way that I believe, and all of you probably will too, is that if we send a man on the moon, and give him enough food, oxygen, etc to survive for like 100 years, since time is slower over there, he'd age slower, so when he goes back to Earth, he'd be living a little bit longer.

 

[Judge]

If you travel at the speed of light you become pure energy, and if you were in a ship that goes damn fast to reach light speed, then the ship would stretch and become almost flat, which would crush you.

and dizzybone thats not true, time is abstract and thought of my humanity, time does not go slower on the moon. and anging is purely personal so on the moon you age just as fast.

*EDIT* btw some people also believe that when you go faster than the speed of light you go back in time. because you gain up on light which actually resembles time since its the fastest moving particle.

but I dont believe time travel is possible it would create a paradox. when you go back in time you see your double, if you go back 1 year then you see your double, and when you stay in that timezone for 1 year, you see your double goin back in time cuz thats what you did. now that would cause a loop, or a vicious cycle. which just isnt possible.

 

[Sparr]

Judge, none of that would happen, paradox's and time travel don't exsist. If you were to see yourself, thats all, you saw yourself, it'd be like meeting a twin. You simply create a new timeline EVERY time you do anything, get it? You're reasoning is flawed anyhow, because if you saw yourself and went back the exact same time, it could not happen that way, because you would have seen yourself before you even went back the first time, from times beyond you. There would be no paradox.