While We Wait: Part 4

[human-slaughter]

Why do you say that?

Ummm, I dunno maybe cause it was awesome. And the villainy and explosions are much better on a large screen rather then a crappy pirated version.

 

[Perfection]

pirated versions aren't always crappy. There's some high quality piracy out there. Pirated flicks on a projector with a decent sound system can be pretty good.

In the end though, it's definitely worth the ticket price to see it in theater, unless you have crappy theaters.

 

[human-slaughter]

Lets protect the interests of real Pirates here people. Lets keep Piracy to the oceans.

 

[jalapeno_dude]

Note: You should all watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog today, because it's no longer free at midnight.

If you think it sounds stupid, watch the first installment. Then you'll understand.

 

[Perfection]

Lets protect the interests of real Pirates here people. Lets keep Piracy to the oceans.

Piss no! I'm a space pirate!

 

[Symphony D.]

Well, I sat in the third row of the movie theater. So I can't really say if my experience was normal Though I would suggest you go watch it at the theater.

Front row here (not by choice). Your sympathies are unnecessary, it wasn't anywhere near as bad as doing the same thing with Gladiator. Agree that it was a good movie and Ledger's Joker stole the whole thing. Also, somebody needs to get Batman a throat lozenge.

 

[Chandrasekhar]

Lets protect the interests of real Pirates here people. Lets keep Piracy to the oceans.

Yeah, show some respect. Genuine pirates are what held global warming back for so long.

 

[Symphony D.]

Since we were talking about wormholes, a particularly strong new theory posits they don't exist.

One implication may come as a bit of a disappointment to science-fiction aficionados. Science-fiction stories commonly make use of wormholes—thin handles attached to the universe that provide a shortcut between regions that would otherwise be far apart. What makes wormholes so exciting is their promise of time travel and faster-than-light transmission of signals. Although such phenomena have never been observed, physicists have speculated that wormholes might find a justification within the still unknown theory of quantum gravity. In view of the negative results from the computer simulations of Euclidean quantum gravity, the viability of wormholes now seems exceedingly unlikely. Wormholes come in such a huge variety that they tend to dominate the superposition and destabilize it, and so the quantum universe never gets to grow beyond a small but highly interconnected neighborhood.

The simplices must share a notion of time, which unfolds steadily in the direction of these arrows and never stands still or runs backward. Space keeps its overall form as time advances; it cannot break up into disconnected pieces or create wormholes.

 

[erez87]

Since we were talking about wormholes, a particularly strong new theory posits they don't exist.

Awesome stuff.

I always found String Theory as problematic for myself since it gave a lower limit to size while I always thought the universe has no limits that it doesn't put on itself (making up strings is not something the universe seems to do but rathe what we seems to put on it to explain stuff).

In this theory there seems to be no size limit... Which I like
What about light speed? Can we break it?

 

[Luckymoose]

Problem I see with scientists making these discoveries or disproving things is the fact that they have no way to testing it yet.

 

[erez87]

Problem I see with scientists making these discoveries or disproving things is the fact that they have no way to testing it yet.

yet isn't forever. They will have some sort of predictions soon, otherwise it isn't science.

 

[Symphony D.]

You can't exactly make a star or a black hole or a galaxy in a lab either. Kind of difficult to get your hands on one too. Doesn't really prevent you from figuring out how they work or that they exist.

 

[Luckymoose]

You can't exactly make a star or a black hole or a galaxy in a lab either. Kind of difficult to get your hands on one too. Doesn't really prevent you from figuring out how they work or that they exist.

True, but we don't know everything about them and won't until we can study them upclose. There is only so much you can figure out from billions of miles away.

 

[erez87]

True, but we don't know everything about them and won't until we can study them upclose. There is only so much you can figure out from billions of miles away.

Up close a black hole doesn't sounds very safe...

we can check black holes only through checking whatever is around them...

 

[Symphony D.]

True, but we don't know everything about them and won't until we can study them upclose. There is only so much you can figure out from billions of miles away.

Whoo-hoo. That exact same argument can be made for a rock held in your hand. You're never going to know the exact arrangement of its atomic and subatomic components, so you'll never know everything about it! Boo hoo hoo! Oh, wait, you're never going to know everything about anything, since despite what Intelligent Designists like to spout, all of science remains theory--it's an approximation of reality. It's just successful if it's experimentally validated or supported.

Since you like to consider the possible, maybe a cadre of gremlins secretly resides at the Earth's core and makes gravity by composing limericks! YOU'LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET THERE!

 

[andis-1]

Hilarious

 

[Dachs]

Wow, Symphony. /thread.

 

[human-slaughter]

Since you like to consider the possible, maybe a cadre of gremlins secretly resides at the Earth's core and makes gravity by composing limericks! YOU'LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET THERE!

This coming from the guy who said there were no such thing as Surfing magical Unicorns.

 

[Luckymoose]

Since you like to consider the possible, maybe a cadre of gremlins secretly resides at the Earth's core and makes gravity by composing limericks! YOU'LL NEVER KNOW BECAUSE YOU CAN'T GET THERE!

Seems more believable than a spinning chunk of metal.

 

[erez87]

He didn't say they don't exist, he said they almost certainly don't exist. If only because the chance so low... maybe in a 10^10000000000 years they will exist thought I doubt that since by then there won't even be light in the universe...



Luckymoose.

Spinning chunks of metal don't cause gravity. FAIL.