|
Ask pseudo-philosophic questions, here (pg. 4)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| drizzt81 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
If a cat always lands on its feet, and a piece of toasts always lands butterside up, if u tie a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat, and dropped it from a height, what way up will it land? :o |
it will float, of course.. just about when it would normally hit the ground, it will stop and spinn really fast, until the mechanism, by which you have fastened the toast to the cat, breaks away due to it not being able to provide the centripedal force needed for such fast rotation.
Then, the car will land on its feet _AND_ the toast on the buttered side...
that is ooo simple *jeeS* |
|
|
| Prototrance |
Right I'm gonna clear up this light year thing. A light year is the distance you would travel in one normal earth year if you were travelling at the speed of light.
Therefore, yes you are seeing an object as it was it was 2 billion years ago if it is 2 billion light years away. But a light year is essentially a measure of distance not time. |
|
|
| Prototrance |
Got a good question that has always mashed my head up.
If you were to go back in time and punch one of your mates in the head, would the current version of your mate suddenly have the memory of that event occurring spring into his/her head????
This is just one scenario that you could try within quantum experiments.
what do you think??? |
|
|
| TranceGiant |
I remember having a similiar discussion once in this forum..I dont remember how but i kinda found a good explanation as to why time travelling (BACK in time) isn't possible.
i think it was like.... When you decide to travel back to point X and time passes you'll eventually be back in present, having already been to point X, so the moment you juimo into a time machine ull realize uve already been there..erm..something like that |
|
|
| DJ Fundamental |
| quote: | Originally posted by Arbiter
The cat will land on its feet, but as it does so, the twine tying the buttered toast to its back will snap, and the toast will fall of, landing butterside up. |
Damn good answer!!!
OK, here's one...
If you breathe in cold weather you can see your breath. What happens if you fart in cold weather? Do the same rules apply?
And if not, WHY NOT? |
|
|
| Prototrance |
whoa Trance giant that mashed me head up more!!!
But if you travel back to point x, when you arrive at point x you will be moving with the normal flow of time AT point x. So theoreticaly you could not catch up to the present you left any quicker than normal. And when you did whatever you did in the past would still affect the future (the present you left)
So if you went back 10 minutes it would take you ten minutes to reach the point you left. In that time you do the punching in the face thing I was on about and see the result.
BUT.............
When you arrive back in the present you left will it be the same, because you changed something???? |
|
|
| TranceGiant |
| I guess the moment u DECIDE to go back 10 minutes and punch your mate he'll already be punched, so u actually wont have to travel...:confused: cause when u enter the time machine, go back, punch him, ull be eventually back to the point of "present" with your wanting to go back and punch, but uve alreadyx punched him...it enver stops |
|
|
| kirbtastic |
| quote: | Originally posted by Prototrance
Right I'm gonna clear up this light year thing. A light year is the distance you would travel in one normal earth year if you were travelling at the speed of light.
Therefore, yes you are seeing an object as it was it was 2 billion years ago if it is 2 billion light years away. But a light year is essentially a measure of distance not time. |
no mr. wizard. if u look up at a star that is 2 billion light years away means u are looking at the light the left that star 2 billion years ago...your seeing how that star was 2 billion years ago, not how it is at this present time. so in actuality, u are looking into that past |
|
|
| diffusion |
The universe is infinite. If the universe is expanding, then what's outside where it hasn't expanded? Large walls? Then what's outside of them?
How deep is the universe?
What's up and down in space? |
|
|
| Xo|oX |
| quote: | Originally posted by kirbtastic
no mr. wizard. if u look up at a star that is 2 billion light years away means u are looking at the light the left that star 2 billion years ago...your seeing how that star was 2 billion years ago, not how it is at this present time. so in actuality, u are looking into that past |
heh... actually everything that u see is how it looked in the past... just more or less long back in the past... if for instance u look at your hand from 33 centimeters you see how your hand looked like about 0.00000000000000001 seconds ago... and when u look at the moon u see how it looked like about 14 secs ago... BTW 8 minutes to the sun |
|
|
| diffusion |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Ah, I asked that once too (can't remember where though).
And the answer I got was:
The cat stops just before it hits the ground and starts to spin around with ever increasing speed until it becomes too much and the cat explodes all over the place.
;) |
Makes sense
roflmao |
|
|
| DJ Mikey Mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by diffusion
The universe is infinite. If the universe is expanding, then what's outside where it hasn't expanded? Large walls? Then what's outside of them?
How deep is the universe?
What's up and down in space? |
heh. I love this one. The ultimate paradox. most likely will never no :( |
|
|
|
|
