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Philosophies And Theroies; I seriously need a life
Topic Started: Oct 26 2005, 08:39 AM (1,127 Views)
Divine_Walrus
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Darkside
Nov 3 2005, 05:53 AM
Where did you get the idea that im 8? im like, definitly 15.

You might want to ammend your profile then :lol:

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Darkside
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lol i didnt even know...i swear i put it at 1990 lol thanx.

h yeah, i meant to ask earlier, what is the theories on dark matter and dark energy...i know that dark matter fills the gaps between matter in space, and that dark energy isnt really energy, but the fact that it opposes dark matter gives it its name, but aside from that i don't know.
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The basic deal with dark matter is that it's matter we can't detect, but we know has to be there. We can detect it's effect on the surrounding matter, it's gravity, but nothing else. It seems to be completely inert in terms of colour, energy, etc, but it must exist, according to extremely complex mathematical physics. We don't know much about it, because we've only been studying it for a very short time.

Dark energy is a fairly new idea that has come about because of the realisation that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. We there isn't enough normal energy in the universe for that to happen, so we've hypothesized a kind of 'dark energy' that we can't detect to explain it. We know a hell of alot more about dark matter than about dark energy, and we don't know all that much about dark matter, so it's really new stuff.

That's the gist.
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what about that string theory or whatever its called. where there are these really really really tiny strings that make up everything and they vibrate and they all vibrate diffrently for diffrent things. i cant remember exactly.
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Yeah, I try not to think too hard on string theory, it makes my head hurt. There are some ways of thinking that are beyond even me. B)
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neko_aku
Nov 6 2005, 09:34 AM
what about that string theory or whatever its called. where there are these really really really tiny strings that make up everything and they vibrate and they all vibrate diffrently for diffrent things. i cant remember exactly.

Thats something out a Greek story book. Starts with a H
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Sigfried
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ok i see the theories, but where is the phylosophy :worry:
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Here's some: I think the world as we know it doesn't exist. Refute me. :D
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Shrike
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*pulls up*
I DISAGREE!
*drives off*
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Hmm...I've never experienced a drive-by refuting before. Maybe you should go a little more indepth. :huh:
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Nov 7 2005, 10:58 AM
Hmm...I've never experienced a drive-by refuting before. Maybe you should go a little more indepth. :huh:

You should watch more family guy then B) Awesome quote Shrike :lol:
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I must have missed that episode. Damn. Oh well, there's always syndication. ;)
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Anybody ever read "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury? In it there's this story about a guy on this spaceship who starts to believe that everyone else is a figment of his imagination and that he's all alone in the universe. I always had to wonder about that. When I was a kid I never believed that my mirror image was what I actually looked like. My friend's mom took me into her room where they had a full length mirror and said "is that what I look like?" I said yes. Then she said "well, that's what you look like too." She had a good point, but I'm still not convinced. Just because she sees me as she sees me in the mirror doesn't mean that's what I really look like. In fact, everything in a mirror is reversed, so the only true way to see yourself is in a picture. So I was kinda right after all. That's not what I look like in the mirror.
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Sounds like you've got some identity issues. Mirrors have plagued man's psyche ever since we first saw our reflection in water and realised that's what we looked like. In fact, that's how we know that chimps are self aware. Most animals can't see themselves in a mirror, but chimps realise they're looking at their reflection. A dog might bark at it's reflection for hours, cats ignore their reflections, and most rodents will attempt to mate with their reflections. B) A mirror can't show you anything that's not really there. Unless it's demon-posessed. :unsure:
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In a way, that story is kinda right. we are all alone in the universe. As Charles Dickens said in A Tale of Two Cities ; "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound seceret and mystery to every other." Since only you truly know yourself in every way, you are alone, even though you may be surrounded by friends. If anyone's seen "Johnny got his Gun" (or at least seen the video for "One" by Metallica) It was said by Johnny's father "each man faces death on his own". We are born alone; no one experiences the same birth you do, and we die alone, regardless of how many people are with us.
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I read that book, "Johnny got his gun." Didn't know they made a movie. I don't think I'd want to watch it though, that book depressed the hell out of me. I don't think there's a more horrible fate in life than what happened to that guy. For those of you who haven't seen/read it, go check it out. It's very anti-war, but after you see what happened to poor "Johnny" (I don't think that was his name) you'll understand.
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Sigfried
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i liked more Asimov, specially one story about a machine who answered every question of mankind except one, going on and on until the big bang
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Yeah...i cant imagine what someone on Johnny's position must feel like... Defintily check it out, its one of those books that will make you think a lot about the value of life. And War. *shudder*

My brother just put on the Music Video for "One" by Metallica...it still makes me feel all weird inside, even though ive seen it like, 10 times.
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Curtis
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This is my signature so maybe you can tell me what it means in your own words.

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
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Simply two paths to the same goal, one no better or worse than the other. Sometimes one is needed, sometimes the other.
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Curtis
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true that. When i first read that it confused the hell out of me:P
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An immature person would rather show-off his support for a cause by doing something drastic, while the truly mature one would know that more can be done quietly with small actions than can be done with one large action.
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This is something that's been bothering me for a while: If the life we experience is nothing more than cognitive observations based purely upon sensory perception, and as we know said perceptions can be easily fooled or misinterpreted, prove too me that I wrote this, or that you even exist, or that gravity exists, or even the universe. In short, life is guess work, educated guess work, but guess work none the less. The one thing we can extract from this is that we know nothing as we cannot truly know anything, and what we think we know we cannot prove. Is life really as bleak as all this? Are we really just floating blobs of consciousness that cannot even prove, let alone validate, our own existance? If this is true, it all boild down too faith, faith in god or religion.... perhaps, but most of all, belief in ourselves and our sorroundings. So the million dollar question, do you believe enough?
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with that thought you are going for consecuentialism (sp?), we humans know what we must do, our duty, no one can tell us because we already know it
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I dont believe in a god, cause I mean look at the guys who wrote the bible, they were high I mean thats how the renassaince started a few people got a high and said holy shit these ideas kick ass. Then some people used too much of whatever they had, I mean Jesus being white, in the middle east, how is that possible, I mean he would atleast have a tan, you cant live in the middle east as long as he did and not have a tan whether you the son of god or not. That is my opinion and well I think it should be taken into serious consideration.
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