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So, I am a fan of random, terrifying facts about existence. The more my mind boggles, the happier I am. I know, I'm 'touched' as the Victorians might have said, shortly before putting me in a cage and letting their urchins poke me with sticks.
Thus here I am, seeking more nuggets of mind bending knowledge. To kick off, here is a favourite of mine...
Inside each and every atom in the Universe, there is to be found considerable more empty space than Quarks and Particles and that (you know, the sort of stuff that makes an atom an atom). Therefore, it can be said with some scientific certainity* that in our Universe, there is considerably more nothing, than there is something, to an extremely daft ratio. Thus, I can safely say we are all nothing, the Universe is nothing, and therefore nothing actually exists.
*Unless this hypothesis is wrong**
** Which it probably is. Still good though!
So come on Dakka...boil my brain a little bit more.
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Read Descartes, he might make your mind pop. Per capita, Canadians consume the most doughnuts, and Canada has the most doughnut stores per capita.
DR:80+S(GT)G++M++B-I++Pwmhd05#+D+++A+++/sWD-R++T(Ot)DM+ How is it they live in such harmony - the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
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"The Eldar get no attention because the average male does not like confetti blasters, shimmer shields or sparkle lasers."
-Illeix
Because of the negative charge of the electrons in our atoms we are not actually touching anything.
For instance I assume you are sitting in a chair. You are not actually touching the chair, but hovering aproximately 1 angstrom above it.
If you want to be mind-fethed study quantum theory, according to that nothing exists until someone observes it existing and processes the data into a rational thought
corpsesarefun wrote:If you want to be mind-fethed study quantum theory, according to that nothing exists until someone observes it existing and processes the data into a rational thought
Not far from Decarte's 'I think therefore I am' quote.
And strictly speaking, quantam theory makes a lot of sense. Without someone or something to witness it, it can very much be said that nothing exists. I follows that!
It's like Schroedinger's (sp?) Cat. You put a Cat in a sound proof box, and close it. Now until that box is reopened, you cannot say with certainty whether the cat is either alive, or dead. Therefore, until the box is opened, the poor moggy in question can be accurately described as both dead AND alive. At the same time.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Monobrows attractive. Well, I suppose, seeing as increased facial hair is a sign of heightened levels of testosterone, thus you could be literally called 'more manly' for having one. The weirdos.
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@JEB: Anyone in Canada could have told you that. Two words. Timmy Ho's (AKA Tim Horton's)
The Battle Report Master wrote:i had a freind come round a few weeks ago to have a 40k apocalpocalpse game i was guards men he was space maines.... my first turn was 4 bonbaonbardlements... jacobs turn to he didnt have one i phased out.
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Tantras wrote: Logically speaking, that makes perfect sense and I understand and agree entirely... but is it RAW?
corpsesarefun wrote:If you want to be mind-fethed study quantum theory, according to that nothing exists until someone observes it existing and processes the data into a rational thought
Not far from Decarte's 'I think therefore I am' quote.
And strictly speaking, quantam theory makes a lot of sense. Without someone or something to witness it, it can very much be said that nothing exists. I follows that!
It's like Schroedinger's (sp?) Cat. You put a Cat in a sound proof box, and close it. Now until that box is reopened, you cannot say with certainty whether the cat is either alive, or dead. Therefore, until the box is opened, the poor moggy in question can be accurately described as both dead AND alive. At the same time.
Its ironic, Schroedinger came up with his cat experiment to try and illustrate why the copenhagen interpretation (quantum theory) was silly and made no sense, yet its now used as a perfect illustration of how it works.
It is theorized that wormholes, tunnels connecting two points in space and time, exist all around us. They are however, smaller than an atom.
Figure out a way to enlarge them and, boom: instantaneous travel anywhere in the universe.
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rubiksnoob wrote:It is theorized that wormholes, tunnels connecting two points in space and time, exist all around us. They are however, smaller than an atom.
Figure out a way to enlarge them and, boom: instantaneous travel anywhere in the universe.
Again quantum but this time blended with relativity (another mindbender ).
Really its a flawed explanation of instantaneous movement of particles as the issue can be resolved using reverse relativity
SO hold on, this negative charge thingy which means we've never actually touched anything ever in our entire lives (which, after a fashion means we are all virgins. Yes, even Ron Jeremy)...what if we could reverse that charge on an object? Would it just cease to be as the atoms run out of reasons to stay stuck together, or would it be like a non-ferrus magnet to any other substance (opposite charges attracting, like charges repelling etc)????
MY MIND MUST KNOW!
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Because if you're going to all that effort, you might as well fill a bucket. Stupid!
Albatross...certain brands, or any? I think I just found a comically unlikely way to off someone....just dare them to eat 5 tubes of toothpaste, then leg it.
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It's a slow and painful death, apparently. It all solidifies inside you like a rock. Have you ever tried to get dried up toothpaste off anything? It's like cement.
I just had an idea for a cake iced in toothpaste. The perfect, minty-fresh crime.
Also, MDG, I think that what's more mind-boggling than the fact that everything is more nothing than something is the sheer strength of the forces that govern particles, when compared to the forces that we are used to.
I mean, yeah, it makes more sense when we think of the power of stars and atom bombs, but the sheer fact that all of the matter we know of and interact with is, even though it's nothing, still acting precisely as though it was something just from the sheer power of the atomic forces that are acting on those tiny specks of something floating in nothing.
Also, the other thing that theory made me think of was the vastness of space when compared to the sizes of stars and planets. It made me think "So you're saying that it's quite possible that each star in our universe is simply a part of the atoms making up a single mollecule? COOL!"
Though it's that sort of recursion which can cause problems. (because what if the quarks and particles inside of an atom are really stars? :O) (don't worry, I know this isn't an original idea.)
The Battle Report Master wrote:i had a freind come round a few weeks ago to have a 40k apocalpocalpse game i was guards men he was space maines.... my first turn was 4 bonbaonbardlements... jacobs turn to he didnt have one i phased out.
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Tantras wrote: Logically speaking, that makes perfect sense and I understand and agree entirely... but is it RAW?
Because if you're going to all that effort, you might as well fill a bucket. Stupid!
Albatross...certain brands, or any? I think I just found a comically unlikely way to off someone....just dare them to eat 5 tubes of toothpaste, then leg it.
You would need like...a really really strong bucket.
So a thimble works better. Because really, who needs over 100 million tons x1000000?
We're outnumbered ten to one here. Still' I love the odds! - Free Will Sacrifice - Amon Amarth
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So wait, would you die if you ate four tubes of neutron star?
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
The largest structure in the universe is the Galactic Web. It is made up of clusters of galaxies, connected by long strings of galaxies, with billions of cubic light years of space between them that is absolutely empty. Thanks to dark matter's ability to absorb the light of these galaxies, if you were in the middle of one of these empty regions, you wouldn't be able to see a single star. It would be so absolutely dark that your mind would dissipate like an ice cube thrown on a hot griddle.
Kan - do you mean at the time, or when it... 'passes through', so to speak.
The Battle Report Master wrote:i had a freind come round a few weeks ago to have a 40k apocalpocalpse game i was guards men he was space maines.... my first turn was 4 bonbaonbardlements... jacobs turn to he didnt have one i phased out.
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Tantras wrote: Logically speaking, that makes perfect sense and I understand and agree entirely... but is it RAW?
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