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why does nothing weird happen. like....something totally out of the ordinary, like reverse gravity, or a whole new dimension popping out. or do we just miss it?
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I was on a course recently (a 3-D ground modelling course, yep, honest!) and when the tutor went on about the latest in 3-D, I just happened to throw in some aside about the 4th dimension and time speeding up and before I knew it, the course was over ...............doh! Said tutor looked at me afterwards and asked what on earth had I done..... I replied about something to do with the difference between kronos and kairos time and suddenly we were back where we'd started... Talk about confusing lol!
We are used to seeing things day to day so have gotten used to things that might seem weird.
Mercury for example - a metal that's also a liquid!
To see things that are seem truely weird to you you have to look a long way or at things too small for the eye - you won't be disappointed.
Giant Black holes at the centre of Galaxies, or sub atomic particles that flash in and out of existance faster than you can imagine. Particles that are "in" two places at the same time and interfere with each other.
If you want weird start with quantum mechanics
Mercury for example - a metal that's also a liquid!
To see things that are seem truely weird to you you have to look a long way or at things too small for the eye - you won't be disappointed.
Giant Black holes at the centre of Galaxies, or sub atomic particles that flash in and out of existance faster than you can imagine. Particles that are "in" two places at the same time and interfere with each other.
If you want weird start with quantum mechanics
interesting responses, thanks all.
Can someone please enlighten me as to where logic exists in the universe, outside a man made computer system or a brain? Where? One place? Please name just one, that will do me. I cannot think of one.
Is all of the universe governed by rules?
Do things outside the 'every day' (as it were) not happen (apart from Jake's good examples) at all, or is it that they happen but I don't live in their world. I was made for a very specific world, and to sense it: who's to say there aren't a billion different other things going on that I cannot possibly perceive or understand, via any medium whatsoever. Could science, especially physics, ever penetrate them?
I'm feeling an attack of the Kant/Locke/Humes coming on........
Can someone please enlighten me as to where logic exists in the universe, outside a man made computer system or a brain? Where? One place? Please name just one, that will do me. I cannot think of one.
Is all of the universe governed by rules?
Do things outside the 'every day' (as it were) not happen (apart from Jake's good examples) at all, or is it that they happen but I don't live in their world. I was made for a very specific world, and to sense it: who's to say there aren't a billion different other things going on that I cannot possibly perceive or understand, via any medium whatsoever. Could science, especially physics, ever penetrate them?
I'm feeling an attack of the Kant/Locke/Humes coming on........
New dimensions don't POP up.
According to the string theory which describes the fundamental particles of the universe as tiny vibrating strings of energy, suggests the existence of six or seven unseen spatial dimensions in addition to the time and three space dimensions that we normally see in our universe but these are very very small (about one billionth of a nanometer) and are all curled up,in a state similar to that of the entire universe at the time of the Big Bang.
IF these dimensions were big enough and less curled up it would revolutionize space travel, you could pop up where you wish!!
According to the string theory which describes the fundamental particles of the universe as tiny vibrating strings of energy, suggests the existence of six or seven unseen spatial dimensions in addition to the time and three space dimensions that we normally see in our universe but these are very very small (about one billionth of a nanometer) and are all curled up,in a state similar to that of the entire universe at the time of the Big Bang.
IF these dimensions were big enough and less curled up it would revolutionize space travel, you could pop up where you wish!!
What force could be strong enough to overcome gravity and cause the universe to accelerate?
Anti gravity or dark energy.
In 1998, when two independent teams of astronomers discovered that not only is the universe expanding, it is doing so at an ever-faster pace. Their findings were based on observations of supernovae � exploding stars that emit extraordinarily bright light. A supernova is a rare event, but new telescopes equipped with sophisticated electronic sensors allowed the research teams to track dozens of stellar explosions in the sky. What they saw astonished the world of astronomy: The supernovae, it turned out, actually were speeding up at a rate that outpaced the predicted gravitational pull of matter.
The supernova experimentsconfirmed a simple picture of the universe where approximately 30 percent of it is made of matter and 70 percent is made of dark energy
Anti gravity or dark energy.
In 1998, when two independent teams of astronomers discovered that not only is the universe expanding, it is doing so at an ever-faster pace. Their findings were based on observations of supernovae � exploding stars that emit extraordinarily bright light. A supernova is a rare event, but new telescopes equipped with sophisticated electronic sensors allowed the research teams to track dozens of stellar explosions in the sky. What they saw astonished the world of astronomy: The supernovae, it turned out, actually were speeding up at a rate that outpaced the predicted gravitational pull of matter.
The supernova experimentsconfirmed a simple picture of the universe where approximately 30 percent of it is made of matter and 70 percent is made of dark energy
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