A little deep for CA.com, but will make you think

[filtor1 10+ year member]

I only read it because Im interested in these sorts of things
oh and of course I shouuld be studying for Calc and physics finals....but who wants to do that?

Hahaha, I am so glad finals are over. And for the record, I didn't study for calc at all. I totally understand. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[SteveSkal]

Indeed we are. We have a threshold for everything. Temperature, pain, emotion, and physical limitations just to name a few. Any of which have the ability to kill. I don't think it is too far a stretch to consider we have a finite ability and level of consumption to what we can feasibly understand.
I too have the same affliction. I try my best every day to enjoy what I have and use what I have learned as building blocks to reach the next plateau. It has both good and bad consequences.

Perfect example, try and think about the Universe being infinite...going on forever. Can't do it, we can not wrap our brains around a concept like this...everything we know of on this earth has a definite beginning and end, how can we comprehend something that goes on forever with no end??

 

[HeatSeeker 10+ year member]

Has anyone ever read "Hyperspace" by Dr. Michio Kaku?
That's a good read.

I have that around here somewhere, started it in 2003 and got to chapter 2, then got busy with other stuff and never got around to finishing it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[HeatSeeker 10+ year member]

Hahaha, I am so glad finals are over. And for the record, I didn't study for calc at all. I totally understand. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

lol im trying to decide if it'll even be worth it to study....i think by now the best grade i can get is a C-, which isnt good enough for calc 2....of course now that i understand completely all the shit i ****ed up on before it doesnt make a **** difference, instructor wont even give me a chance on this bs //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif

 

[filtor1 10+ year member]

lol im trying to decide if it'll even be worth it to study....i think by now the best grade i can get is a C-, which isnt good enough for calc 2....of course now that i understand completely all the shit i ****ed up on before it doesnt make a **** difference, instructor wont even give me a chance on this bs //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/furious.gif.fc81ca146dbff91fede3ed290dbc4f4c.gif

Had the same experience. I managed a B+ with the curve though. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I wish you the same luck.

 

[newusername 10+ year member]

Nothing tears me apart more than the "meaning" of things or the "reasons" of life...the causality of various actions.

I want to understand, I want to know as much as possible, I seek out every opportunity to fill in the edges of the map.....and yet I don't even know that the map, as it were, is real. I have been firmly rooted in science since adolescence and yet I question it every day. More than anything, I wish to understand everything....and yet it is totally impossible.

The sad reality that bothers me everyday is that I will almost assuredly die without having any significant questions answered.

 

[filtor1 10+ year member]

Nothing tears me apart more than the "meaning" of things or the "reasons" of life...the causality of various actions.
I want to understand, I want to know as much as possible, I seek out every opportunity to fill in the edges of the map.....and yet I don't even know that the map, as it were, is real. I have been firmly rooted in science since adolescence and yet I question it every day. More than anything, I wish to understand everything....and yet it is totally impossible.

The sad reality that bothers me everyday is that I will almost assuredly die without having any significant questions answered.

The map will only ever be, for us anyway, as big or as complete as we can make it. The matter of you questioning it everyday is wisdom in practice.

 

[Haunz 10+ year member]

On my understanding about the origins of the universe... imagine if you will a singularity, a wave length, created out of what might appear to be nothingness, but a part of a larger wavelength, which breaks down to an almost infinite number of harmonics and subharmonics (as I might describe it to people on a sound forum).... or otherwise thought of as multidimensional manifolds discretely related to each other to the math or physics folk...

Erwin schrodinger proved to us that own universe is finite.... Einstein proved the relationship between mass and energy and expanded that to a relationship to time....

just a taste of that blows my mind

I would like to believe that there is some adiabatic process behind everything.... and it would seem that if there is life in our solar system, let alone our galaxy, or maybe even our so called universe.......... that we are either in a minute percentile; or life is everywhere..........

 

[HeatSeeker 10+ year member]

Had the same experience. I managed a B+ with the curve though. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif I wish you the same luck.

thanks, but what i meant is even if i get like 100% on the final, ill still get a C- in the class lol ;[

 

[SteveSkal]

I would like to believe that there is some adiabatic process behind everything.... and it would seem that if there is life in our solar system, let alone our galaxy, or maybe even our so called universe.......... that we are either in a minute percentile; or life is everywhere..........

I'd be willing to bet the house that the Universe is just teeming with life...some very basic, some more complex, and some even far more advanced. Its a numbers game, there are 200 billion stars in the MIlky Way galaxy alone and there are billions of other galaxy's out there. The same material that we are made of exists EVERYWHERE, we would be stupid and arrogant to think that life is confined to this one tiny blue planet in the middle of this incomprehensible vastness of Universe!

 

[UndercoverPunk 5,000+ posts]

Well. Why don't I just start eating people?

 

[filtor1 10+ year member]

thanks, but what i meant is even if i get like 100% on the final, ill still get a C- in the class lol ;[

Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. Sorry to hear about that. I got 4 out of my 5 grades thus far. 3-A's and 1-B. I won't get the other till next week. I am happy thus far. I hope you get 100% then. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif