"Well I AM essentially talking about opinion. Because really - that is all there is.
Even if everyone on the earth agrees on something does that make it a fact or does that just mean they share the same opinion?"
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Proof that Athene's C=hf must correct! muahahaha
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Tags: general, relativity, theory, quantum, unification
Started this discussion. Last reply by Nathan O. Schmidt Aug 27, 2011.
A fractal perspective on space-time
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Perhaps somebody will find this interesting, this is a draft of my paper regarding an idea on fractal spacetime…Continue
Tags: general, relativity, unification, mechanics, quantum
Started this discussion. Last reply by VLR Dardon Aug 19, 2011.
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- USA/Idaho
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- About Me:
- Snowboarding, hiking, shooting hoops, krav maga, boxing, attacking abstract puzzles. Current fascinations include computer science (artificial intelligence, hacking/security, and iterated systems), theoretical physics (superconduction, black holes, and plasmonics), biology/bio-informatics (genetics, evolution and population dynamics), mathematics (cryptology, dynamical-systems/chaos-theory, and fractal geometry).
- Favorite music:
- death metal, metalcore, hard rock, industrial, and aggressive electronic.
- Favorite movies:
- Television: Star Trek (Voyager/TNG/DS9), 24, The Shield, Battlestar Galactica, Sons of Anarchy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (original), Garfield and Friends, South Park
- Favorite books:
- The Great Equations (Crease), the Fractal Geometry of Nature (Mandelbrot), Superfractals (Barnsley), Machine Learning (Mitchell), the Self-Aware Universe (Goswami), Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living, The Elegant Universe (Greene), A Brief History of Time (Hawking), Relativity (Einstein)...
- Goals/Projects/Aspirations:
- to figure out some cool shit.
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- In a Relationship
- "Do or do not. There is no try." --Yoda, renowned Jedi master
- "Over the years, I'ved learned that sometimes you just have to punch your way through." --Captain Janeway
- "Never, never, never give up." --Winston Churchill
- "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." --Michael Jordan
- "Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments." --Kevin Costner
- "There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible." --Henry Ford
- "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." --Steve Jobs
- "We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race." --Dan Aykroyd
- "The meaning of life. -- The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems." -- Bruce Lee
- "Life has no frontier. Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier." -- Bruce Lee
- "Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do." --Barack Obama
- "America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for." --Sarah Palin
- "We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure." --Brian Greene
- "I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting." --Jim Carrey
- "Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along." --Arthur C. Clarke
- "Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere." --Benoit Mandelbrot
- "To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." --Elbert Hubbard
"If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist." --Stephen Hawking
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Being right 4 Replies
Started by Tim Young in Off-Topic. Last reply by Tim Young 1 hour ago.
dealing with trolls 9 Replies
Started by Bart Skraeling in Off-Topic. Last reply by SparTom007 - Tom 3 hours ago.
Capitalism and profit 48 Replies
Started by Tim Young in Off-Topic. Last reply by SparTom007 - Tom 3 hours ago.
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Tim Young replied to Tim Young's discussion Being right"Yes I agree open-mindedness is of paramount importance. Even if you think you know all there is to know about something it pays to stay open minded about the possibility of new information on that subject coming to light."
SparTom007 - Tom replied to Bart Skraeling's discussion dealing with trolls"I got my first troll on my last youtube video (on the front page of ipower :D) and I have no idea what the point was to their comment but it was obvious trolling xD So far, I just saw it as "wow, someone was that bothered about something I did…"
SparTom007 - Tom replied to Tim Young's discussion Capitalism and profit"Resource based economy.
Google it"
SparTom007 - Tom replied to Tim Young's discussion Being right"It depends what you're talking about really. If someone has an opinion, I won't tell them they're wrong, I'll tell them I disagree and the reasons why. Sometimes people take you telling them something against their opinion as you…"
Xavier replied to Tim Young's discussion Being right"There are always pro's and con's in actions/theory's/whatever. Something can be considered 'right' for a certain group of people, while another group of people would yell 'wrong'.
It's all about being…"
Bart Skraeling replied to Bart Skraeling's discussion dealing with trolls"great to hear, but the last time i met a troll it was a a regular racist-troll, just flingin shit around, hoping someone would get mad, it was very obvious, but since it was on the forum of a newspaper that is mainly visited by normal human beings…"
Andreas Hågan replied to Bart Skraeling's discussion dealing with trolls"Im a troll myself and all your ideas to beat us is futile. It will not work. The truth is most of us turn to stone when exposed to sunlight. The stronger ones like myself have almost no weakeness. And the few things that can beat us I will not…"
Tim Young posted a discussionBeing right
In a sense I want to blow up the words “right” and “wrong”. I want to banish them from my vocabulary.More specifically I do not ever wish to BE right.And I do not ever want to say to someone else “you are WRONG”. What is the purpose of being or proving oneself to be, right? And what is the purpose of proving someone else is wrong?Apart from some sort of ego based sense of satisfaction what is the purpose of these things? Can anyone give me an answer to this question? If someone says something…See More
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