Important Math Question - Page 7

narf poit chez BOOM · #61 November 5th, 2003, 03:22 AM

well, i know what they are if your not talking about math. but math terms tend to have their own reality.

Fyron · #62 November 5th, 2003, 03:26 AM

That are strictly based on "normal" reality, and vice versa... try googling for some intro to calculus site if you want to learn more.

PvK · #63 November 5th, 2003, 03:27 AM

This thread has an "astronomical" number of many weird incorrect statements in it.

What kind of new math is this?

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
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So nothing exsisted before the universe? If that is true, then the universe could not have been formed. Zero + any number is still zero. But 1 + any number and you have a new number.
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Dude, 0 + 1 = 1.

Edit: Sorry, I didn't notice this had been pointed out so many times before. There are a bunch of similar logic leaps earier, but uff, I should be programming.

PvK

[ November 05, 2003, 01:31: Message edited by: PvK ]

narf poit chez BOOM · #64 November 5th, 2003, 03:30 AM

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And yet both still infinite.

that was implied.

anyway, thanks. i don't think i'll try working my way through it till saturday, i'm tired, my brain is tired and my feet and my back are trying to kill me. i'm currently trying to pacify them by sitting down and not moving much.

geoschmo · #65 November 5th, 2003, 06:46 AM

Ok, math and logic are failing me. I must resort to poetry.

Infinite cosmos,
Half is equal to the whole.
Hot enough for you?

Parasite · #66 November 5th, 2003, 04:06 PM

I saw a show Last night on PBS. It was on Strings, SuperStrings and "M" theory. First I heard of M, but it sounded interesting. Our universe (or the one MOST of us are from) is modeled as a slice of bread. It was on a string construct called a "brane".

Anybody heard of this before?

Erax · #67 November 5th, 2003, 04:07 PM

Narf : boxes... back pain... are you working as a mover ?
The universe : There might have been another universe before the Big Bang, which collapsed in on itself. And another one before that, and so on. When ours begins to contract, time will not run backwards. It has been established with reasonable certainty that our universe is finite and has the shape of a 5D sphere (considering time as the 4th dimension). No one knows what is 'outside' our universe because we cannot perceive this theoretical 5th dimension, but whatever it is out there, it probably doesn't follow the physical laws of our universe.

Atrocities · #68 November 5th, 2003, 04:23 PM

What if the universe is nothing more than a temporal eruption of time into the realm of reality? That would imply that all of this, our entire universe and what we conceive as reality is nothing more than a phenominion of the greater unknown vastness that is the emptyness that fills the nothingness beyond our understanding of the cosmos.

Atrocities · #69 November 6th, 2003, 01:06 AM

Wouldn't it be an interesting thing to do if you could actually do it? Explore the universe in real time using some fancy super powered engines that allow you to go from point a to point b instantiously without the fear of being obliterated by some rogue asteroid or commet?