Lord Antares

9 hours ago, Trurl said:

or how a person interacts with others, or how they spend their time.                

Really? This is an incredibly unreliable way to test for IQ. How does an intelligent person spend their time? They read books and study all day? How does an intelligent person interact with others? This implies that every person of a given IQ responds exactly the same way a different person of the same IQ acts. That is a ridiculous claim.

9 hours ago, Trurl said:

IMHO, I think you should design your own I.Q. test.                         

That is even worse advice. He is no professional (neither are you) and even if you were, it would still be bad advice. IQ tests are done by several people who have studied this and know what they are doing. Even they may not output a reliable test.

And don't encourage him to do even more unscientific hypothesizing. I'm sure if he came up with an IQ test, it would completely confirm his hypothesis in this thread.

9 hours ago, Trurl said:

In fact, I propose a challenge to the members of SFN and the Moderators. If you are the scientists you think you are:

               

 

                I Challenge the members of SFN to design their own I.Q. test.

Firstly, ''scientist'' is a broad term. You can't challenge a mathematician or a chemist to design an IQ test based on the fact that he is a scientist.

Secondly, ''why don't you do it?!'' isn't a valid response in proving or disproving a theory. It's like when you criticize a movie and call it bad and someone says ''why don't you make a better movie??!?''. That's not how this works.

You're lucky to have a wife. A doctor wife, too.

Why not just quote the post you're talking about? It's even more convenient to the person who you want to quote it to because they don't have to go back and search for posts. The only time I would consider referencing posts by number more useful is if you're quoting someone from a different thread. But then again, you could just link the exact comment and it's easier again. Actually, I can see why post numbers aren't deemed necessary. I'm not sure what their role is if there are other (IMO more efficient) ways of referencing posts. Plus, mods cannot recognize the post you're referencing because they are showed the hidden posts which we aren't. 

9 hours ago, studiot said:

Also now the time/date of the OP is stated but not when the most recent post was made.

Sure it is. It's next to  the clock on the right.

9 hours ago, studiot said:

When displaying lists of posts the Originator is credited (quite rightly), but the last poster is no longer displayed.

My ''unread content'' page looks different than yours. Which browser are you using? 
Here is how I see it:

https://imgur.com/Q0G2MoZ

Ahhh. I think I know why. I think you're using the condensed view, rather than expanded. You see those buttons on the top right of my screenshot?

8 hours ago, StringJunky said:

You probably had a slight anxiety about oxygen and carbon dioxide levels until you were put right.

Not anxiety. It's just that because I focused on it, I noticed (or thought I noticed) it. It's like, you know if you showed 2 identical objects to someone and asked if one was bigger and told them to really focus on it, a lot of people would conclude that one is slightly bigger? It may be a weird example, but I think it works.

3 hours ago, Phi for All said:

So now we just need to discuss how to keep you from consciously thinking about it. We should do this daily for at least a week. 

7 hours ago, Phi for All said:

I think it's in my head though, since it only bugs me if I'm thinking about it. 

Exactly. I think this is it. I woke up this morning normal. Only when I consciously tried breathing it in did I notice something. So yeah, I'm finally sleeping well and that's the end of that. 

13 hours ago, DrP said:

What does cancer taste like then?? 

Tastes like closed windows.

5 hours ago, Phi for All said:

What about the air was "hard to breathe"? 

What do you mean by "stale"? 

Have you ever been to an overcrowded club in a closed (preferably underground) place? Do you know that feel when you just feel like you don't have enough air to breathe properly? And then you get outside and you take that sweet breath of fresh air. It just feels like you're breathing less air; like you're taking very short breaths of air. I don't know how to describe it better. If you are still perplexed, try keeping the windows closed in your room for a long time and close the door. When you come in, try to notice the difference in how the air ''feels''.

Of course, I might just be talking shit and it's just psychosomatic.

I don't want inner peace; sounds boring.

Anyways, I closed my windows and slept. When I woke up, the air was hard to breathe and it felt stale. It ''tasted'' like breathing cancer.
But it's ok, I didn't get awoken prematurely, so I'm satisfied.

1 minute ago, Sensei said:

It would be unbearable due to increase of temperature in room during summer.

Yeah, tell me about it. In the summer, a house like 10-15 m away from mine was being built. I didn't even hear the dogs over that noise.

The city is not too polluted, I guess. It's not that large and seeing how tapwater is drinkable and tasty, I wouldn't assume otherwise of the air.

37 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

So close your windows, but if that doesn't help what choice do you have?

I know it does because they never wake me up when I do that. I was just wondering if if would be healthy to keep the windows closed like that every night. Apparently, there is no reason not to do that. That's where the thread ended for me.

39 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

I spend most of each night awake, for various reasons; my choices are, get up and do without sleep, or close my eyes and wait for sleep.

Well it's not my choice. I can't function very well with no sleep like that. If you can, then that's very good for you. 

3 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

Did the dogs scream in yours? Or did you focus on the distraction? 

I don't think you quite understand. The sound of their barking is waking me up. I would like to do something as trivial as closing my windows in order for them not to wake me up. Your suggestion that I should accept it and let it happen instead of doing something as trivial as closing my window and solving the situation does not sound sensible.

3 minutes ago, dimreepr said:

Getting annoyed at an external source of noise seems relevant, focus on that if you want.

I would like to see your inner peace if I screamed in your ears while you were sleeping.

I'm not interested in your inner peace advice. I've got quite a bit of peace in my mind, much more than I used to. And this is not a topic where inner peace is relevant at all.

Please stop that.

14 minutes ago, Klaynos said:

My understanding is that you could do it whenever you hear barking even during the day to try and train them. The advantage of a dog whistle is that it's annoying as hell to dogs but humans can't hear it.

Oh I didn't know that. If humans can't hear it, it seems like an appealing option. If the dogs can troll me all the time, I can troll them a little bit as well.

45 minutes ago, DrP said:

Police then? Explain that you have asked politely but they won't stop their mutts barking?

I would literally have to call the police  on my entire street. Plus, it's not at a completely ''socially unnaceptable'' hour like 3 A.M. (even though they've known to do that a few times), so I doubt the police would care much.

48 minutes ago, DrP said:

Are you in the USA? You could go to the shop, get a gun and solve the dog problem....  but I'm not sure how legal that would be. ;-)

Not in the US, but that reminds me of what happened pretty recently (this summer). There was yet another dog and it was the worst one because it was old and unattented for so it would bark all the time. One time a guy who lived in the same building as the owner of that dog was chainsawing something outside and as the owner came by, he angrily started revving his chainsaw and screaming ''I WILL KILL YOU! I WILL KILL YOU AND YOUR DOG IF YOU DON'T SHUT HIM UP!''. The owner ended up putting his dog down the next day.

I suppose that's one way of dealing with things, but I'm not quite at that level of rage yet.

1 hour ago, DrP said:

Similar to what I did with the catapult...  The irritating noise of the whistle might shut them up if they realise that you stop when they stfu with their barking.

It would do nothing. I would wake up completely by the time I did that. And it would wake up whoever was still sleeping.

29 minutes ago, zapatos said:

I'm a big fan of white noise myself. At night I sleep with a fan on, or with a white noise machine or app on my phone.

A fan wouldn't work at this time of year and onward, obviously, but I do that at summer. I haven't tried white noise on my phone. It sounds like a sane suggestion but I think it would be simpler to just close the windows.

4 hours ago, DrP said:

Do they belong to a neighbour you can complain to or are they strays? 

Yeah, literally all my neighbours have dogs. They all keep them on the balconies because they thought it would be cute to own a dog but they realized they don't have the time to take care of them. I've tried talking to them, but you know how it is. Dogs are precious, you can't say anything about their dogs. They said they would take care of it but they never do.

2 hours ago, StringJunky said:

You could wear the earplugs and get a vibrating watch alarm or under pillow vibrating alarm which are more powerful.

Yeah, that would probably work, but I'd rather just close my windows than wear earplugs. Since you are largely deaf, as you say, I am guessing you've never tried wearing earplugs (it depends on how long you've been that way). Anyway, my head hurts after a long time wearing those and they're not that comfortable, they can always slip out, they can get wet, etc. I can sleep with them, but they're not my preferred choice.

44 minutes ago, hypervalent_iodine said:

I wouldn't worry too much about having the window shut. I also like to sleep with mine open for fresh air, but I don't notice any difference in how I feel in the morning with it shut. 

Yeah, earplugs are a solution if the noise is coming from withing the house. I prefer the window for outside noise.

16 minutes ago, Klaynos said:

If the dogs are close you can try training them using a dog whistle. Blow it hard whenever you hear the barking. Wikihow suggests this should work, but I've not tried it. 

What?

58 minutes ago, DrP said:

Have you just moved to a house near a road? Don't worry - you'll get used to it - embrace the noise and try not to let it worry you and you will start to block it out and just ignore it. 

It's not the traffic. It's the dogs. There is literally a dosen of dogs I can hear barking and it's erratic and loud and annoying which is why I can't get used to it. It's been going on for a long time.

Usually I just wake up, close the windows and fall back asleep. But sometimes I can't fall back asleep, especially if I have to go take a piss. 

I can hear them through closed windows but they don't wake me up through closed windows (or earplugs). I have gotten used to it but I shouldn't do that. 

1 hour ago, DrP said:

...and your house isn't a perfect enclosed seal - when you shut the windows and doors you will not suffocate - air diffuses in and out of cracks and stuff

I know I won't suffocate. I was just worried it might cause headdaches through prolongued periods of sleeping with the windows closed.

1 minute ago, Function said:

If it'd be unhealthy to sleep with windows closed, that'd mean that it'd be unhealthy to live with windows closed. And good luck with that in the Winter.

Yes but then you would always have to have windows closed in the winters for days on end. I usually get air on cold winter days by sleeping with the windows open.

2 minutes ago, Function said:

I sleep all the time with my window closed to prevent "premature wakefulness"

Every day. That's why I will do it.

How unhealthy would it be to go to sleep every day with the windows closed? Would the lack of air give me headaches in the morning? Or is it fine?

On another note, it would probably be better to sleep with earplugs, but they always give me headaches when used for a couple of hours + it's finicky when you have an alarm clock to wake you up.

31 minutes ago, Zetetic Zen said:

/cut

You sound like a complete tool.

31 minutes ago, Zetetic Zen said:

I'm sorry but you won't be finding answers to these questions in contemporary academia, it's fairly new at least in regards to the contemporary scientific community and hasn't been entirely assimilated into academia yet, not as a whole, but the knowledge does exist, in parts and pieces,

So, in another words, it's unscientific garbage you thought up on a whim.

You're another one of those ''I don't need any academic knowledge because something something Nikola Tesla out of the box genius I can see beyond the rules'' crackpot. Have fun proving whatever you think you're conjuring up here.

23 minutes ago, Zetetic Zen said:

 Question 1 is a little complex and unorthodox, i get that, why don't you give it a skip and try questions 2 and 3. =)

Swansont is an actual physicist and has been for a long time. I'm sure he can handle your questions if you phrase them correctly.

But that doesn't mean you are up to it at this point in time. I'm telling you, focus on classical physics for now. Even the simplest classical physics is much more complicated than what you are being taught at school. At school, you are just taught to know some information about physics, you aren't necessarily taught to understand anything.

I wouldn't trust any online test. But if wanted to get as close to a legitimate test, I guess you could use the online mensa test.

I suppose you're using this to collect data about your speculation. Well, at least you're doing something right. Make sure to report back here once the data doesn't match your predictions.

6 hours ago, sci-man said:

 Mordred I just want to learn a little about physics (And I don't want to go into advanced studies) but more so to 'quantum' stuff so I can help others understand better too my long term job will be either N.A.S.A or a Navy S.e.A.L so I am trying to get a better understanding of these things but I might not go into N.A.S.A so ............

You shouldn't be able to learn about ''quantum stuff'' at any useful level at this age. Mayb you get get an idea of what it is, but not much more than that. When you get to college, then you can study physics and hopefully be able to grasp this stuff. The majority of people have trouble with it.

That being said, you will need more than ''a little bit about physics'' to make a perpetual motion machine. You'd need magic.

One day you'll look back at this and laugh at how young and naive you were. It will be a good lesson for you, I suppose. I don't think anyone can change your mind anyway, judging by your replies.