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16 minutes ago, nevim said:

I was fortunate enough to have £50,000 a couple of years ago. I was living in Prague so I rented one nice apartment for me and another that I sublet through Airbnb.

Something I considered was buying and then selling stuff (probably clothing) on EBay or Amazon but I never got round to it.

Other than that, you could keep it safe and hopefully/maybe get occasional payouts from it by turning it into premium bonds.

Those are some big investments. I was thinking about smaller scales. And clothing takes a lot of time. I am searching for a one time investment kind of thing.

Haha you flatter ALine, I did not mention that i live in rent so it's not exactly free of financial worry. Actually this worry is what makes me ponder. 

The rest of your post was very insightful. My problem is that I'm really hesitant to make bank loans to buy an apartment for example. I know it's a bad way of thinking as usually you end up paying rent as much as you would pay the bank for your own apartment but still, bank phobia is what I live with.

To give you examples of other freaks like me, I am working in a corporation and I have a colleague who got sick of paying almost half his pay for rent (he earns a very respectable salary BTW) so he bought a Mercedes Sprinter 2014 and turned it into a house. He lives there and parks next to our job. He even has WIFI from it and does all the hygiene stuff at work.(corporation) It's a very hippie style  but he basically pays nothing for rent. (I wont discuss the impracticality, legality or sheer wtf factor of this choice haha).

If your only goal is to save money then he is winning haha. I like "stuff" too much so I could not do that.

Hello,

This is just an open discussion, I have some money (5K$) aside (I know it's not much but I'm 27 so it's a miracle that I even saved that) and I am curious what would you guys invest in or do to maybe increase it. I am not a fan of stock exchange so maybe nothing in that direction. (e-currency is also in that category)

I want to do something productive but I have 0 inspiration. Feel free to share ideas on this topic even if they don't apply to me.

Anyone who has seen Utopia knows what the solution to overpopulation is. 

6 hours ago, Coherentbliss said:

Predictably, schools and life teach us what we want and need to learn. I want to also learn the unpredictable.

How can you learn the unpredictable? Makes no sense....  I want to befriend the unclimbable.

30 minutes ago, Coherentbliss said:

the speed of light changes as it passes through different parts of space and we cannot calculate the speed as we once thought....correct? If we send a beam of light from earth and between earth and the target there is a  collapsed star or a worm hole then that beam of light could slow way down....???? 

No, light would just travel a longer distance.

This is gravitational lensing but the concept applies to your question.  Light would not take the straight path and would therefore take a longer time to get there but it would still travel at c.

Photons of light are not technically affected by large gravitational fields,* instead space and time itself become distorted around incredibly massive objects and the light simply follows this distorted curvature of space.

*This might be controversial. Other members can weigh in on this.

37 minutes ago, Coherentbliss said:

so...like everything else there must be a plan, a rule, a map etc...to engage a test. But even after the latter we can't be at the point of light to measure it...thus proving math is just a concept WE have made to try to place order in our minds...."if we don't cast out a fishing line nothing will get caught...." becomes an oxymoron because EVERYTHING "we" do is explicit to our reality of which we create FOR us. We can only see our reality because we are blinded by the shades we place over our own eyes BECAUSE of our "reality".

The rest of your comment is less grounded in the world of science and more in the reality that Alex Jones lives in so I won't address it. (but that's ok! It's speculation section, but you are high-jacking)

1 hour ago, Sjm_dynamo said:

I was just thinking I have heard they have created a clock that loses only a second over the lifetime of the universe but I have never heard of a clock that gains time.

Hmmm, I can't say anything about this but swansont does this for a living so he might give you more info about this. 

14 minutes ago, Sjm_dynamo said:

Ok just a thought thanks for taking the time to answer it

Don't worry, also you (correctly) posted in speculation so there is much room for discussion. Don't hesitate to raise questions like the above. There are members who are much better qualified to answer.

Welcome to the forum BTW.  

18 minutes ago, Sjm_dynamo said:

The rate at which any process can unfold

is relative. c is not. The frame of reference is relative and the speed of light is constant.

19 minutes ago, Sjm_dynamo said:

This is why the speed of light has a maximum value.

Speed of light does not have a maximum value. It has an exact constant value. That is c.

"Speed of time" depends on the reference of frame.

30 minutes ago, studiot said:

But here is a quote from your link

As a matter of interest, the combination of the OP question and your reply has made me think of something quite deep about GR.

I fully agree that they are synonyms. Merriam Webster can help with that we don't need Hawking. But I just didn't want to get mixed up in subjects like the one posted by me.

Apologies for the small high-jack Warped.

8 minutes ago, studiot said:

What leads you to say this?

I don't know. For me it's confusing to talk about warp of space time and not confuse with time-warp.

http://www.hawking.org.uk/space-and-time-warps.html

OP I assume was talking about the force of gravity.

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Instead, one has to use technical terms, like closed time like curves, which are code for time travel. Although this lecture is partly about time travel, I felt I had to give it the scientifically more respectable title, Space and Time warps. Yet, it is a very serious question. Since General Relativity can permit time travel, does it allow it in our universe? And if not, why not. 

I am assuming the OP was not talking about time travel so I didn't want to get confused. 
Is this how the science community refers to the curvature of space-time? Space-time warp? I didn't know  

9 minutes ago, Warped said:

-Given: The effects of Einsteinian gravity are caused by a warping of spacetime, changing the geometry of space.

Curvature of space-time not warp.

9 minutes ago, Warped said:

This occurs without any force. No force, no force carrier.

Technically it is a force. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction

If you want you can keep it as "a consequence of the curvature of space-time".

And no, there is no quantum theory of gravity yet but that does not mean there is no carrier. We just don't know yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton

13 minutes ago, YaDinghus said:

This only becomes impossible if EVERYONE GETS THE SAME PERIOD.

hmmm.. a comma goes a long way in the above sentence.

1 minute ago, Strange said:

Faith trumps reason.

Same way Trump trumped Hillary. Through fallacious reasoning.

Why do we never see people from other religions post these kinds of things?

I read most bible related things just to debate with "true believers". I want to educate myself of other religion as well but I am powered by rage so there is no motivation.

3 minutes ago, Tom O'Neil said:

I'm sensing a great deal of fear and denial, but I stick to my guns and see the universe for what it is.

I'm sensing ignorance and lack of data but that's besides the point. Why do you think fear. What do you think is scaring me about the video you posted? (aside from the low quality of the execution)

I think this is not the right forum for you OP. But I am sure there is a forum where you can discuss about this sort of fantasy.

I am really not judging. I also enjoy a wacky conspiracy theory from time to time(maybe not quite as wacky as you like them) for entertainment value but this is not the right forum to discuss that. Definitely not in the Science section.

1 hour ago, Sensei said:

But why do it in Excel? Would not be better to make PHP script generating HTML form, which will send the all data what users clicked to cental server, which will store it in some file/database (and eventually inform about conflict).. ?

Haha because I am a noob at scripts.  

Thank you very much all of you, I ended up making it through a calendar template in SharePoint.

It does the deed for now  so I will use it temporarily but I am paying very close attention on this thread for the future scheme.

Hello Forum,

This is a bit of a cop-out but I have a task and I  really don't even know where to start with this so after like 6 hours of thinking I wanted to ask for your opinion.

We have an office and more people than free desks (20 people 18 desks) so we have to make an file where people can mark if they go on vacation or they work from home so the two (unfortunate) new members will know where they can sit. So for example if I am sitting in desk 3 and I am on vacation on 3'rd of July I can mark the 3'rd desk as blue so when the 2 members open the file they will know mine is free. The challenge comes when thinking how to link this with a calendar. It's pretty inefficient to create 30 tabs for each day every month.

My idea was to have a calendar, and when you click on a date, you see the situation for that specific date. So my question for you if if you can help me link the two or find a easier way than creating 360 tabs for each day of the year.

Thank you very much and I am willing to do the dishes for the person who helps me for one month!

8 minutes ago, Sensei said:

Fans are widely used to cool down electronic equipment and devices e.g. CPU.. which has more than 70-80 C during operation.. There is no (significant) evaporation from surface of CPU (as it has no more water than is initially in air).. still fan is cooling it..

I'm sure you know but the PC fan takes air from outside the computer case and draws it inside. Strange's description still applies. (aside for humidity)

Of course there are other methods to cool down your PC Sensei  

• 6.1Liquid submersion cooling
• 6.2Waste heat reduction
• 6.3Heat-sinks
• 6.4Peltier (thermoelectric) cooling
• 6.5Liquid cooling
• 6.6Heat pipe
• 6.7Electrostatic air movement and corona discharge effect cooling
• 6.8Soft cooling
• 6.9Undervolting
• 6.10Chip-integrated
• 6.11Phase-change cooling
• 6.12Liquid nitrogen
• 6.13Liquid helium

7 minutes ago, Strange said:

BTW, one of the world's more bizarre superstitions is the belief in Korea that if you use a fan in a closed room YOU WILL DIE!!!!

The K- Pop Idol - Samsung - Plastic Surgery - Korea or the False imprisonment - contempt for human rights and life - rogue state Korea?

6 minutes ago, dstebbins said:

Mars' poles don't just have the highest concentration of solid water on the planet. They're the only places on the planet where more than trace amounts of water can be found at all.

That's not quite right.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/mars-ice-deposit-holds-as-much-water-as-lake-superior

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/mars-buried-water-ice-subsurface-geology-astronauts-science/

9 minutes ago, dstebbins said:

Mars isn't like that. The poles are the only sources of water on Mars, period. Not just any specific state.

I'm glad you know so much about Mars. Seems like NASA dropped the ball on this one.

NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6372/199.full

The body of evidence lies is overwhelming!

Guys can we be honest for a moment?
Reasonable members don't get offended by "peer reviews" and I have followed several posts where some members had a speculation quite nicely described and accompanied by a mathematical model and other members were giving correction to the actual model and it was fairly easy for the person to realise he made a mistake based on the numbers.
I don't know how you can call it "peer review" when a (usually new) member posts that Einstein was wrong, Zero Energy universe, dark matter comes from black holes, I don't know what else, accompanied by nothing else than the baseless speculation.
Of course things can get a bit out of hand.
I imagine if someone reasonable would want a second opinion on relativity the post would be something like: : "A different look at Relativity" and not "Einstein was a hoaX!! How could we not see that relativity is wrong!"
 

I admire that you want to bring a bit of understanding to this issues but I am imagining that the people who consider things out of hand are not reading this thread, or any thread for that matter, they just want to put forward their "ideas" and are not open to criticism.

3 minutes ago, The Wizard of pi said:

when you read my articles you'll understand.

If you show the body of evidence that led you to the conclusion you have then maybe. Science isn't based on trust.

4 minutes ago, The Wizard of pi said:

There are much more deeper interests in ignoring the mathematical infinite in science today than you are capable of imagining... if you're interested in knowing what I'm trying to convey, just try reading first and then comment. thanks

I'm really curious to hear what is the reason that "the man" keeps (in your opinion) this away from the public as you inaccurately think. What are these "deeper interests"?

3 minutes ago, DrP said:

Do you have any scientific support for your idea that a god conceived the universe? Let alone any for the existence of such an advanced being?

This perfectly sums up why indeed I wouldn't dare ask that question. Shame prevents me.

1 hour ago, YaDinghus said:

So, if there are sterile neutrinos, what other sterile matter is there?

I think the list stops here but I am not joining this hype train. I have been disappointed many times by similar hypothetical "discoveries".

I guess it started from the below paper on arxiv but the results have not been replicated.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.12028.pdf

But I had too much of this subject lately  the only sterile thing I'll have around me the next days is my cat.