aguy2

Actually I started a thread on it asking just that... for someone to explain what the hell it was all about. No takers

bascule' date='

There was a taker, but you chose not to follow up on it.

Here is a site with some visuals (fig.3&4) of hydro pulses, that may prove helpful. http://www.physics.nmt.edu/~dynamo/PJRX/Results.html

My contention is that the visible universe is acting as if it is an ideal liquid [b']pulse[/b] that has transited from a laminar (even) flow to the presently observed turbulent condition.

aguy2

LOL ok I know its a funny title, but my brother who was pretty atheistic was arguing with me yesterday about the possibility of a god. After going back and forth for a bit, he said "What if god used all his energy etc to bring forth the universe and then expired because of it?" I then went into the whole M-theory super string multi universe talk but it still struck me as something I never thought of. Im sure some of you thought of it before but it seemed pretty freaky to me to imagine.

As in, "investing everything all it had into its creation"? I would rather hope not. It would be highly problematic if there would be a equitable return on the investment.

aguy2

'']I've read this before, or something like it, on these very forums. It must have been like a year ago now, but was it you the first time around?

If there was pulse/jet it was me.

aguy2

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Also "Could the Universe be Collapsing" 11/15/04

Martin told me that until my musing showed themselves to be predictive to kick back on my island and muse. I took his advice till I had a prediction with possible new empirical support.

The bomb marked the first time in history that our species could effectively wipe itself off the face of the planet.

 

This concept marked dramatic changes which penetrated all levels of society.

 

The explosion at Trinity pretty much sounded the death knell for modernism. Suddenly everyone realized that everything humanity struggled to achieve over the centuries could be wiped out in a nuclear holocaust' date=' and furthermore that the bomb was the natural result of our progress (i.e. progress can yield complete annihilation... and what kind of progress is that?). At this point humans were forced to ask themselves what all that progress was really for, and I think it was out of that question that post-modernism was really born.

 

Everyone was forced to accept that Damocles' atomic sword was precariously dangling above their heads every hour of every day, and that we all must prepare for the eventuality of a nuclear holocaust.

 

Barring john's answer (Globalization of Information) I cannot think of a single more important event in the 20th century than the creation of the atomic bomb.[/quote']

You've presented a pretty good case. Maybe I should change my statement and just talk of the 1st half of century?

aguy2

FWIW = For What Its Worth

FWIW, I did a treatment called "Collapsing Universe?" in Oct. 2003, and by means outside my control (it got picked up as a blog) it has gotten a number of unaccountably high search engines ratings.FWIW

http://physics.about.com/b/a/034824.htm

Its non-professional presentation not withstanding, the 'model' presented made a serious prediction. To whit: "In our matter cone this secondary center of gravity might be seen in the conjectured "Great Attractor" in the area of Virgo Cluster."

There is a reasonable possibility that CMB data may support the above prediction.

The 2003 treatment is in need of a serious restatement, and I would like to do it here, in what I consider to be a user friendly, accustomed environment.

The cosmological 'model' I am attempting to present makes a number of presumptions, among which are:

1) The pre-inflationary era Universe displayed a high degree of Angular Momentum.

2) The inflationary era was the result of a pulse/jet erupting from both poles of the event/body of the pre-inflationary Universe.

3) It would be expected that one of the polar pulse/jets would be largely anti-matter and the other largely matter.

4) The matter pulse/jet has developed into what can be called the visible or observed universe (small u).

My contention is that the observed universe is acting very akin to an ideal liquid that has lost, or is losing momentum.

Am I making sense so far?

aguy2

I would say: the human condition in the 20th century was most largely influenced by the creation of the atomic bomb

The 'bomb' didn't come into the world till the century was almost 1/2 over, and a couple of years after the destiny of the 20th century world had been determined at Kursk or there about.

aguy2

Alternatively' date=' I would vote for the tabulating machines of Hollerith. The impact of these machines was immediate and dramatic facilitating the census, social security QUOTE']

 

Ah yes, Hollerith machines, worked on those, late 50's, punchimg the cards by hand, plug-panel programming. Museum pieces now, makes me really old. Bill Gates is just a young whippersnapper.

 

Would you believe in 1967 I got hired by a then blue chip mid-western corp to train as a computer operator. I was told to start work at 4pm. I showed up and someone showed me where the mens room was, and how to egress/regress the quite secure facility within a home office setting. I walked into the computer room for the 1st time at 4:55 pm and was told, "Well, there it is, here is list of things we would like done, here are some numbers if you run into problems, if you don't get it all done, don't worry Bruce will be in at 11." and they all trooped out at 5 sharp. And there I was with a brand new IBM1401 and I had never seen a computer in my life.

aguy2

other isotopes such as k40 have remained unanswered.

What is there about the isotope k40 that remains unanswered?

aguy2

Do you think it is too early to say that, "Human destiny in the 20th century was largely pre-determined by 3 things, give or take a little. These 3 things being 75mm guns, 105mm guns, and 155mm guns."?

aguy2

I`ve been given nearly a gallon (5 litres) of Toluene today' date=' I`ve also contributed Much to this site in the past, so I figure I`m about due to ask a few "lame" questions myself

 

does anyone know of any interesting things I can do with this stuff?

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Be careful with fumes. Toluene is psychotropic dynamite! Most halucinations have an 'unreal' quality to them, Toluene's tend to be indistinquishable from reality.

aguy2

I said that serving men and women have arrived at a judgement' date=' based on some evidence, that the Hussein regime collaborated with al Qaeda--specifically in the 9/11 attacks. It is a prudent judgement in my mind.

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Whether the 'spokesgoon' of the Baathist dictatorship and al Qaeda were in bed together is one thing, and that indisputable fact that they sure as hell are now, is another. The fact that they are closely allied now is probably effecting the troops opinion of the nature of their pre 9/11 relationship. But this is a tangent.

 

The point being: If the troops are sick and tried of being semi-mobile, semi-armored targets, and they don't think the mission is doable, what should we being doing about it?

 

Should we get out and leave the Sunni/iraqi and Shiite/iraqi to duke it out, knowing full well that the conflict will spread to their Syrian and Persian allies?

aguy2

Well, mice or shrew-like critters, but neither directly.

rats

rats

rats

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all the way down!

we certainly have enough to at least know it's true whether or not we have the "legal requirements" so to speak.

to bureauc-rats!

aguy2

does anyone know what the long term affects of meth are ?

1) It appears to be very bad on dental health. False teeth seems to be an almost universal consequence of long term Meth abuse.

2) A long term abuser would seem to be at high risk for developing 'atypical psychosis' or 'voices in the head'.

aguy2

If this poll is a true indication of the attitude of 'people on the ground' I think it would be very significant. Striking hard and striking deep at your adversaries precieved center of gravity has a lot of validity as military doctrine, but the Bush administations extrapolation of this into the geo-political realm was at best a high risk operation. I felt as long as the people on the ground felt it was a 'doable' task to help turn Iraq into a stable, free market, democratic/republic it might be seen to be worth the risk, but if they are saying it can't be done, we should probably get them out.

aguy2

hi every1~

 

This question came up during a discussion in my physics class about the doopler effect and how it implies to the universe. The question was how would be the universe like without any planets' date=' and other physical phenomena. Since that time I've been wondering about this question, and haven't came up to an effective answer. But, to the extent of my limited understanding, I suspect the universe would be a "black hole".

 

What do you guys think?[/quote']

 

It would very likely depend on what you include in the catagory "other physical phenomena".

 

A quick answer might be, "as the Universe was before there was such phenomena".

aguy2

I liked the 'waterfall' analogy.

aguy2

Would an anti-matter atom need to have an anti-neutron in it's nucleus?

 

Could it be physically possible to have an atom of anti-matter with matter neutrons in it?

 

For example' date=' anti-helium with two anti-protons and two "standard" neutrons orbited by two positrons?[/quote']

 

Aren't neutrons considered to decayed protons?

If so wouldn't anti-neutrons be decayed anti-protons?

aguy2

When you need to do something crazy from being tired of going nuts, make up book or movie titles that NEVER MADE IT. Give us your best three. Mine: "EXODUST" (Leon Uris); "THE CHARMED, THE STRANGE, AND THE UP-DOWN" (Gell-Mann); "THE BIBLE" (CRC Tables).

"Terminator 4: The Peace"

aguy2

I often valued RevPrez presence very much (he was admittedly stiff-necked and obnoxious in the extreme)' date=' I also thoroughly disagreed with his politics, and disapproved of the way he would argue and take preposterous positions (as I saw it).

 

He got too many warnings as was banned. I actually miss the guy. It is too quiet a lot of the time. And I think he taught me something----not sure what though.

 

Do you remember RevPrez, and do you have any opinion of him and whether he was good or bad to have around? (I think he may have later returned briefly under some other name but if he did I forget what it was)

 

Any answer is fine---I am not necessarily looking for agreement but for reasons from another mind. But agreement is fine too of course.[/quote']

 

Bascule seemed to think he was using PCS; he started a thread in Phil.& Rel called Proof v. Evidence. I am afraid I whacked him pretty hard with my intellectual blugeon paradigm and I never heard from him since.

aguy2

On the same note' date=' "Repenomamus" was a rather large mammalian predator that has been recently discovered. Maybe as large as a small dog, with stomach contents that showed it likely preyed on small and/or young dinos. It came from a later era in the cretaceous, but its discovery was similar in magnitude as that of this jurassic "psuedopus," making us rethink our long held thoughts on the place of mammals in the age of the dinosaurs.

 

Does anyone know of any other "large" mammals from those times?

Bigger 'rats' I suspect!

aguy2

This sentance(sp) you are now reading is false

aguy2

Yep. Of course, we see convergence between the platypus and the paddlefish as well (certainly much more than we see with a duck, that's for sure!)

Almost like there are 'Platonic' ideal forms, and our structure the result of reverse engineering?

aguy2

Really it looks and supposedly acts more like the platypus. Anyway, none of those three are closely related yet are relatively similar superficially, another convergence over so many millions of years shouldn't be that wierd at all.

Slime sliding, dinosaur egg sucking, rats evolving into AzurePhoenix - I knew it!

aguy2

Why is it different to laws againsts the incitement of racial hatred? I can hide what I believe more effectively than I can hide my skin colour' date=' but I am as incapable of changing what I believe as I am of changing my skin colour.

 

So by inciting religious hatred you are persecuting a particular subset of our society.[/quote']

 

But if such things as freedom of speech, press, ect. are the only things of real value we can offer in support of a 'culture' war with Islam, and we have to give them up to win the 'war', then we might as well see if we can get good 'terms' because we have lost the war. In my opinion.

 

aguy2

Simply, if a feature allows an organism to replicate more effectively, that feature itself will be replicated more effectively and will therefore spread faster than a feature that does not have this effect.

If the prodigy of a system where 1/2 the species is almost 'expendable', eats all the rest of the possible systems for breakfast, lunch, and dinner it certrainly passes any test of pragmatism.

aguy2