It's hit and miss for me. If you wanna talk funny, it's all about Arrested Development and Sunny in Philly.

Remnants of an older time in GS that has sadly passed. People took more pride in their accounts, affiliations, and style back then. :(

Verge_6

I'm not sure how to take that comment ... seeing as how I haven't been a member for even a year. I do know that nostalgia tends to be view through rose-colored glasses.

[QUOTE="my_mortal_coil"]

[QUOTE="pengo93"]

So we are being squished by time?

pengo93

In a way yes. If we think of ourselves as being only in three dimensions (think of time stopping) then we exist infinitely in space, however adding the 4th "flattens" our existence to include a beginning and an end.

0__o

I actually understand now. Seeing as you're smart and all, can humans perceive the 4th dimension? I don't think so, because if we did wouldn't we be able to see through time rather than just observe it at a given point (the present)?

That can certainly be argued. Is it illusion to percieve time, or do we really percieve it? Actually I was astounded when I started reading up on Buddhism. Buddhism makes a clear distiction between the concept of attachment to time and the disattachment of it. What that means is that we only exist in the present moment, and that moment last an infinitely long and short amount of time, at the same time because it's constantly flowing. We only percieve the past and future by projecting our awareness on longing of the past (remembering, essentially) and expectation of the future (thinking "ahead"). Only when we become fully aware do we understand the true concept of time as being universally infinite.

Enstein, however, would have argued that. According to relativistic time, if twins exist in two different places going different speeds, they will age differently. Think of one twin staying home on Earth while the other leaves in a rocket ship going close to the speed of light. After 50 years, the one in the rocket ship will come back younger than the twin because time bent and slowed (like pulling taffy) and so events occured to the twin in the rocket ship more slowly. If they could somehow observe one another one would appear to stand still while the other would be a blur ....

[QUOTE="gamerguru100"]

A billion billion times smaller than a PROTON?! How the hell is that even POSSIBLE?! That's really, really, really, really, really, really, REALLY SMALL!:shock:

Anyway, even if the universe is a hologram, my life won't be any different.

Darthkaiser

At that level, it's all abstract math. It can only be proven with a mathmatical proof.

[QUOTE="my_mortal_coil"]

[QUOTE="NintendoNite"]i call bs. the sun is very real and you can feel it. the physicist has been watching too much of the matrixpengo93

I don't think the physicist is out to prove we aren't real, just that if you go up a dimension, it "flattens" the one before it, so you can think of the 2nd (a line) flattening the 1st (a point with "no" dimension) and the 3rd flattening out the 2nd, and the 4th flattening out the 3rd ... and so on.

So we are being squished by time?

In a way yes. If we think of ourselves as being only in three dimensions (think of time stopping) then we exist infinitely in space, however adding the 4th "flattens" our existence to include a beginning and an end.

i call bs. the sun is very real and you can feel it. the physicist has been watching too much of the matrixNintendoNite

I don't think the physicist is out to prove we aren't real, just that if you go up a dimension, it "flattens" the one before it, so you can think of the 2nd (a line) flattening the 1st (a point with "no" dimension) and the 3rd flattening out the 2nd, and the 4th flattening out the 3rd ... and so on.

EDIT: actually maybe I don't get the point of the experiment. Isn't this physics/geometry 101? We KNOW that space bends, and that those bends may have bends ... and so forth, so what't the point?

[QUOTE="Head_of_games"][QUOTE="pengo93"]

But if the experiment proves we are just a part of the holographic principle, then those starving kids don't exist and we've solved the problem.

pengo93

That's just insensitive. How are they supposed to eat food on little holographic cards? That's just teasing them.

They would just use those red and blue 3d glasses. DUH!

I think I grasp the concept. There are "Unifiying" theories that present many more dimensions than just 4. Think about how we see the world ... it's an illusion of the brain that we percieve spatial differences. If we all had one eye, we would percive the world as only 2, much like the description of the hologram theory. So then is the third dimension is still "there"?

Think about it from a zen point of view: if nobody can percieve it, does it exist? How do we "see" a 4th, 5th or 11th dimension? Math assumes more, however maybe it's only possible if we somehow create another way to see it through illusion or conceptual trick.

I never used em. Seemed too clutterish.

I'm going to go with Copernicus' discovery that the planets revolve around the sun, not Earth. Why was this important? One man upset the thinking of an entire society.The simple fact that this Truth was greater than perception, humbled us and made us think twice about our assumptions about our world. It pissed the people in charge off and loosened the dogmatic choke-hold that religion and ignorance fostered. It paved the way for the scientific method being the paramount tool to learn about our world and how it works.

Notable discoveries; penacillin, the cells of a cork plant, natural selection and, of course, E=MC2.