Things that cause you to question

[warri0r45]

I forgot to mention; if I ever need to relax, I quite like looking at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. If that doesn't set your mind wandering, I don't know what will. Makes you realise just how small we really are. There are estimates of around 10,000 galaxies in the picture.

 

 

 

I can't help but think when I look at one of those galaxies with billions of stars and billions of planets if there's someone in there looking back at ours.

[Lenticular_J]

Hum. What state of matter is pudding...

 

Solid.

 

But it will take the shape of its container.

 

 

 

What if everyone else is a damn robot?

[Ezz]

I used to be thinking about how the colour of nothingness would be. Like, no colour, not black, not white, nothing. Although now of course I know that it's black because there's basically no light in nothingness, and black = no light :P Of course I knew this when I was little too, but for some reason I couldn't get a handle on the colour of nothingness.

[fgfuyfyuiuy0]

Hum. What state of matter is pudding...

 

Solid.

 

But it will take the shape of its container.

 

 

 

What if everyone else is a damn robot?

 

 

 

We did an experiment in class where a solid object melted when it stood still. You could form it into various things (It was like Play-Dough), but when you stopped forming it, it would quickly melt into a puddle. The melting parts were solid and so was the puddle. It baffled the class as to what it was.

[Furah]

I have always tried to imagine life without me... and I still can't...

 

 

 

I wonder how we know that scientists figured it out correctly, like how we know that light travels at 300,000km/s, yet we don't have people far enough away to test it with, eg people living 3 million km away to say, it took 10 seconds to reach us. Or how we know that there really are black holes, even though we cannot see them.

 

 

 

Also I still can't get my mind around how fast data is sent from like England to Aus, or Denmark to China

[MC_Kejml]

Sometimes I think about why are our bodies so fragile and how can one bullet kill us. You know - Nine milimeters of metal can kill a body bigger than two meters, with an intellingent brain...

 

 

 

Sometimes, I also feel I'm being watched all the time. Wtf! :?

[Will H]

Hum. What state of matter is pudding...

 

Solid.

 

But it will take the shape of its container.

 

 

 

What if everyone else is a damn robot?

 

 

 

We did an experiment in class where a solid object melted when it stood still. You could form it into various things (It was like Play-Dough), but when you stopped forming it, it would quickly melt into a puddle. The melting parts were solid and so was the puddle. It baffled the class as to what it was.

 

That is called a non-Newtonian fluid, a good example is corn flour suspended in water, or, if you've ever watched Brainiac, custard. The forces acting upon it decides if it's a liquid or a solid. High-force = solid. Low-force = Liquid. Lovely stuff.

 

 

 

I often ask myself this question 'Why do mosquitoes exist?'.

[Quoi_Tu]

I forgot to mention; if I ever need to relax, I quite like looking at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. If that doesn't set your mind wandering, I don't know what will. Makes you realise just how small we really are. There are estimates of around 10,000 galaxies in the picture.

 

 

 

That is an amazing picture and now my new background, thanks.

[silver_wits]

what makes us us if our whole bodies are replacing themselves every few months

 

 

 

you are an entirely different set of cells then you were at the start of the year, but your the same person... :|

 

 

your brain cells dont change :?

 

 

 

Well, they're "different" in the sense that metabolic turnover changes the molecules that make them up. It's been estimated that upwards of 95% of all the matter in a human body is replaced over a year.

 

 

 

Although I suppose the DNA would be the component of the cell that would remain largely unchanged. It's only "replaced" when the cell dies and another one takes it's place. As you said, for neurons (and muscle cells, for example), that doesn't happen.

 

Brain cells also do not regenerate. they start dieing and your brain keeps getting smaller. :shock: :?

 

 

 

*EDIT*

 

also.. when I was younger, I used to think we were all aliens.. and that one day my mom would show me how to take off my skin and our bodies would be wet and shiny and green..... #-o

[ThurinEthir]

Time, how once each second passes, it's gone forever.

 

I was going to bring something like that up. There is no going back. What's done is done. And everything you do has some impact on the world. The butterfly effect comes to mind, and though a choice you make might seem minor, it could somehow have a huge effect on the world...Eventually.

 

Of course, bring time travel into the formula. Which reminds me of the conversation I had today in physics...I have no idea how it started, but we got on the topic of whether or not time travel would ever be possible...And then this kid started talking about some theory that was kind of paradoxical yet made total sense. Everyone was just like "wtf", physics is awesome...

[l0l0lpur32]

If what I see as certain colours, is the same as what other people see (I hope that made sense)

[fgfuyfyuiuy0]

If what I see as certain colours, is the same as what other people see (I hope that made sense)

 

 

 

Yeah. I understand. Like red could be black to someone else and blue to another person. Those colors they are able to still point at as "red" even though they aren't what you see.

[RSBDavid]

Is there life on Mars?

 

Is bush the devil?

 

 

 

my last one is dumb...

 

 

 

How many licks DOES it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop...

[nickeley102]

how male doctors sons and daughters always cry out for their mummy when they get hurt

[aquariusman]

We are intelligent. However, we get our intelligence through electrical signals passing through our brains. Those neurons/chemical reactions that produce the electrical signals are therefore the source of our intelligence. Does this not mean that these cells themselves are intelligent? Also, the molecules that make up those cells must therefore be intelligent, or have some form of computational ability, because it's not like you can create intelligence. If I go back through this logic, then every bit of matter is intelligent. I think this makes sense, and that the only reason things act the way they do consistently is because they are instinctively accustomed to the idea. Really though, a virus knows to seek out a specific type of cell, to attack and manipulate that cell's genes, thus propagating the virus. A regular old cell knows to keep out certain substances. It knows when it needs water, when it has too much, and when it needs to do something. So that happens because of it's genes. It still knows how to do something, when to do it, and when not to do it.

 

 

 

I really just find this idea fascinating.

 

 

 

Another thing I find fascinating is light. Why can one object appear white, but the exact same object appear black. Why are there more than 2 colours, black and white. Why are there not more colours than we have. Is it possible to have more colours. Is the light really coloured, or is it just that our eyes are able to decipher the different wavelengths of light.

 

 

 

Idea: Objects in reality have no colour, just a tendency to absorb and reflect certain wavelengths. It is our eyes that assign certain colours to each wavelength. I have a very good feeling that, except for black/white, we all do see different colours. Nothing serious as if colours were reversed, but still a slight variation. Makes perfect sense to me, after all, every other part of us is different than the person next to us, why not what we see?

[warri0r45]

We are intelligent. However, we get our intelligence through electrical signals passing through our brains. Those neurons/chemical reactions that produce the electrical signals are therefore the source of our intelligence. Does this not mean that these cells themselves are intelligent? Also, the molecules that make up those cells must therefore be intelligent, or have some form of computational ability, because it's not like you can create intelligence. If I go back through this logic, then every bit of matter is intelligent. I think this makes sense, and that the only reason things act the way they do consistently is because they are instinctively accustomed to the idea. Really though, a virus knows to seek out a specific type of cell, to attack and manipulate that cell's genes, thus propagating the virus. A regular old cell knows to keep out certain substances. It knows when it needs water, when it has too much, and when it needs to do something. So that happens because of it's genes. It still knows how to do something, when to do it, and when not to do it.

 

 

 

I really just find this idea fascinating.

 

 

 

It's an interesting idea, but I think we rationalise intelligence as being an emergent property rather than a property intrinsic to matter alone. What you're saying is akin to saying something like matter can see other matter because we have eyes.

[Zierro]

What if there was a universe inside a universe inside a universe inside a universe inside a universe inside a universe inside a universe? :shock:

 

 

 

If you recall the ending of MIB I think you'd get what I mean.

[Lenticular_J]

I believe there's actually a theory about there being millions of universes, all connected yet unaware of each others' existence.

[warren211]

I learned in science class two years ago that when our eyes receive the image, it really appears upside down. But the brain is smart enough to reverse it.

 

 

 

But what if a mental disorder causes the brain to not know how to flip it? I mean, there's a mental illness for every type of brain function. Surely there has to be one where everything you see is upside down? That would be a pretty horrible thing to have, having to see the entire world upside down.

[Kenshinjapan]

I learned in science class two years ago that when our eyes receive the image, it really appears upside down. But the brain is smart enough to reverse it.

 

 

 

But what if a mental disorder causes the brain to not know how to flip it? I mean, there's a mental illness for every type of brain function. Surely there has to be one where everything you see is upside down? That would be a pretty horrible thing to have, having to see the entire world upside down.

 

 

 

I'm pretty sure that the reversing goes on in your eyes. But if you wear glasses that reverse the image, your brain supposedly slowly turns itself upside down. It's probably a crap story, but funny nonetheless.

[silver_wits]

I believe there's actually a theory about there being millions of universes, all connected yet unaware of each others' existence.

 

have you been reading anything written by Madeleine L'Engle recently???? :roll:

 

 

 

But, yea I've heard of this theory before.. and in one of her books... it's explained in such a way that I could understand it... [although they didn't say it as a theory.. it was written more as a fact... but that's children's fiction for you]

[Stilev]

I learned in science class two years ago that when our eyes receive the image, it really appears upside down. But the brain is smart enough to reverse it.

 

 

 

But what if a mental disorder causes the brain to not know how to flip it? I mean, there's a mental illness for every type of brain function. Surely there has to be one where everything you see is upside down? That would be a pretty horrible thing to have, having to see the entire world upside down.

 

 

 

I'm pretty sure that the reversing goes on in your eyes. But if you wear glasses that reverse the image, your brain supposedly slowly turns itself upside down. It's probably a crap story, but funny nonetheless.

 

 

 

even funnier that they have done experiment, i cant remember exactly but it took a woman about 6 weeks before should could do everything pretty well with the upside down glasses, and like 2 days after she took them off since see didn't have to make a new unconscious algorithm for her vision, just bring back an old one. (there is no such thing as sub conscious something the media made up so annoying when people use it)

 

 

 

if you wanna know our eyes take in is pretty funny how bad it is, its something like 30-40% of what we 'think we see' is actully BS our brain made up using past pictures. we got thosands of bacteria on the eye (ever rub your eyes and see stars? what that is) and and not a perfect lay out of receptors so there even more blind spots. so each 1/24 of a second frame that we see has tones of holes in it. its 2 dimensional upside down (ever look at a spoon, how its always upside down) with alot of holes in the picture and alot of other things i forgot lol

 

 

 

70% of our brain power goes into our vision

[Nom]

70% of our brain power goes into our vision

 

 

 

Wouldn't that make all blind people genii?

[silver_wits]

70% of our brain power goes into our vision

 

 

 

Wouldn't that make all blind people genii?

 

 

 

 

 

I believe blind people still use their imagination to imagine things.... :?

 

unless when you close your eyes everything is pitch black..... 8-)

 

then blind people would still use part of their brain devoted to vision.

[a b c]

The time exist?