Recent content by ailog

If we are smart enough we will admit that there will always be something to learn and we will never reach that point. But I left the possibility open with an if statement. Now if I can figure out a method to create an electron out of a vacuum at my garage workbench then I'm getting closer.

I am not sure if you are quoting me but what I said was "If we ever come to understand what an electron really is". There's a big giant if in the statement. I don't believe we ever will and not just for the electron. The universe is too complex for our order of intelligence.

To Drakkith Well, it depends on what understand means to those studying the issue. I suppose the words "understand" and "really" should banned from the world of physics.

Well said lordsandman. If we ever come to understand what an electron really is then we won't need high energy machines anymore.

Any news on the fresh water that the US navy is/has barged to the site? Is it being put to use? I havn't seen anything about it recently.

I have followed this thread and the situation in Japan but am uncertain of what's happening currently. Here are some GENERAL observations and some questions. Please comment to help my understanding. 1. There is presently no coolant circulation whatsoever in any of the reactors 1 thru 4? The...

Thanks to all of the responses. I am still of a mind that time has a universally fixed rate with local deviations due to relativity. The local deviations in our universe somehow add up to a null such that the universal time rate is invariant. If one could be a god and somehow observe our...

When it is said that the universe is, for example, 9 billion years old, is it the same everywhere else in the universe? Do the distant quasars that we see know that they are the same age as we figure they are? And what defines the “edge” of our universe. The most distance object that we can...