Recent content by Diezehl

I notice there is a bunch of discussion on this forum about it, which I would have found had I not mispelled it when I searched xD So am I correct in assuming that 'binaural beats' are not strictly pseudoscience? Are the other examples of entrainment that have received more attention with...

Ugh I wish I could edit the title. So the wikipedia page states such and such scientific evidence for binaural beats as applied technology. The discussion on that page however seems to be, as I had previously thought, treating it as pseudoscience. What I am specifically not clear on are...

Many years ago I happened to stumble across this subject while's doing a psych A level, and considered it for my coursework. I dropped it however due to the simple fact that I could not at that time read more than a paragraph about the concept without some sort of fantastical claim of lay line...

Thankyou all for the discussion, I am far happier with gravity now and despite royally confusing myself with my own follow up questions I am happy to take these points and ponder further without as many niggling doubts. As far as absolute points in space, the question is I suppose purely...

Interestingly enough some concepts from quantum mechanics have proved slightly less harsh on my noggin simply because often there is nothing to visualise (whereas in classical physics it's hard not to) I have unlearned the vision of the atom from school textbooks for example as a result of...

Aha glad to see I am not alone in my frustration! As for no absolute points in space, I get it, I do, but that being the case I find I am struggling as a result. If I am traveling at half the speed of light, and shine a torch infront of me, the light does not travel 1.5x the speed of light, it...

It's my own fault for bubble wrapping my question with a whole lot of rambling. My specific questions were: Is gravity exerted via a force or is the bending of space alone what causes gravitational attraction? (The suggestion of a graviton tends to suggest the former, for example and this is...

First of all, despite my choice of title I have some understanding of it (or atleast acceptance of it's laws and effects), what trips me up is my mind asks what the various implications of our current understanding of gravity are (bad mind, sit, lie down) and I realize that my and our...

I posed this question many years ago on a filesharing forum I used to frequent (for a long time I refused to believe that nothing could travel faster than light) convinced I had artfully smashed the cosmic speed limit via a crude thought experiment involving a huge pole stuck to a spinning wheel...

Thanks for the swift responses! This has been a bit of a thorn in my brain ever since I watched a docu by Michiio Kaku about space travel and was left slightly dissapointed (even more so than the one about lightsabers) I see the point that it is a tough pill to swallow versus 'neater' concepts...

note: I will be brief, I previously attempted to post this thread and was logged out while writing a wall of text, I do not have the energy to get it all down again. - Is near light speed space travel theoretically viable due to time dilation (traveler covering light years while potentially...