Recent content by Felgar

My thoughts exactly Chronos. :)

Well that all went pretty much over my head Philocrat, but it sounds good. :) Have you published anything on the subject for further details?

ROFL... Thanks Janus. I was starting to think I must be going crazy. :)

I may be off-base here, but I completely disagree. If we only need to replace mass lost as we accelerate, then we could calculate the energy required to attain speed of light by simply e=mc^2. Coming up with that much energy for a fairly small object is no problem. But in actuality, it takes...

What? That's not my understanding north. Rather, mass increases the closer we get to the speed of light, so to accerate that mass takes more and more energy. Edit: Besidies, what does that have to do with the discussion at hand?

Yup, that's my understanding dragonfly. It's probably incorrect to call it a black hole (for one, information will hopefully be extracted from it) but it's certainly a distortion of space-time, like we'd see in natural black holes.

It seems to me that you'd have to exist before you could think. So existence could not be a by-product of consciousness. Plus rocks, exist and don't think. And I'd argue that insects and animals lack consciousness too. I do agree with the 2nd part, that free will is a product of...

Very interesting way to look at it Lurch... Makes a lot of sense to me... Although, time would also be getting dragged in with the mass... I'm having a hard time visualizing that. :)

I guess it will just take time to learn where the line is between discussing "religious implications" and "religion itself." Sure for this particular discussion we can make an assumption (albeit one that I feel pretty much makes the discussion irrelevant) but could we start another discussion...

So there's no place to actually talk about religion on the forum, despite so many questions about the nature of God and the possibility of his existence? Given God is central to all religion, I would think it pretty applicable - though possibly not in this area of the forum. About your...

Hmm, I don't think so. Does simply knowing the outcome preclude choice? First of all I don't think you can assume the existence of God without also accepting the Bible (ok, unless another Religion's God) and the Bible explains that we have choice yet God is all-knowing. Being mortal...

Thanks for clearing that up. I've often wondered in the back of my head why the principle of entanglement couldn't be used in principle to transfer information instantaneously... Would be handy for those robots many light-minutes away, and have ramifications for possibly sending very small...

Though not technically a black hole, Dr. Mallet (UConn) is proposing the use of lasers to bend spacetime artificially. If he succeeds he'll have created the ability to bend spacetime back on itself just like a black hole does but without the annoying ridiculous amounts of mass required to...

Cool... Yeah it just always seemed intuitive to me that another level of collapse would be logical... Thanks for the response.

Alrighty then... No wonder it was hard to find that reference. Heh. And yeah, obviously that's what makes the most sense. But the argument was about the classical definition which I was arguing wuold have to be observed in the strictest sense. But yeah, whatever.