Recent content by Noja888

I first would like to say I am a huge fan of this site. I have been on here for 3+ years and enjoy the content that I cannot get much anywhere else. But over time the rules and closed threads have become less open to new ideas and non-crackpot concepts. I can smell a crackpot a mile away. (i...

Why not think of the brain in a quantum sense? This still makes it a physical object but allows for much more possibilities. Entaglement, qubits and such. The quantum landscape emerges into the classical existence we experience with our classical senses. Yet the definition of conciousness eludes...

If we could measure all components of a human mind can we predict what choices will be made by that mind? - Or - I like to think we end up at such small scales that quantum mechanics plays a role. The turing machine becomes the incorrect anology perhaps. A quantum turing machine, where the...

The current information in regards to the Neutrino experiment at CERN leads me to two possibilities. 1. The actual speed of light is possibly a bit different than our current value. OR 2. The Neutrino does move faster than c. Is the scientific community leaning one direction or the other? Or...

This is not an attempt to explain the math - just a visualization. One way to think of it...Standing under a waterfall. The movement of the water washing over you is time acting upon you. Consider this 'washing over' the a reference point for time's flow. Now let's swim with the waterfall...

its all in the details! :cool: The required energy to move an object to the speed of light becomes infinity as you get near the speed of light with Einsteins' field equations. And if you think that's weird, check out Time Dilation and Length Contraction. Try those out for fun! Happy Travels!

sweet!

Great discussion all. I think asking where the center of the big bang is hard to answer, implying that there was a space (3D or what have ya) before. If there was no space before then the center of the big bang would be everywhere, generally speaking. String theorist have some concepts that this...

Time is required to demonstrate changes in space. Space is required to demonstrate changes in time. (I believe QM has exceptions in certain schools of thought) Past the event horizon of a black-hole the 'space/time' of GR comes to a singularity. Does this signify that time does not 'flow' in...

If they are 'really there' and Hawking radiation is somehow proven would this not violate some fundamental rule that you cannot create something out of nothing? I never liked the idea of Hawking radiation - its like creating a perpetual motion machine. Black holes would be constantly adding...

Could freewill be like the uncertainty principle in QM? You can have a prediction based on data/evidence but the result is not known until the measurement is made?

I am reminded of that proverb "If a tree falls in the woods and no one can hear it - does it make a sound?" -Not to make light of the question at hand! I like in quantum mechanics the uncertainty until a measurement is made. Consciousness is reality. Without the observer there is no reality...

Well with all these complex systems at play with our brain perhaps consciousness or self awareness arises out of these systems. With all the new research into prosthetics directly wired into neurons mayhaps some light will be shed upon the systems at play.

In my humble semi-educated opinion - A singularity requires a new 'teir' of understanding to explain it. Like trying to use classical mechanics to explain quantum mechanics - it just doesn't work! I would think we need to understand what an 'observer' would see if they could 'view' the...

My most dismal thought is that when I die it will be the same as before I was born. I can't remember what it was like before so will I after? Or if the universe is one great reciprocating pulse I will be the same thing again and again and do the same exact thing over and over - (no freewill...