I know youre not trying to affect my thinking, I just wanted to express that i too was neither arguing for or against Darwinian theory. It just happened to be involved in that idea.
Also, as you mentioned (and i know you don't necessarily agree with this) that some consider the aim in...
No i didnt know that but its nice to know i was on to something!
Yes, I thought of this while i was writing and realized that it was another argument against the idea, but i forgot to mention it. (Just like the Darwinists, eh Les? :wink: )
I should point out at this stage that I'm mostly...
Hi sameandnot:(post # 31) intersting stuff, but i don't think it entirely counters my comment. I see that as being individual cells responding to outside stimuli, nothing particularly new about that except that these cells are tuned to individual people or places-like specialised brain cells. I...
Ok, I've been doing more thinking and reading posts and I've got more to add to my previous post.
My idea of a universal consciousness (if there was one) is one that itself lacks centre, but is composed of all the matter, energy and even space of the universe. In the same way as no one brain...
ah, i think my mistake was (as you say) trying to imagine the photon at rest, with everything else traveling past at c - an idea i was uncomfortable with at the best of times, but its only now that see how impossible that is.
I guess i meant the limit of what someone traveling close to c...
I agree with Van Gogh. Though my support may not be much good to him! I have nothing to back it up except a strong feeling--not much good on this forum. Anyway, just wanted to let him know what i thought (since s/he asked). I might do some more research and thinking and come up ith some good...
Hi, new to the forum, how is everybody?
Anyway, I am also a relative n00b to relativity, but i was struck by a thought
a while ago that i couldn't figure out:
I was thinking, if the closer you get to the speed of light relative to other objects, the slower time passes for those obects. I...