Recent content by TheTechNoir

Take this for what it is, a user-submitted youtube video (albeit a very good one) on the subject that is related to this thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYXdsOEWBj0

Hello, I just quickly threw this together in the last 15 minutes or so and I was curious what people think? I just put it together as a fun little thing. I am open to feedback on multiple levels: If anyone has suggestions for change to meter, rhyme scheme/structure, wording, etc. Or also if...

Yep. And we couldn't exactly predict if humans will be around or what the price of diamond will be, etc, etc, in the immensely deep into the future time that they would arrive back here at. EDIT: Not to mention, 'big chunk' of a diamond planet... I wouldn't exactly feel comfortable with that...

Yeah, would also be far cheaper, less dangerous, and less time consuming to raid Russia's hoard too.

What bobby said is correcting. Just adding in, the point of visualizing it as a fabric or trampoline isn't that it is supposed to look like that. That is more of a cross-section view showing one half of the gravitational field/influence the object has on it. It's more difficult and confusing for...

I respond frequently to questions that are covered in the FAQ. Any way I apologize I derailed the thread here. And there is a sub-forum for your new ideas that might change the world.

So instead of looking at that 10 second time period you mention our best alternative is to try and recreate the conditions present at that time period.

You sort of answered your own question. After most leptons and anti-leptons are annihilated at the end of the lepton epoch the energy of the universe is dominated by photons. These photons are still interacting frequently with charged protons, electrons and (eventually) nuclei, and continue to...

Co-sign. For the original poster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_%28general_relativity%29 Try reading this and relevant links. While that show is generally trash as phinds said, an episode about spacetime on a quantum scale need not talk about GR and you seem to have misconceptions...

I don't have a source to cite for you, but I am sure if you someone else must. Yes you're correct - if there were an infinitely large universe or infinite any universes, it doesn't mean that everything that can possibly happen must happen.

I'd just like to add as well that this thread does not belong in the S&GR sub-forum.

Ryan makes good points. Also, while they can be considered modern humans in a sense, if a mother gave birth to a human identical to humans as they were then, but right now... He wouldn't be able to make it out of elementary school most likely. On that time scale we only just recently left...

Ryan got it. I'm also curious still where you got the figure of 200,000,000 from. Anywhere I know of puts even Apes at around 10 times younger than that figure, and Neanderthals at almost 100 times younger. The only thing I can think of is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomically_modern_humans...

...What?? Source please of the fact that humans will be extinct in 'about' 10,000 years give or take a 'bit' (is a bit 1 year? 1 billion? etc.) and also a source that human beings have been on this planet for 200,000,000 years. EDIT: Please a reliable source too. I don't want something with...

I agree with Maui. Additionally, this to my understanding seems to be an idea which is assuming that a certain interpretation or one of a certain series of possible interpretations of QM or more specifically the collapse of wave function is correct which we simply do not know.