Death Definition and 295 Threads

Hi all, as a complete noob, I must first ask that people understand that I have only a layman's understanding of cosmology. However, after watching a few of Brian Cox's lectures on entropy and the heat death of the universe, I had a rather interesting thought (although as I am not a...

October 10, 2011 — The current study sought to evaluate the link between supplement use and total mortality rate, using data from the Iowa Women's Health Study...Vitamin B6, folic acid, iron, magnesium, and zinc were associated with about a 3% to 6% increased risk for death, whereas copper was...

OK, if anyone is so inclined, let's continue the discussion here, since I think we are distracting from the main issues in https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=3652601#post3652601 Anyway, may I suggest that the real thing we want to get rid of is not relativistic mass. Rather it is...

Talking about the big bounce and black holes in another thread made me wonder about the life span of black holes, especially in the heat death scenario. If the U went through heat death, does that mean that black holes would also exhaust their energy? Do black holes die, and if so, what...

Amazing footage by BBC Nature, I had to share:

Interesting article about what really happened that night. continued... I suggest reading the entire article as there is a lot of information. http://news.yahoo.com/correcting-fairy-tale-seal-account-osama-bin-laden-054233289.html

URGENT! Newton's law of cooling to find time of death Homework Statement The victim, Peter Sloane (a senior physics lecturer), was discovered at 9.43pm with a liver temperature of 22.26°C in the Oliver Lodge coffee room, with the window open. The temperature of the room matched that of the...

Finding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mt31BAEwto&feature=related" and moving beyond them, would you ? That is by far the sickest challenge I have ever heard of, leave it to a bunch of Yankee's from the Berkshires to dream up something like this. Rhody... :cry: :cool:

I'm assuming that the observer witnesses all other particles enter a horizon, be it an event horizon or the particle horizon. Thus the observer's observable universe would contain himself only. Is this understanding correct and can it happen in finite time? Also does such a universe have time...

I recently caught Brian Cox in BBC's Wonders of the Universe. I got caught on the heat death theory of the end of the universe. I understand the concept of entropy and that the universe is heading toward a state of maximum entropy. Cox used the example of desert sand to illustrate high...

Just now, the Chief of the national police directorate, Øystein Mæland says that we will get an adjustment (somewhat) downwards of the number of people dead at Utøya. SUSPECTED deaths of "missing persons" seems therefore to have been included in some degree. The dilemma faced by the police...

Empirical evidence supports that the scale factor is proportional to the following. a(t) = e^(HT) Where the distance between any two objects are D(t) = a(t)Δx Where x does not measure physical distance, but a conventional coordinate distance. This means that eventually any physical distance...

How will universe die? Energy can't be created or destroyed so is that possible that the energy of this dead universe could create a new big bang?

How many will argue that heat death is a better end to our universe rather than a bounce into a new universe

lets say that there is a triplet at the age of exactly 60 years old.one of them A is in space far away from any gravitational field and not moving , B is on planet earth,and C is near a black hole. C looks at A and see that for every 10 min passes according to his clock(hand and biological) A...

I heard that eventually the universe will end in heat death where everything becomes cold and lifeless and immotile. Is this true and is it inescapable? What can we perhaps do about it?

[During the pilot phase in one of the hospitals, a coronary-care-unit nurse reported a veridical out-ofbody experience of a resuscitated patient: “During a night shift an ambulance brings in a 44- year-old cyanotic, comatose man into the coronary care unit. He had been found about an hour...

I have read that some cosmological models predict a heat death of the universe. Eventually all matter (beginning with superclusters, clusters, then galaxies, then stars) will lose all energy and separate (due to expansion which will eventually occur even on a galactically local level) so that...

People I know seem fairly polarized between whether or not it's acceptable to celebrate bin Laden's death. Any thoughts?

Dear Physics Forum community. Please allow me tro preface the following by stating that I am a novice to the concept of chaos theory. Although I do understand the general concept behind Turing, Bellousov, Laurenz and Madelbrot's concepts, I am not entirely familiar with the mathematical basis...

Ok, my apologies if this has been dissected on PF before, I did do a few searches and didn't stumble into anything, there doesn't seem to be much info online. Is it woo-woo or legitimate ? ----- Unexplained Weight Gain Transients at the Moment of Death Journal of Scientific Exploration...

When a star like the sun begins to die, what is the time frame over which the star develops into a red giant? How quickly will it expand?

Earlier this week, a tow truck driver was preparing to tow away a vehicle in an apartment complex. In the middle of hooking the cable from the SUV to the tow truck in order to drag it up onto the flatbed, the driver ran out, jumped into her car, and drove off. She snapped the cable from the...

I have had a couple the most recent one was while cycling to work last summer. I ran into a nice flatbed truck that disabled in the bike lane while coming down a hill. I had a road bike and was coming downhill at about 45km/h. I had a fractured spine, I cut my lower lip...

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1653779/20101208/lennon_john.jhtml I remember the day he was killed very well. I was sitting on the couch with the radio playing when the announcement was made. Had he lived, he would be 70 years old. Now that is hard to "imagine".

thoughts on death... revisited Zen master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi once said, "You will always exist in the universe in one form or another." For an existentialist, this is easy to understand without having to resort to things like reincarnation, a soul that survives death, or any other similarly...

Hey there, So I'm a bit of a newbie on this, and I'm just kind of wondering on this subject... But could someone give a brief description of how conservation laws apply to electric charge? And more specifically, I'm thinking in terms of how it applies to synapses and such in the brain...

Since most of us here are fundamentalists/atheists, I was wondering what you guys think abut death. Do you guys fear it? Have you guys accepted death? I sometimes start thinking and to know it is inevitable it's hard to assimilate. I was wondering what was your philosophy of death.

I know this is a question that is discussed time after time... but I really need to talk about it right now and hope someone can listen. :) I have read over many posts here and I feel thankful for your thoughts and concepts which have seeped into my mind already. I did not grow up as a...

Hi, I was reading an article on physorg, as I often do, when I stumbled on something that both confused and perplexed me. The article, "Black holes' true power revealed by 'Russian doll' galaxy," referred to quasars and how they are "almost extinct today." I'm well aware of hawking...

Can anyone explain Tesla's death ray to me in SIMPLEST terms? How did it work? what did it shoot? Was his design really accurate? And another thing, when people say it shot tungsten pellets, How big are the pellets?

Hi I am trying to model the behaviour of 2 independent ON-OFF sources. My state diagram is as follows state 0 = both sources are OFF state 1 = 1 of the sources are ON state 2 = both sources are ON The transition rates are given as BIRTH RATE = lamda(i) = (N-I)*lamda DEATH RATE =...

One day the display on my Sandisk Sansa mp3 player just stopped working. There's no way to fix this, is there? :(

BBC News : Japan hangs two death row inmates http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10785131 My question : In Japan, prisoners are not told when they will be executed. So, what is worse, to be told or not to be told?

can anyone tell me about various stages of life of a star? when does a neutron star, supernova, pulsar form?

What happens to the energy that binds the molecules together? Where does it go; what does it become?

Hi. I have the following problem I am finding very difficult to solve. Assume that the lifetime T is an r.v. that follows an exponential distribution with hazard rate a (Note: the hazard rate is the parameter of the exponential distribution) and that the right censoring time C is Uniform(0,b)...

My shelves of once cherished and indispensable academic books, now seem more a box full of slide rules, or like my dusty old stack of 45's, than they do the deep well of knowledge that they represented as I slowly stocked them. It seems to finally be true: The long predicted death of print is...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The origin of life and humans is unknown.That is to say that humans do not know how they came into being and why humans come to this world. We only know that life and humanity is the product of natural...

This is the first time I've ever been to this forum, so I'm hoping this is an appropriate place to post this. It's been a good amount of time since my college level physics courses and this rock climbing phenomenon has me stumped. There is a rock climbing anchor arrangement called the...

:smile: What do you guys think of the new non-background independent Chamseddine and Connes paper?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9AkZWp3mDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiXTLgZ-O6g The Milgram Experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Suppose at the point of death an 'energy' was released from the body. A discrete unit of energy, perhaps part of the collective energy around us, that is released back to the general pool of energy that surrounds us. The same energy of also which all matter is composed. There are a lot of...

I have two questions: 1. Wikipedia defines the will to live as "a psychological force to fight for survival, particularly when one's life is threatened by an injury or disease such as cancer." Have there been any experiments or studies done showing that a conscious decision by an individual...

Man am I angry. I was just perusing the instructions that come with my medicine, simvistatin, and it says I shouldn't drink more than 1 quart of grapefruit juice a day or eat large amounts of grapefruits. My doctor never mentioned this. I went on the web and found out that the interaction...

I have recently been reminded of a problem a friend posed to me many months ago in special relativity that I was never able to address: Suppose we have a person inside a moving spaceship of proper length L. According to an observer outside the ship, the person inside the ship is at rest...

i have watched inside.planet.earth.2009.avi Applying the film, If the core of the planet cools, the planet is dying, because it disappears EM field that protects the planet. On Mars there is a huge volcano(According to scientists, the largest in the solar system.) which was derived its...

Homework Statement The motion of an object is simple harmonic with equation of motion x = (27.1 m) sin(16.0 t /s + 0.7). At what time after t = 0 will the displacement reach its first maximum (where velocity equals zero)? Homework Equations (displacement)=Asin(freq.*t+phase) The...

Death, being dead, afterlives and other nonsense! Dear scientists! What do you think happens to you when you die? By which I mean, according to physics what happens to the mind? I have this strong belief that the mind can't die, in some senses of the word. I don't actually mean in the sense...

You are a prisoner sentenced to death. The Emperor offers you a chance to live by playing a simple game. He gives you 50 black marbles, 50 white marbles and 2 empty bowls. He then says, "Divide these 100 marbles into these 2 bowls. You can divide them any way you like as long as you use all the...