Death Definition and 295 Threads

Ok so I am reviewing multivariable now that i have some time; (why is it taking me so long to grasp some of these concepts!? :mad: ) anyways, and I am reading the proof of stokes theorem. The book I use is Stewart, but it seems to be ripped off word for word from swokowski, which in turn rippes...

Just saw the Mythbuster's ep where they build a fresnel type reflector that focusses the sun's rays. There's a guy online who built a small version of it: http://www.solardeathray.com/about.html Now, there's two things weird about both the construction mechanisms here. 1] In both cases...

heres a good one :devil: An explorer is traveling through the bowels of South Africa and becomes captured. He awakens to find him-self tied-up and if front of the leader of his assailants. He realizes he has been captured by cannibals and as an even more unusually strange twist of...

Could a tumour cell be killed in a person by making the cell membrane too permeable to water and so causing tumour cells to swell and burst.Perhaps active transport of some kind would be needed to do this?

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein

If conception and death can be defined as the bounds of life in terms of conventional physics, either 1.) there must be, as we have all witnessed, an outside observer to ascertain (measure) them, and thus some external universe exists beyond this span of life. Observers would neither...

I was had the news on this morning as I was getting my breakfast in the kitchen. Normally its too early in the bloody morning to really pay attention to what is being reported. However in my quest to get my coffee, I heard something mentioned about the death penalty in the states. I thought...

hell all please help me life or death situation the starship enterprise wishes to fly to a distant galaxy 85 light years away. at what speed would it have to travel in order that the distance to the galaxy would only be 20 light years? :rolleyes: a movving particle has a rent mass which is...

1. The electrostatic force between two point charges is 1.2 x 10^-2 N. If the distance between them is doubled, the charge of one of the point’s doubles and the charge of the other point triples. What will be the force between them? Kq1q2/r2 3. Two charges one charge +1.5 x 10^-2 C and the...

Pretty please!

When it comes to death I ask my self what is worse.Tomorrow or death,its hard to say death because we are not dead .

From a biological point of view, when can a human be considered dead? after brain activity ceases? after the heart stops? after all human cells cease metabolic function? If a human brain were to cease functioning, but the body is kept going on a life support macine, with all basic functions...

Hi everyone! I need some help. I have to make a normal model from the following data: Year...Deaths Country ...or area/,per 1,000 ...population 2005 , 8.25 2006 , 8.26 2007 , 8.26 2008...

Bryce Seligman DeWitt, Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor in Physics, Emeritus, at the University of Texas of Austin, died of pancreatic cancer on September 23, 2004. He was 81.

I was standing in the middle of an intersection today. 50mph on one road, stop signs on the the other. I knealt down to pry a cover off of a survey monument when all of a sudden WHAM a cement truck doing about 70 slammed into a little old lady who ran the stop sign. It spun her car around and...

A simple yes or no, to satisfy my personal curiousity. Nation X has been killing its citizens by the thousand, stuffing them into mass graves. The estimated death toll is 500,000, and looks like it will reach a million within ten years. Nation Y wishes to invade. For the purposes of this...

Just wondering...

Near death experiences implie a set of diverse perceptions or hallucinations. Two or three years ago, a team was able to induce with electrodes out of body experiences. What are the biological causes of near death experiences? Is there any explanation from an evolutive viewpoint?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/08/08/bodies.found/index.html :eek:

- We sing. In this there is a 2 part sum = the song. That's my postulate. Now in this song. The second part is the inspirational feeling. - Music expresses our humanity, and is our link to other singing things like birds n stuff. - Thought expresses our humanity, and is also a link to...

It seems to me that constructing a belief that your spirit or soul will exist after you have physically died has been used to make one feel better or even help deal with the inevitable death we’re all going to face. But why should a delusion or lie help give you any more solace than accepting...

I didn't know if I should post this is S&D, Biology, or Philosophy, so, since I couldn't resist the title, here we go for fun. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5479501/

A person is alive, animated, breathing, communicating, thinking, moving. There is brain activity - an energy which can monitored by a machine. Then suddenly their body is a cold lifeless shell and no brain activity can be found. In the terms of physics - what has happened? Where did that...

I remember I used to be sad when I saw an animal die, especially if it were something like a domesticated cat catching a chipmunk and not even eating it. I was always aware of natrual selection, but it was never at the forefront of my mind when thinking about this, I always thought that it was...

I was just wondering, that in an objective sense, the only thing wrong with a tortured death is the pain and possibly embarrasment one goes through before death. These are days and weeks at the most in almost all cases. So what I don't get, is how does tortured death, for example, taped...

Why do the minds of many fear or even deny death? The mere thought of death for some people trigger panic attacks. Granted the mind's instintual reaction is to fear the unknown as a means of survival, but shouldn't the mind have already evolved to accept death? Does this mean that the true...

The death sentence as a punishment. Should it exist? I think it serves more like a warning to others than a punishment to the criminals - you do this, you die. The problem here is that, is it necessary? Should chance be given?

My questions: 1>What should be done about this? 2>If you supported a socialized medicine plan, do you support it after reading this? 3>If you still support the socialized medicine plan, what do you suspect should be done to bring accountability to the table?

not really philisophical more pyscological but anyone got any theories on why we fear death? isn't it supposed to be the solution to our pain? I've got my theorieso n it but i want to hear others...

Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. does this not scare the crap out of you?

Will evolution, which selects traits promoting survival, ever directly allieviate the fear and suffering of death? Perhaps that latter process shall remain more in the domain of society and faith.

I wonder What happens after Death. Is there any research link on the subject or any theory under pipeline

Just suppose that Time Travel can be done. Now, suppose as you are traveling in either direction, i.e., the past or future, you were to die. What would happen? Would you die in the time from which you originally existed or in the time at which you presently exist in your travels? If so, say...

Killing Freud: 20th-century culture and the death of psychoanalysis by Todd Dufresne Disastrous victory of a 20th-century shaman By Justin Wintle 16 December 2003 Had Freud and his celebrated "talking cure" never happened, would BT still have come up with "It's Good to Talk"? Would the...

Let us assume temporarily that when we die we cease to exist. A nonexistent thing cannot be affected by anything. For example, it is impossible to kill a nonexistant chicken, move a nonexistant piece of matter, or eat a nonexistant pizza. We did not exist before we were borne. We were...

http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031209/02

hey. i am in a physics honors class, and we just had a test. each test has 9 questions, 8 which are decent, and the last one is the "death problem" this problem is worth 20 point, double of the others (if you did the math, if you get die on the death problem, the highest score possible is...

I read about this once and then forgot where I read it, very simplified the theory goes like this: Intelligent beings create heat. Most items in a civilized culture create heat ie light bulbs, computers, etc. At some point a civilization will create more heat than can be dissipated and...

i have been thinking how our universe could continue if it suffers heat death, i can think of one possibility , that is that a bose einstein condensate could form, is that a possibility? if it is then interactions between BECs could rekindle our universe

Do we each desire that the world should end with our death? Thanks Russ for the title. I have long made note that as people grow old, they often become very negative in their expectations for the world. A friend of mine, now in his twilight years, and having been near death on several...

Yo, d00ds, my Physics book mentions the concept of Heat Death (All the energy in the universe going to an unusable form) but says that it might not be valid if the universe is bounded in certain ways Does that just mean that if the universe hits a Big Crunch, it won't experience Heat Death...

If indeed there are other universes out there, one for each and every possibility. Will there not be one that continues, where you took off?

Generally, Life means you still have hope, Death means you are deprived of hope. Therefore, death is often a fear to most people. Is death so terrible, horrible, hopeless? How to overcome this fear with Optimism? Through religion?:frown:

Given - Life is a state of being (specifically - not being dead) Death is a state of being (specifically - not being alive) You are alive now (I hope - else how are you reading this?) 150 years ago, you were dead (Unless you are VERY old - in which case you probably CAN'T read this anyway)...

If the point of life is to find why, does that mean the point of death is to find x?