Death Definition and 327 Threads

Hi. Yesterday, I was playing a game (Warcraft III) when suddenly system stops and I get a BoSD... It stated something like "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage blah blah blah blah, Technical information ***STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC000005, 0XBF04DF7B...

I have a question about the hot death model of the end of the universe. If the current expansion of the universes was to slow down and eventually the universe started to contract ( I know very unlikely but…) would the matter in the universe coalesce into black holes, before the temperature...

Suppose u have a perfectly healthy individual. Is it possible for him to think himself to death? Some ideas i had: For example by meditating so intensively that one feels the ego dissolve and consciousness leave the body. Another example is this part in the matrix where they say: "if you...

nomenclature: vi = initial speed, z = height x,y are the 'ground', φ = elevation angle of the barrel, α. = α 'dot' = dα/dt, α: = double dot show that an artillery cannon can hit a target anywhere in the surface given by: g²r²=(vi²)²-2gz(vi²) ignore air resistance. no wind. note: this is...

When they turned on Murtha they killed themselves. I think that's it. Bush is dead and the Republicans are running for cover. It's time to clean house!

Maybe this is a good time for Bush to stop and rethink the path he has chosen with regard to ME policy in general and Iraq in particular. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4372634.stm

Motorcycle Wall of Death Some pointers would be greatly appreciated please. A motorcycle is slowing down, but maintaining its height on a 'wall of death' (a vertical cylinder where the motorcycle 'drives' around the inner circumference as a stunt). A spectator takes timings in...

According to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pp-wave_spacetime "the wave of death is a gravitational plane wave exhibiting a strong nonscalar null curvature singularity, which propagates through an initially flat spacetime, progressively destroying the universe" I did a spires search...

How: I like just getting up in the morning and see I'm dead! :rolleyes: Time: 1 of the autumn's mornings! Age: 28 (Just for the hell of it, I don't mind living longer too o:) ) Funeral: In acold morning with a few people (I hate crowd :-p ) Song in my funeral: No, please. I want to...

First, there are no religion specifics here anywhere. It is simply a question by philosophical reasoning. To me and many others, this seems the most important question that one can make a decision on, in duration of their life. And I have not seen this type of question in here yet. And I...

What do you think of death penalty? Is it fair or unfair? And could help to decrease the crime rate?

I'm probably not the only one here that likes indie-rock. Having just been released, what do you think of Death Cab for Cutie's new album "Plans"? I think is a great follow up to "Transatlantiscism" which I enjoyed tremendously. As always this band has great lyrics, but their albums always feel...

I have been reading the archives of Physics Forums, some threads about the expansion of the universe and also the upcoming Heat Death that people keep talking about. However, there are a few things that keep bugging me: First of all, atoms have not so far shown any tendency not to cluster...

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What would you do if you knew when you'd die? Would it make any difference in your life? What would you do if you knew you would be alive less than 1 year(or 1 month, 1 week...)? :rolleyes:

What is the "cause" or meaning of the term natural death?

Many people believe that the Centre of Mass Theorem is a powerful and useful tool in Newtonian Mechanics. In fact it is a farce. (1) It is trivially true at distances in which the massive object is virtually a point-mass, such as between distant stars. (2) It is completely incoherent and...

Those who wants to live forever should be happy.Evo's killed death!You're a hero,Evo.Nobody hasn't done what you did.I'm proud of you. :!)

"innocent people on death row" I constantly hear that the greatest argument against capital punishment is "there are people on death row right now who are innocent". Now what is the proof/de-bunking proof to this statement and idea?

(Bullets + you) / e = death, but why? :) lol ok I am wondeirng something. When your hit with a bullet, what really kills you? Shock, loss of blood, what? Or well, I've been told its loss of blood but why would losing blood kill you? Whats the actual biological process/problem that arises that...

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...

I think it's just that alergy feeling of spring or it might be something else that's getting me down. I've been perticularly thinking about the topic of death alot. I keep on thinking about how when we die, our mind just blink out and then that's it. I know that our lives is so enormously...

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...

With the passing of Pope John Paul ll, perhaps some reflection on religious beliefs is appropriate. Religion is defined as a set of beliefs concerned with explaining the origins and purposes of the universe, usually involving belief in a supernatural creator and offering guidance in ethics and...

A discussion member in one of the places I hang around did commit suicide. I recently know it and it made me so sad reading all his posts and realize that he now is gone forever. It was difficult holding back the tears seeing a young good person is not here any more. He was a good member and...

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...

"What to do about the deepening quagmire of Iraq? The Pentagon’s latest approach is being called "the Salvador option"—and the fact that it is being discussed at all is a measure of just how worried Donald Rumsfeld really is. ... one Pentagon proposal would send Special Forces teams to...

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:

Do you ever visualize .. just dieing .. and nothing after... you know... no rencarnation.. no after life... its just over. Sometimes I wish I beleived in some of this stuff...

[FONT=Book Antiqua]What happens after Death?? Heaven? Hell? what?? Is there another life after it? IMO, this is bull****...The concepts of things like Heaven & hell are just fabricated to make death easy to accept & to prevent misdeeds & crimes... What do you ppl think of this?

- 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...