Future Definition and 757 Threads

What's going to happen to me if I continue to subsist, almost entirely, on Ramen Noodles?

http://www-agecon.ag.ohio-state.edu/class/AEDE680/Irwin/pdf/60.pdf

Wouldn't it be neat if you could build a computer good enough (ignore this current day impossiblity) to hold and calculate everything you need to be able to tell the future? Obviously (um... right?), there's also more physics we need to figure out before we could actually be able to do somthing...

Hello again PF community. Id like to hear your thoughts regarding the future of engineering fields and where you think we will be in 5, 10, 15 years from now. As an engineering major I don't really know which i'd like to do - Civil Engineering would seem useful if I wanted to build my own...

People say and have decently backed up that time travel is not possible by saying that you would have to rearrange every particle back to where it was. Instead of rearranging the particles of everything. What if u could take all the information and I mean every aspect and formation of every atom...

I am currently a freshman at rutgers university and I am planning to do a double major in Physics and Mathematics with a minor in Comp Sci. I am very much interested in the research fields of Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computing and I was wondering if anybody could recommend a track...

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-11/ru-lap110804.php

Can anyone shed any light on future weather patterns for the uk In our local paper it is reported that we may be in for the coldest winter since records began, is this due to the ice caps melting, or is it a local phenomena?

is coming:http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410511 :approve:

I've got a project for school where we have to pick one invention/discovery and prove that it is the best invention/discovery in the history of mankind. One of the requirements is to show how it will continue to be the best discovery in the future. I've done a bit of searching and brainstorming...

I just finished E.O. Wilson’s “The Future of Life” and was kind of disappointed by it. It was the first book of his that I have read. Given my interest in evolutionary biology and his 2 Pulitzer prizes writing on the subject of biology, I had high hopes for it. Parts of it were interesting -...

From my understanding, researchers around the globe are studying more and more into gene therapy and "smart molecules". As many of you all know, these could possibly end up curing numerous forums of cancer as well as many herditary diseases that kill many each year. This brings me to my...

Put simply, I would like to know what some of you think the future will bring in five years. What do you think the world will be like in the year 2009? What will the population size be? What will the latest gadgets and electronics do? How much will we rely on oil, alternative sources of...

Hi all, Can anyone tell me what we can expect in the near future from a science perspective? I know it is not possible to travel faster than light but is teleportation possible? TVs without screen? -benzun

Can someone please tell me how fast we would need to travel in order to go a relatively short distance into the future? Just a matter of years really…

String theory needs the graviton. But guess what. They would have to freely admit to gravity waves having not be proven, yet theorectially they have moved past this with the gravitons introduction. It would seem premature,:) yet this is the way of it that the mathematics have gone down this...

Will humans "need" computers in the future? My question is will humans relay on computers so much in the future that they will think they can't live without them? Some people say we "need" them, but the first humans didn't.

I am a new college student who is very unsure about the career I want. I am between computer science and physics. I think I may enjoy being a video game designer/software engineer more than anything else, but I really want to be as smart as possible and have a complete physics education...

I am a new college student who is very unsure about the career I want. I am between computer science and physics. I think I may enjoy being a video game designer/software engineer more than anything else, but I really want to be as smart as possible and have a complete physics education...

What's you all expect the future development of MBE and nanotechnology?

Once on the discovery channel, I saw a special on Time Travel & Time Machine. They showed various types of designs, some ridiculous & some interesting..One that caught my attention was a "spiral" glowing machine..It was spiral shaped containing lasers (as far as I can remember)..Cant remember...

After some sixty plus years of observation, I'm starting to believe that every single action is destine to happen based on any number of prior events leading up to that point in time. And, we have no control over the outcome. The other day I was doing a thought experiment about "time" as...

If I say die at 45 have have myself frozen and in 500 years time they unthaw me medicine is advanced they can bring me back to life with my memory just as how I knew it before I passed away than from my point of view id have trvelled in time to 500 years into future right ? no diff from a time...

Hello, I've just joined this forum, and I hope this is the correct place to ask these questions ... Anyone want to talk about time? I love thinking about this notion ... Einstein believed in ‘block time’, that the future is already there, that there’s no difference between the past, the...

Hi I am in my final year of A-levels (Grade 12), and have applied to some universities home and abroad for Electrical Engineering (for States and Can., Fall 2004). Universities in Pakistan won't let me apply for ANY form of engineering (even mechatronics). I always thought Elec. Engineering...

My school is making the students take a test that compares us with all the other schools in our area. It includes mental mathematics, number sense, reasoning etc. Unfortunately, I forgot a lot of the way to solve these things and a few are 'trick' questions. I need help on the ones I am...

:eek: I read a newspaper a few days ago.. the Articles was about some physics teacher, who mathemtically preicted when the country war was going to end, and it really happened! :eek: how do you apply physics and mathematics to predict the future ? :confused: Teach me please

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3580337.stm

I am not too sure where to post this,and so have decided on the general category. My question is on the Chaos theory. A very basic question as I have only recently come across this subject. Am I right in assuming that: The future of a system is not predictable if the initial variables(that...

There is an interesting article I have just read which details a neat perspective of :The Physics Of 'Now'. Just a simplified overview I want to ask this question:Can a Robot remember its Future?

http://space.com/businesstechnology/technology/higher_ground_040222.html

I heard in the news that most children between the ages of 5 and 10 years who have an incredible mind(some that attend college or university) are mostly located in South America. Supposedly this is due to the location of South America. Could this be true? These children are incredible because...

Eventually, assuming we survive that long, we will face the problem of the Universe's "big crunch" or "big freeze" (if you care to use those terms...). So what possible action could we take when we reach that point? I realize we aren't anywhere near the level of technology we would need to be...

Dr. Kaku, Carl Sagan, and the majority of the scientific community recognises the need for society (esp. in the United States) to wake up to the threats that human activity, through pollution and nuclear energy, pose to the future of humanity and the planet. Not to mention future threats from...

Hmm... I write Sci-fi in my little country :) Most of my sci-fi are of Asimov type Robots ;) Now I want to know other than robots what else can dominate the future world ? Can you help me?

OPEN SOURCE HACK AND PATCH WEBSITE the game hacking and pathcing linux system each hack and patch comes with a set of points points are awarded base on how many hacks and patch each use will climb a top 100 board to see who is the best. Patcher is the new term of the future no hacker. It would...

The Earths population is a vast pool of differing Genes if we take peoples from all societies. I have noticed from old Photographs that Humans, their facial features, seem to be becoming more and more similar? Taking all the photos I have seen, for instance if I look at an old photo of say south...

I do not pretend to be a genious mathematician, but the theories discussed here intrigue me. I would imagine that majority of people who come to this forum are very familiar with Dr. Kaku's work, and similar work of other scientists. My question is, can past or future be altered? You...

do you think that this new processor is really effective! what is the future of it ?

hello all! here is my question. Is it theoretically possible to time travel to the Earth's future and it's past? thx

Recently read in an article that the fuel of the future was antimatter... My question is how would they contain antimatter to get it to react with only the matter that they wanted it to react with. You wouldn't be able to put it in a container, wouldn't it collide with the matter and completely...

Is it possible to predict the future state of a system without using time as a factor?

Ok, when Iraq becomes democratic, I am thinking democracy will spread like wildfire to the rest of the Middle East... Would the war in Iraq still be wrong even if there were no WMDs? *If your answer is that it is still wrong, be prepared for a wave of demogoguery...

I've just finished 1st year of my science degree, supposedly where they give you a taste of everything possible, and you get to decide what to specialise in. The problem is, I like pretty much all of it ! I'm having real trouble with what majors to choose from. I know I want to major in...

A couple of weeks ago on another forum (RPN), I brought up a couple flaws in the technology they were using in their role play world. But I get ahead of myself. RPN is a roleplay board that I visit fairly often, as I do have a penchant for RP, especially good RP. However my hatred of purely...

Has anyone heard of RSA? Its the cipher used by the NSA, CIA and probably most other government agencies. Its a cipher that uses one way arithimetic(easy to do almost impossible to undo). Anyway a type of computer is being developed to crack this form cipher called the Quantum computer and I was...

does anyone know the physics forums that this guy is supposed to post on? He's supposedly from the near future and has a blueprint of a working time machine he built, lol. Anyone know?

Is dreaming of the future actually dreaming of the future or perhaps dreaming of what the future that you want?

Starlab ... a place where 100 years means nothing Starlab NV/SA was a privately funded, Blue Sky research institute in Brussels, Belgium. At the time of its closing on June 12, 2001, it employed over 100 scientists from more than 30 nationalities, many of them leaders in their respective...

What type of warfare do you feel is next? We have military units, nuclear, chemical, biological, and electrical.