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Nope. There it's still you that knows that you can enter every natural number to get a bigger number. The computer just calculates it and knows nothing. Before he's trying out the number you give him the computer can't be sure if the result is higher or not. We humans don't have to try it out to know the result 100%.Quote:
Originally posted by Ihoss
uhh
code:
function googleplex(number){
return (number+1);
}
Fredi
Another wierd thing I think about, how did words come about. Like did the caveman grunt, and then the grunts became more and more defined? And then for writing did they draw the grunts and then...
Someone stop me from thinking please!
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Originally posted by squidlips
Another wierd thing I think about, how did words come about. Like did the caveman grunt, and then the grunts became more and more defined? And then for writing did they draw the grunts and then...
Someone stop me from thinking please!
..Quick Robbin, to the Bat Cave.....
...now what...oh just slap him upside his head and give him a Game Boy..that'll keep him busy.
How about we debate... "nothing is random"?
is nothing a part of everything?
everything is all that exists, but nothing is something that does not exist, so therefore its not a thing, and is not a part of everything. but if it doestn, then everything is not all, just everything. and then try to define everything :)
Who was the first guy to milk a cow and drink it, and what was he thinking at the time?
Duh... he was thinking I need some milk for my cereal!
Today in the news: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994879
Huh? Infinite long, but finite volume? :D (I could explain it with quantum theory, but still, it sounds pretty wierd)Quote:
In the model, technically called a Picard topology, the Universe curves in a strange way. One end is infinitely long, but so narrow that it has a finite volume.
Fredi
my shoes make funny noises when i walk...
*knocks Subbers unconscious*Quote:
Originally posted by Subway
For everything that is real science there must be a way to prove the theory. It's similar like if I would say that only I have consciousness and nobody else. It can't be proven or desproven.
=^_^=
And Squiddy, early writing was of a picto-graph variety. People drew the likeness of the things they saw. Phonetic-based writing is a recent development, and I'd wager came about because of a growing need to represent abstract ideas in writing.
Ihoss: existence, exists. Non-existence also exists, but only to the point where existence ends. Everything that is is because of what it is not. I am only me because I am not you. Therefore non-existence is a part of existence.
I was thinking that maybe our whole universe & it's physical Laws are an experiment by some incredibly advanced form of life/intelligence/entity and I started to get a headache. If it all started with all the matter slowly gathering for the big bang, then where was all the matter from in the first place. When did it all begin & why, what were the conditions for it happening and does it repeat in endless cycles.
That was when I went full into a Lamp Post on my Inline skates. I stopped thinking for several seconds. Where did I go for those seconds?
Weird enough?
Matter is not really matter after all. Basicaly it could be kind of a simulation. Just think about the quantum correlations over big distances between two particles, if one got measured, the other one instantly changes to one of the possible states (accordingly of what got measured in the other particle). Experiments have already proven that this correlation really works without needing any time at all, there is no before or after, it happens immediatly, even if the particles are miles (or lightyears) away of eachother. If something on the quantum level can happen immediatly, that meens that on the quantum level there is basically unlimited computional power, you just need to be on that level (maybe the afterlife realms) or you need to know how to use the quantum effects (quntum computing).
Do we life in a simulation? Possible. Is it simulated on a computer with transistors? Impossible from what we know.
Fredi
subway, ive heard about that. Its the function y=1/x on a graph, then rotate it around the x axis to get a trumpet kinda thingy. THe cool thing is that it has and infinite surface area, but finite volume. So if you wanted to paint it, you would need infinite amount of paint, but if you want to fill it with paint, you only need so much. weird, huh?
mind boggling stuff guys.
we don't know a damn thing about anything. let's just call it a day, c'mon i'll buy you guys a strawberry milkshake.
If you look at everything around us it can be explained by mathematics. There is nothing that cant be explained by a simple formula. From programing i know that i try to make things with formulas, instead of long lists. For example, if i wanted something to fall, i could tell it that if its speed was 30, then its next speed would be 32, and if the speed was 32, then the next speed would be 34, or i could make a simple formula that said that the speed would be increasing by 10 meters per second per second (yup, 2 'per second'). much simpler. Everything around us can also be controled by very simple functions. You may think that there are millions of functions controlign the world, like the function to increase speed as the gear is changed, but in reality all the functions are at atomic level. The atom controls everything, even the changing of the gear. Its like ants; Ants look very organised and very intelegent, but actually all of them do their little thing. They dont know a lot about the rest of the ants, only what they are supposed to do. The world does seem to be designed. There are formulas and simple functions everywhere, and i do realy think that we live in an experimental computer world. It may not be a computer as we know it, but i think we are controlled by some other form of life (moderators, admins or gods if you wish).
Lets climb trees and act like we're horses.
I would prefer god if I have to chose one on that list. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Ihoss
we are controlled by some other form of life (moderators, admins or gods if you wish).
Fredi
I really don't like sleeping late, but I hate going to bed early. However, I hate feeling tired.
I don't drink coffee
What do i do?
drink coffee
Sleep twice as hard. That way you only need half as much.