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Tsadkiel
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#481 - 2012-04-18 21:13:05 UTC
Agamemnon Illearth wrote:
I would like to have your perspective on reality itself.

Not the big bang and the subsequent universe we see around us, but rather why.

Why is there hard matter beneath my feet? Why 'any' matter or even energy? Why not an eternal nothingness.
It is a question that bothers me more than any other yet I know there will never be any answer to it.
I follow with great interest what a laman can in regards to science however I feel that even if all of this universe' puzzles have been solved I would still be left wondering why there even was puzzles to solve.

I would be interested in hearing what you think. Working so close with the minutia of the universe must create more questions for you.


your question is essentially

"why are we here?"

to which i can only give one honest answer: I don't know.

again, science makes no claim to know "why" anything beyond the superficial (why do the planets orbit the sun? gravity.). again, and again, scientific theories only describe two things: what is happening and how it happens.

of course, the snarky quantum mechanical answer to why there is matter and energy, and why there isn't eternal nothingness, is because if that were so, then we wouldn't be here to observe it :3
Tsadkiel
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#482 - 2012-04-18 21:34:11 UTC
Eternum Praetorian wrote:
Question:What do you think about this?

Because it is very relevant to the core foundations of all physics.


i don't really follow what you are trying to ask here, but perhaps this will shed some light on things.

if you had a single, TRUE random number generator that generated an infinitely long string of random numbers, you would be able to find ANY specific string of your choosing.

take the example to a more simple case.

suppose you roll a die an infinite number of times. what is the probability of getting a single 6? or three sixes in a row? or a thousand sixes in a row? or how about exactly 1526 consecutive sixes sandwiched between two ones?

the answer in all cases is 1

this is because the number of tries is going towards infinity!

so, yea, if you had a real, perfect random number generator, and you ran it for an infinite period of time, you would eventually have it output not only EVE online, but all releases and possible versions of EVE online, past, present, and future!
Tsadkiel
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#483 - 2012-04-18 21:52:38 UTC
Bane Necran wrote:
http://io9.com/5901578/one-of-the-most-terrifyingly-incomprehensible-theories-in-physicsexplained

Opinions on that?

It just so happens to use magnetic waves/fields as a way to unify the different fields of physics, but i assure you that is merely a coincidence. I'm terrible at math, and tend to work more with concepts, so i'd be interested in hearing your opinion.


i've never heard of this and i'm reading about it now. this... may take a while lol