My Friday's night ask me a difficult question thread!

[Random_Australian]

Be serious, and no asking about intentionally way-to-arcane things like "What is time like inside the event horizon of a black hole"

But anyway, any problems at all, no matter how difficult. Tortuous life decision? Want to know why someone does/won't do something? Ask me anything!

Or we can just chat. It is fine by me. Also, you are allowed to ask mind-boggling questions, but be aware that the answer will then appear in the next weeks thread.

****NO ASKING FOR MEDICAL ADVICE****

If you don't know what you want to ask, just tell me something you wish for. Simple.

Current record: 89

[NMMNG]

1. Right now my brain is too fried to even form a difficult question.

How about I just say hi? :hi:

[Random_Australian]

2. Hi! That is fine!

And I have been working on projection again... I am afraid last time I asked and you answered with what it was, I knew already, but you sound a little too fried to go into that stuff.

Though, if you do, I just nailed godhatesrepublicans for bieng a complete smarmy git in R/T.

Tried to tell trotsky and Evoman that they were suffering from reaction formation. :rofl:

What an idiot. :)

[NMMNG]

6. Nice work

As you saw I laid him out as well.

Reaction Formation indeed. More like perfectly reasonable reaction to him being a clueless, insensitive f*ckwit.


Then people wonder why atheists get angry.

[Random_Australian]

9. When we all know the reason atheists get angry is because they want

to be with God, but then they ate bad cheese and are still reeling.

We need to outlaw goats just in case it was goats cheese.

And stop farming chickens to get people to eat more cows so that there are less of those around.

And we also need to get rid of the moon. The projected cost for running it is just too much. It was nice of Haliburton to take legal ownership of it for only a billion dollars per day, but we just can't justify that expense any more.

Haliburton has offered to build us a machine to move it, a cunning device that uses a forked stick and rubber band. We have to bring our own of those, and it will only cost 40 million dollars a day to operate.



Or, perhaps atheists could have actually thought it through.

You never know!

[NMMNG]

11. Well, you see.....

My problem was that my mother used to lock me in the household chapel (a converted closet) and force me to pray for hours on end. She wouldn't let me date, and when I started experiencing puberty she insisted it was because I was a sinner and even beat me with her Bible.


Oh wait, that was Carrie.

[Random_Australian]

14. So difficult to tell life from movies sometimes!

Like every other day when the world is threatened by something that was done by a computer. Poorly. And then some other crap happened.

And what about those terminators? Everywhere!

So this begs the question: What kind of person thinks that Carrie is similar to real life, but not Terminator?

I don't know, I have never seen Carrie.

[NMMNG]

20. Carrie didn't become an atheist

She was a telekinetic who, after too many years of being tortured by her schoolmates, used her powers to kill them all. It's a classic based on the book by Stephen King ( a very popular horror fiction writer).



But there are people out there who think TV and movies reflect 100% real life, including those with blatant stereotypes. :scared:

[Random_Australian]

23. Stereotypes should be put right next to the cupiditas in

"Radix malorum est cupiditas" (Greed is the root of all evil)

[Guava Jelly]

3. Am I wasting my time ?

:)

[Random_Australian]

5. Yes, because you did not ask me a good question.

Good answers need good questions!

[hfojvt]

4. I still believe we are all already inside the event horizon of

a black hole.

How much is my astrophysics out-dated?

[Random_Australian]

7. Hi there hfojvt! About 101 years, I am afraid.

General Relativity sort of stopped that from happening as far as I know.

But it all depends!

And it may swing back to you can do that.

Blaxk holes are not my thing!

[hfojvt]

12. black holes are my thing. I wrote a paper as a HS senior

but I still do not believe in singularities
mathematical nonsense.
I do not believe I am that dated.
Although I never took that much physics to actually get to GR.
Which is funny since I was reading that stuff in the tenth grade and I am almost a physics/astrophysics major.

But I am quite sure you could put a solar system within a very large black hole and have it orbit indefinitely around the center of gravity.

But it depends on how you see the Big Bang - is it space itself expanding or is it galaxies and quasars being hurled into previously empty space? I hold to the latter view, which is probably not the currently accepted one.

[Random_Australian]

16. No, it is not! You are rather right. Spacetime expansion is widely

accepted...


......what makes you think that space was previous?

And I started reading that stuff a year before you.

But I am only 18! GR is not something I am good at yet, I could find no books on it. :(

Well, actually, I know a lot of the qualatative ramifications fairly well, but I don't know the math behindit unfortunately....

And might I remind you that the whole point of singularities are that they are mathematical nonsense? When the equations break down?

After all, there is no limit for density, so why not increase to infinity?

[hfojvt]

21. logically, space must be previous

what else is the universe going to expand into?

Why is there no limit to density? Who says? The same people who postulate this nonsense called singularities. Look, matter gets compacted into neutrons. Compact it further and you crush it down to basic quarks, or whatever neutrons are made of (besides protons and electrons, that is). Push it even further and what happens? It blows up!! (some people just have to keep pushing, and pushing, and pushing :argh: ) Hence you get - the big bang. Pieces of this primordial quarkstar go flying into empty space since it was not entirely converted into energy when it blew up. The larger pieces are the source of the black holes that galaxies form around.

Of course, I am a materialist, since I do not understand waves, so I am probably making some sort of error in thinking of neutrons or quarks as "solid" matter.

[Random_Australian]

24. Yeah, that is the thing, they are waves. You can restrict the wavefunction

as you like. (Sort of)

As for the space thing, sure it must be there previous, but it only has to expand just ahead of the matter, as per current model.

[liontamer]

8. the war memorial in tilba-tilba lists the residents who died in which war?

[Random_Australian]

10. Allow me to refer you to this:

"and no asking about intentionally way-to-arcane things"

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[liontamer]

13. what? tilba tilba is in rural NSW

you're in rural NSW, i figured there weren't that many places to go around there so maybe you'd know. :shrug:

[hfojvt]

15. really, he could at least try

to look it up
http://www.southcoast.com.au/tilba/index.html

[Random_Australian]

18. I saw that, it does NOT say what the memorial is too. Sheesh.

And research is not my thing! I think, not tell!

[Random_Australian]

17. ???????? What??????? Not many places????

In Australia, a place the size of the American mainland is covered by seven states.

AND I have little active interest in that kind of thing....

and wasn't it WWI? Or is that a different place?

[liontamer]

19. I'm just saying

I've been there so it's not the most obscure place ever. And yes it was WWI. was that so hard :P

[Random_Australian]

22. Meh, ok. But be aware that the amount of places per state in Aus is

freaking huge. I can't remember where tilba tilba is, but there is a good chance that it is not within 200 miles of me.

NSW is BIG!

Not as big as WA, though, granted, but we have more outback than desert.

[liontamer]

25. well that's what makes it difficult.

[Random_Australian]

26. Don't worry about it, man.

You are still in my good books. :)

:pals:

[Random_Australian]

27. Kick!

[qnr]

28. How is it possible that people are ever "bored"? It seems like everything

fascinates me.