Mindbending...

2006-11-07 11:54:23

#1

Brasso: member; +1,549|6902

The things you learn in Honors Bio, freshman year....

Our teacher was explaining to use chloroplasts and chromoplasts, which then sparked a question from a student. It was something about why we see green. So I raised my hand, explained, blah blah blah. Now for the interesting part.

Our teacher has a bad habit to get thrown off track. Don't get me wrong, she's a great teacher and a nice person, but she's more than eager to explain every last thing in the world. Which is why I love Bio. I learn so many things that make me think.

So, she started explaining the light spectrum (which I already knew btw ). From radiowaves to cosmic rays and all that jazz. Another sidetracking: She starts stating how some scientists were able to sort of "throw" tiny objects back through time. Which leads me to this very valid conclusion (according to Adv. Geo):

If someone were to go back in time, say, through a time machine, how would they go through the time machine in the first place. Because then they would be back in time and not going through the time machine. So, therefore (here's the good part), time does not exist. You do not exist, I don't exist, the world does not exist. We are all just....nothing.

_{Well....it was interesting to me.}

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2006-11-07 11:56:08

#2

SaladForks: /ph34r; +129|6854|Eastern USA

You phaiyl

2006-11-07 11:57:37

#3

RicardoBlanco: The English; +177|6840|Oxford

In that case, this shit will blow your mind..

http://www.physics.metu.edu.tr/~fizikt/ … _Time.html

Try not to think about it too much or it starts to hurt

2006-11-07 12:00:59

#4

Brasso: member; +1,549|6902

RicardoBlanco wrote:
In that case, this shit will blow your mind..

http://www.physics.metu.edu.tr/~fizikt/ … _Time.html

Try not to think about it too much or it starts to hurt

Too long. Maybe when I'm 80.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2006-11-07 12:12:30

#5

Stingray24: Proud member of the vast right-wing conspiracy; +1,060|6717|The Land of Scott Walker

You do not exist, therefore, I get your stuff. What kind of PC do you have? But I don't exist so you can't reply.

2006-11-07 12:47:50

#6

Brasso: member; +1,549|6902

Stingray24 wrote:
You do not exist, therefore, I get your stuff. What kind of PC do you have? But I don't exist so you can't reply.

Nope. The PC doesn't exist, according to my genius theory.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2006-11-07 13:07:18

#7

Stingray24: Proud member of the vast right-wing conspiracy; +1,060|6717|The Land of Scott Walker

haffeysucks wrote:
Stingray24 wrote:
You do not exist, therefore, I get your stuff. What kind of PC do you have? But I don't exist so you can't reply.
Nope. The PC doesn't exist, according to my genius theory.

Ok then, prove your genius theory. Ah, there's the rub.

2006-11-07 13:15:15

#8

Spearhead: Gulf coast redneck hippy; +731|6962|Tampa Bay Florida

I agree, time doesn't exist. It's just a measure of.... an amount of existence happening. Almost everything we use doesn't physically exist.. only in our minds it exists. Without languages, we'd be nothing more than primitive cavemen eating rabbits. Then, if we saw a trunk full of US dollars, we wouldn't tell eachother to do stuff for it, we'd think to ourselves *non English of course* "I can start a fire with this".

2006-11-07 13:48:15

#9

jonsimon: Member; +224|6767

Au Contraire, everything exists! Rebutt that!

2006-11-07 14:02:45

#10

IG-Calibre: comhalta; +226|7015|Tír Eoghan, Tuaisceart Éireann

haffeysucks wrote:
The things you learn in Honors Bio, freshman year....

Our teacher was explaining to use chloroplasts and chromoplasts, which then sparked a question from a student. It was something about why we see green. So I raised my hand, explained, blah blah blah. Now for the interesting part.

Our teacher has a bad habit to get thrown off track. Don't get me wrong, she's a great teacher and a nice person, but she's more than eager to explain every last thing in the world. Which is why I love Bio. I learn so many things that make me think.

So, she started explaining the light spectrum (which I already knew btw ). From radiowaves to cosmic rays and all that jazz. Another sidetracking: She starts stating how some scientists were able to sort of "throw" tiny objects back through time. Which leads me to this very valid conclusion (according to Adv. Geo):

If someone were to go back in time, say, through a time machine, how would they go through the time machine in the first place. Because then they would be back in time and not going through the time machine. So, therefore (here's the good part), time does not exist. You do not exist, I don't exist, the world does not exist. We are all just....nothing.

_{Well....it was interesting to me.}

one word - relativity

2006-11-07 14:07:23

#11

sergeriver: Cowboy from Hell; +1,928|7030|Argentina

Haffeysucks pls stop smoking that thing, it's bad for you.

2006-11-07 14:22:04

#12

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,054|7044|PNW

I don't think time is really as important as people think it is, let alone its leading to a conclusion of nonexistence.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-11-07 14:22:25)

2006-11-07 14:32:56

#13

Paco_the_Insane: Phorum Phantom; +244|6917|Ohio

RicardoBlanco wrote:
In that case, this shit will blow your mind..

http://www.physics.metu.edu.tr/~fizikt/ … _Time.html

Try not to think about it too much or it starts to hurt

If you tell Adobe to read it, its almost like Steven Hawking is reading it to you.

2006-11-07 16:01:26

#14

Brasso: member; +1,549|6902

Did no one get that this was a JOKE?

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2006-11-07 16:03:36

#15

KO: Banned; +31|6815|New Jersey

haffeysucks wrote:
Did no one get that this was a JOKE?

o rly?

2006-11-07 16:04:19

#16

Miller: IT'S MILLER TIME!; +271|7028|United States of America

haffeysucks wrote:
Did no one get that this was a JOKE?

Whered marisa go??!?!

2006-11-07 16:05:50

#17

Brasso: member; +1,549|6902

Miller wrote:
haffeysucks wrote:
Did no one get that this was a JOKE?
Whered marisa go??!?!

Read the link under my sig. I'm sad too, maybe I'll bring her back early.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2006-11-07 16:59:12

#18

DesertFox-: The very model of a modern major general; +796|6957|United States of America

Get all neardy about quantum physics and things about the coexisiting possibilities of stuff that'll freak you out. Example- There is a ball sitting on the desk, but whenever you aren't looking it at it is gone; yet when you look at the ball again, it reappears. Oh well, crappy example but it's confusing stuff nonetheless.

2006-11-07 17:00:47

#19

Miller: IT'S MILLER TIME!; +271|7028|United States of America

haffeysucks wrote:
Miller wrote:
haffeysucks wrote:
Did no one get that this was a JOKE?
Whered marisa go??!?!
Read the link under my sig. I'm sad too, maybe I'll bring her back early.

I want my baby back! Ribs?

2006-11-07 18:07:01

#20

Turquoise: O Canada; +1,596|6677|North Carolina

The majority of reality is perception....

2006-11-07 18:12:02

#21

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,981|6904|949

So was the purpose of this thread to let us all know how much you know in Biology, or to get us to contemplate an idea that has been around since the early days of philosophy?

2006-11-07 18:32:34

#22

Brasso: member; +1,549|6902

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
So was the purpose of this thread to let us all know how much you know in Biology, or to get us to contemplate an idea that has been around since the early days of philosophy?

Just to contemplate....life, in general.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2006-11-07 18:43:57

#23

kr@cker: Bringin' Sexy Back!; +581|6821|Southeastern USA

duhhr, the delorean travels with you!!

just don't crack your flux capacitor

2006-11-07 18:45:06

#24

Pizdets_Velikiy: Member; +8|6675

The point you raise is valid, mostly because even though the theoretical possibility of time travel exists (even according to the venerable Stephen Hawking, the idea is technically not entirely out of this world), it is only possible into the future. Travel into the past, as people like to say around here, phails.

The special theory of relativity tells us that time (if it exists) moves slower for a moving frame--in other words the faster you're moving the slower "your" time is. Einstein suggested indirectly that if you move fast enough (approaching the speed of light) it would be time travel in a sense because less of "your" time will have passed than of those around you.

This can actually be seen after a long plane flight: if you have a bunch of people set their watches when they get on the plane and a bunch of people set their watches on the ground at the same time, the watches on the plane will end up being a few fractions of a second behind the ones on the ground after the flight. Trippy!

But anyway, it's awesome that you're enjoying freshman bio. It only gets better (and crazier and more interesting) from there, take it from a biochemistry college junior!

2006-11-07 18:45:23

#25

Naughty_Om: Im Ron Burgundy?; +355|6905|USA

haffeysucks wrote:
The things you learn in Honors Bio, freshman year....

Our teacher was explaining to use chloroplasts and chromoplasts, which then sparked a question from a student. It was something about why we see green. So I raised my hand, explained, blah blah blah. Now for the interesting part.

Our teacher has a bad habit to get thrown off track. Don't get me wrong, she's a great teacher and a nice person, but she's more than eager to explain every last thing in the world. Which is why I love Bio. I learn so many things that make me think.

So, she started explaining the light spectrum (which I already knew btw ). From radiowaves to cosmic rays and all that jazz. Another sidetracking: She starts stating how some scientists were able to sort of "throw" tiny objects back through time. Which leads me to this very valid conclusion (according to Adv. Geo):

If someone were to go back in time, say, through a time machine, how would they go through the time machine in the first place. Because then they would be back in time and not going through the time machine. So, therefore (here's the good part), time does not exist. You do not exist, I don't exist, the world does not exist. We are all just....nothing.

_{Well....it was interesting to me.}

Thank you captain Obvious!

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