Recent content by Phaedrus

Our universe is all we could ever know. It grows every day. We know about how big it is. That doesn't mean that is all there is, though. So, can we ever know how "big" all there is... is? I don't think so. I think that's a hard no for us. Higher dimensional beings could discover it and conveys...

Sure, if you dropped a couple of atoms or even atomic nuclei into it together at about the same place and time. Before they reached the center (on presumably two trajectories to the center close to each other in time), eventually their nuclei would be forced to fuse, as they would be forced...

It is the dance of physics, laid out in the biggest lab ever. It is the best physics experiment ever. And through physics, we learn how to bend the universe to our will. Physicists: "It would be great to take some stuff, put it somewhere, and see what happens. We could learn a few things."...

While the walls, roof, and floor may be inflatable and flexible, the people and equipment inside won't be. So I remain doubtful. But I am sure that any risk I can dream up, these geniuses thought about twice before breakfast. So I will stay tuned...

As I understand it, any Moon base would have to remain in orbit, due to Moonquakes. These would shake to pieces any structure we attempt to place on the moon.

Privately funded...by whom? Even Space X is counting on big government funding for any of its proposed manned missions.

Your walk affected no other universes.

Which is precisely what people do.

Given infinite resources and time, it has to happen an infinite number of times.

That being said... It is religion-induced chaos they fear most.

That's not enough information to make the determination you just made. You have to consider cardinality. Some infinite sets do, in fact, contain more elements than other infinite sets. The randomness doesn't matter. No, it might not. Universes are countable. The infinite set out counting...

I, for one, am not going to sift through that article for anything worthy of response. If you understand these concerns, then you can explain them. If you can explain them, you can post your explanations here, in your own words. If you can't do these things, then you don't understand any of...

No it doesn't. Their beliefs in gods had zero bearing on the scientific process. Which is why they had to undertake it in the first place, instead of simply consulting their iron aged handbook.

Simple: your brain is hardwired to make sense of what it sees and to see recognizable patterns. How odd that they would communicate in modern English letters, and those are the same letters you are familiar with... Don't ya think?

Because floods have always happened. There have been British children for 1000 years. My intuition tells me this is what the Harry Potter stories are based on. ;)