What is real?

Are there seriously BILLIONS of other brains, lives, hearts, thoughts going on at this exact instant that I type this?(

Or is everything almost programmed and wrapped around me.

Like when you see a car pass, and it "disappears" from your vision...does it still exist, or no, because your brain doesn't need it to be there anymore?

(Bill, we should have a drinking/thought party at the new place; I could make you wanna shoot yourself with half the **** that goes on in my head on the DAILY!)

never heard of mirror matter... but we discussed dark matter briefly in astronomy class.

as far as colors, colors are actually scientifically used tools... and as such are pretty damn accurate. think about it though... if everyone saw colors differently, ie: my yellow is your blue, your blue is her green, etc... well... we wouldn't have a recognized color system.

Lots and lots of what we know about what we cannot touch, ie most of the universe, has been garnered from color via light. certain atoms give off, and absorb, certain light.

Time is relative. a year for us, is not a year for saturn. and "time" began when the universe was created. Simply enough.

The big thing is... if nothing existed before the universe... what was there before that with which to create the universe? Was there some form of matter before? Its certainly possible... i mean, when you destroy an atom, much energy is released and stuff happens... and there is matter smaller than the building blocks of an atom... did something happen to those to create the universe and now they have merely been reorganized into what we have now?

Kind of like, "If a tree falls in the woods, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?"

probably never in humans existence on this planet

we're looking at the sun turning into a red giant in 5 billion years.

fortunately for us, the earth will not be absorbed. However, it will become a molten wasteland much like mercury due to how close we'll be.

When the sun becomes a red giant, it will lose some mass... however minute... it will be enough that its gravitational pull will weaken and the earth will more than likely drift right outside of its body.

Damnit. I'm not getting any work done today. I love this ****.

anyone else enjoy stephen hawking theories? they are mind boggling.

No more like...are the woods even there...did the tree really fall...or is that how it was all "generated" when you went there to loo?

The universe can't be infinite...so what is at the edge? Beyond the edge?

the universe is expanding, there are no edges. we know for a fact that everything is moving away from the perceived center. Andromedia and the Milky Way are on a collision path as well... :eek:

yes, it's expanding...but it must expand into something.

mirror matter is kinda like dark matter. dark matter is thought to exist in our on dimension on an invisible wave length,
whereas mirror matter is suspected to exist in our universe, but in a different dimension that we do not have access to.
the only way to measure the existance of mirror matter is when it comes into contact with something in our dimension.
pretty crazy **** but apparently they have some evidence to support the existance of mirror matter.

Man.. sounds like everyone in this thread has been puffin' the reefer.. why no invite?

These are total blazed convos.

:roll: god forbid people discuss something a bit out there without it being associated with drug use.

why must it be?

i'll have to ask my astronomy professor about this one... we haven't even proved the existence of dark matter in our own "dimension"... something tells me we haven't gotten any solid evidence in regards to another dimension...

why cant it be infinite?

i'm sure there's no "solid" evidence, but there's this one scientist who has some really great theories about it.
He's actually in the process of trying to prove that the Timgusca (sp?) Event was actually caused by a large
chunk of mirror matter interacting with our dimension in the atmosphere. I forget the guy's name but he's a
professor/scientist from Catholic University.

Here were a few that i have thought about...

1) is the world black and white or is there gray area?
2) Will a rubber band last longer if it is stretched and has the same tension on it it's whole life, or if it sits in a drawer un-used?

i'd be willing to bet the lifetime of a rubber band is directly related to its composition as opposed to its usage.

anyone here watch the movie what the blep do we know? they talk about mirror matter in that i believe.

how can u answer a question, with a question?