That One Thing 2017-06-01
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That One Thing 2017-06-01
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*sniff*
I think I can smell Nadette's brain frying from within.
*sniff*
I think I can smell Nadette's brain frying from within.
Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
She should have expected it. They're sunning themselves by a large body of water... that's just where you would expect to meet a paradox.Cheesy1 wrote:I think I can smell Nadette's brain frying from within.
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Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
Atsali is getting deep
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Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
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I'm not sure if that's genius or madness.
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I'm not sure if that's genius or madness.
"Madness takes its toll . . . exact change only, please!" -anon.
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Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
Is Nadette wondering if Atsali has had some of that hippie lettuce?
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Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
Thats not a true paradox, its simply a variation of a multidimensional quantum mechanics problem. The problem is almost no one can picture a multidimensional setting. Most people have problems thinking in 3 dimensions.
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Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
I think trying to draw the picture is the fun part.oldmanmickey wrote:Thats not a true paradox, its simply a variation of a multidimensional quantum mechanics problem. The problem is almost no one can picture a multidimensional setting. Most people have problems thinking in 3 dimensions.
Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
She's getting Meta AND Mega, and discombobulating Nad!
Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
Well, Atsali is technically correct... there IS one thing that is nonmoving relative to everything else.
The catch is, thanks to relativity, you can pick any one thing you want and define it to be that one thing, immobile with the universe whirling around it.
Some things make for easier math than others. If you pick the volume knob on your car's radio to be that one thing, as the car spins around it to adjust the sound volume and the freeway passes by at 70 MPH, the math describing the motion of Ganymede is pretty complicated. (And Ganymede may move faster than the speed of light.)
Therefore, we are constantly picking different things. For adjusting the radio's volume, you probably consider the car immobile. For driving the car, you probably consider the planet immobile. For plotting a mission to Ganymede, you probably consider the sun immobile,
The catch is, thanks to relativity, you can pick any one thing you want and define it to be that one thing, immobile with the universe whirling around it.
Some things make for easier math than others. If you pick the volume knob on your car's radio to be that one thing, as the car spins around it to adjust the sound volume and the freeway passes by at 70 MPH, the math describing the motion of Ganymede is pretty complicated. (And Ganymede may move faster than the speed of light.)
Therefore, we are constantly picking different things. For adjusting the radio's volume, you probably consider the car immobile. For driving the car, you probably consider the planet immobile. For plotting a mission to Ganymede, you probably consider the sun immobile,
Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
If your uncle goes on a trip, it that relative motion?
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Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
Only if he's traveling on a starship that's powered by auntie matter.FreeFlier wrote:If your uncle goes on a trip, it that relative motion?
Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
er, *everything* is relative... if he is moving away from you, he is relatively faster than you..FreeFlier wrote:If your uncle goes on a trip, it that relative motion?
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Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
Perhaps this can be connected to Aristotle's "unmoved movers". Better ask Nadette if she's aware of any celestial spheres or heavenly orbs. . .I'm sure that that could lead the discussion somewhere more along Nadette's liking.
Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
We already know that Nadette is aware of a pair of heavenly orbs.Catawampus wrote:Perhaps this can be connected to Aristotle's "unmoved movers". Better ask Nadette if she's aware of any celestial spheres or heavenly orbs. . .I'm sure that that could lead the discussion somewhere more along Nadette's liking.
Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
Something I didn't consider until yesterday or so:
If an object is truly at rest, from dimensions one to eleven, how would we know? Could we even detect it? And how do we know that our entire universe itself isn't moving?
If an object is truly at rest, from dimensions one to eleven, how would we know? Could we even detect it? And how do we know that our entire universe itself isn't moving?
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Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
That calls the question: "Compared to what?"Alkarii wrote:Something I didn't consider until yesterday or so:
If an object is truly at rest, from dimensions one to eleven, how would we know? Could we even detect it? And how do we know that our entire universe itself isn't moving?
And that's where you discover it's turtles all the way down!
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Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
Well, by "at rest," I meant in relation to the universe itself, not the objects hurtling through it.
But then, there's also the question of whether or not the universe has an actual edge, or if it's just empty space forever. Or if there are entire universes so far away (and probably also "young" enough) that their light hasn't reached ours.
So let's just assume it's this universe, with the point where the Big Bang occurred being the center.
Do you think that people from a civilization a billion years older than ours commonly prank their coworkers at the office by causing random objects (for example, what amounts to a coffee mug) to reach a state of absolute rest?
But then, there's also the question of whether or not the universe has an actual edge, or if it's just empty space forever. Or if there are entire universes so far away (and probably also "young" enough) that their light hasn't reached ours.
So let's just assume it's this universe, with the point where the Big Bang occurred being the center.
Do you think that people from a civilization a billion years older than ours commonly prank their coworkers at the office by causing random objects (for example, what amounts to a coffee mug) to reach a state of absolute rest?
There is no such thing as a science experiment gone wrong.
Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
Atomic wrote:That calls the question: "Compared to what?"Alkarii wrote:Something I didn't consider until yesterday or so:
If an object is truly at rest, from dimensions one to eleven, how would we know? Could we even detect it? And how do we know that our entire universe itself isn't moving?
And that's where you discover it's turtles all the way down!
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Re: That One Thing 2017-06-01
Different cosmology.TazManiac wrote:Don't forget the Elephants!Atomic wrote:That calls the question: "Compared to what?"Alkarii wrote:Something I didn't consider until yesterday or so:
If an object is truly at rest, from dimensions one to eleven, how would we know? Could we even detect it? And how do we know that our entire universe itself isn't moving?
And that's where you discover it's turtles all the way down!
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