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Damn...this is like catchphrase in hell :eek: Sorry Roy I can't solve the puzzle :D

Made me think of this instantly, an oldie but a goodie...

Well this 'heat death' got me thinking, so if you think of the universe as a flat plane with lots of craters or wells in it due to the large gravitational forces ala general relativity. Then we can think of the entropy maximum as the slow process of smoothing out this into an entirely flat plane...

Depends how you define organized and in what time frame. If you look at the entropic success story of a supernova, you would argue in favor of entropy. But, if you are a being who lives for ~75 years and beholds the wonder of the solar system around you, that formed over a long period (by your...

I think this is the natural reaction when one questions that which is believed via dogma rather than understanding, its like dropping the 'who made god' bomb:D

Oh yes I totally agree, it in of itself is heavily burdened. However the passive system im describing is a post war concept that is regularly discussed in modern science today. For instance a clear example today, the single child rule in China, unfair? I would say so, I'm not sure i would go as...

Well i did a bit of digging around and the closest thing i could find to an explanation was the following Excerpt from : <CITE style="FONT-STYLE: normal" id=CITEREFUlanowicz2000 class=book>Ulanowicz, Robert, E. (2000). Growth and Development – Ecosystems Phenomenology</CITE> <CITE...

I think its important to qualify that I stated passive eugenics, there is nothing sinister about it IMO. I don't think I'm taking a massive leap of logic to state that someone who believes there is too much of something would, by extension believe that it would be preferable if there were less...

Well I was going waffle about echos of tired gender roles that still get dragged out and given a dusting every now and then. But it occurred to me that alot of the criticism might be coming from other women, hence my question. Obviously only looking at it from a man's perspective, to qualify...

I think the consensus among inquiring minds is that, as nice as some people can be, dismissing avenues of inquiry without giving it much thought can be as frustrating and unproductive as dogmatically believing one has all the answers. David's term intellectually dishonest is fitting, but not...

I'm intrigued to know, would you you say this is a general reaction, or more so from women than men, or visa versa?

If the limit truly is 7bn then the population will naturally stabilize, no overt action will be required on our part, not that we have that power anyway of course (up there with fighting climate change and wining wars on abstract ideas I'm afraid). I'm just looking at the OP from a different...

Well I'd have to respectively disagree. I think it's very easy to reiterate such tired cliques without considering the implications of the statement, however, i would be fascinated to see how agreeable one is with it if the day ever came that someone across the room was making that very same...

I dunno what is meant by 'too many people in the world', unless the person coming to such a judgment is happy to be at the front of the line for the exit then i don't see any way of making such a statement without a large amount of hubris attached. This is the nature of fight or flight in...

This is what i found, dunno if that covers it: </EMBED></EMBED></EMBED>

I thought it was interesting enough, and both came across as pleasant. I'll be the first to admit to being a card carrying follower of the scientific method. Not so much out of a dogmatic 'this is how you have to look at things' way of thinking, rather that, if one were to put down on paper a...

I kind of see what your getting at, so say you have a bubble around the ship that is intertial frame 1, a 'shell' (spherical) around that i'll call frame 2, then the guy watching from the ground at frame 3. Frame 2, the shell, would be an event horizon from both the ship's and the ground...

It depends what you mean by 'time slows down rom its perspective' The ship's time appears to slow from the perspective of an oberserver watching the ship go into the black hole. When the occupant looks at only his own clock inside the ship, he would have no concept of time slowing down, the...

If Einstein’s theories of special & general relativity are accurate then personally I don’t believe that this would be an explanation for the fast movements. Not in terms of gravity amplification at least. Something to consider is that it isn’t just a warping of space but of space-time. So if...

Ive only ready a couple of books on astrobiology but its certainly an interesting subject. I think this is the kind of astrobiological panspermia might very well help answer a lot of questions with regards to our own origins.