Decimal numbers (.123) have a larger infinity than counting numbers (1,2,3) apparrently.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
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Decimal numbers (.123) have a larger infinity than counting numbers (1,2,3) apparrently.Quote:
Originally Posted by noel
Somewhere out there in the universe right now is a monkey typing the complete works of Shakespeare...
Hotel Infinity
Imagine a hotel with an infinite number of rooms all occupied, is there room for me? Yes room 1 moves to room 2, room 2 to room 3 and so on, therefore freeing up room 1 for me and due to the number of rooms being infinite there's always another room to move someone along into.
What if i turn up with an infinite number of friends aswell as myself, is there room for us all? Yes, all the existing guests move to the odd rooms of which there are an infinite number, freeing up the infinite number of even rooms for me and my friends.
My maths tutor at college used to say maths is exciting but i disagree, maths is absoultely hilarious...now where in the universe is that monkey butler with my hot chocolate?
Wouldn't have missed last night's episode on the cosmos for all the world, although i was a bit skeptical about all the guesswork surrounding the recent proposal of the existence of Dark Flow, and that our universe is one of many. It's easier to get your head round than quantum mechanics though, supposedly this just means there was more than one big bang assuming a single bang gives rise to one universe. Programs like this really open your mind and make you realise just how small we all are.
I was also beginning to consider the prospect that religions might step forward and claim that Dark Matter proves that god is present, and that Dark Energy is god fiddling around or 'moving in mysterious ways' as they like to say.
Enjoyed the new series on the solar system too, i'm actually a bit afraid of the sun now! :eek:
just remember you cant actually prove anything exists outside of your own mind
Margarine exists outside of my mind.
(But not for long after spilling the beans on my unscheduled HPM stops).
and if you thin it exists within your mind you could be day dreaming...Quote:
Originally Posted by fellboy
I'm not going to let that comment influence me, since I don't know whether you're real or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by fellboy
Indeed, there are more irrational numbers than there are integers (infinitely more, in fact). There's the same number of prime numbers as integers though, and it's quite easy to prove.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
Is a bit of blind faith too much to ask? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by noel
Not too impressed with the way the new series has kicked off :confused:. Where's Prof Cox with the latest on CERN's Large Hadron Collider, and how's the search for water on Gliese 581c going?
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Originally Posted by mr brightside
I think Prof Cox is working on the FRA Large Number Folder at the moment ;):D
Anyone see it last night? That feature on developing a 6th sense that is sensitive to magnetic north was fascinating, could this explain people who find themselves to have a good sense of direction? I've always found my sense of direction quite reliable, but put it down to an ability to guess angles accurately based on an unfamiliar route i memorised earlier, am i now a fell running pigeon? :D
According to last night's episode i can report that there is a god...and it's an asteroid! In particular the one that slammed into the earth a while ago and brought all the water and possibly the long chain chemicals commonly known as 'the building blocks of life'.
Joking aside, the program chose not to link this discovery with the argument about existence of life on other planets
All hail our gods:
http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/phys235...ds_flownby.jpg
[QUOTE=mr brightside;370804]According to last night's episode i can report that there is a god...and it's an asteroid! In particular the one that slammed into the earth a while ago and brought all the water and possibly the long chain chemicals commonly known as 'the building blocks of life'.
Joking aside, the program chose not to link this discovery with the argument about existence of life on other planets
All hail our gods:
Its life Mr B. but not as we know it :w00t:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39roz9jQfzE
Ha ha ha! It's just a stage hand shuffling along in what looks like an Arts and Crafts bedspread :D. Does it make a noise? this computer's got no speakers. Is it a cheesy vocoderated rooooar!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
That is the famous "Horta" a silicon-based lifeform from Janus VI. It is composed of a material similar to fibrous asbestos. It makes no sound but Spock did a mind meld with it once "the pain!...the pain!" :DQuote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
........errr not that I'm a Trekky you understand http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...lipssealed.gif