Last night's Horizon

[noel]

...42...

Aha

[Pilgrim]

String theory, 21 dimensions, black matter, infinity.

I dont believe that we are meant to understand the workings of the universe. We live in a 4D world and as a result could never contemplate and understand this, although there is hope and progression, I feel it is futile.

If the answer to all of the above was phoned through to the most intelligent scientist on Earth, they would not understand. It would be like trying to explain the internet to an ant. We simply can not hold the intelligence to understand.

Nice little series (~2 hrs) to get you started!

http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_E.htm

[CL]

Ok, but Steve Wright's ego is infinitely large and infinitely dense and that exists. Black holes exist too, and not just theoretically the Horizon two weeks ago reported that. Whatever a 'singularity' is you must at least go with a 50% chance it 'exists' so to speak.

That's not true Brightside. When the scientists were asked what a black hole was, not one of them could answer. I think many of the leading physicists are so caught up in manipulating figures(mathematics), that they've lost the link to philosophy.

Black holes as they are currently being described do not exist. I can say that with certainty, because the bizarre explanations given are so contradictory that they go against all philosophical laws.

[CL]

String theory, 21 dimensions, black matter, infinity.

I dont believe that we are meant to understand the workings of the universe. We live in a 4D world and as a result could never contemplate and understand this, although there is hope and progression, I feel it is futile.

If the answer to all of the above was phoned through to the most intelligent scientist on Earth, they would not understand. It would be like trying to explain the internet to an ant. We simply can not hold the intelligence to understand.

What's a 4D world Roy? I think humans understand most things, and because of this get bored and start imagining things like black-holes.

[stevefoster]

What's a 4D world Roy? I think humans understand most things, and because of this get bored and start imagining things like black-holes.

Was there not once a Black Hole in Calcutta

[Roy Scott]

What's a 4D world Roy? I think humans understand most things, and because of this get bored and start imagining things like black-holes.

Width, length, depth and spacetime.

[CL]

Width, length, depth and spacetime.

What's spacetime?

[Roy Scott]

What's spacetime?

I am pretty sure you know already but it is basically the combination of space and time within a coordinate system. It explains why time can be slowed at high speeds. It also explains how we all witness events differently as it is observed from our own unique coordinate.

and your homework will be...........

[Nathaniel Lee]

Does Dark matter ?.

[noel]

Does Dark matter ?.

If a mime falls over in a forest and no-one is there to see it...

does anyone care?