Jamie_Kurosawa Wrote:Dr. Michio Kaku was one of the sources I used for this regarding the Black Hole Infinity calculation.

Jamie_Kurosawa Wrote:3. Why does all matter follow a uniform pattern with a orbital body revolving around a nucleic body such as atoms (hydrogen), as well as moons circling planets, planets circling stars, stars circling the supermassive blackholes at the center of galaxies? If the universe has no intelligent design, shouldn't all matter be chaotic in nature not conforming to a single yet vital design that is uniform to everything from the smallest to the largest?

GummyBear Wrote:1 - Current science does not explain why our body still functioning while we sleep. There is a high state of subconsciousness operates our body that we're not aware of. Certainly, I do not know the nitty gritty details of how my body works, eg how many beats my heart must do, which arteries should receive which amount of blood, etc. For that, I know our conscious state is limited. As for how to expand it and why, no idea. We're such destructive creatures as we are right now, no need for more capacity.

2 - We "assumed" to be truly alone in the universe because we cannot find anyone else, nor we have the capacity to search far and wide for other "living" beings. It's curiosity that forces us to seek the unknown. Also, being the first to find something adds to that madness. Even here, people tried to have "first reply" to certain thread.

3 - Equilibrium.

PS: those are what I think. I am not saying they're technically correct.

Herborist Wrote:Yeah... no. Science can exactly explain how we function while we sleep - we have subconscous areas of our brain that perform vital homeostatic functions while we sleep, just like while we're awake. Ever heard of the hypothalmus?

GummyBear Wrote:I think you took my first line too directly. Science does not know everything about the human body and its inner functionality, sleep was just a metaphor I used to describe a different state of consciousness. Tho, that is not my point. My point is that we as a human being does not require the complicated knowledge of how our body operates in order to operate it. That "ignorance" seems solid enough to say that our brain has higher functionality that our consciousness does not fathom. This vast ocean of knowledge are completely untouched to us human, yet everybody knows how. We learn about a human body through examinations and analysis, not decyphering how our higher subconscious works. Even your statement refers to subconscious areas in our brain. It is somewhat aligned with the statement "mankind operates in a limited state".

Mute Wrote:The one thing to note is science is never finite, and every day things are discovered or pondered that question what we know, may know, think we know, or don't know. I saw this the other day on kotaku, and the fact that scientists can say they've captured anti-hydrogen is perplexing; for one thing how would one even begin trying to explain that to a layman? Hell, I myself don't know how to understand it outside of it being something pretty big.


I've never been one to try and tackle the matter of black holes, despite their nature which appeals to me in a lot of ways. To say that energy and mass are conserved, and they just transition from one another is thrown out the window with them. It does bring to mind a few arguments on the very manner of existence (if a black hole is the ultimate end, what was the ultimate beginning?), and this is just those black holes that form from the collapse of supermassive stars. What about the theory that at the center of each galaxy lies a supermassive black hole? It's astounding.