2010-12-04, 11:31 PM
I hate you burst your bubble, but a lot of the "points" you made and questions you asked are based on science fiction.
First off, the myth that humans only use a portion of their brain (usually cited as 10%
is just plain wrong. A simple PET scan will tell you that almost all of the brain is active. In general, we are not limited by ANYTHING. In fact, there are many, many stories of people operating entirely outside the broad range of survivability we have. There are people who had shards of metal go through their brain and live, people who have had to remove their own legs and climb out of mountainous holes, all sorts of amazing people who do all sorts of amazing things.
According to most mathematical models of the universe, there should be at least one other planet out there with life on it. In fact, life itself really wants to exist - our genetic code is actually quite "fat" with stuff with we don't need. It's been proven that life could exist with less in worse conditions. Having said that, there are a lot of inhospitable planets around us; tough luck, Earth. Take that, and factor in the difficulties of space travel and communication - it wouldn't be feasible to hop on a ship and go to another galaxy for many reasons (supplies, fuel, food, etc. etc.).
As any scientist can tell you, when it comes to our universe, there's no such thing as a "law," i.e., something that holds true everywhere. There are A LOT of situations where classic Newtonian physics (the physics that governs large bodies like you, me, the Earth, but not things on the atomic scale) and quantum mechanics can't explain why things happen the way they are. Just so you know, an atom isn't at all similar to planetary orbits; planets orbit each other in MUCH more uniform patterns. Did you know that electrons move so fast that we can't even tell you where they are? The best we can do is tell you what the probability is that an electron will be in a certain area.
And finally, black holes. Imagine a net stretched out, then drop a bunch of stuff on top of it. Those items on top of it are galaxies, planets, you, and me. The "curves" in the net that we create are gravity. You and I have gravity, it's just so small because we're so small that you can't really experience its effects. Back holes are "rips" in that fabric. In essence, they're negative space that's creating a need for things to fill it. Nothing is there - a vacuum - and when you open a vacuum to something it pulls in everything. Throughout history science has met things that seem impossible and it eventually understands them and labels them. Right now we don't understand black holes fully, but we will. Did you know that we didn't understand light for the longest time? People didn't what it was - a wave, matter, both? Einstein finally solved this us, but until he did, light was some kind of magical thing that existed to us!
You have a lot of misconceptions that I'm sure you picked up from movies and books.
First off, the myth that humans only use a portion of their brain (usually cited as 10%
is just plain wrong. A simple PET scan will tell you that almost all of the brain is active. In general, we are not limited by ANYTHING. In fact, there are many, many stories of people operating entirely outside the broad range of survivability we have. There are people who had shards of metal go through their brain and live, people who have had to remove their own legs and climb out of mountainous holes, all sorts of amazing people who do all sorts of amazing things. According to most mathematical models of the universe, there should be at least one other planet out there with life on it. In fact, life itself really wants to exist - our genetic code is actually quite "fat" with stuff with we don't need. It's been proven that life could exist with less in worse conditions. Having said that, there are a lot of inhospitable planets around us; tough luck, Earth. Take that, and factor in the difficulties of space travel and communication - it wouldn't be feasible to hop on a ship and go to another galaxy for many reasons (supplies, fuel, food, etc. etc.).
As any scientist can tell you, when it comes to our universe, there's no such thing as a "law," i.e., something that holds true everywhere. There are A LOT of situations where classic Newtonian physics (the physics that governs large bodies like you, me, the Earth, but not things on the atomic scale) and quantum mechanics can't explain why things happen the way they are. Just so you know, an atom isn't at all similar to planetary orbits; planets orbit each other in MUCH more uniform patterns. Did you know that electrons move so fast that we can't even tell you where they are? The best we can do is tell you what the probability is that an electron will be in a certain area.
And finally, black holes. Imagine a net stretched out, then drop a bunch of stuff on top of it. Those items on top of it are galaxies, planets, you, and me. The "curves" in the net that we create are gravity. You and I have gravity, it's just so small because we're so small that you can't really experience its effects. Back holes are "rips" in that fabric. In essence, they're negative space that's creating a need for things to fill it. Nothing is there - a vacuum - and when you open a vacuum to something it pulls in everything. Throughout history science has met things that seem impossible and it eventually understands them and labels them. Right now we don't understand black holes fully, but we will. Did you know that we didn't understand light for the longest time? People didn't what it was - a wave, matter, both? Einstein finally solved this us, but until he did, light was some kind of magical thing that existed to us!
You have a lot of misconceptions that I'm sure you picked up from movies and books.