Eternal questions

[Falstaff]

This is heavy stuff but I was wondering if anyone wants to tackle these questions.

What is Pattern?
What is Time?
What is Space? (includes what is matter?)
What are Parallel Universes?
What is Infinity?
What are Humans? (includes our limitations and destiny)
What is Mind?
What is Life?
What is the Afterlife?
What is Love?
What is Evil? (includes what is good?)
What is Satan?
What is God?

I am just curious what people think about these questions, answers would be awesome, but it is food for thought...

[mainman]

And good food it is for the mind...

[BWX]

I'll give it a shot-

What is Pattern?
-Repetition



What is Time?
-Time is the measurement of the progression of events



What is Space? (includes what is matter?)
-space is nothing, matter is everything else



What are Parallel Universes?
-imagination
-strings



What is Infinity?
-never-ending
-never beginning



What are Humans? (includes our limitations and destiny) (who as well)
-us man! we are humans.
--limitations are things we haven't done yet
---destiny is where we end up


What is Mind?
-gray matter
--the way the universe sees itself
---where we all are
----memories, thought, idea, art

What is Life?
-being



What is the Afterlife?
-the beginning



What is Love?
-everything
-the reason


What is Evil? (includes what is good?)
-absence of good
-the opposite
-imperfection



What is Satan? (who)
-pure evil
-absence of God
-fallen angel
-deceiver
-hate
-greed
-etc, etc, ... bunch o names



What is God? (who)
-the word
-the light
-Omnipotence
-Omnipresence
-Omniscience
-all loving
-all giving
-direction
-the Alpha and Omega (not the drivers)
-Saviour
-protector of all
-final judgment



Best I could do on short notice. Do you know the meaning of life now? lol
-edit- added a few.

[@/2ct!<]

What is the mind? Doesnt matter. What is matter.... nevermind.-Homer

[Judas]

Actually... Perfection is Evil.....

[mbeeston]

What is Pattern? what you use to help make a dress
What is Time? something you never have enough of
What is Space? (includes what is matter?) the space in our heads ( what you don't mind )
What are Parallel Universes? The place where you evil twin came from
What is Infinity? amount of time on a 99% download
What are Humans? (includes our limitations and destiny) gods toys
What is Mind? something noone uses
What is Life? what people always tell us to get
What is the Afterlife? where we go when god gets bored with us
What is Love? our excuse for lots of sex
What is Evil? (includes what is good?) ME!
What is Satan? that hercule guy off dbz/gt (mr.satan)
What is God? the guy that hates me

[Mazuko]

I always liked Einstein's definition of time:

"Time is, what the watch says."

[Markius]

Originally posted by mbeeston

What is Infinity? amount of time on a 99% download

tell me about it! LOL

[Falstaff]

I love it, more creative answers please!!

[tastyweat]

Originally posted by BWX232

What are Parallel Universes?
-imagination
-strings

Super-strings are fascinating

What is Infinity?
-never-ending
-never beginning

I find this extremely hard to define... If you base it around maths, then:

0 (divided by) infinity = any number

--- thus meaning that infinty would be a definate value, just an unknown definate value, so not truly infinite as the definition of the word may suggest.

Any number (divided by) 0 = infinty (not 0, as the common mis-conception would suggest)

and yet - any number (divided by) infinity = infinity (seems like even maths can contradict iteself!!!)

[tastyweat]

Originally posted by Judas
Actually... Perfection is Evil.....

I disagree with that... the quest for perfection is evil

... what people have tried to acheive in their own perception of perfection. (ie. Hitler etc...)


I have another question for you guys!



Define perfection, and I don't mean the dictionary definition!!!































... you can't do it can you

[tastyweat]

Originally posted by Mazuko
I always liked Einstein's definition of time:

"Time is, what the watch says."

... my mashuga



(I have no idea how to spell it! Just know how it sounds - this is it spelled phoenetically:

mah---shoo---gah)

[Mazuko]

Originally posted by tastyweat
... my mashuga



(I have no idea how to spell it! Just know how it sounds - this is it spelled phoenetically:

mah---shoo---gah)

What? lol

[BWX]

Originally posted by tastyweat
Super-strings are fascinating

Yeah, quantum physics/mechanics is pretty amazing, but I personally think they went a little to far with parts of the string theory. The idea that all matter is at it's root made of strings vibrating in different shapes makes sense to me, and can explain allot about how sub atomic particles interact with each other and why that has nothing to do with why larger particles (bodies such as stars, planets, galaxies, black holes) don't play by the same rules. It seems plausible, but when they start talking about an infinite number of parallel universes or states of being, I think they are trying to blow smoke up "somewhere" to get more funding or something... or maybe my little brain just can't follow what they are trying to say, but I doubt it. I really do understand what they mean, I just don't agree with that part if it- they make some very large leaps.

Einstein and most other great thinkers back then just disregarded what happens on a subatomic level, at least strings start to attempt to explain it. Stephen Hawking at least try to combine quantum mechanics and the Newton's laws so they could both exist, and both be correct.. which goes to the next question..


"I find this extremely hard to define... If you base it around maths, then:
0 (divided by) infinity = any number --- thus meaning that infinty would be a definate value, just an unknown definate value, so not truly infinite as the definition of the word may suggest.
Any number (divided by) 0 = infinty
(not 0, as the common mis-conception would suggest)
and yet - any number (divided by) infinity = infinity (seems like even maths can contradict iteself!!!)"


Hawking radiation.

This is a quick description-

"Virtual particle pairs are constantly being created near the horizon of the black hole, as they are everywhere. Normally, they are created as a particle-antiparticle pair and they quickly annihilate each other. But near the horizon of a black hole, it's possible for one to fall in before the annihilation can happen, in which case the other one escapes as Hawking radiation."

In fact this argument also does not correspond in any clear way to the actual computation..

So this is another "fact" that really cannot be explained through math- yet


Ok, so your mathematical description of infinity is trying to do the same thing- sometimes you can't describe a theory through math.


My personal view? As soon as you do this--

"0 (divided by) infinity = any number --- thus meaning that infinty would be a definate value, just an unknown definate value, so not truly infinite as the definition of the word may suggest."

You are already off track. To me, infinity is envelopes everything- so once you start trying to describe it mathmatically, you can't add "another one" into the equation. There is only one infinity- any other number cannot exist outside of it, it is already part of it if infinity truly is infinity by the definition we use.

Kinda off topic I guess, but anyway...

Another thing that's hard to comprehend about infinity is the part about "no beginning"- I can fathom no ending, you just keep going and going and going, without end. I think we can comprehend this because we have a beginning, we were born, and before that we didn't exist yet.
But start trying to comprehend no beginning- It's very difficult to even imagine something having no beginning, it just doesn't make sense.
Where did it come form? Uhh, it's always been there- huh? who made it? -uhh, no one. Well how did it come to be? It didn't, it was already there. Your mind runs in circles, It's crazy.
Try explaining that with math.

ok, I'll quit babbleing now..

[Judas]

Originally posted by tastyweat
I disagree with that... the quest for perfection is evil

... what people have tried to acheive in their own perception of perfection. (ie. Hitler etc...)


I have another question for you guys!



Define perfection, and I don't mean the dictionary definition!!!































... you can't do it can you

That's to simple... Perfection is what it's not.... Imperfect.... They are one in the same meaning....

When i said evil... i ment "satan" was considered to provide perfection... as a lure..... however... the desperate.. greedy ... are the ones that usually get caught up in it... and don't relise that perfection isn't exactly perfect...

I actually saw a movie quite a while ago.... a robber had robbed a bank... got shot... Satan froze time.. said he'd gone to heaven.... and do/have anything he wants..... also said he had a certain period of time before he had to choose between living again in the real world... or in "heaven" (he thought satan was actually god or some kind of representive)..... his perfection was winning every poker game.... getting away from cops after robbing more banks.... blah blah blah..... well... he got fed up... tried to lose only to realize he couldn't... to late.. he was caught....