The Theory of the World

[nomercy]

Basically, I don't think it's actually possible for anything random to happen. "Random" is an illusion. Chances are what people take when they can't accurately predict the future. But if you were to rewind time, and play it out again exactly the same, the same thing would happen.

Just like if you set up a 'random' playlist on Windows Media Player, skip forward on the random function, skip back, then forward again, it'll be the same song.

[Little Killer]

THEORIES ABOUT BLACK HOLES

What do you think about those?

(trying to get out of a war zone.)

[Phantom_RAcast]

Just like if you set up a 'random' playlist on Windows Media Player, skip forward on the random function, skip back, then forward again, it'll be the same song.

Thats different. It makes a temporary playlist with the songs in a random order. If you were to randomize it again the songs would be different.

[nomercy]

What I mean is when you select that, it puts them in random order, then turn the random option on, so they play randomised again.

[Little Killer]

*static*:S

[Teh EkwEE]

This wiki entry is more exciting... : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asha%27man

[Little Killer]

That's pretty cool there. So I take it you at least read or heard about the book?

[Anti Hacker]

THEORIES ABOUT BLACK HOLES

What do you think about those?

(trying to get out of a war zone.)

The black hole? It's not actually a hole, just a singularity with such immense gravitational pull that nothing can escape it, not even light.

A black hole has an "event horizon" beyond which point the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing can escape it. Not even light. And since no matter can travel at a speed beyond the speed of light, nothing can escape the event horizon of a black hole!

Black holes are also invisible, only their effects can be seen. This is not just because light bends back on itself into the black hole. It's also because the radiation (virtual particles) given off by a black hole are swamped by radiation from the big bang, apparently. Otherwise we'd see a kind of radiation "halo" around a black hole. But we don't, for previously mentioned reasons.

[Little Killer]

1. Light DOESN'T bend! It changes direction, like it bounces off stuff.

Yes. I learned that the universe is like a giant trampolene. You are a planet and a 1 ton creature pulls you down (like an object with a ton of mass).

I love science!

[Anti Hacker]

Uhm, light can bend. Look at the influence of light bending prisms, glass, or water on light. You're mistaking the particle of light for light as a whole. Photons can't bend, no crap, but they can speed up and slow down due to what they pass through!

Look at something like rubber. The individual particles which make up rubber can't bend, but rubber can. Photons can't bend, no, but what they make up is affected by other things.

By the speeding up and slowing down of photons light can bend!

Look at ... a straw in a glass of water!

Come on, I thought everyone knew light could bend.

and EkwEE your siggy ish teh broken