[Starhawk]

Well Rome was never a true "golden age" in the sense of what we would like, because most of us would probobly have hated living in a Roman Empire, because unfortunately for Empires like Rome and Assyria and even in the end Persia they became to conquest bloated that when there was nothing left to conquer they all began to decline, yes in different ways:

Rome Lost their "true" legions with the fully romanized citizens with higher tech then the barbarian hordes they were fighting, and eventually became just a bunch of "barbarians" in service to Rome. The Roman Empire pretty much ate themselves out of existence because the ran out of peoples that they could conquer that were rich enough to fund the next war of conquest.
They stopped developing new weapons and technology and in the Late Western/Eastern roman empires they actually took a drastic backslide in both technology and discipline.

Persia, once they conquered most of their territories, their army's actual fighting skill declined sharply, and they stopped developing good armor and weapons so that they were easily defeated by the more disciplined and skilled soldiers of Greece and Macedon who still had enemies to fight and keep their skills in arms manufacturing and war fighting sharp.



But anywhoo Cherry, you do have a problem with understanding the difference between someone stating "possible" arguments and the irony of modern science which some day will be seen as laughably stupid by our descendents "assuming we don't nuke one another into non-existence beforehand."
What I am saying is that there is no "proof" of science in life, it like Religion is a matter of faith, as is everything we do in modern life, yes there is "proof" in science to an extent but eventually that "proof" is either proven to a "no doubt what so ever" fact like "Why is the sky blue" we know why the sky is blue without a doubt, we know what the speed of light is without a doubt, we know that if you stick a rocket on something you are putting the force of motion against that of inertia, and that an object in motion will stay in motion until it is stopped.

So yes I can point out undeniable "proof" that science has, but until we see a blackhole there is no proof, and thus that theory is no more or less "proven" then many other theories, and we KNOW dark matter exists for a fact.



As far as the rest of that little rant of yours goes with the "Am I really looking at a monitor" and stuff that's not science buddy that's philosophy right up there with "Are any of us really here or is it an illusion in our own mind?" which brings about the question of "How can we have an illusion of being somewhere if we are not in fact somewhere?"
Science and philosophy are two totally different things....

As far as "time" goes by the way you explain if it I just set every clock in my house to run slower then every clock in your house then time is moving slower in my house then in yours when in fact time is moving along steadily at the same pace for both of us, the mechanism of the clock is not what makes time "time".

I am speaking of TIME as in the foward motion of us, clocks can be adversly effected now if you shove a grape in there and see if the grape in the high grav/high speed environment aged slower then that outside THEN you will have "PROVEN" time has aged slower for that grape then the one in normal gravity and environment.

I am not saying this to insult you personally but you are being arrogant to call anyone who disagrees with your way of thinking "stupid" or "psychotic" because for all you know you are just as "stupid" or "psychotic" to someone who is just as sure your way of thinking is wrong as you are that those other people's way of thinking is.

Try and understand what i am saying, SCIENCE can NEVER be fully PROVEN quickly and thus many THEORIES can be adhered to and thought on, just because someone else has a THEORY that is different then yours does not mean you are superior or even correct for that matter.
As I stated before for all you know you me and all the rest of us will be proven totally and unbeleivably WRONG some day in the future.

Understand now?