OT - Physics Question on Anti-Matter

[shinigami]

Random thoughts:

I often find it funny how some scientists deride religion because it fails to meet scientific standards but will stand firm on accepted theories that truly can not be proven right or wrong. Hmmm, sounds like faith to me.

If the Big Bang Theory is correct then everything in the universe was created in that instant, albeit in different forms of energy and matter. Therefor, infinite energy is an impossibility because we live in a finite universe. However, if you throw in the infinite universes theory you could get infinite energy by tapping into other universes. Last I heard scientists think that they could accomplish this, but would need an infinite energy source to do so.

How much is our understanding of physics colored by our own perception? Our perception of "now" is an infinitely small slice of time and by the time our brain receives sensory input the data is already old because travel time for that signal is not instant. Looked at from this point of view we are actually out of step with our environment because we can only perceive the past.

[Phoenix-D]

shinigami said:
I often find it funny how some scientists deride religion because it fails to meet scientific standards but will stand firm on accepted theories that truly can not be proven right or wrong. Hmmm, sounds like faith to me.

Oh, you can do a lot of proving. Contriving large-scale experiments with astronomy is a *****, but in that respect its not that different from geology or any of the other sciences that involve large-scale processes.

So instead you make models, poke with them, use them to make predictions, and (important step religion leaves out) use them to make predictions. You can test THOSE against reality to see if they match. We can't really test if its possible to exceed C yet, but we can -and have- tested time dilation. Etc.

[Randallw]

I consider the idea of dark matter on par with the Aether. I'm not saying it isn't true but on the one hand they couldn't find how light propogated through space so they invented some invisible substance that filled space, the Aether, and on the other hand they can't figure out where most of the universes weight is so likewise they guess it must be some invisible substance filling space, dark matter.

[Renegade 13]

That is true; I was just pointing out that it's neither directly from the sun, nor from nuclear fission.

Sorry, guess I've just been a little arguementative recently

[Fyron]

shinigami said:
"I often find it funny how some scientists deride religion because it fails to meet scientific standards but will stand firm on accepted theories that truly can not be proven right or wrong. Hmmm, sounds like faith to me."

Let's not derail this discussion...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I havn't read all of this, but all of you are silly, silly people for trying to figure out how to destroy the Earth.

All the information you need is right here: How to destroy the Earth

Silly people. You can find anything on the internet.