Posts by GrimJack

Read the dictionary properly (link). Definition 5 of a theory:
a particular conception or view of something to be done or of the method of doing it; a system of rules or principles.
That describes it perfectly so try using a dictionary yourself more often. This reminds me of the case of evolution where the scientists had to define what a theory is.

Let me explain something to you about dictionaries: Those definitions that are listed first are considered the best definition; you offer us definition #5 just barely above guess or conjecture.. I read the links I post and I understand them. I think guess describes you idea perfectly. In order for you to have a system or method, you must offer more that "I think this so it must be correct".

cwarn - you do not have theories, you do not even have hypotheses, you only have random 'thingies' that you try to string together. You do not even seem to understand the meaning of the few facts you repeat to support your 'thingies'.

Theory

Mathematics. a body of principles, theorems, or the like, belonging to one subject: number theory.

Hypothesis

A hypothesis is a tentative statement that proposes a possible explanation to some phenomenon or event. A useful hypothesis is a testable statement which may include a prediction.

Go to your nearest sidewalk, note that it is one unit wide and on unit long, now tell me you can't walk from one corner to another.

The 'grid' is an artifact of Cartesian math, it is not real. Have you ever plotted a line on a grid? Did your teacher make you stay on the lines? Did your teacher ever say anything about having to stay on the lines? How are the lines like barriers?

Are you familiar with Euclid and/or Euclidean space? Do you know non-Euclidean geometry?

Here is one of the good things that has come out of this discussion:
Wolfram Math World and an example of what may be a Hilbert Space and to stay on topic (so to speak), here are some fun PI demonstrations

I get what your saying but theoretically if we had the technology (which we don't) then we could construct a circle which would almost immediately be blown out of shape by gravity. That is theoretical. Also if electrons make an atom, what substance makes the electrons and what shape are they? Just curious...

The substance that makes up electrons? This is a bizarre question as electrons are 'fundamental' leptons which are a fundamental particle/wave (remember you can not think of electrons as just particles; they are also a wave function - and their behavior is both particle and wave and how you 'perceive' them is a function of your method of perception). A proton is a neutron minus an electron in an old-fashioned physics sort of way; in quantum theory a proton is composed of Up+Up+Down quarks and a neutron is Up+Down+Down quarks. In string theory, an electron is a closed-loop that vibrates/oscillates on different axes but you do not want to go there.

Also as for why pi may not exist in my theory is that if the substance which makes all elements around us is a cube then that would mean the MS Paint model is very accurate. If however that substance is a cypher and it's self force pull comes from at least 18 directions then pi exists. But for now I shall assume that ultimately everything is made of cubes.

Not sure how you are using 'cypher' here; not sure what you are referencing with …

I remember seeing on a documentary about the race to see what makes up the missing proportion of the universe and turned out the missing 70% of our universe was energy. That makes the other 30% other elements such as solids, liquids etc. Although it goes into greater detail that is the basic concept and how it relates to this - well we were talking about that 30% of our universe and not the other 70% which is made of energy.

The one element that makes up the 30% of the universe. There is one element for all and what it is I don't know but I am guessing electrons.

If 70% of the universe is energy then 70% of the universe cannot be a particle and 30% of the universe cannot be a particular particle. Even though matter and energy dance around the speed of light, it is not allowed to count particles as energy or energy as particles. Looking at those numbers, I am reminded of the search for 'dark matter' - we can account for 70% of the mass in the universe but 30% is 'missing' and called 'dark matter' for want of a better term.

Theories about dark matter abound - from "if you assume an infinitely small amount of mass to a neutrino, you could account for the missing mass" to "the missing matter is in a different dimension".

Current thought is that dark matter is composed of WIMPs (weakly interacting …

Well electrons are charges of electricity aren't they?

no electrons are not charges of electricity.

So wouldn't there be another substance which would make up everything around us.

ftw?

Now that I think about it, it would be electrons that make up 70% of the universe but not the other 30% we are talking about

How do you come up with this stuff? 70% by volume? by mass?

Although I have limited knowledge in this area I do know a few basic things.

we can see that you have a limited knowledge and do not even understand the basics

And an atom was an example. I could have just as easily said a particle. But you get the general idea.

An atom/particle/electron is an example of what?

Electrons are not charges of electricity; electrons can be viewed as a particle with a negative electrical charge and a spin of 1/2 the value of the Planck Constant ( h-bar, see forumla) which points right back to PI because PI in its irrational infinity is required to determine the Planck Constant.

I was hoping to let him off the hook by assuming it was a joke but he just would not let it go. I think he should read Flatland and see how polygons are made into circles.

What he does not understand is that there are no straight lines in a circle and in any paint/graphics program it is always a straight line between each pixel - ie if the circumference of a circle was made up of one million pixels, it would not be a circle, it would be a polygon of 1 million sides. You can use Pythagoras' theorem to calculate a reasonable facsimile of PI- just create an internal and an external polygon on the circle. Now imagine 3 ants walking - one walks on the perimeter of the internal polygon, one walks on the perimeter of the external polygon and one walking on the perimeter of the circle and the problem is to get the 3 ants to travel the same distance. Using the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate length of each side of the inner polygon and the outer polygon, add them up and divide by the 2*radius/diagonal and average the answer and you get a pretty good approximation of PI - only if you do it by hand. When You do it by binary computer errors begin to creep in around 32768 sides - the approximation is good to about 9 decimal places (3.141592653).

Any errors of thought are mine - Pi has …

I also have a theory and am still working on a formula to prove that pi is not infinite in length. If pi were infinite in length then the circle would have have an infinite circumference. And using MS Paint I have found that pi is not always 3.1415. It can vary depending on the size of the circle. For example, a circle about 6 atoms in diameter will produce pi of 3 instead of 3.1415... This can be proven with 2d cg models so try to draw a perfect circle in MS Paint. Then count how many dots in the circumference and divide it by the number of dots in the diameter and you will rarely get pi to more than 1 digit for a small circle.

You are trying to disprove PI using a Microsoft product as proof? I love your sense of humor.

Nobody said a thing about stopping earth's rotation. We're talking about Mars here. Mars rotation is 869/kph at the equator, about 540 miles per hour.
Maybe you're having trouble with the concept: slow it down until stops, apply enough force to change the orbit until it's closer to the Sun.

this is the speed - you have to include the mass in the equation to grasp the energy required

I haven't heard a single reason it can't be done.

I have not heard a single way that you could even START the process to do this. Give us a clue about how you expect to accomplish the slowing of Mars to a stop, moving its orbit, then restarting it.

How does it being Mars rather than earth make a difference? What force could you apply to stop it? How would you even begin to think that you could remove billions of tons of angular momentum?

If you would like me to calculate the rotational energy stored in the Mars system, I probably could but be a dear and tell me what would be used to slow the rotation? How would you prevent Mars from flying off out of the system or falling into the sun? Where are you putting the energy removed from the system (conservation of energy rules apply).

Jack your car up until the drive wheels are off the ground, have someone gun the engine then tell me how you will stop the tires …

yeah,yeah,yeah - we saw the vid - you don't have to run it by us again.

It was the catfish's giant b----s bashing together that created the universe.

Or maybe the universe disappearing into a black hole is the big bang in another universe.

Wow - slo-mo card tricks that you will not believe set to music

Gomory, Pitbulls in the Nursery, Necroblasphemy, and Trepalium

Because the French know how to play real death metal, while being original if not avant garde, like how DM use to be back when it was still being defined in the late '80s/early '90s.
They even have solos! What bands actually does those, and not some breakdowns with a few squealing pinches?

This just makes me hate all the "random bi-polar melodic goth/emo sludge&thud pop core" crap bands of today, even more.

OMG! I just had this really freaky image - back in 1988 (approximately) I was in Paris for their really huge July 14th celebration; I mean really, really huge - they cleaned up and painted all the buildings and bridges and monuments for this. They got Jean Michel Jarre to set up in La Defense inside Le Grand Arch with speakers set up all over Paris with giant screens and all sorts of foofora -- what if they had Gomeory/necroplaspheme do the show instead. I think that sound would still be reververating around the world.

But I digress

Er, thanks for the links - I had never heard of any of them but they knocked my socks off.

(someone made the comment "love the vocals" -- isn't that an insult, implying you could understand them)

I was looking at some odd design stuff and ran across this clock - he used 120 clock works to create this clock.

I like your arrogance , if it would have hit indonesia , 3 times more energy than that of what was generated in hiroshima would have been released.

So, can you prove that it was 10 meters and not 9.99999 meters? I like your arrogance - if it had been 5 meters and hit indonesia it would have only been 1.5 times the energy generated by the hiroshima blast.

I do not understand your point; the object did not hit the earth and, IIRC, objects of that size do not usually survive to hit the earth.
What is it you expect NASA to do if it saw it? Roughly 6600 Near Earth Objects have been discovered, 1071 of these NEOs are asteroids with a diameter of approximately 1 kilometer or larger. 146 of these NEOs have been classified as Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). There are currently 1080 known PHAs.

I want you to grasp the concept of 3,000 - that is a huge number and the only way I can get it across is to recommend that you go out into the mountains that are as far away from cities as you can find. Around midnight, after having spent the previous hour with no light but the moonless sky - look up at the stars, it is a gorgeous sight and the number of visible stars is 3,000. Now imagine viewing the sky with a telescope, the number of visible objects increases by factors of 1000 or …

I sometimes wonder where all the tinfoil hat folks are, then posts like this pop up. I hope that the OP is an ESL speaker cuz the grammar sure sux.

Do you understand the meaning of anti-gravity? Once you remove gravity from its effects on a body, you then have to worry about the Noether charge of translational invariance w/r/t momentum as a Lorentz vector (treating momentum as four-momentum in Einstein's Special Relativity).

Let me translate that for you - once you remove gravity, you do not float gently above the ground; your position relative to all gravity vectors is set to zero and you stop moving with the universe and the earth moves away from you at the speed of the rotation of the earth + the speed of the earth's revolution around the sun + the speed of solar systems speed around the galaxy + the rotational speed of the galaxy w/r/t the galactic super group. Heck, you might even hit the speed of light (in a relativistic way) but you sure won't live long enough to enjoy the trip.

No actually a pretty lame reply - if you want to rant about big pharma, you should at least have a link to whacko web-site for people to look at.

Same goes for you Dude - you should stick with funny links and stay away from wingnut conspiracy theories.

Look, Big Chem or Big Food are much more likely to care about supplements than Big Pharma.

But have you seen this link?

The owner of the Titanic said that "nothing could sink this ship, not even God"..... So what can you expect? In the Bible it says that "no man shall mock God" and its proven.

WTF? Are you saying that god sunk the Titanic?

The owners of the Titanic never said that the ship was unsinkable - that newspaper hype. Where in the bible is your "no man shall mock god? quote? So you are suggesting that god killed all those passengers because what the newspapers said?

I am just going to assume it is another hysterical bit of internet retardia. Go here to the original site, look around, then come back with an apology or something of interest. Or look at what the Urban Legends site has to say.

I did not even bother to clicky-click the links because it just sounds hysterical.

Here is how the French handle the situation - I have heard about this method of opening a wine bottle; in fact I tried it but did not have the necessary persistence.

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." (General John Sedgwick, battle of Spotsylvania, 1864)

I remember vaguely hearing about this when it happened but now that more data is in I am just amazed. I can't wait - I plan on watching this develop over the next few centuries.

Here is a good image of where it is forming in the Rift Valley:

Oh, lord help me! I finally made it to page 87 and now I am free, free to dress as i please.

Ah - I get it, you do not have to live by the rules you want others to live by. You are special; by the power of your posting crap you are saving more starving people than mere money could ever help.

Of course I will respond - there is nothing in your post that puts forward any support for your position. You posit 3 statement and assume by the mere statement of them as fact, it will be accepted as truth.

Fact: YOU have been dumbed down by schools , media, and everyone else.

Just using the word 'fact' does not make it a fact and using your unproven statement as proof of your statement is not even good circular logic. These 2 points seem to support my hypothesis that you have been dumbed down.

Fact: YOU are clueless.

You have missed all the points I have tried to make leaving this one pretty self-referential.

Fact: WE are killing ourselves.

This one does not even make any sense - you offer no reference point.

You posit 3 opinions as facts but offer no support or even any relevance of them to the original intent of your post.

Now, let's get to the topic at hand:
Yes, I have seen starving kids - whether or not I have seen starving kids has no correlation to whether or not I 'take water for granted'. stating I take tap water for granted is an 'ad hominem' attack …

The bleach could not reach my brain through my eyes - I could not stop clicking. Please, I beg you do not click! It has been 2 hours, my eyes are empty pools, yet I still click next

google is your friend
We on the other hand do not actively advocate piracy; nor do we offer advice on how to break the law.

I agree with you! It is of no use funding multi million dollar projects researching on such topics while hunger is real in some parts of the world especially Kenya where I come from.

I disagree with you! There is no way to transfer the money you are complaining about to the projects you want.

There are a number of causes for starvation, death, disease, and all the ills of the world. Just getting food to a starving person will not solve the underlying problems which include war, corruption, political malfeasance, greed, climate change, overpopulation, just to name a few.

If you have suggestions on how to overcome the many obstacles to change, please enter the fray. Get a job that will put you in position to help others but do not expect others to do what you will not.

Railing against science in the name of railing against the problems of the poor does nothing but waste everyone's energy.

More bullshit, what does it really matter?

A new Missing Link has been found. If what they say
is true then all that I have been taught by be anthropology
teacher and alike has been bUllShit. Its all crap. What does it really
matter if we "come" from moneys or sasquatch , turtles or whatever?

I swear all this crap is making me sick. Instead of spending millions
of dollars on trying to find dried up bones that have no use, we
could be helping people like this :

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Er, what a load of crap.
Just because you are unable to understand the scientific process and the joy of knowledge for knowledge's sake does not make it 'bullshit'. I am sorry that you do not have the creativity or imagination to understand that not everyone thinks the way you do or are driven by goals different from yours. The scientific process contains within itself the processes necessary to change and adapt to new realities. When new data comes in and it disagrees with current theories, then then the theories are modified to include the new data (this is not done easily nor lightly and there are hard fought 'intellectual' battles over the meaning and consequences of new data).

'Ardie' is not a 'missing link' and may not even be on the same branch of evolution as Homo Sap. Sap.; what she does is move the bipedalism trait back about a …

In our growth from a embryo to adult, the genetic sequencer is the same for insects, fish, as for us.

I have come to believe that disk space is like freeways - they fill to capacity shortly after you get them. This might add to storage needed. I remember buying a 20 meg (for $750 for my Amiga) and thinking it would satisfy my needs for years.

You are right that it is hard to imagine the need for a $150 1 terabyte hard drive but some research into halographic imaging will probably increase the storage needed by some pretty large factors.

Just think about full sensory input vacation pictures of the future!!

Well, there is now more help for dead tree readers.

Hey, My Great Grandma died at 104, both my g-fathers died after 90, my dad died at age 25, my first child died at age 6 weeks, I am over 60 - there is no information in there to tell you much of anything about when I am expected to die.

When discussing population statistics, individuals do not mean very much. People often denigrate statistics as a way to lie but the real truths of the world are in statistics - it is only ignorance of statistics that cause problems.

Your cousin's 'individual' problem could range from 'he stubbed his toe on the way to work' to 'he was recently diagnosed with....' to 'he was up playing HalfLife until 4 in the morning'.

That was as funny as the 'Harley conversion kit' for a Kawasaki:
drill 2 holes in oil pan and loosen all the bolts.

Heh,heh

Wow, it is like going to AceOfSpades and/or DemocraticUnderground; trolling, adamant statements of opinion as fact, inability to allow 'the other side' to have a valid point, screen after screen of rant/counter-rant - this could have been fun but I don't have a dog in this fight. Once I put down my Amiga and took up a WinDoze machine, I knew I had gone over to the dark side but - you know what - the world is a very big place and so there is always a place for you to go where people behave and act in ways that you believe is wrong and must stop.

Take your religious fervor to a place where it is appreciated. If you have strong religious/political views just go hang out where everyone shares your opinion. Why stop in here where we are all enjoying ourselves just to tell us we are all wrong and should believe/act/follow whatever mandates you have for us.

If you do not like the fact that 'geeks' here also use WinDoze machines and this offends your sensibilities - don't let the door hit you on the butt on your way out.

If on the other hand, you learn that TWIAVBP and that there is room for everyone in it, then pull up some electrons and and join in on the fun.

The world is a kluge so that we can get by - at first I thought this was a side-car kluge then I looked closer.

Read the post above yours very carefully Grim ;)

Great minds....

I read the comic and went to the bottom of the thread, thinking I was up to date - who knew anyone else had my exquisite taste in comics??!!

I also heard:
ASCII not what your computer can do for you
ANSI you

Took me a while to figure this one out:
IYQYQR

He,he - I didn't get the reference until I read it the 2nd time

Saint-Exupéry rocks.

THIS IS LIKE THE 4 MILLIONTH TIME AN IDIOT USED THAT SAME QUOTE

It was not funny 40 years ago and it is not funny now

Do not blame your inanity on google

I remember the James Burke "connections" series and how he traced our telecommunications from the invention of the stirrup - I remember him on top of a hill with a long-sword and a side of beef illustrating that it was more like a hammer than a sword - it opened a whole new world of unintended consequences.

I found this.

[First Man:] I think, I think I am, therefore I am, I think.

[Establishment:] Of course you are my bright little star,
I've miles
And miles
Of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit
and now to suit our
great computer,
You're magnetic ink.

[First Man:] I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be.

[Inner Man:] There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles.
It riles them to believe
that you perceive
the web they weave
And keep on thinking free.

- Moody Blues

There is no options for Yes I am a bad community member.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDA9NbPAK8o&eurl=http%3A%2F%2F

Does the BIOS see the drive?

Furry convention horror

Can you imagine renting a furry costume???

http://www.xkcd.com

Oh! I thought you meant our 'Naruto' and assumed you were THAT guy.

Never mind.