Dude your the only one with the fallacy. Its counter-intuitive. The reason most people dont get calculus and advacned level math/physics is because it's coutner-intuitive and they are so set in their ideas of "common sense (that they cant prove)". Face it, your common sense is wrong. The primate in you is still insisting that.99999~ only approaches 1, but repeated mathematical proofs have shown you otehrwise. You are just too stubborn to forget your.999~ does not "get closer to 1 with every digit" you add. YOU CANNOT ADD A DIGIT TO.999~... IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. THERE IS NO WAY TO ADD A DIGIT WHEN THE DIGITS REPEAT FOREVER. You are attempting to visualize.9 on a graph in a real world visualization, and in your head with every.9 you add, your little imaginary graph is getting closer to 1. But thats not how it works. STOP TRYING TO VISUALIZE IT. Get over your intuition, or you will never succeed in any higher level math/science studies.
X is the smallest possible positive number. Already I know you are probably trying to visualise this by thinking of it as (.00000~1). Dont. Dont try to assign a number to X. Just know that X is the smallest possible postive number. Period.
f(x)=1-x (x>0) . As X approaches 0, f(x) approaches 1. ALSO, as X approaches 0, f(x) approahces.999 repeating.
There is no number that you can subtract from 1 to give you.9 repeating. Because 1 minus any number, no matter how small, would terminate somewhere..999~ DOES NOT TERMINATE. Thus,.9~=1
maybe you shouldnt be. IT is NOT A LIMIT. A limit would be something like X in which X is the smallest possible positive number:
F(x)=1-x, x>0 LIMIT as X approaches 0, f(x) approaches 1.
That would be a limit. (1-x) != 1 ever. It would merely approach 1. However, 1-x !=.9 repeating ever either. It would terminate somewhere before infiniti..9 repeating DOES NOT TERMINATE. It is NOT merely an estimation, but it is the actual number. You can never subtract anything from 1 and get.9 repeating. Thus,.9...= 1
I love how when people either a) just made tehmselves look stupid or b) dont have the mental capacity to counter a claim, they just say something like "Im glad i learned math in a proper institution." Well, "learned" must be the wrong word here.
I am reffering to an entirely DETERMINISTIC set of results. X, Y, and Z are correlated in a way that measuring the produt of any pair ALWAYS gives a product of +1 and measuring the product of the triple ALWAYS gives -1. (Or maybe it was the other way around, with any pair giving -1 and the triple always giving +1.)
XYZ = (-1, -1, -1)
Any pair will yeild the result (-1 * -1 = +1) Measuring the triple will yield the result (-1 * -1 * -1 = -1)...
If the pairs were to yield -1, This is (algabraically) impossible in itself since (XYZ) must thus contain two similar terms and one different term. However, if you were to multiply the two similar terms, youd get a positive result. In this case, mentioning the triplet product is not neccesary.
If two objects are traveling at near the speed of light, but in opposite directions and you were on one of them as the other was approaching in on a collision course, would you see it comming? Or would it look like a black hole?
The speed of light is not absolute. Its relative to the movement of the observer. When you say "near the speed of light," you must always specify whose reference point are you referring to? An observer at rest, or the objects reference point? Either way, there is no fallacy.
anyway, back to the question,"will they see each other coming." Assuming that the object approaching you is emitting light, then that light would travel torward you at "C". Since the object itself must be moving slower than "C", you will see (no pun intended) the light first, no matter what.
It doesnt matter whether the objects are moving at 1 mph or 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000 mph, the speed of light to them will be the same, and that is all thats important.
The speed of gravity has been hotly debated for a while. The other forces, (strong, weak, electromagnetic) all have an assosiated particle that carry "information" (gluons, photons, etc)... some theories (such as string theory) call for gravity to also have an associated particle known as the "graviton." If gravity does in fact have an associated particle, then it must not move faster than the speed of light.
Other people have interpreted general relativity as differentiating gravity from the other forces by defining gravity merely as the phenomenon of space-time itself beign curved around mass (similar to putting a bowling ball on a matress). There is no graviton, thus it is able to communcicate faster than the speed of light.
There was an experiment tha confirmed the speed fo gravity as equivalent to the speed of light. This would indicate that it does have some sort of graviton. It was, however, Heavily critisized.
As far as most people are concenred, the issue is still up in the air.
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effectively allowing communication based upon movement.
The rod would move at the speed of sound through its medium (the speed of sound varies largely depending on its medium). IN any case, it would be MUCH slower than the speed of light.
Currently, the only thing confirmed to move faster than the speed of light (confirmed via the "alan aspect" experiments, if you want to google it), is the spin on a pair of electrons. Two elextrons in a pair alwats spin in reverse directions. Even if the two electrons are 1000 miles apart, if you polarize one (change the spin), then the other spin will reverse itself instaneously.
This was tested by alan aspect (who built upon the EPR thought experiment), who subjected two electrons traveling in opposite directions to a polarizer and found that the correspondency between the two electrons meant that there HAD to be some osrt of faster than light communication (it violated "bells theorum" if you want to do more googling). That is, it wasnt a coincidence, or due to 'hidden variables' as einstien thought. It truly was faster than light communication, somehow, between the electrons.
This is the main discrepancy between Einstein's relativity and Bohr's quanutm theory (Einstein's theories actually pushed quantum theory, ironically). Einstien's relativity theory states that should anything move faster than the speed of light in the spatial dimensions (x,y,z), it must move backwards in the fourth dimension (time). Basically, he argues that everything moves through the four dimensions (x,y,z,t) at the speed of light. Photons move through the spatial dimensions (x,y,z) at the speed of light, and thus do not mvoe through time at all. The photons that exist now have not aged at all since the big bang. This is how einstien explains "Time dilation." This has been confirmed a number of ways, most easily by clocks on airplanes. Clocks put on airplanes, which move through the spatial dimensions(x,y,z) through high speeds (high being relative to normal human movement) have been found to register less time than their "at-rest" counterparts. Of course, quantum theory somehow defies this concept. String theory explains this by offering multiple dimensions past the 4th (I beleive steven hawking's count is at 14 right now)...
Not so sure about quantum computers, but i belive this is the idea behind them. Transistors used now read either High or low, +5v or 0v, which correspond to binary terms of 0 or 1. Thus we can gather data by reading the charges on the transistors. If we could use electrons, a up-spin meaning 0 and a down-spin 1 (not really up or down, but thats how we denote them), then we could use a 100% efficient replacement for transistors.
If anyone wants to correct me, please do. I havent taken a physics course in my life (yet) and am probably wrong about some (most) of what i just said.
8AM George Lucas is in bed. 10AM Still in bed. 12PM Still in bed. 12:30PM Gets up, eats breakfast. 12:45PM Shower. 1:00PM Sits down to write Episode III script. 1:30PM Finishes script. 1:30-8:00PM Creates wacky alien creatures. 8:00-9:00PM C-3PO / R2-D2 humor relief puns to use during heated battle scene. 9:00-10:00PM Skewing Yoda's grammar so every line can rival the infamy of "Around the survivors, a perimeter create!" 10:00PM Bed time!
Since you "timespout"ed instead of "timesprout"ed an island paradise, you just might wind up in a void area surrounding by only darkness. A default environment in the system.
The program couldn't locate a "Ferrari spider" since it was actually a car: Ferrari 360 Spyder" that you wanted. Instead, the AI found the closest thing to it: an insect spider from Enzo Ferrari's former house in Italy and sprouted that instead. Sucks doesn't it.
Zion is not another Matrix. It is a real place. The machines round up all the 1% that rejects the Matrix code and systematically kills each one of them. Then the cycle begins again... thus the reason Neo is offered the chance to select some amount of people to rebuild Zion - the machines need it so they can keep the Matrix functioning perfectly.
So how can Neo kill off those machines? Since he now shares this connection with Agent Smith, thus the machines, he can feel the sentinels. Now either it's an EMP blast from the other ship that kills the Sents (and thus sends Neo into a coma as he is part of the machine world too) or Neo is able to somehow stop them but it is too much for his body and he faints. Whatever.
Either way, the guy who wrote that article is an elitist, pompous, pretentious asshole. Oh... oh... you go to the health food store to buy soy milk. Good for you fake ass theological/philosophy scholar loser.
Actually, the matrix applise much more to Plato's Allegory of the Cave (google search, or buy a copy of the Repubic) than it does to Descartes. Descartes main motivation behind meditations was merely to prove skeptics wrong that nothing could be proven true.
the allegory of the cave takes a much more insightful approach toward is what we see truly reality or not. and even if it isnt, is it not more real to us than reality? this is where the whole 'platonic conception' of an idea being more real than reality originated.
The worms, C. elegans, share many biological characteristics with humans and are the size of a pencil tip."
"C. elegans have two sexes: males and hermaphrodites, which are females that produce sperm. A hermaphrodite worm can self-fertilize for the first 300 or so eggs but later usually prefers to accept sperm from males to produce a larger number of offspring. "
I used to worry about how bad the internet would be and was plagued with popups and spyware.
Now I have Ad Muncher. http://www.admuncher.com/
It's free, it allows you to keep a list of websites not to block (some websites rely on popups for actual content reasons), it keeps a tally of the bandwidth you've saved, and I can use my favorite speedy browser Internet Explorer.
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Replace foreign the standard issue AK magazines of foreign countries with these. Fill the harddrive with AK soundclips so when fired it plays and a cunning illusion is created.
The Stormtrooper who hit his head on the door in the Deathstar in ANH was an extra. You could be just as famous - with your picture on thousands of blooper sites across the internet.
Sorry, wait, how is this post insightful? It's just some Mac owner who claims to be a gamer even though we all know he just runs Photoshop with it. Either way, it isn't insightful.
sorta makes up for their shoddy products and overpriced goods.
one of the best things for hobbyists has been the means of the internet as a way to bypass the radioshack monopoly... radioshack has turned to selling shit like rc cars and cordless phoens now.
Say goodbye to dialing numbers in the dark with that fscking pad... then when you finally get used to it and go and try to use your housephone it will take you roughly 4 minutes to dial 10 digits.
Wtf was Nokia thinking? What happened to ease of use and ergonomics?
The new Maserati is not getting high marks (by both reviewers and potential buyers). It's technology is not up to speed, especially it's automatic (and clutchless manual) transmission which is way behind BMW's SMG.
Maserati hasn't been king of the road for a long time and still is nowhere close... is that what they meant to say about this phone?
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Dude your the only one with the fallacy. Its counter-intuitive. The reason most people dont get calculus and advacned level math/physics is because it's coutner-intuitive and they are so set in their ideas of "common sense (that they cant prove)". Face it, your common sense is wrong. The primate in you is still insisting that .99999~ only approaches 1, but repeated mathematical proofs have shown you otehrwise. You are just too stubborn to forget your .999~ does not "get closer to 1 with every digit" you add. YOU CANNOT ADD A DIGIT TO .999~... IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. THERE IS NO WAY TO ADD A DIGIT WHEN THE DIGITS REPEAT FOREVER. You are attempting to visualize .9 on a graph in a real world visualization, and in your head with every .9 you add, your little imaginary graph is getting closer to 1. But thats not how it works. STOP TRYING TO VISUALIZE IT. Get over your intuition, or you will never succeed in any higher level math/science studies.
.999 repeating.
.9 repeating. Because 1 minus any number, no matter how small, would terminate somewhere. .999~ DOES NOT TERMINATE. Thus, .9~=1
X is the smallest possible positive number. Already I know you are probably trying to visualise this by thinking of it as (.00000~1). Dont. Dont try to assign a number to X. Just know that X is the smallest possible postive number. Period.
f(x)=1-x (x>0) . As X approaches 0, f(x) approaches 1. ALSO, as X approaches 0, f(x) approahces
There is no number that you can subtract from 1 to give you
maybe you shouldnt be. IT is NOT A LIMIT. A limit would be something like X in which X is the smallest possible positive number:
.9 repeating ever either. It would terminate somewhere before infiniti. .9 repeating DOES NOT TERMINATE. It is NOT merely an estimation, but it is the actual number. You can never subtract anything from 1 and get .9 repeating. Thus, .9 ...= 1
F(x)=1-x, x>0 LIMIT as X approaches 0, f(x) approaches 1.
That would be a limit. (1-x) != 1 ever. It would merely approach 1. However, 1-x !=
heres another quick article and paradox abotu it
I love how when people either a) just made tehmselves look stupid or b) dont have the mental capacity to counter a claim, they just say something like "Im glad i learned math in a proper institution." Well, "learned" must be the wrong word here.
I am reffering to an entirely DETERMINISTIC set of results. X, Y, and Z are correlated in a way that measuring the produt of any pair ALWAYS gives a product of +1 and measuring the product of the triple ALWAYS gives -1. (Or maybe it was the other way around, with any pair giving -1 and the triple always giving +1.)
XYZ = (-1, -1, -1)
Any pair will yeild the result (-1 * -1 = +1)
Measuring the triple will yield the result (-1 * -1 * -1 = -1)...
If the pairs were to yield -1, This is (algabraically) impossible in itself since (XYZ) must thus contain two similar terms and one different term. However, if you were to multiply the two similar terms, youd get a positive result. In this case, mentioning the triplet product is not neccesary.
If two objects are traveling at near the speed of light, but in opposite directions and you were on one of them as the other was approaching in on a collision course, would you see it comming? Or would it look like a black hole?
0 0000 mph, the speed of light to them will be the same, and that is all thats important.
The speed of light is not absolute. Its relative to the movement of the observer. When you say "near the speed of light," you must always specify whose reference point are you referring to? An observer at rest, or the objects reference point? Either way, there is no fallacy.
anyway, back to the question,"will they see each other coming." Assuming that the object approaching you is emitting light, then that light would travel torward you at "C". Since the object itself must be moving slower than "C", you will see (no pun intended) the light first, no matter what.
It doesnt matter whether the objects are moving at 1 mph or 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein
The speed of gravity has been hotly debated for a while. The other forces, (strong, weak, electromagnetic) all have an assosiated particle that carry "information" (gluons, photons, etc)... some theories (such as string theory) call for gravity to also have an associated particle known as the "graviton." If gravity does in fact have an associated particle, then it must not move faster than the speed of light.
Other people have interpreted general relativity as differentiating gravity from the other forces by defining gravity merely as the phenomenon of space-time itself beign curved around mass (similar to putting a bowling ball on a matress). There is no graviton, thus it is able to communcicate faster than the speed of light.
There was an experiment tha confirmed the speed fo gravity as equivalent to the speed of light. This would indicate that it does have some sort of graviton. It was, however, Heavily critisized.
As far as most people are concenred, the issue is still up in the air.
your reffering to the Alan Aspect experiment, which was built on top of the EPR thought experiment(Einstein-podolsky-rosen.
effectively allowing communication based upon movement.
The rod would move at the speed of sound through its medium (the speed of sound varies largely depending on its medium). IN any case, it would be MUCH slower than the speed of light.
Currently, the only thing confirmed to move faster than the speed of light (confirmed via the "alan aspect" experiments, if you want to google it), is the spin on a pair of electrons. Two elextrons in a pair alwats spin in reverse directions. Even if the two electrons are 1000 miles apart, if you polarize one (change the spin), then the other spin will reverse itself instaneously.
This was tested by alan aspect (who built upon the EPR thought experiment), who subjected two electrons traveling in opposite directions to a polarizer and found that the correspondency between the two electrons meant that there HAD to be some osrt of faster than light communication (it violated "bells theorum" if you want to do more googling). That is, it wasnt a coincidence, or due to 'hidden variables' as einstien thought. It truly was faster than light communication, somehow, between the electrons.
This is the main discrepancy between Einstein's relativity and Bohr's quanutm theory (Einstein's theories actually pushed quantum theory, ironically). Einstien's relativity theory states that should anything move faster than the speed of light in the spatial dimensions (x,y,z), it must move backwards in the fourth dimension (time). Basically, he argues that everything moves through the four dimensions (x,y,z,t) at the speed of light. Photons move through the spatial dimensions (x,y,z) at the speed of light, and thus do not mvoe through time at all. The photons that exist now have not aged at all since the big bang. This is how einstien explains "Time dilation." This has been confirmed a number of ways, most easily by clocks on airplanes. Clocks put on airplanes, which move through the spatial dimensions(x,y,z) through high speeds (high being relative to normal human movement) have been found to register less time than their "at-rest" counterparts. Of course, quantum theory somehow defies this concept. String theory explains this by offering multiple dimensions past the 4th (I beleive steven hawking's count is at 14 right now)...
Not so sure about quantum computers, but i belive this is the idea behind them. Transistors used now read either High or low, +5v or 0v, which correspond to binary terms of 0 or 1. Thus we can gather data by reading the charges on the transistors. If we could use electrons, a up-spin meaning 0 and a down-spin 1 (not really up or down, but thats how we denote them), then we could use a 100% efficient replacement for transistors.
If anyone wants to correct me, please do. I havent taken a physics course in my life (yet) and am probably wrong about some (most) of what i just said.
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8AM George Lucas is in bed.
10AM Still in bed.
12PM Still in bed.
12:30PM Gets up, eats breakfast.
12:45PM Shower.
1:00PM Sits down to write Episode III script.
1:30PM Finishes script.
1:30-8:00PM Creates wacky alien creatures.
8:00-9:00PM C-3PO / R2-D2 humor relief puns to use during heated battle scene.
9:00-10:00PM Skewing Yoda's grammar so every line can rival the infamy of "Around the survivors, a perimeter create!"
10:00PM Bed time!
Except, your sloppy coding has some errors.
Since you "timespout"ed instead of "timesprout"ed an island paradise, you just might wind up in a void area surrounding by only darkness. A default environment in the system.
The program couldn't locate a "Ferrari spider" since it was actually a car: Ferrari 360 Spyder" that you wanted. Instead, the AI found the closest thing to it: an insect spider from Enzo Ferrari's former house in Italy and sprouted that instead. Sucks doesn't it.
Zion is not another Matrix. It is a real place. The machines round up all the 1% that rejects the Matrix code and systematically kills each one of them. Then the cycle begins again... thus the reason Neo is offered the chance to select some amount of people to rebuild Zion - the machines need it so they can keep the Matrix functioning perfectly.
So how can Neo kill off those machines? Since he now shares this connection with Agent Smith, thus the machines, he can feel the sentinels. Now either it's an EMP blast from the other ship that kills the Sents (and thus sends Neo into a coma as he is part of the machine world too) or Neo is able to somehow stop them but it is too much for his body and he faints. Whatever.
Either way, the guy who wrote that article is an elitist, pompous, pretentious asshole. Oh... oh... you go to the health food store to buy soy milk. Good for you fake ass theological/philosophy scholar loser.
whenever a hardware site makes a new comparison of two video cars that has already been written several times by other hardware sites.
Actually, the matrix applise much more to Plato's Allegory of the Cave (google search, or buy a copy of the Repubic) than it does to Descartes. Descartes main motivation behind meditations was merely to prove skeptics wrong that nothing could be proven true.
the allegory of the cave takes a much more insightful approach toward is what we see truly reality or not. and even if it isnt, is it not more real to us than reality? this is where the whole 'platonic conception' of an idea being more real than reality originated.
The worms, C. elegans, share many biological characteristics with humans and are the size of a pencil tip."
"C. elegans have two sexes: males and hermaphrodites, which are females that produce sperm. A hermaphrodite worm can self-fertilize for the first 300 or so eggs but later usually prefers to accept sperm from males to produce a larger number of offspring. "
hrmm...
I used to worry about how bad the internet would be and was plagued with popups and spyware.
Now I have Ad Muncher.
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It's free, it allows you to keep a list of websites not to block (some websites rely on popups for actual content reasons), it keeps a tally of the bandwidth you've saved, and I can use my favorite speedy browser Internet Explorer.
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Replace foreign the standard issue AK magazines of foreign countries with these. Fill the harddrive with AK soundclips so when fired it plays and a cunning illusion is created.
The Stormtrooper who hit his head on the door in the Deathstar in ANH was an extra. You could be just as famous - with your picture on thousands of blooper sites across the internet.
Sorry, wait, how is this post insightful? It's just some Mac owner who claims to be a gamer even though we all know he just runs Photoshop with it. Either way, it isn't insightful.
Silly rabbit, games are for PC.
sorta makes up for their shoddy products and overpriced goods.
one of the best things for hobbyists has been the means of the internet as a way to bypass the radioshack monopoly... radioshack has turned to selling shit like rc cars and cordless phoens now.
Say goodbye to dialing numbers in the dark with that fscking pad... then when you finally get used to it and go and try to use your housephone it will take you roughly 4 minutes to dial 10 digits.
Wtf was Nokia thinking? What happened to ease of use and ergonomics?
The new Maserati is not getting high marks (by both reviewers and potential buyers). It's technology is not up to speed, especially it's automatic (and clutchless manual) transmission which is way behind BMW's SMG.
Maserati hasn't been king of the road for a long time and still is nowhere close... is that what they meant to say about this phone?
shoutouts to ag
If we followed a strict interpretation of the constitution do you know how much different the world would be today?
Because your avg. HDTV is upwards 48 inches and your monitor is not likely more than 22...