Quote (bentherdonethat @ Nov 10 2010 04:46pm)
You don't need to know Why in order to understand everything else. We ventured into space by understanding how physics works, and we're venturing closer and closer to the quantum level without understanding exactly why the way it works the way that it does.
this is also a pretty meaningless question, since it's hard to say that anything happened at all before time started flowing at the instant the big bang occurred. We know it happened, though, that's a proven fact. And we are just a tiny little part of the universe. We're a single planet in a single solar system in a single galaxy. There exist an uncountable number of other planets and stars.
Electrons are understood to be point particles, having no actual size (this comes about because of the idea of electron spin, and the fact that if electrons had a volume, then the edges of the electron would be rotating faster than the speed of light). Neutrinos have a far, far lower mass than electrons, though, so if anything I would say that's probably the smallest known particle (though not necessarily the most basic, since protons and neutrons are made up of quarks, and Preons are the hypothesized point particles that make up quarks -- Isn't the Standard Model fun?).
That's kind of gibberish. It's like saying we can travel to different universes because I can drive from NY to NJ. They're completely unrelated.
I think you might have been a bit high when you wrote that one
How are you defining intelligence? Intelligence is the ability to think and understand things. A plant does not think; it grows. A bacteria does not understand. It simply acts as the chemical reactions inside of it direct it to. It cannot choose to somehow do something other than what it does, because it cannot think. It doesn't have intelligence.
We, as people, don't really
need to do anything. We're here, and we're spending the time we have accordingly. You're not showing me anything other than vague, half-completed thoughts about random topics. You're feeling spirituality for the first time which is a great thing, but I think you're looking too hard for places to apply it.
Nope. We're staying the same size while everything is getting farther apart.
By the way, since you said you're a science student, what science are you studying?
biology, was originally into cell and molecular bio, but now moving more towards plants and evolution
umm a lot of things you are saying doesnt really have proof though, you say plants and bacteria grow, but they dont know that they are doing it. I THINK THAT WAS MY OTHER POINT!!! i mean okay half of these thigns will tie together once i get it all straightened out. but okay think about this, what if they are growing and they are doing it because it is in their nature, and that is what intelligence is?
we wanted to be different, and our self-awareness has basically led us to our own suicide right? i mean we are killing ourselves...but plants are smart enough to keep themselves alive? and serve their purpose on earth?
thats what i meant by we are too intelligent for our own good, we chose a path that led us away from nature because we are aware..and in doing so we are committing suicide which is a sin!
if i was to die without realizing it then it wouldnt mean that i killed myself right? maybe i'm starting to get off topic, but like all the stuff i had in mind tied together at one point, and they go in and out of me, so it's hard to grasp everything at once, but like, thats why i think the bible relates to nature which relates to science, though science branched off into stupid things but nature stays consistent
by getting smaller i meant as a whole, if someone was to look at our universe and see its growth, we are becoming smaller? because if that someone is infinately large, then we just look smaller if we arent growing ..oh but i guess we are growing too...so then i guess we just look like we're staying the same size.........................................lol
This post was edited by MOMOtheflyingLEMUR on Nov 10 2010 04:24pm