Viggen Posted July 8, 2006 Report Share Posted July 8, 2006 Here is a list of thirteen things that doesn't make any scientific sense.... 1 The placebo effect DON'T try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away... 2 The horizon problem OUR universe appears to be unfathomably uniform. Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other, and you'll see that the microwave background radiation filling the cosmos is at the same temperature everywhere. That may not seem surprising until you consider that the two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old ...the full list + more info at the NewScientist cheers viggen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted July 8, 2006 Report Share Posted July 8, 2006 The placebo effect does make sense actually. It's purely psychological. They BELIEVE that they are getting morphine, and so their brain creates the same effect as if they were actually getting morphine. The human mind is incredible. There are edges on the universe? Well then, what's beyond that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted July 8, 2006 Report Share Posted July 8, 2006 The placebo effect does make sense actually. It's purely psychological. They BELIEVE that they are getting morphine, and so their brain creates the same effect as if they were actually getting morphine. The human mind is incredible. There are edges on the universe? Well then, what's beyond that? Infinity?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted July 8, 2006 Report Share Posted July 8, 2006 I had believed that the universe itself was infinite. It never occurred to me that there were "edges". lol I would consider what was beyond the universe to still be part of the universe, if that makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Valerius Scerio Posted July 8, 2006 Report Share Posted July 8, 2006 There is no "beyond the universe". Once you go past the edges, you create a new part of the universe. It is a physical impossibility for a human to go past the edges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted July 8, 2006 Report Share Posted July 8, 2006 It seems to me that it's a physical impossibility for everything to just end. Maybe there is no matter beyond the edges, but there is empty space, and empty space is *something*, it takes up space. Unless you define universe as neccesarily containing matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rameses the Great Posted July 8, 2006 Report Share Posted July 8, 2006 The most logical answer for me, is that it is a space continum. Like Earth you go around it and you end up in the same place. Well, I think space is the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaius Octavius Posted July 9, 2006 Report Share Posted July 9, 2006 (edited) At some point, one would have to ask the question: Does it matter and if so, how and why? Edited July 9, 2006 by Gaius Octavius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 lol yea. I'm with you on that one Gaius. It is fun to argue about occasionally though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tflex Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 Maybe the edge of the universe is really the end and the limit. Maybe if you get to the edge and attempt to penetrate to the other side, you will end up coming out on the opposite edge of the universe and vise versa. Does that make sense? For example if you enter through the northern edge, you instantly come out of the southern edge, you know like going around in circles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viggen Posted July 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 The placebo effect does make sense actually. It's purely psychological. They BELIEVE that they are getting morphine, and so their brain creates the same effect as if they were actually getting morphine. The human mind is incredible. There are edges on the universe? Well then, what's beyond that? Hold on a minute, in the study they showed that when they added morphine blocking substance the placebo effect did not happen, so there must be more to it.... cheers viggen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 I don't know specifics on this but it seems to me morphine makes your brain make certain chemicals that act as pain relievers. Your brain thinks you are getting morphine, and makes the chemicals anyway. The "mophine blocking substance" probably blocks these chemicals that are made by the brain somehow. Or maybe not. Just speculating there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Favonius Cornelius Posted July 10, 2006 Report Share Posted July 10, 2006 If I were a gambling man, I would say that there are multiple universes and a continuum of largeness and smallness. By that I mean you will never find the smallest particle, and there is no limit of the number of universes nor their possible interactions into a greater whole. A tiny look into 'the meaning of life.' We are the speck on the elephant's ass. No, I cannot prove any of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost_Warrior Posted July 11, 2006 Report Share Posted July 11, 2006 Actually Favonius I agree with you completely Except for the elephant's ass part. Can't we be something cute? Like a squirrel burr on something cute like a deer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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