Recent content by lowing99

Hi Varon I saw a programme recently on this, I did chuckle somewhat at the notion, not so much that we were a hologram, but the fact that after 1 million years man kind finally found out it was just an exe program in a vast supercomputer modelling a universe. Wait for the cry in another...

Hi Kevin I think maths is the programming language for the universe, yes I'm with the virtual Universe crew:) In computer code you could write a program that works within itself and is free of error but it might present you with nothing of value or substance in the end product, similarly...

Hi Folks Off my usual forum for a wee change, thought I'd post some thought's for discussion on a long held view of mine. That the universe is based at it's smallest scale on a simple binary on / off switch and that as a fractal, the universe is throwing up the same designs on each scale...

Hi Dougal That's a sore point as I am still unconvinced that light moves in waves at all, perhaps it moves in straight lines and everything slower moves in waves. Not a popular belief, I realize :) Best Colin

Hi Flora I think it's along the lines of, we see the photon in an average position of many different possible positions, the quantum particles surrounding the photon each have a perspective depending on their position, on the photon. From the surrounding particles perspective each...

Hi Folks Regarding the double slit problem, I read recently a theory that suggested that the universe itself split creating effectively two particles, which can interfere. Personally I think this is imaginative but it simply doesn't sit right, it seems somehow illogical and wasteful for...

I think this is the most likely outcome, if indeed the Earth was seeded in the first place, I think the probability is that it originated here, as you say.

I had a brief look through the material relating to Hoyle and Wickramasinghe, I think the book I read years ago might have been by Hoyle. They do seem to have done some work on the subject. I'm not advocating the theory, i just think it's an interesting idea. Personally I still think that...

I found this link relating to the flu conversation http://scienceray.com/astronomy/do-diseases-come-from-space-comet-controversy/ There seems to be some conflicting opinions out there on the subject

I must go and see if that book is still there, perhaps I've remembered it incorrectly, it was 30 years ago I read it. :)

re the in solar system seeding, I wondered if the comets were smaller, even although they were formed at the same time as the solar system, would they not have cooled down earlier because of their small size and perhaps generated the conditions for primitive life earlier than say a planet. Just...

Hi rawtrax again, Forgot to mention the programme also said in experiment that when the photon is observed and recorded, it does the usual thing but it actually reverts to a wave pattern if you observe the photon and record it's slit position but then delete the information before the photon...

Hi Rawtrax I don't know if you watched the recent BBC Horizon programme on the double slit experiment, it was excellent, you can still view it online at You tube. One of the chaps was explaining how his quantum computer worked and remarked even a single electron passing through the quantum...

Sorry, Was referring to the seeding from within the solar system, I don't know if comets pre date the Earth's formation.

Hi Chalnoth, there does seem to be a body of opinion that proposes viral life in comets, It's been a while since I read up on this but I think the proposal was that viruses are still being deposited each time we pass through a comet tail however dispersed they may be. Slight tangent apologies...