Is there anything that can influence the rate of atomic decay? I think I remember reading something not long ago that mentioned scientists had tested to see if they could find anything with 'limited success" and the rate basically remained the same. That sounds like they may have found...
It's kind of tough understanding this stuff when I really think about it. It's simple at first glance but I can't think of anything natural to compare atomic decay to so that it feels farmiliar. The population of man doesn't fit because even though we die young we're more likely to die the...
ok. The concept sounds so simple but it's difficult to visualize. I suppose it's the same with carbon 14 except on a shorter scale? Obviously the process is very reliable if it can be used to date things but why don't all the atoms decay at the exact same time if it's so reliable? It's...
I'm trying to understand the concept of exponential decay. To clarify, the decay of Uranium is not the same as say pulling the plug in a tub full of water. The water will drain out of a tub at a steady rate from start to finish. I assume Uranium doesn't do that. So you COULD say the water has a...
I'm trying to wrap my head around how C could be constant and time can change depending on perspective. I wasn't getting anywhere until I starting thinking of light as water and then I started feeling like I understood it a little better but tell me if this is accurate at all.
If running...
OK that makes more sense. I also recall reading somewhere that time slows down a tiny bit if you're standing next to a large object. I guess this is all part of the relationship between time and gravity. Does that mean our perspective of time is influenced by the mass of the Earth also? And...
Am I right in saying that speed is in no way a method of prolonging your life? It's just a matter of perspectives right? Once you get rid of clocks and other peoples perspectives there is absolutely nothing I can do to live longer based on the speed I'm going. Biologically everything keeps...
I think I understand it now. That's the same problem I've always had with math. I never got the practical part of it where you actually understand which parts are meaningful and which are just variables that don't really matter to the overall idea.
I swear someday we're going to be smart...
Perhaps nothing that we're capable of imagining is outside the realm of physics. It's just a matter of how we go about making it happen. The science to make it happen could be faulty but not the idea itself. For instance, I can close my eye's and imagine any color I want, but there is...
I got to look up some Newton stuff. I'm spending all my time on Einstein at the moment. Speaking of messages in time and Star Trek, I always thought it was strange how our view of the future usually seems to turn out to be accurate. For instance huge control pannels with flashing lights, doors...
If you get right into the math and everything regarding this it may be very complicated But isn't there a certain elegance in the fact that it exists at all?
If you think about it from the perspective of someone who lived before E=MC^2 and then discovered it.
Before E=MC^2 there were...
I think I see what you're saying. It's the way we calculate the problem that makes it simple? (I suck at math).
I suppose there still is a certain beauty and elegance in it from a human standpoint considering we seem to be in an exactly perfect physical state to live within these laws. I can...
"Fingerprint of God" type physics; what's meant and what qualifies?
Hello everyone, I've been watching a lot of documentaries lately (understanding very little) and I decided to join this forum so I could actually ask questions in what will probably be a vain attempt to make sense of the...