Reality Definition and 494 Threads

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/13/ncosts113.xml This is so much rubbish, year after year i see more fields laying fallow, one time traveling through the countryside one could see nothing but rape crops growing and empty fields, one of the local farmers takes his...

is it possible that in one persons eyes red would be my yellow and their yellow would be my red and their sphere could be my cube and so on and so forth so that we would be describing an object with a matching description but at the same time be talking about something completely diferent

Many people say that geometry is at the heart of physics. However Albert Einstein in his last paper worte that he believed purely algebraic methods will provide a framework for nature i.e unification, TOE etc. Has he got representation theory on his mind? Or something else? It raises the...

Can anyone define me reality please?Is it what we see real or it is just an illusion?

thought it would be cool to put this here to get some input from other people and possibly people who have a much beefier academic record than myself :p Basically my thesis for my philosophy course: we can only know reality from experience and perception. my arguments are: humans have a...

First, a little background. I am a senior double major in electrical engineering and physics (with minor in chem, with 2 semesters of ochem and ochem lab) at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI. I have a modest overall GPA of 3.45, but a physics GPA of 3.92, an engineering GPA...

I just borrowed this book, and am about to start reading it. However, I am a just a third year undergraduate, and flipping through the book, there looks like there is going to be a lot of new material, and some difficult math. How hard do you think it will be for me to get through it? Is it...

I need some help from Philosophy-oriented folk in answering this question, which I've been sounding off about in the Relativity forum in the thread "Raindrops and Gravity". After having a few of my deviant ideas ironed out there by people who know much more than I do, I've arrived at the...

Hi All ! here is a quote from the movie Little Buddha(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107426/) "Buddha could see beyond universe.Buddha has seen ultimate reality of all things." Although the statement looks simple but it didnt make enough sense to me.It is also said that "we can see only...

Thinking is part of reality Our educational system and our culture lie to us. We are taught by our educational system and by our culture that there is thinking and there is reality and that thinking’s job is to discover reality; never informing us that reality and thinking go together, one...

I'm thinking of becoming a High School Teacher, perhaps in math or science. I've heard a lot of rumors about the job, but are there any High School Teachers who could tell me more about the nature of the job? What's the reality? Is the low pay hard to live on? Is it a very demanding job? Is...

<LINK DELETED> Will someone help me to answer these questions? Does energy contain intelligence? I was reading <LINK REFERENCE DELETED> an experiment based off an 1803 experiment done by Thomas Young... that suggests that atoms are able to do rudimentary thinking... If energy...

I would like to start a thread to get feedback on this statement: Reality is an Unknown Thing. True or False and why please.

This came to me in the middle of the night. Literally. I got up and wrote it down at 4:09am. Having lain awake in bed pondering it for at-least an hour. I clearly need to get out more. Scientific belief is a funny thing... Inductivism hasn't had it easy in the last century or two. While...

I have never heard of this happening to anyone before but everytime i drink coffee lately i have been getting extremely sick. WHAT KIND OF SICK JOKE IS THIS! I love coffee and now I can't drink it...evilness! :grumpy This is going to put me in a bad mood for awhile...good thing i like tea...so...

reality or myth? what traits make someone a soulmate? do you have one? i dont! and i even don't know what's that!:cool:

Funny and possibly on to something http://personals.yahoo.com/us/static/dating-advice_reality-check" for guys in their 20's.

I was just having this very old, neverending debate. I would like to have your opinion about this. It all started with geometry, but I think the argument extends to mathematics altogether. According to my friend, mathematics first come from experiment and thus belong to the category of...

What kind of Physics book is The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose? What is your opinion about it?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6056600/ This is horrible ,and i would have thought impossible, how could anyone get this way ?

i have to do a project on alternative realities for my physics final. I've struggled all terma nd i don't fully understand and when searching google i keep getting results for a game. can someone please explain what an alternative reality i or some other ideas what to search for?

Does the physical significance of the E and B fields in classical electromagnetism only come into physical significance when you measure the light's intensity? Just like how the wave function of QM come into physical significance when you take the square of it and it becomes the probability...

"personal fable" and reality there comes a point in life where one begins to think about life in a very serious way... and this is exactly what is happening in my mind. I have always wanted to do something great in my life. Amazed by many concepts and ingenuity in physics... I've decided...

First may I say to all, HAPPY holidays! ok, This may seem kinda whacky, but so often I almost feel as though I (or we) create our own daily reality show, and by our own minds, we decide how to fill in the blanks based on what is familiar in our own individual choices we choose to add to what to...

How is the status of the "nature of reality" in philosophy? What are the most recent works and what is the modern view about it? Who are the most active researchers in the area and what are the best journals? I would like some indications about references (books, papers and online material)...

Is there any difference? I guess i should say why I'm interested in this question. I've often had what is called 'lucid dreams' in which i realize I'm dreaming while I'm dreaming... it doesn't happen often, but I've defeinetely experienced it. For example, in the middle of a dream, i'll...

How can one readily determine that the reality one experiences is real, not virtual - perhaps through Turing machine logic?

[Mentor's note: This thread was extracted from another thread, SR transforms of matter/light interactions at the request of some of the participants because it drifts significantly from the original topic of that thread. You may want to edit some of your postings to reflect the changed context.]...

Do you think that 'deterministic' properties we observe in universe are subset/emergent from 'random/chaotic' reality or that 'random/chaotic' behavior is a subset of purely 'deterministic' reality? What is the strongest proof you would present to support what you belief?

This is a question that I've always asked myself and it's an area where I"m a bit confused about in all the quantum theories (well the philosophical ones). I guess it's also my lack of understanding the many worlds interpertation as well. Anyways it all spawned from thinking about the...

I have heard as many as eleven. But I vote for 4 and only 4. What is the evidence for more than 4? Or logic?

Hi, Q1: Do the effects of time dilation and length contration really happen, or they seem to happen to us being in different inertial frame, because our means of observation ( say, by looking by means of coming relativistic beams of light) draw this illusion on us and show us something...

Is reality created in the mind or is there an objective reality outside of the mind? It almost seems like an absurd question and most people would say the latter but some philosophers are skeptical. If you have a candy bar in front of you, you assume that it exist because you can see it. The...

The purpose of this thread is to explore Dr. Richard Stafford's paper 'The Foundations of Reality' in order that I (and anyone else who wants to try) can come to some understanding of it. I'll quote from some introductory essays written by the author and also by Paul Martin, who has spent some...

Greetings, I came across a company that is using Russian cold war technology to sythesize diamonds in their factory. The machines they bought from the Russians look like 5ft. high, 3 feet diameter metal cylinders. They approximate the temperature and pressure that the Earth uses to create...

I was wondering if anyone had read this book and if it was a good book to read if you are not familiar with physics. I looked at the book at a bookstore and it seemed lengthy and filled with formulae. However the preface painted a very different picture so I was just wondering what other thought...

http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/5/10/1 Zz.

I all ways thought films dramatized the act of some one being shot, like they fly backwards or jump in the air, but according to this it is true. http://www.bobtuley.com/terminal.htm

The fundamental mistake in SR is making a direct comparison between the movement of objects and the movement of light. If we take into consideration the fact that the light simply can not have a zero speed, these are different. Maybe there is a more profound explanation of why this...

This is a compliation of various trains of thought that I've tried bringing together into a wholistic understanding of reality; There is a basic factor which has been overlooked in how we normally conceive of reality. Time has two directions. As point of reference, the observer goes from...

When one attempts to understand REALITY it seems it eventually ends up connected to quantum mechanics. I do not think this is should be a factor when we are taking about a quark-based reality that exists at the temperatures, speeds and pressures found in the Earth's biosphere where life exists...

Ok, enough wishy-washy fluffy talk of the Consciousness Singularity, how do we do this thing? I want details. No crystalline, chakra, or third-eye nonsense. Just suggestions rooted in hard facts. Here are some concrete ideas for bringing about the Consciousness Singularity: FIRST STEP...

Most of us watch them, although only some will admit to it, lol. What is everybody's top 3 reality shows right now?

This is a compliation of various trains of thought that I've tried bringing together into a wholistic understanding of reality; There is a basic factor which has been overlooked in how we normally conceive of reality. Time has two directions. As point of reference, the observer goes from...

Taking a different spin on an old question I ask, is there color if no person is around to see the light? What I mean is that concepts we humans use are often taken for granted. A table is a table, no matter if it is used or not. However, the idea of a table is separate from the materiel...

Do we know for certain that bosons exist? Do we have experimental evidence that bosons exist? How in the world can bosons be real and yet not obey the pauli exclusion principle? Does the fact that bosons do not obey the pauli exclusion principle mean that it is impossible to tell one...

break my addiction to "Leaving Reality" I managed to break my addiction to "Leaving Reality"; Reading too much, playing Video Games too much, and watching too many movies(not TV, TV sucked anyway). That addiction most likely prevented me from being able to skip grades early on in my life...

I start in the beginning with Descartes' Cognito ergo sum. I think; therefore, I am. This, I think, is indisputable and proves that I exist, but where can I go from here using reason alone? I acquire verifiable knowledge that I previously did not know and had no way of knowing from sources...

Here is a video about mystical experiences(near death experiences, meditation experiences, religious experiences, epilepsy, etc.) their relation with the brain and reality: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9122930135704146433 Plz watch it all, but if u can't be bothered, then fast...

The question of reality, existence and philosophy in general is (as most of us would agree on, I assume) based on human brain activity. We think with our brains, we process EVERY INPUT of information from this "existence" or "reality" or whatever you want to call it with our brains and generate...