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Yes gm0n3y you are mostly correct. They did try to test it by testing the "drag" the earth should have generated while passing though, which they never could. And Scientists are still not sure about the medium of space. The new String Theory idea would provide such an answer though. But in the end AEther is just empty space. Beyond the edge of the universe... is more space... simple as that. I belive they edge of the universe is the distance from a virtual center that mater and energy exsists.


Note: the big bang started in every point in the universe at once (not space). Now I dont know of any concrete theory that shows the fabric or medium of space was bunched up inside the big bang, so I am going to discard that.
 
Well, the big bang started everywhere because the matter/energy took up the entire universe at the time (the universe was a lot smaller back then). Then post bang, the universe expanded rapidly and, I believe, still is (unless we are heading towards The Big Crunch).
 
The universe is an idea, nothing more. Matter and energy make up what we call the universe, and the universe is space, a never ending, endless space. We can do studies that show the universe is expanding, and a few studies that show its not. There is no way to prove any of it, and you cant really prove the big bang either. Hence, Theory.
 
My questions are: :?

1. Why the electron is negative?

2. Which one is older, the egg or the chicken?

3. What was the situation before Big Bang?
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1. When Ben Franklin "discovered" electricity, he knew that it flowed. At the time he couldn't tell how, or which way - so he called one direction positive and one negative and gambled that it flowed in the positive direction. He was wrong. Hereafter, electicity is though of as "negative".
http://www.amasci.com/miscon/eleca.html

2. The egg. We have the eggplant now, but the chickenplant hasn't evolved yet. 8O

3. One school of science believes that if there is enough matter in the Universe, gravity will gradually slow the cosmic expansion. Eventually, it will come to a stop - then the Universe will begin compacting due to the gravitational pull. They call this "The Big Crunch". All matter will be pulled back to the center. Once all matter in the Universe is collapsed and condensed to a point smaller than the head of a pin, another Big Bang will happen. They believe that the Universe is just an endless cycle of Big Bang then Big Crunch, without a beginning or an end. We are just the product from the last Big Bang, and all will be destroyed in the next Big Crunch. :cry:

Don't you hate when someone gives a serious answer in this thread 😛
 
2 of those were not serious.

Eggplant smeggplant. But you are right, thre is no chicken plant, but until then, you cant say the eggplant came before the chickenplant.

Electricty is the flow of charged particals. IT IS NOT NEGITIVE rofl.
 
A postive charged wire has a voltage that will shock you when you touch it. (and your grounded). If you ask how can you tell if the ground is really the positive charge, its because we can tell which direction electricty travels. If you ask why does it travel from a positive charge to a negitive charge,... I would say go ask wiki.
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That is due to a potential drop between the wire and the ground. A positive charge is only a distinction between charged and noncharged object. Then after you've hooked up on the wire, electricity flows in order to compensate the potential difference between the ground and the wire, i.e. concentration of the charge to be equal at those two points, the wire and the ground (equilibrium state). Ground (Earth) is neutral, so in that moment of time while electricity flows through your body, Earth sucks the electrons more and more
since it has large but finite capacity.
 
I didn't know about that Ben Franklin thing. Thats kind of neat. I still don't like that guy though. I have always favored Nikola Tesla as my favorite Electrical Theorist of all time. He likely invented more devices and theories used today (in regards to electricity) that the next 5 most recognised inventors (Edison, Franklin, etc) or his time. If I have time later, I will post a list of some of his more accomplished inventions.
 
I wonder if there is a chicken and egg sandwich anywhere? That would be kind of morbid in a way. Parent and child would once again be united (in ma bella).
 
I haven't been there in a long time (read: their food sucks). I'll just have to stick to my daily meals of Caviar and Smoked Salmon.

P.S. I know that Caviar isn't generally Salmon eggs.
 
I think a large number of brain cells across countless brains. It's as if each post were working to kill a certain number of neurons and neutrons in each of our brains, but yet as a whole, they are killing more neurons than each post could individually. It's sort of a "more evil than the sum of it's parts"

I now feel less intelligent for having read this forum. (skipped about 30 pages or so, but still...)
 
I think that if we go further and further in this, maybe we'll get into a lunatic hospital. Since everything works, the electron is negative and dot. 😀
 
Do you want to die? Even the Negro ninja fears those of the fairer sex. [/joke]
I actually think that would be a great idea. I'm thinking something around 30%. My girlfriend is also into computers but isn't a member here. I think I should get her to join.
 
Do you want to die? Even the Negro ninja fears those of the fairer sex. [/joke]
I actually think that would be a great idea. I'm thinking something around 30%. My girlfriend i also into computers but isn't a member here. I think I should get her to join.
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My girlfriend loathes computers. I am not entirely certain why this is, but she hates them. Its odd, but I think my computer knows this.

I have had my current rig running XP for about 6 months now and I have only had one issue, which was a DVD driver that I had to update. No freezes, no bsod, nothing. Lately, on occasion, when I get home from work, my PC (which I leave on all the time) has been frozen when I move my mouse to turn my monitor back on. This only happens when my GF uses the computer. She swears that it was fine when she left it, but it has done this 4 times now. She also says that when she uses the PC for MSN, IE, etc, that it randomly reboots 2 or so times every day she uses it! So I decided yesterday to run Spybot and Ad-aware while logged into her account (which has no admin privileges). I found 95 entries on spybot and 138 on Adaware!!! WTF?? I am often downloading programs (and... stuff...) from shady websites and I pretty much never get any spyware.


Lessons I learned yesterday:

1. People who know nothing about computers managed to screw things up that us 'knowledgible' users cannot understand.

2. Get my GF to use Firefox, which was installed and I thought she was using.

3. My computer hates my GF.


Resolution:

I am going to install XP on my old P3 800 and get a KVM switch to swap between the two. I will then create an image of the drive which I will use to periodically 'fix' the machine that will inevitably get just as screwed up (but at least it won't wreck my machine).
 
Not to be sexist, but I've noticed a lot of women afraid from computers, fear about what is going to happen if she clicks here, there e.t.c. I personally think
that they are following a procedure that were taught and nothing more beyond that.

Maybe they stick to the saying curiosity killed the cat as far as computers are concerned. :lol:
 
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