Topics of conversation in the early hours.

Kristoph

Kristoph

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For some reason a lack of sleep seems to bring out my thirst for knowledge.

I've just spent the last 3+ hours discussing with my housemate;
Quantum entanglement
Time dilation in travel at the speed of light
Parallel Universes
Other dimensions
Super massive black holes and event horizon
SETI
Hypergiants and Super Giants
Neutron stars
Higgs Boson Particle and CERN
Strange Quarks and Charm Quarks
L4 and L5 Langrangian belts
Invalid Proof / 2=1 and 1=0


I think I've chosen the wrong degree, I'm starting to find myself fascinated with Space and Astronomy. :cool:

What's your hot topic of debate at 3am?
 
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what do you mean by 2=1 and 1=0?

edit:nm i stop drinking now, had a maths flashback and now want to punch the wall :(
 
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platinum87 said:
what do you mean by 2=1 and 1=0?
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Ah it's nothing interesting, just a little maths thing that looks cool but is pretty flawed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkSow7FtWmA

The values of (a-b) in this are 0, so before he even cancels (a-b) out, both sides of the equation are equal to 0.

It's just the fact he cancels them out that helps give the impression a+b = b.


I heard a good analogy from my housemate on how we're unable to see other dimensions.

Imagine being in 1D, you can't really as you're a dot.

Imagine being in 2D and only being able to see whats ahead of you, lying flat on a table. Nothing to either side would be visible or exist to you unless it was face to face with you.

Now lets take 3D, just because you can't see the other dimension in the situation we're in now, doesn't mean to say it doesn't exist.
 
=/ usually if I'm having conversations that early in the morning, we're both drunk and it usually involves girls, what's in the room at the time (I fondly remember me and a mate rabbiting to each other about a mouldy potato for half an hour in the kitchen) and who's microwave to steal next =P
 
Mojo said:
=/ usually if I'm having conversations that early in the morning, we're both drunk and it usually involves girls, what's in the room at the time (I fondly remember me and a mate rabbiting to each other about a mouldy potato for half an hour in the kitchen) and who's microwave to steal next =P
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The answer to this post is our lack of drink. Otherwise it would be something more on your level.
 
The best argument is what would happen if you went into a black hole. The amount of random ideas that people come up with is amazing.

And about you wanting to change to a space and astronomy course, I've had that idea loads of times, especially when thinking about this kind of stuff, but since I'm doing aerospace engineering, I always tell myself that I'm working towards discovering stuff like this.
 
We often find ourselves talking about the history of humanity and how our lives are so totally different from all the generations that have gone before us. This then often moves onto future technologies and what will be possible as we learn to tame and control nature.

Other subjects include the cycle of life and death, how it's possible for brain matter to create consciousness and obviously we mull over religion and spiritual beliefs quite frequently.
 
I had a discussion about Physics, ranging from Astrophysics to Quantum Physics early this morning from about 1am - 3am.

Read lots of scientific articles in the process and asked lots of different questions, it was great :D
 
Our most recent early morning chat after a heavy night out involved discussing what the white fluffy bit under orange peel is called. Turns out its called pith.
 
stinamoo said:
My most memorable late-night conversation with my housemates has been a detailed plan to survive zombie invasion. Other than that, the usual drunken ramblings about lovelives.
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There's been some other good conversations, like Jayesh's and Jamie's conversation on irrational/imaginary numbers. String thoery has come up a few times as well as the possibiltiies of time travel including multiverse etc.

All good fun and strangely well educated :p
 
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