The Beatles Bible - Topic: Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 Bjway on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p63366 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p63366 Somewhat related to Math: We've been talking in one my classes recently about the possibility for a material to have a temperature lower than absolute zero. Until now I figured that was the lowest possible (if it was even possible) temperature since the substance would have absolutely no energy. But apparently through some mathematical theories temperatures below absolute zero could exist and if we can actually achieve them, we could maybe create systems that are %100 efficient (sort of like superconductivity) while still obeying the laws of thermodynamics, which would do wonders for technology. However scientists still have yet to ...]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:58:33 +0000 Linde on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p63363 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p63363 Shouldn't have entered this thread.

My poor brains hurt. I just to be very good at calculating and maths in primary school, but since the 8th grade I REALLY suck at it. I dislike it and found it hard too understand and to memorize everything. Unfortunately it was mandatory in Pre-University Education. That's mainly why I failed my finals and dropped to Higher General Secondary Education.

My siblings and mom suck at maths too. My dad is very good at maths and science and all that stuff. I wished I inherited some of his brains, but nope.

]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:35:28 +0000 mja6758 on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p63079 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p63079 You're not, EDS. I keep reading it. My brain is bleeding!

]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:17:12 +0000 EDSLocklear on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p63072 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p63072 I thought about becoming a mathematician until I remembered I was only good in school up until ninth grade.

 

I want to become a musician, but I plan to go to a vocational school near me and get either into Industrial Electricity or Marketing and Management so I have something to fall back on if I'm not successful, though that's slim. I don't like to brag, but I'm a pretty good guitarist, considering I've only been playing a few months. I'm not too bad at drums, either!

 

Now, back on topic: I MUST be the only person not understanding any of this.

...]]> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:57:08 +0000 Funny Paper on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62914 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62914 There's the idea of "time's arrow" (Google that) -- basically time has this mysterious property of only going in one direction (forward).  I think the problems we encounter logically and psycho-logically when we indulge in sci-fi imagination and "what ifs" about time travel reflects the fact that we are indulging in counter-factual fantasy.

Like imagining "What if I were not me, but I was rather someone else?"  Well, duh, if you weren't you, there wouldn't be a "you" to wonder about.

 

]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:12:43 +0000 Von Bontee on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62884 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62884 "Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once. Space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you."

]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:40:51 +0000 meanmistermustard on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62825 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62825 Surely if time travel allowed for to go back then we would know having been visited be someone who had done so unless you cant go cant go back past the point it was invented in (meaning if built at 10:56am you cant go back to 10:55 you can only return to the original starting point at 10:56am).

If you do go back can you meet yourself or is that crossing the time constraints and would it blow a hole in the fabric of time? I do think you would affect your future if you did go back and alter the ...]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:41:11 +0000 unknown on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62806 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62806 I have always wondered about time travel, too. I can't put too much thought into it, though, because after awhile I just can't think about it anymore. It doesn't make sense, and I can't deal with having questions that can't be answered. Time travel lets you go to any time in the universe, so are there just zillions upon zillions of parallel universes for every day that ever has or will took place, or do you make up a new parallel universe each time you time travel?

In science class in eighth grade I learned that time gets faster as it ...]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:16:07 +0000 Funny Paper on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62804 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62804 Those are all good questions; to me they are the heart of philosophy. As Eric Voegelin once said, the questions are more important than the answers -- at least for these kinds of questions.  They don't seem answerable, but at the same time they point to some kind of answer.  It would be absurd for a question not to have an answer; so why can't we find answers for these particular kinds of questions?  It's a mystery without closure.

You might be interested in Liebniz who was famous for asking two questions:

(1) Why is there something, why not nothing? And

(2) Why ...]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:11:55 +0000 mja6758 on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62799 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62799 My head is bleeding!

]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:24:42 +0000 Egroeg Evoli on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62795 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62795 I don't know... perhaps it means the observable universe? (Google it) But probably not.

Anyway, since this math thread seems to be turning into a thread about the universe, I have some more things to say*:

How is the universe possible? How can it go on forever? Yet it seems impossible for it to end, because logically, there should be something on the other side, a concept supported by the theory that the universe is ever-expanding: If it's expanding, what is it expanding into? Nothingness? And what is nothingness, exactly? What does it look like? Is nothingness possible? Is nothingness infinite? How can ...]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:58:45 +0000 Funny Paper on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62791 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62791

Egroeg Evoli said
There's a grammar thread, so what the heck, why not.

I know, I know, you all hate me for turning the Fab Forum into an academic place of learning or whatever.

Random math-related fact: to write out the number googolplex without shortening it using exponents or anything like that, even if you write one number on each atom in the universe, it would be impossible, because there are more zeros in googolplex than there are atoms in the universe.

Semi-math-related-well-not-really fact: There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the Earth.

Look at me, derailing my ...]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 03:40:16 +0000 Egroeg Evoli on Math http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62784 All together now http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/all-together-now/math/#p62784 There's a grammar thread, so what the heck, why not.

I know, I know, you all hate me for turning the Fab Forum into an academic place of learning or whatever.

Random math-related fact: to write out the number googolplex without shortening it using exponents or anything like that, even if you write one number on each atom in the universe, it would be impossible, because there are more zeros in googolplex than there are atoms in the universe.

Semi-math-related-well-not-really fact: There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the Earth.

Look at me, derailing my own thread... on the ...]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:34:42 +0000