Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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Some people know exactly what nothing looks like. Try sitting in the house and doing absolutely nothing when your wife is at home - she'll immediately find you a job to do.Stevo_666 said:Robert88 wrote:kingstongraham wrote:Try and conceptualise "nothing". In order to do that, you need to have an image - as soon as you do that, it is no longer nothing, but is something.
This is why the concept of nothing, or a "before time", is impossible to conceptualise, or articulate. Our brains aren't equipped to think of "nothing" - we have to think about it in terms of physical dimensions, which "nothing" doesn't have.
Is that off topic enough?
Maybe we are equipped to think of nothing but just can't describe it?
Funny that. If I'm constantly pottering and faffing around the house I get no grief. As soon as it's feet up time I get the 'Ive been on the go since I got up'.
I think it's an inbuilt wiring mechanism.
'Thou shalt not rest'.
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Just called the non-emergency 101 number to report a horse running loose on a 70mph road and after going through all the bi-lingual messages and the options to speak to different forces I finally got to report the incident.
What intrigued me was I then got asked my name and address which I didn't think was really necessary but then also my date of birth. What possible relevance could that have to my call? I assume it's some sort of data monitoring, I was tempted to refuse but then thought they might not take the call seriously.0 -
A horse on a motorway is not an emergency?pross said:Just called the non-emergency 101 number to report a horse running loose on a 70mph road and after going through all the bi-lingual messages and the options to speak to different forces I finally got to report the incident.
What intrigued me was I then got asked my name and address which I didn't think was really necessary but then also my date of birth. What possible relevance could that have to my call? I assume it's some sort of data monitoring, I was tempted to refuse but then thought they might not take the call seriously.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Wasn't a motorway, dual carriageway but just by a roundabout. But yes, I couldn't decide which number to use so left it to the call handler to decide based on their knowledge of what else was going on.rjsterry said:
A horse on a motorway is not an emergency?pross said:Just called the non-emergency 101 number to report a horse running loose on a 70mph road and after going through all the bi-lingual messages and the options to speak to different forces I finally got to report the incident.
What intrigued me was I then got asked my name and address which I didn't think was really necessary but then also my date of birth. What possible relevance could that have to my call? I assume it's some sort of data monitoring, I was tempted to refuse but then thought they might not take the call seriously.0 -
My own experience of using the non emergency number is that it is so long winded a process that I can no longer be @rsed to go through the rigmarole. I suspect that is the whole point.pross said:Just called the non-emergency 101 number to report a horse running loose on a 70mph road and after going through all the bi-lingual messages and the options to speak to different forces I finally got to report the incident.
What intrigued me was I then got asked my name and address which I didn't think was really necessary but then also my date of birth. What possible relevance could that have to my call? I assume it's some sort of data monitoring, I was tempted to refuse but then thought they might not take the call seriously.0 -
Naivity. ^
On the subject of hearing, i've always has the problem of not hearing well in a crowd. It's called 'cocktail party syndrome'. If many people are talking at once, and someone is talking to me directly, their talk is virtually inaudible.
Though my hearing is very good. Although the lower frequencies are less determinable, I can hear a shrew. Which is supposed to be inaudible to the human ear.
Being in a really noisy environment - not one single output of noise, rather; multiple noises, is actually really uncomfortable.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
If the universe is infinite, how can it be expanding?
I appreciate I'm being somewhat pedantic but the two things contradict each other fundamentally.
I'm happy to buy into the universe expanding infinitely.You can fool some of the people all of the time. Concentrate on those people.0 -
Can't see where the search function now is to check whether this has been posted already, but...
Check out the Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry, available on BBC R4, series 12, has 2 episodes "Two Infinities and Beyond" parts 1 and 2. Discussed the concept(s) of infinity. And also quite humorous.
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Who said it is? It's just very, very, very, very, very, very, very big.longshot said:If the universe is infinite, how can it be expanding?
I appreciate I'm being somewhat pedantic but the two things contradict each other fundamentally.
I'm happy to buy into the universe expanding infinitely.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Errr, lots of people?rjsterry said:
Who said it is? It's just very, very, very, very, very, very, very big.longshot said:If the universe is infinite, how can it be expanding?
I appreciate I'm being somewhat pedantic but the two things contradict each other fundamentally.
I'm happy to buy into the universe expanding infinitely.
You can fool some of the people all of the time. Concentrate on those people.0 -
But, there is an infinity (of numbers) between 0 and 1.
https://curiosity.com/topics/comparing-infinities-can-give-you-counterintuitive-results-curiosity/0 -
I think it is just considered/treated as being infinite, because it is so, very, very big.0
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Let's face it, no-one actually knows. My issue is more when people say that it both infinite and expanding which is just wrong.You can fool some of the people all of the time. Concentrate on those people.0
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Would you be happier with the idea of things being stretched rather than expanding? i.e. if all objects were moving away from all others within an infinite universe. That doesn't seem any different to making the statement that if y=2x then y will always be larger than x, even though x could be infinite which can't in itself be doubled.longshot said:Let's face it, no-one actually knows. My issue is more when people say that it both infinite and expanding which is just wrong.
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Is it?longshot said:Let's face it, no-one actually knows. My issue is more when people say that it both infinite and expanding which is just wrong.
Infinity "plus x" is allowed in maths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_plus_one and maths is used to describe the natural world, so seems perfectly ok to me.
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Bloody mathematicians.elbowloh said:
Is it?longshot said:Let's face it, no-one actually knows. My issue is more when people say that it both infinite and expanding which is just wrong.
Infinity "plus x" is allowed in maths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_plus_one and maths is used to describe the natural world, so seems perfectly ok to me.
Infinite means limitless. It can't expand without a limit or boundary.
Rather than bastardising words that work properly they should just make up their own like "very, very, very, very, very, very, very big".You can fool some of the people all of the time. Concentrate on those people.0 -
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god == imaginary friendsungod wrote:Lagrange wrote:I think that it is faith or belief. Some people think there is no god.
there's no supporting evidence, they are the same delusion
to say "Some people think there is no god." is the equivalent of " Some people think there is no flying spaghetti monster."
people who say these things are evidence based, they are not delusional
I'm not arguing that there is a god but I am going to argue that people in the science arena operate on faith without evidence as well.
Scientists don't tend to start by coming up with a load of shït for a starting point then looking into it though. They normally start with something remotely plausible.
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how many fractions are there between 0 and 1?longshot said:Let's face it, no-one actually knows. My issue is more when people say that it both infinite and expanding which is just wrong.
how many between 0 and 2?
how many between 0 and 3?
infinity is a concept unfathomable (in my opinion) by the human brain.
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back on topic for a secondlongshot said:
Bloody mathematicians.elbowloh said:
Is it?longshot said:Let's face it, no-one actually knows. My issue is more when people say that it both infinite and expanding which is just wrong.
Infinity "plus x" is allowed in maths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_plus_one and maths is used to describe the natural world, so seems perfectly ok to me.
Infinite means limitless. It can't expand without a limit or boundary.
Rather than bastardising words that work properly they should just make up their own like "very, very, very, very, very, very, very big".
people have said the universe "could" be infinite and the "visible" universe is expanding. two different things and no one has - or can - prove the universe is infinite.www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes0 -
There are 6,000 households in the UK that still have only a black and white TV licence.0
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I'll take that. I'll reiterate that my issue was based on the usage of words rather than anything scientific.chris_bass said:
back on topic for a secondlongshot said:
Bloody mathematicians.elbowloh said:
Is it?longshot said:Let's face it, no-one actually knows. My issue is more when people say that it both infinite and expanding which is just wrong.
Infinity "plus x" is allowed in maths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_plus_one and maths is used to describe the natural world, so seems perfectly ok to me.
Infinite means limitless. It can't expand without a limit or boundary.
Rather than bastardising words that work properly they should just make up their own like "very, very, very, very, very, very, very big".
people have said the universe "could" be infinite and the "visible" universe is expanding. two different things and no one has - or can - prove the universe is infinite.You can fool some of the people all of the time. Concentrate on those people.0 -
If space is finite, then beyond the boundary of space must be nothing...
Err, infinite nothing?
Something that is remotely plausible - like super strings, worms, black holes, dark matter etc is headlne grabbing.
Saying 'we don't know what the f*ck that is and why that is the way it is, won't make the news.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
When I bought my first TV it was a 14" B&W and it cost me my first months apprentice wage, £127. A bit of progress has been made on TVs.kingstongraham said:There are 6,000 households in the UK that still have only a black and white TV licence.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I'm amazed they still do a separate licence. Why do you pay less to watch something in B&W? If I mess about with my colour and contrast settings could I get one?kingstongraham said:There are 6,000 households in the UK that still have only a black and white TV licence.
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Now that the analogue signal has been turned off, it's hard to imagine a black and white TV set up still works.0
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Older TVs can be kept active using additional components plugged in, but yes, why bother for B&W?The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Perhaps they all have a penchant for film noir?pblakeney said:Older TVs can be kept active using additional components plugged in, but yes, why bother for B&W?
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How successive governments for decades manged to maintain the fiction that T.V licence detector vans worked.0
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I can think of a few that should go and find the edge to prove it.chris_bass said:no one has - or can - prove the universe is infinite.
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