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You're missing a key point here: a world without nuclear weapons is worse than a world with nuclear weapons spread between various competing powers. In the first world, eventually somebody will invent them, and then you've got nukes in the hands of a single power. In the second world, you've...

Yeah, I know; it's competitive with calcium for the same binding site. Which is good, because my iron levels are too high. Quik: As for putting on weight... my weight hasn't changed. I've excepted that I'm at my optimum metabolism and lean muscle mass, and worrying is pointless. Better to make...

If you'd read my post, it's about understanding multiple methods. This is important, because Iyounamu is doing Maths Extension 2, where maths means a little more than simply rote learning. But hey, you'll go real far with that attitude: "This method works, thus I don't need to understand why or...

Didn't hesitate? They warned the Japanese repeatedly. Meanwhile, the Japanese were bombing the north of Australia and preparing to invade. Comparative to the death toll of WW1 or WW2, or even just the Holocaust, the atomic bombs were a drop in the ocean, and they were at least spared the...

It's bemusing (for the end of the world couldn't really be called amusing) because you can't assign a probability to it. Just because the number of mathematical models where doomsday events happen is less than the number where it doesn't, doesn't mean the the probability is less than 50%...

I apologise. It just seems that way because you're treating certain aspects of science as immutable even though they are metaphysics. Eh. No it doesn't. As I said, the 'big bang' is not a single conclusion or theory; it's an overarching collection of all the traits which the various scientific...

Nobody here is saying that the universe always has and always will exist (I hope). Even the expansion model of the universe doesn't claim that the universe will never end. It's just that we're open to the possibility that is true. Personally, the big bang, energy conservation (or not), etc are...

*TRUE* might be a fundamentalist, but she learns and uses logic. That's cool; I used to be a fundamentalist, too. I'm not saying True will ever stop believing in god or that she always uses logic correctly, but in the grand scheme she's a decent person with a few foibles, but on the right track...

A serious answer: all ongoing questions in science. We can't say with certainty what the answer is, but we can say what it probably is not. Once we've done that, we work with what's left. It may not be perfect, but it's the least imperfect! The good thing is, we also have multiple theories to...

Unfortunately, sam, you can't prove your intuition about the universe with a few passionate paragraphs about how you think multidimensional mathematics might work. It usually involves an actual understanding of said mathematics. Also, it's important to state what assumptions you're making. In...

Well I just read the first 'point' of that site and it's incorrect, so yeah, I'm going with you having no clue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_universe#Other_problems_with_the_model

lol. Mate, come back when you understand things like the shift symmetry of time (Noether's theorem).

You can do that, but it doesn't mean it's a meaningful question to ask. It's like asking if there's a correct answer to the following paradox: "this statement is a lie." There are many concepts the human mind cannot grasp. Large numbers is one of them.

oh ew. drugs aren't my scene.

Sometimes when you don't know how to integrate, it helps to derive them if they're simple functions. ESPECIALLY true of exponentials. Derivative: (x-1)' * ln(3) * 3^(x-1) = ln(3) * 3^(x-1). Thus the integral would probably be the opposite, or 3^(x-1)/ln(3). I say this because in a test when...

If you read 1984 and it didn't make you feel down, sad or depressed in some way, you're not human.

It's true; living on a salary that's about 20 to 40% higher than the average and pays for 52 weeks even though you only work 30 is not enough for me. That's why I have my IT degree.

Would you two get a room.

I was depressed for a week after reading that book.

More like the majority of people in Taiwan don't want to be bombed by China.