trust_no_one said:Yes, the Paradox being if you went back and killed those who created you, in your linear, 2-D history, you wouldn't have existed to go back to do any of that. In the 3-D history model, it branches off to accommodate that situation (not sure exactly how, but...it does).
The Harry Potter instance (and Back To The Future, for that matter) are certainly possible in my model, just because you go back, or forward, that does not mean that you are the only one in existence in whatever time you landed in.
As to the freezing, if at absolute zero energy is neither absorbed or emitted it would be impossible for signals in your brain to be created. Therefore, your mind is not "thinking", you have no sub-atomic movement, so it would be instantaneous, yes. Provided the freezing and thawing processes were quick.
thetank said:Great, physics and biology. But at absolute zero, surely your tissues would be irreparably damaged?
And I think I get what you mean. Kind of like Jet Li's The One, where each you is a slightly different you, genetically identical, but not necessarily the same.
Hoomfie said:Wait a second... we're assuming that the human body is capable of being frozen to near absolute zero. We're 70% water, right? So when water freezes, it expands. So wouldn't our bodies explode if we froze them to that temperature? :shock:
t_n_o said:Yeah, that's why I went back to high shool after I graduated grade 12 for another semester, I took all my sciences (chem, bio, and physics) to the 30 level.
Hoomfie said:...What do you mean by the "30 level"?
maca2kx said:Another idea is that at some stage computers will become powerful enough to simulate a human brain in which case it may be possible to upload ones consciousness to this machine, I don't know much about this but it would take a lot more than just a straight forward 'copy and paste' procedure to accomplish since, even though analogies seem to indicate otherwise, human brains are extremely different to computers.
Sam
maca2kx said:Another idea is that at some stage computers will become powerful enough to simulate a human brain in which case it may be possible to upload ones consciousness to this machine, I don't know much about this but it would take a lot more than just a straight forward 'copy and paste' procedure to accomplish since, even though analogies seem to indicate otherwise, human brains are extremely different to computers.
Sam
thetank said:EDIT: TNO, what I want to know, is why isn't the Universe expanding faster than it currently is? There doesn't appear to be any external force restricting its expansion, so it should be expanding a lot faster than the rate calculated by all the astrophysicists, and with all the energy released by the Big Bang driving the expansion, why isn't it?