IMPONDERABLES!! (help me finish my book!)

[CHICO2003]

So I'm almost done with my book...

One day I was thinking about things like 'gee, why IS the sky blue?' and why the hell are coconuts so damn hard to open?!! I complied a massive list (hundreds) of questions... and (somehow) found most of the answers. Now I need your help! Please feel free to add your own 'imponderables'. I'll be sure to find out the answer (if there is one) and also add it to my book if it's good enough!

Thanks guys... remember, anything goes here!

 

[Kooldino]

Why do honda engines sound whiney at the same rpm as a non honda engine with a similar size and design?

 

[cyc]

People say that the universe keeps expanding. But, where is the universe? I mean, it must be on something so that it can expand on.

 

[CHICO2003]

Pretty deep Cyc! I don't necessarily want to get into a question/answer thing here.... (at least not until there are a bunch) but I had to add something here...

what IS the universe? look up into the sky at night and what do you see? mostly black right? infact, if you were to take all the stars and bunch them together they'd form maybe.... 1/1000th of the night sky!! The point is, the blackness known as "space" makes up the vast majority of what we call our universe. Now ask yourself what space is! Space is literally NOTHING! nothing is...well, NOTHING! It's perhaps the hardest thing for us to fathom but once you get understand it... things get a little easier. (until of course that question of where the very FIRST atom came from comes up!) bottom line: doesnt' take any energy, any atoms, any elements of any kind to make nothing (space). everything inside this space (planets and BS) IS expanding (ever since the 'big bang" and will continue to expand until one day (people theorize) things expand to the point where there are no longer any orbiting celestial bodies and life ceases to a hault.

 

[CHICO2003]

didn't think anyone would write anything after that one... sorry if I lost some of you! anyway... come on!!! you guys know EVERYTHING???? seriously, the GOOD ones will not only make it into my book but also receive a free copy AND be mentioned in the book (if they l ike) simon and schuster are printing this thing so... it's for real.

 

[Necessity]

Depends on which theory you follow.

String theory dictataes that our universe is more like a slice of bread floating next to alternate universes (other slices of bread), and the *bang* happened when our slice hit another slice. If that is the case, then we can expect another bang.

 

[Dreeza]

Pretty deep Cyc! I don't necessarily want to get into a question/answer thing here.... (at least not until there are a bunch) but I had to add something here...

what IS the universe? look up into the sky at night and what do you see? mostly black right? infact, if you were to take all the stars and bunch them together they'd form maybe.... 1/1000th of the night sky!! The point is, the blackness known as "space" makes up the vast majority of what we call our universe. Now ask yourself what space is! Space is literally NOTHING! nothing is...well, NOTHING! It's perhaps the hardest thing for us to fathom but once you get understand it... things get a little easier. (until of course that question of where the very FIRST atom came from comes up!) bottom line: doesnt' take any energy, any atoms, any elements of any kind to make nothing (space). everything inside this space (planets and BS) IS expanding (ever since the 'big bang" and will continue to expand until one day (people theorize) things expand to the point where there are no longer any orbiting celestial bodies and life ceases to a hault.

omg, my head hurts, i HATE thinking about the whole space deal


enough


hey....is this your first book? or have you written a bunch, cause i coulda sworn we own some books called "imponderables"

 

[CHICO2003]

LOL sorry Dreeza! get more ram for that brain of yours or something! LOL j/k anyway... yeah, that's something the publisher/lawyer said MIGHT become a challenge... it's not exactly the most unique name in the world for a book like this... with thousands of new books published each year, it's next to impossible to keep track of this BS... .but they pay people to do that sort've thing. the book name is a working title that may change (either completely or by simply adding a good ole ":" with another line ie. Imponderables: answers to some of life's biggest mysteries) or something!! I don't know! that's really not a big deal... the concept (and a good years worth of work) is what's most important here. anywayz... wasnt' sure if I'd get any hits on this but it was worth a shot....

 

[Dreeza]

LOL sorry Dreeza! get more ram for that brain of yours or something! LOL j/k anyway... yeah, that's something the publisher/lawyer said MIGHT become a challenge... it's not exactly the most unique name in the world for a book like this... with thousands of new books published each year, it's next to impossible to keep track of this BS... .but they pay people to do that sort've thing. the book name is a working title that may change (either completely or by simply adding a good ole ":" with another line ie. Imponderables: answers to some of life's biggest mysteries) or something!! I don't know! that's really not a big deal... the concept (and a good years worth of work) is what's most important here. anywayz... wasnt' sure if I'd get any hits on this but it was worth a shot....

hmm, well there are like a series of books called Imponderables...one is like Imponderables: The Solution to the Mysteries of Everyday Life

i know the same author (david feldman) wrote like a shitload of them...

 

[Katya4me]

Hmm....I'm reading a book now entitled "The Speed of Dark". The main character wonders if it can be measured mathematically like the speed of light. Is that the sort of thing that you are looking for?

 

[cyc]

Depends on which theory you follow.

String theory dictataes that our universe is more like a slice of bread floating next to alternate universes (other slices of bread), and the *bang* happened when our slice hit another slice. If that is the case, then we can expect another bang.

Well, the thign that I don't understand is that where are those slices of break floating on?? I mean, it's like a vicious circle, say, USA is in North America, North America is on Earth, Earth is in the Solar System, the Solar system is the in ther universe, the universe is in a, a is in b, etc.....


I read what chico2003 wrote, the only thign that I understand from his post is that we're in space and space is nothing. It's maybe because it's the week of my final exams, so my brain is kinda tired, but I really dont' get how nothing (space) can have something (universe, planets, etc).

And then, there are those black holes. I did a little reserach on it when I was in grade 11, they say that you might be able to teleport to someplace else in the universe if you can get in them. What is teleport anyways? Do you move and time stops for you? Or do you move so quickly that it's close to instantly?

 

[Gbourdon]

So if space is constantly hurling outward and spreading then what is it spreading into? Is that still space? Is there an edge? If there is an edge what is on the other side?

I believe in some sort of big bang but when eerything gets really far apart even the minute amounts of gravity will start to pull everything back together again and start over.

 

[Gbourdon]

Why did they ever get rid of pudding pops? Not fudgeicles (sp) but pudding pops. They used to get that thin layer of ice on the outside that would slide off. Good luck finding those things now days. Probably caused cancer or some shi...

Mmmmmmm...pudding pop

 

[servoeyes]

this is one that's pretty much someone else's thought (i forget whose) but if time travel exists, then why are we not being inundated with tourists from the future?

 

[Gbourdon]

this is one that's pretty much someone else's thought (i forget whose) but if time travel exists, then why are we not being inundated with tourists from the future?

Right? I never thout of that really good point. Maybe they don't want to mess up the space time continuum. (sp) Is continuum even a word.

 

[cyc]

If you can really travel in time, things will get very complicated.

Such as:
Will there be 2 "me" if I travel back in time?
If there are 2 "me" and I kill the "old" me, would I instantly die?
How would I specify at what time/date of the past I want to return to?

 

[servoeyes]

That's why time travel and the common theory of time are a little off kilter. This kid (really he's not that old, but fairly untested in theorhetical physics) came up with a different theory of how time and space work together. I forget how it went, but it was pretty earth shattering...which of course means that people are still trying to figure out whether or not to agree with him!

 

[WeldingHank]

time travel is possible on paper. just no one can really duplicate it. i think, that because if you were to travel in time, you could thoretically go back in time and kill yourself. and if you were to do that. you can't make it to the futre. therefore the entire universe would colapse. think of it like the simpsons halloween opisode when homer goes back in time and messes s*** up, what happened? i think, that the universe will always protect itself.

 

[servoeyes]

HAHAH! When in doubt, always supplant the Simpsons for fact! You da' man hank!

 

[servoeyes]

Ok here's a couple for you:
1.) Why can't we go faster than the speed of light? (i know the theoretical reasoning, but some people might not...you probably already covered that in the book)
2.) Where do wormholes go? They supposedly connect 2 points in the universe, but what are they through to make that connection?