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onifre
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Message 31 of 86 (500316)
02-24-2009 5:13 PM
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02-24-2009 4:50 PM


help
Hmmm, not really Whatever you read about virtual particles has a good chance of simply being wrong - scientists will often make up any old crap if it helps "explain" a hard concept - believe me
Agreed. Just my undergrad take on what is clearly outside the scope of my current knowledge.
However, I've just been trying to bump that point. Notice in one of my previous posts I used the word appears; it appears to break the laws of consevation. I was hoping someone would jump on that and clear it up better for me.
So, how 'bout a quick explanation of what happens to the energy in particle/anti particle annihilation. Which will surely require more of an explanation. If you don't want to bother, cool.
scientists will often make up any old crap if it helps "explain" a hard concept - believe me
Yes, I read your previous post to Black, "magic"...? lol

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Message 32 of 86 (500319)
02-24-2009 6:02 PM
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02-24-2009 4:18 PM


Re: Lost?
Straggler writes:
If by "lost" you mean dissappears altogether then yes that would break the law of the conservation of energy.
Which is what happens to virtual particles.
It is my understanding that rather than a loss virtual particles popping into existence imply a temporary gain.
It is also my understanding that virtual particles fully adhere to conservation laws because they exist for times less than the Planck time.
However I am talking off the top of my head and, like you, I have probably exceeded the limits of knowing what I am talking about so I could be talking out of my virtual arse and be temporarily violating the conservation of nonsense.
Maybe Cavediver can explain? Or I suppose we could try and look some stuff up for ourselves.

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Message 33 of 86 (500338)
02-24-2009 7:38 PM
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02-24-2009 4:46 PM


Cavediver,
What if a isolated system exploded? Would that scenario break the law of conservation of energy?
Edited by Black, : edit

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Message 34 of 86 (500339)
02-24-2009 7:45 PM
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02-24-2009 5:13 PM


Re: help
If you don't want to bother, cool.
Oh, believe me, I ALWAYS want to bother - in just about every thread here at EvC - it's just time is so limited when you run your own company. It's nearly 1am so I'll get back to this after some much needed sleep

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Message 35 of 86 (500341)
02-24-2009 7:52 PM
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02-24-2009 7:38 PM


What if a isolated system exploded?
I'm sorry, I don't know what that means. Any conventional explosion simply widely distributes the energy content of a volume. For all the talk of a nuclear explosion causing a loss in mass, if you summed up all the constituent elements of the explosion, never mind how far flung, no mass nor energy would be lost.

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Message 36 of 86 (500346)
02-24-2009 9:57 PM
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02-24-2009 7:52 PM


cavediver,
So, effectively, every isolated system is a isolated subsystem? what are the theories related to that phenomena? seems like a creator is required to be able to have a system of such in existence.

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Message 37 of 86 (500347)
02-24-2009 10:15 PM
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02-24-2009 9:57 PM


You've Got a Zinger Coming, Don't You
So, effectively, every isolated system is a isolated subsystem?
No. To be a subsystem it would necessarily have a relationship to another system. I'd think it goes without saying that two systems communicating their existence to each the other are not isolated from each other.
[qs][S]eems like a creator is required to be able to have a system of such in existence.[/qs]
In what way does it seem so? Are you saying imaginary constructs must have a creator? An ultimate imagineer? I'd be prone to agree.

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onifre
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Message 38 of 86 (500358)
02-25-2009 2:07 AM
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02-24-2009 9:57 PM


Black writes:
So, effectively, every isolated system is a isolated subsystem?
Universe = isolated system
Everything else within it = not an isolated system
Here's an easy to understand wiki definition: Isolated system
quote:
In the natural sciences an isolated system, as contrasted with a open system, is a physical system that does not interact with its surroundings. It obeys a number of conservation laws: its total energy and mass stay constant. They cannot enter or exit, but can only move around inside. An example is in the study of spacetime, where it is assumed that asymptotically flat spacetimes exist.
Truly isolated physical systems do not exist in reality (except for the universe as a whole), because, for example, there is always gravity between a system with mass and masses elsewhere.
However, if you really want to get deeper into it, try this link: Isolated System/Berkely University
Black writes:
seems like a creator is required to be able to have a system of such in existence.
Sure, but who created the creator?

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Message 39 of 86 (500362)
02-25-2009 2:24 AM
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02-25-2009 2:07 AM


onifre writes:
Sure, but who created the creator?
A creator can't be created. That would defeat the whole concept. Anyway...

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Message 40 of 86 (500363)
02-25-2009 2:32 AM
Reply to: Message 38 by onifre
02-25-2009 2:07 AM


Universe = isolated system
is the space outside of the universe a system?

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Message 41 of 86 (500364)
02-25-2009 2:39 AM
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02-25-2009 2:32 AM


is the space outside of the universe a system?
What makes you think there is any space outside of the universe?
Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.

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Message 42 of 86 (500366)
02-25-2009 2:48 AM
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02-25-2009 2:39 AM


inflation

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Message 43 of 86 (500371)
02-25-2009 3:11 AM
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02-25-2009 2:48 AM


How about some real content in your messages?
It's very nice that you have a word and that you spelled it correctly. Now how about a period at the end of the word, to make it a sentence?
Actually, how about more words, strung together to form larger sentences?
Then you can group those sentences into paragraphs. Next thing you know, you'll have a full message that actually says something.
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Message 44 of 86 (500372)
02-25-2009 3:12 AM
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Re: How about some real content in your messages?
sorry it is just that your post was pointless and rude and also as such hypocrtical in the sense that I wasted a post but so did you.
Edited by Black, : edit

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Message 45 of 86 (500373)
02-25-2009 3:21 AM
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02-25-2009 2:48 AM


inflation
Enjoy your suspension, incidentally.
However inflation is about the inflation of space itself. Why does this make one confident that there is space outside the universe? Are you saying that space is inflating into space? That doesn't seem to make sense.
If you (or anyone else) actually want to discuss this particular issue, maybe you could do so at What is the universe expanding into? or maybe expanding universe or a whole new topic perhaps.
Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.

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