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02-09-2011 04:43 PM |
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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
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Security updates and patches.
Most of that stuff you will need.
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Thanks Daemon and Drolefille. I always wondered about that.
My geek random for today is kind of hilarious. When I checked my mail today, not only did I get my NAVLE results back, I also got something from my mom. She was doing some cleaning, and she ran across my paper I wrote in a science fair I was in for extra credit in my science class. I looked at the date, May of 1995. I was 12 years old. It was on black holes. lol. I'll post some of what I wrote.
"Hi, everyone. My name is "L" and my science project is on black holes. I am not a scientist, and I don't know as much about physics as an astrophysicist, but I know enough to resolve some of the problems that astrophysicists struggle with. There's another universe inside black holes. Kind of like baby universes. Somewhere deep inside a black hole, a piece of space breaks off and forms a tiny, self contained universe disconnected from our portion of space-time. I always think of helium balloons slipping away and disappearing. All the information that ever fell into the black hole gets trapped in the baby universe. So, this solves the problem. I don't think the information is destroyed like a lot of astrophysicists believe, I believe it's just floating out there in hyperspace or omnispace or metaspace or wherever it is that baby universes go. Eventually, after the black hole evaporates, the rift in space heals, and being disconnected, the stranded bits of information become totally unobservable. I know baby universes exist because our universe is expanding. Perhaps each baby universe also expands and eventually matures into a universe with galaxies, stars, planets, dogs, cats, people, and it's own black holes. It may be possible that our own universe originated this way. But as a solution to the problem of lost information, it simply begs the question. Physics is about observation and experimentation. If baby universes carry off information that become unobservable, the results of our world will be exactly the same as if information were destroyed".
Then I wrote something about how I know this to be true. I used a bathtub to prove my point. lol
"Imagine drops of ink falling into a tub of water, carrying a message -drip, drip, drop, drop, drop, space, drop, drip. Soon, the sharply defined drops begin to disolve, the message gets hard to read and the water becomes cloudy. After a few hours, all that's left is a uniform tub of slightly gray water. Although from a practicle point of view, the message is scrambled, the principles of Quantum Mechanics ensure that it's still there among the huge number of moving molecules. But soon the fluid starts to evaporate from the tub. Molecule after molecule escapes into empty space, ink as well as water, eventually leaving the tub dry and empty. The information is gone, but not necessarily destroyed. Though scrambled far beyond recovery by any practical scheme, not a bit of information has been erased. It's obvious what has happened to it. It's been carried off in the evaporation products, the vaporous molecular cloud escaping into space".
There's like 10 more pages lol. And as I can remember I used a pan, water and ink to show what I was talking about. I got an A on the project, but when I read it now, although there is some truth to some of it, it makes me laugh so hard. I was such a nerd.:p
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