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Originally posted by inimalistbut, can a straight man be unknowingly enticed into a homosexual act from chemical saturation of certain hormones and subliminal messages?
I don't consider prison sex to be "homosexual" in that way. I guess it is in a technical "the two people are of the same gender" way, but the actors aren't homosexuals.In any valuable definition of homosexuality, it is going to need to account for much more than just having sex with people. Gay people can still bone women.
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Originally posted by King Castle
but, can a straight man be unknowingly enticed into a homosexual act from chemical saturation of certain hormones and subliminal messages?
subliminal messages do not exist
we can quibble about priming and associative conditioning, but the idea that subliminal messages can observably affect how you behave is false. straight up false.
aside from that, if what you are asking me is: "can drugs make a man sexually attracted to another man" the answer is no.
if we live in a matter universe and if their is multiple realities or possible realities or whatever.. quantum mumble jumbo..
is their an exact opposite mirror image universe where matter is antimatter and antimatter is matter?
also are there realities where dreams are reality and our reality is a dream? 🤓 😖mart: 😖hifty:
serious question:
what exactly is antimatter since the description has bn changing since last i recall.
Originally posted by King Castle
what exactly is antimatter since the description has bn changing since last i recall.
Generally speaking: Particles with the same quantum "spin" but the opposite charge to normal matter.
I believe the rules get a lot more technical for things without a charge like neutrinos and neutrons.
[edit]: Nope, its still the same for neutrons you just have to go a level deepers. The quarks they are made of have a charge, thats where the flip happens.
Originally posted by King Castle
and if an equal amount of mass touch the opposite amount of mass with opposite charge they explode?
Not quite. When an electron touches a positron they annihilate each other but if an electron touches an anti-proton they just bounce off.
Originally posted by King Castle
if they were both the size of basketballs what would be the result?
The particles at the very edge of basketballs will annihilate, creating a burst of energy (and various particles) that will push the basketballs apart, preventing any more annihilation between them until they're moved back into place.
Basically they'll touch for a fraction of a second, then go flying apart (the force of the explosion might destroy the objects).
Originally posted by King Castle
also answer my quantum mechanics mumbo jumbo or i will be forced to seek answers in movies and comics.
If we accept the "many-worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics, then yes. A lot of people who know more about quantum mechanics than we do have been debating about that for a long time, "many-world" gets more exposure than "Copenhagen" because the implications are cooler.
Originally posted by King CastleProbably not, we don't know for sure why there is so little anti-matter, the original prediction said there should be as much as regular matter. One idea is that it's concentrated in another part of the universe, presumably one half of it, that is too far away for light to have travelled here yet. This would be the mirror image you were refering to, although it wouldn't really be a reflection of our world, just have equal mass and similar properties. Another idea, more currently accepted, is that physical constants aren't symetric in regards to the origin of matter and that the universe is skewed towards regular matter.
if we live in a matter universe and if their is multiple realities or possible realities or whatever.. quantum mumble jumbo..is their an exact opposite mirror image universe where matter is antimatter and antimatter is matter?
Originally posted by King Castle
if we live in a matter universe and if their is multiple realities or possible realities or whatever.. quantum mumble jumbo..is their an exact opposite mirror image universe where matter is antimatter and antimatter is matter?
also are there realities where dreams are reality and our reality is a dream? 🤓 😖mart: 😖hifty:
serious question:
what exactly is antimatter since the description has bn changing since last i recall.
FYI
http://www.universetoday.com/13377/why-theres-more-matter-than-antimatter-in-the-universe/
Originally posted by King Castle
what exactly is black matter or dark matter?
No one knows, if we did it wouldn't be "dark".
What we know so far is that it has mass, there is a lot of it and no method that has ever been tried has been able to observe it.
We know it exists for two related reasons. For given masses, and a given orbital speed there is only one orbit an object can stay in. (as an example if the moon circled the Earth more quickly it would be further away, if more slowly closer) We know this is true with incredible precision.
Galaxies have small satellite galaxies in orbit around them. So using the principle above we can calculate the mass of galaxy they orbit. However when we calculate the mass of the galaxy by looking at it we get a much lower number. Now that estimate isn't as good, but its fairly close, certainly it won't give us a mass 1/400 the size of the real thing.
The second method is gravitational lensing. Mass curves space, more mass curves space more, light follows that path. We know this with incredible precision. Again, calculating based on how bent space is gives us a different number than a visual estimate many times over.
Wiki gives a much of other, more complicated ways that scientists have confirmed it.
so we know nothing can travel faster then light and you have some yahoos who say tachyons travel faster then light...
so question is: does a tachyon particle travel faster then a photon?
in my mind its like saying a spaceship can travel FTL via a wormhole.
hence, the ship itself cannot accelerate to the speed of light but simply cut the distance by bending space.
Originally posted by King Castlewrong thread dude 😆
so we know nothing can travel faster then light and you have some yahoos who say tachyons travel faster then light...so question is: does a tachyon particle travel faster then a photon?
in my mind its like saying a spaceship can travel FTL via a wormhole.
hence, the ship itself cannot r accelerate to the speed of light but simply cut the distance by bending space.
Originally posted by King Castle
so we know nothing can travel faster then light and you have some yahoos who say tachyons travel faster then light...so question is: does a tachyon particle travel faster then a photon?
in my mind its like saying a spaceship can travel FTL via a wormhole.
hence, the ship itself cannot r accelerate to the speed of light but simply cut the distance by bending space.
If they did exist, though, the reason they could move FTL is that they have an imaginary mass and thus can never move slower than light.
Originally posted by King Castlenothing can be accelerated to the spped of light, but tachyons would move constantly faster than light
so we know nothing can travel faster then light and you have some yahoos who say tachyons travel faster then light...so question is: does a tachyon particle travel faster then a photon?
in my mind its like saying a spaceship can travel FTL via a wormhole.
hence, the ship itself cannot accelerate to the speed of light but simply cut the distance by bending space.
Originally posted by King Castle
so we know nothing can travel faster then light and you have some yahoos who say tachyons travel faster then light...so question is: does a tachyon particle travel faster then a photon?
If we had a tachyon, yes it would travel faster than photon (in fact it would be unable to move slower than one). But keep in mind that we know how to look for tachyons, they would stand out like crazy too, and no one has ever seen one. There's is little reason to believe they exist.