I'm talking about just as a layman. You go from one thing to the other between one post yet have the nerve to tell me I'm wrong when you haven't even done a thorough investigation into the things you're asserting are true, let alone what I am saying.

As far as proof goes, no one can argue you into a faith you don't have. I will just say as I have continued to say that God will reveal Himself to you if you dilligently seek Him. Since you haven't, don't be surprised that you don't see any evidence in the void of your unbelief.

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I didn't change my position, I merely refined it. I still believe the universe goes on for bi-directionally fourth dimensionally (that is, goes on without end, both forwards and backwards, in time) for infinity and thus had no beginning (and thus no creator). While you're right, and I will certainly concede that this is not anything close to my area of expertise, I am good at studying and understanding the abstract and literal language of academic papers (something people take for granted when I tell them I'm an English major) and I feel like my rudimentary understanding of the theories and what I've read allows me to make up my own mind on the subject thank you very much.

Am I a physicist? cosmologist? Certainly not. But I'm intelligent enough to understand the concepts without needing to take up a doctorate on the subject.

And you have some balls to ask me to admit that I don't know what I'm talking about.

Here's one for you, how can you prove that your own religious experiences are not the product of some brainwave fluctuations that YOU don't fully understand? Case in point, these people all left feeling like they had a religious experience, when in fact there was basically just a magnet on their head.

I didn't change my position, I merely refined it. I still believe the universe goes on for bi-directionally fourth dimensionally (that is, goes on without end, both forwards and backwards, in time) for infinity and thus had no beginning (and thus no creator). While you're right, and I will certainly concede that this is not anything close to my area of expertise, I am good at studying and understanding the abstract and literal language of academic papers (something people take for granted when I tell them I'm an English major) and I feel like my rudimentary understanding of the theories and what I've read allows me to make up my own mind on the subject thank you very much.

Am I a physicist? cosmologist? Certainly not. But I'm intelligent enough to understand the concepts without needing to take up a doctorate on the subject.

And you have some balls to ask me to admit that I don't know what I'm talking about.

Here's one for you, how can you prove that your own religious experiences are not the product of some brainwave fluctuations that YOU don't fully understand? Case in point, these people all left feeling like they had a religious experience, when in fact there was basically just a magnet on their head. >> ^shinyblurry:
That's what you're arguing for huh? how quickly your position changes..how about you just admit you are out of your league and don't know what the hell you are talking about.

Imagine a universe that lasts of only 10 seconds and only has one particle in it. Lets call the end of time X. At X - .99999999999999999999999, we send the particle back to T = 1. At T= 1, we now have 2 particles. At T = 1, we send both particles back to X - .99999999999999999999999. We do this again, and again until we create a universe of infinite density from one particle. I don't know if this is exactly the time of feedback they are talking about, it is from my own thought experiment on time travel.
>> ^Payback:

>> ^jmd:
The whole feedback thing was really interesting though, the reason we can see through the portals is because light radiation is streaming through the portal to our eyes. If you stuck a portal infront of you and then a portal behind you, light radiation would stream in and out of the portals into an infinite feedback loop causing catastrophic energy output.

Why would that happen? You're not creating more sources. It would be the same net effect as pointing two mirrors at each other. Only instead of light bouncing off and heading back, the light stops being in front, and then appears behind.
Light passing through recursive portals would end up collimated, but I can't see how it would multiply, as the light coming out of portal a is disappearing into portal b at the same rate.
Personally, I was kinda let down that the portal system didn't really change, they just added magic goo. I was TOTALLY expecting PortalGun 2.0 to create bi-directional portals, that is, you would exit one side or the other of portal b, depending on what side you entered portal a. True non-euclidean physics. Also, did Valve ever describe the portals as worm holes? I always thought they were quantum teleporters or something to do with nth dimension physics.

>> ^jmd:

The whole feedback thing was really interesting though, the reason we can see through the portals is because light radiation is streaming through the portal to our eyes. If you stuck a portal infront of you and then a portal behind you, light radiation would stream in and out of the portals into an infinite feedback loop causing catastrophic energy output.


Why would that happen? You're not creating more sources. It would be the same net effect as pointing two mirrors at each other. Only instead of light bouncing off and heading back, the light stops being in front, and then appears behind.

Light passing through recursive portals would end up collimated, but I can't see how it would multiply, as the light coming out of portal a is disappearing into portal b at the same rate (and vice versa).

Personally, I was kinda let down that the portal system didn't really change, they just added magic goo. I was TOTALLY expecting PortalGun 2.0 to create bi-directional portals, that is, you would exit one side or the other of portal b, depending on what side you entered portal a. True non-euclidean physics. Also, did Valve ever describe the portals as worm holes? I always thought they were quantum teleporters or something to do with nth dimension physics.