Impossible questions

[effilctar]

How does gravity work? (NOT meaning "what does it do?")

if you mean what is responsible for gravity: gravitons

if you mean how are we pulled towards something by gravity: it's like being magnetically attracted except instead of having a greater magnetic field strength, the object has a greater mass which gives it a greater gravitational field strength. g=GM/(r^2) where G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the object and r^2 is the mean radius of the object squared.

Or in short, it's like a magnet, and blah blah blah (he asked for how it works, not math stating how well it works, no points for over-complicating in an effort to make yourself seem smarter)

It's currently unexplainable, all we know is that it DOES, and it does at a rate of blah blah blah. What he's asking for, (and me for that matter) is an explanation of how object X can pull on object Y with absolutely nothing connecting them in any way.

[edit] Disregard; I overlooked the "Gravitons", although that's hardly an explanation and I still discard your answer.

OT: If you have a gun that shoots bullets at exactly 2000km/h, and you were on a platform moving you exactly 2000km/h, and you fired the gun backwards... What would happen?

It is literally an attractive force, like magnetism as I said, except mass is a lmiting factor rather than the flux density of the object. I said this. It pulls without beiung attached in the same way a magnet pulls without being attached: attractive forces. the unexplained part is where are the gravitons?

Second part: 4000km/h, that is more simple mechanics than impossible, but I won't confuse you by "overcomplicating" it

 

[Berethond]

How does gravity work? (NOT meaning "what does it do?")

if you mean what is responsible for gravity: gravitons

if you mean how are we pulled towards something by gravity: it's like being magnetically attracted except instead of having a greater magnetic field strength, the object has a greater mass which gives it a greater gravitational field strength. g=GM/(r^2) where G is the gravitational constant, M is the mass of the object and r^2 is the mean radius of the object squared.

Or in short, it's like a magnet, and blah blah blah (he asked for how it works, not math stating how well it works, no points for over-complicating in an effort to make yourself seem smarter)

It's currently unexplainable, all we know is that it DOES, and it does at a rate of blah blah blah. What he's asking for, (and me for that matter) is an explanation of how object X can pull on object Y with absolutely nothing connecting them in any way.

[edit] Disregard; I overlooked the "Gravitons", although that's hardly an explanation and I still discard your answer.

OT: If you have a gun that shoots bullets at exactly 2000km/h, and you were on a platform moving you exactly 2000km/h, and you fired the gun backwards... What would happen?

It is literally an attractive force, like magnetism as I said, except mass is a lmiting factor rather than the flux density of the object. I said this. It pulls without beiung attached in the same way a magnet pulls without being attached: attractive forces. the unexplained part is where are the gravitons?

Second part: 4000km/h, that is more simple mechanics than impossible, but I won't confuse you by "overcomplicating" it

He fire it in the opposite direction the platform was moving.

 

[Berethond]

What happens when two object going light speed collide?

Nothing only light can move at the speed of light (ironic no?) and light has no mass... it'd pass right through.

Untrue, photons do have mass. That's where the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle comes in, you cannot know the location and velocity of a sub-atomic particle at the same time. That's because one or the other changes when hit by a photon.

 

[ZomgSharkz]

If the universe is everything, and it is always expanding, what is it expanding into?

If you are traveling in a car going faster than the speed of light and you turn on the headlights what happens? (I know this makes no sense, and logically is impossible, but whatever)

 

[Hallow'sEve]

Have you beaten your wife recently?

 

[effilctar]

snipsnip

Rethinking it, the bullet would fire out at 2000km/h regardless but the shooter's velocity in the opposite direction would have to increase also.

 

[Baby Eater]

Befor you ask the most obvious one, the meaning to life is 42(hitch hickers guide to the galaxy)come up with one.

According to Richard from LFG the meaning of life is bucket.

42 buckets divided by 0?

 

[sonicmaster1989]

Has anyone ever decided to go as far to say as which the graphics are could have been? Also, how do you calculate a proper ratio comparing x# of things to nothing (i.e. 11 kills to 0 deaths)?

 

[Baby Eater]

snipsnip

Rethinking it, the bullet would fire out at 2000km/h regardless but the shooter's velocity in the opposite direction would have to increase also.

but he fired backwards so he'd just shoot himself

 

[Gaderael]

Solve this a unmake the universe!!!

Can you divide by zero? How?

 

[Grayjack]

What happened before the Big Bang?

 

[Tharwen]

OT: If you have a gun that shoots bullets at exactly 2000km/h, and you were on a platform moving you exactly 2000km/h, and you fired the gun backwards... What would happen?

Errr... it falls directly to the ground?

 

[VeX1le]

What is your name?
What is your quest?
What is your favorite color?

 

[VeX1le]

Solve this a unmake the universe!!!

Can you divide by zero? How?

You Cannot divide by 0 because if there is zero it dosent exist?

 

[Akai Shizuku]

"Didn't Communism fail?"

it hasnt been properly practiced yet, nor will it ever be.

First statement is true, second is not.

To many people like to have power, so the odds are greatly tipped against communism

I'm not sure if that's true. I've never understood the desire for such power myself.

 

[Epicurus]

Have you ever read a maths book? This isn't me saying it's not true because I believe it isn't true. I made a mathematical statement. I can prove it. I have proved it before, I learned how to prove it, and I can do so again. Hence it must be that what I said was true, because I can prove that it is true. You have obviously never studied maths beyond the most basic level, otherwise you would understand my point. No offence meant, but what I said is not ridiculous in any way whatsoever.

Hm? I'm a Computer Science undergrad, so I have a fairly solid background in mathematics. Anyway, the mathematics were not what I was disputing. I was merely inferring that statements based on impossibility/possibility based on perceived truths (truth is not to be confused with fact) are inherently ridiculous. In terms of the mathematical side of things, I am actually inclined to agree with you.

You see, sir, I am a serial pedant [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedant] (not to be confused with a troll, I'm not annoying on purpose, just out of my nature).

 

[Lukeje]

0.9 recurring (that is, nines going on forever after the decimal point) does not equal 1. This is impossible, because it's untrue. The to numbers are indeed equal. Yeah. So anyone who posted on that maths thread ages ago and disputed that, I'd like to see you prove your point to a Maths undergraduate. Hah. I bet you can't, can you?

That's easy. Start with a non-Archimedean numbering system where infinitesimals exist. If 0.0...1 is actually a defined number, then trivially
0.(9) =/= 1.

What happens when two object going light speed collide?

Nothing only light can move at the speed of light (ironic no?) and light has no mass... it'd pass right through.

Untrue, photons do have mass. That's where the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle comes in, you cannot know the location and velocity of a sub-atomic particle at the same time. That's because one or the other changes when hit by a photon.

They have rest-mass. I think the word you're searching for is momentum. After all, if photons couldn't interact with anything then we wouldn't see anything.

 

[fuzzball]

Why do fools fall in love?

Answer:Gravity pulls our souls together, but then rip it may pull us apart.

Question: What bear is best? (cookie for proper answer)

 

[Fraught]

Who farted in 2536 B.C on 15th October at 15:24:57 in China?
Also, how many people fart at that time?

ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also 984,233 people in China farted including me at the same time

Hu Flung Pu farted along with 97 other people

twostripe gave me a more plausible quantity of farters. But still, the court demands decisive evidence, what you two are lacking, severely.
Also, OptimusPrime, immortality potion pl0x?