Questions for PhysOrg

1: Does measurement of distance have a minimum amount?
By this I mean, is there a smallest distance.

2: Same question for time...
Is there a smallest measurement of time?

3: Are there infinite colors?
If the answer to question 1 or 2 is yes, then this question's answer is probably no...
right, otherwise this would be yes...? no?

4: Is color 4 dimensional?
This question's a little vague... Uhh...... I know what I mean, but do you?

5: Explain, or give a good reference to, what exactly are dimensions, and how can we know they exist beyond our comprehension.

6: String theory?
Another question asking for explanation, or reference...

5,6 - Google is great, but with the millions of results that come up, some times it can be a little bit overwhelming... especially when you really don't know EXACTLY what you are looking for, so please don't just point me to Google!

7: Can anything ever be truly random? If we knew exactly how everything worked, would anything be capable of having a random result, uninfluenced by any factors? A bit of a paradox, but let's work around that.

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1: What causes death... Rather broad I guess... let's narrow it down. What causes death beyond disease, injury, poisoning, etc. What causes someone to just drop dead after x number years of life? Why don't the cells in our heart just continue reproducing at a continuous rate forever? Why does the skin slowly become wrinkled and stay that way, instead of just repairing itself? I will attribute all of this to sunlight, but I know that can't be so... that would suggest that living in a UV ray free area all of your life would result in immortality...

1. most of us would say no, StevenA and Precursor can't think abstractly so they would say no.

2. see above

3. see above but switch no and yes

4. not sure what you mean

5 Buddha

6. They keep my shoes from coming off

5.6 The people who know of what they speak say stayeth thou away from Google.

7. Einstien said God does not play dice with the universe. Someone else told him not to tell God what to do with his universe.

1. when cells reproduce they lose DNA from the ends. Some people say that death is programmed in.
I read that almost all mammals have roughly the same number of heartbeats in a an average lifetime. Except humans who have three times as many as an average mammal. But that could be complete BS.

Thanks for all the help. err, kinda.

1: Does measurement of distance have a minimum amount? By this I mean, is there a smallest distance.

no

2: Same question for time...Is there a smallest measurement of time?

no

3: Are there infinite colors?

there are a finite amount of colours we can percieve. you can not count an infinite amount of anything

4: Is color 4 dimensional?

colour requires a dimension of time since colour is the emission or transmission or reflection of light. these processes involve change. you could have colour in 2+1d ie 2 spatial + 1 temporal

5: Explain, or give a good reference to, what exactly are dimensions, and how can we know they exist beyond our comprehension.

any of the basic physical quantities, such as mass, length, and time, from which other quantities are derived http://cnx.org/content/m15037/latest/

6: String theory?

whatever AlphaNumeric says is probably most true, since he is an actual string theorist. to me "an attempt at the construction of the most fundamental physical framework of everything"

5,6 - Google is great, but with the millions of results that come up, some times it can be a little bit overwhelming... especially when you really don't know EXACTLY what you are looking for, so please don't just point me to Google!

7: Can anything ever be truly random? If we knew exactly how everything worked, would anything be capable of having a random result, uninfluenced by any factors? A bit of a paradox, but let's work around that.

i consider the creation of the universe a random event, since i think there was no preceeding cause.

New Topic
1: What causes death... Rather broad I guess... let's narrow it down. What causes death beyond disease, injury, poisoning, etc. What causes someone to just drop dead after x number years of life? Why don't the cells in our heart just continue reproducing at a continuous rate forever? Why does the skin slowly become wrinkled and stay that way, instead of just repairing itself? I will attribute all of this to sunlight, but I know that can't be so... that would suggest that living in a UV ray free area all of your life would result in immortality...

no thing can remain unchanged in the universe. for the same reasons perpetual motion is not possible, no thing can remain unchanged.

Coincidentally,I was just reading this article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7440217.stm

fair enough.

to me whether its a branching universe or a unique universe

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xtrmn8r Posted on Today at 10:13 AM Coincidentally,I was just reading this article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7440217.stm