Ask and Answer

[FurryJunky]

Exactely what you said.
 
Do you watch any DC shows?

[ZombiezuRFER]

No.


Can you explain the Higgs Boson?

[FurryJunky]

It is a recently discovered particle. I never took time into researching it tho...
 
Favourite age of man? 

[anoni]

24

@Zombie
Eh, in a way, I don't know much about it, not the mathematics, but I know the theory behind it.

So, before I explain the Higgs Boson, I have to explain what the Higgs field is. So the idea of the Higgs field is it is what gives the effect of mass, it's an invisible medium that surrounds the universe that can be best explained as a body of water. So if you think of a fish darting through water, it can go through the water easily and doesn't require that much energy to go through the water, that fish is an example of something with low mass. However if you try move a big boulder through water, it will be considerably harder, because of the boulders surface area that causes it to react strongly with the water, that boulder is an example of something with high mass.

  So Mass is defined as what how much an object reacts with the higgs field. Now, everything is quantized so things come in small packets. The Higgs Boson is the smallest most elementary particle of the Higgs Field. If we were to use water as an example again, we could say that water looks continuous like a field, but is in-fact made of molecules, H2O. As is the higgs field, except the "molecules" that make up the Higgs field are particles with 130x the mass of protons, the Higgs Boson, the Goddamn particle.

Was that an ok explanation?

[ZombiezuRFER]

Yes, I already knew a bit about the Higgs thanks to minutephysics, and you're right. Might want to add that the reaction to the Higgs Field is "bouncing" around in this particularly excited field.


Stagnant Utopia, or ever-changing Dystopia?

[anoni]

Stagnant Utopia, because well, we only live for 80 years, so a still and stagnant utopia wouldn't be thaaaat bad

Lose a leg or lose an arm?

[Beatnory]

leg. with a hand can you do more things.

music from the 80s or 90s?

[ZombiezuRFER]

Both. Just depends on genre and tune.

Favorite Transhumanist? (dont say yourself.)

[Roxy Wolf]

my girlfriend she's a little wired, but just THAT much a nerd and I love it I should shut up about this stuff though, I don't know much about it, but she doesn't talk about anything else... well except bed activity




is it recommended to play American football in bed? (my girlfriend asking

Spoiler for Hidden:

WTH of a question...???

[ZombiezuRFER]

You must have one big ol' bed... Also, talk to your girlfriend about transhumanism. You'll probably learn a lot...


Preferred method of mind uploading?

[anoni]

Well, the method of integrating yourself directly into the network as a separate consciousness has advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages:
  -There is no Light Lag between you and control as you're not controlling computers from a set location but are controlling them directly as source code
  -You are able to fully integrate yourself into the web without worry of confusion of incomprehensible amounts of data being transmitted into your system.
  -You become one with the net in all it's entirety.
  -You are no longer bounded by the need of a physical body.

Disadvantages:
  -It's not really YOU who is in the net, but more or less a clone or copy of intelligence.

However, the other way of integrating yourself with the internet is to literally plug yourself into the net, using your brain as a static computer.
Advantages:
  -You have direct control of internet connections without worrying about a lose of identity, it is you who is controlling it.
  -It's a less invasive.
  -It would probably be cheaper.

Disadvantages:
  -Connection to the net is slower and distance from you and the place you are connecting to is a factor.
  -You would not be able to comprehend the physical world and the net at the same time when surfing, (or at first anyway).
  -You need to be wired to a system rather than able to completely integrate yourself.

I'd go for the second option, hooking yourself up into the net, but if my physical body was going to have a flaw, I'd use the first option, even if it's not really me as an individual I'd prefer my legacy to live in immortally.

  What's your favourite cuisine (eg. Chinese, indian, german etc).

[Roxy Wolf]

Norwegian meetballs the size of a fist, with potatoes and brown sauce and lingonberry jam (can also add mushy peas)


does that sound good?

[ZombiezuRFER]

Try the Scottish food lad... Haggis, Deep-Fried Mars Bars, etc.


Anoni, mind-uploading can preserve your continuity of consciousness if you do it right. Its not necessarily a copy.


plan to survive the "end" of the universe?

[Aoren Deringer]

Upload my mind into a computer, and then transmit it as a gamma wave frequency capable of bouncing about essentially indefinitally, holding me in stasis until another culture develops technology capable of recieving me.
 
Is marriage a dated concept?

[ZombiezuRFER]

Beyond dated, its a fossil.


Thoughts on a postgender and/or postsex society?