| Q. What are your thoughts on the "Grandfather Paradox"? Would bibifurcation be the result? |
| A. Oddly enough I heard about this clever little concept. It centers around the belief that the universe is rational and cannot contradict itself (I.E. 1+1 cannot equal both 2, 5, 0, and 1,000 at the same time). Further research in quantum mechanics has shown, however, that contradictions within the very fabric of reality exist. For instance: Something can come from nothing. Nothing itself has properties. Something can be in more than one place at the same time. These contradictions not only exist, they are what created the universe, us. As for the grandfather paradox of time travel, as in, can someone be their own grandfather (or can someone be their own killer or some other sort of extreme contradiction) I would say that the possibility is there. If time travel is possible (which the grandfather paradox is supposed to prove that it isn't) then there are ways for this to be true. Allow me to give some theories as to how it may be possible: For one, if time is more than a single point travelling through space. If time itself is a flowing entity which does not exist only in the present (If the past, present, and future all exist at the same time) then it is possible for the traveller to create paradoxes. You see, the future has already happened in this theory, it exists simultaneanously with the present and the past. In other words, the years 1900, 10 B.C., and 2304 are all happening at the exact same time. However, they are happening in different "places". Should someone go back in time and kill themself their time-travelling self can still exist. You cannot erase yourself from existence, you have already happened. As for being your own grandfather, that isn't as complicated as you might think. Since you have already happened, if you alter previous realities you will in effect be altering a stream which you are no longer a part of. You've happened, but you have moved out of the stream that created you. If you go and have sex with your mother or grandmother and father "yourself" the child will not actually be you, it will be fairly close but it will not actually be your father/grandfather. To simplify things, you can go back and disrupt the stream of events that created you, but it will not effect your existence because you have removed yourself from the stream.This, of course, multiplies possibilities when it comes to time travel. The traveller would be able to do whatever he or she pleases without worrying about the consequences with regard to their own existence. They will, of course, have to be wary of the consequences to those still directly connected to the stream. Now, my own personal position on time travel is that it is not possible. I believe that that the future and past do not actually exist, that they are outdated concepts that have only practical value. Time and space, according to Einstein, are the same thing, there is no time there is only the existence of matter which is always moving. |
| Jo of Rumpellville // 06-Jun-08 |
| Q. Explain your obsession with communism and zombies, and then somehow connect the two in a silly way. I think this would be both fun for you to ramble on about and fun for the public to hear. A video would be the most fun! |
| A. This will take quite some time to explain. When I have the energy I'll make a video about it. |
| Alyce, Apples to Apples buddy // 12-May-08 |
| Q. Last summer, I was cleaning out the gutters on the shed behind our house. While digging through the leaves, I found a worm. The shed roof is about 6 feet above the ground. I checked the downspout, there weren't enough dead leaves for it to crawl up through the downspout. How did it get up there? The only thing I can think of is a bird dropped it, and it ended up in the gutter. Any other possibilities? |
| A. Well, for one thing, birds are pretty good worm-holders. Getting a worm out of a bird's mouth is about as easy as getting a donut out of my mother's. Secondly, did you happen to look up and see any trees overhanging the shed or happen to be taller than the shed or nearby? The worm probably fell off a tree and into the gutter, either by a gust of wind or of his own accord in an attempt to escape from a hungry bird, my mother, or bad life decisions. |
| Braun again // 01-May-08 |
| Q. Which, of the known dinosaur species, do you think is the coolest? My vote goes to spinosaurus. |
| A. I always liked the Stegasaurus as a kid, which is funny because I also liked the Blue ranger the best in the original Power Rangers Tv series. Oddly enough, that's where I got most of my information about dinosaurs (well, that and the movie Jurassic Park). I was never terribly interested in them, so I never actively studied our world's prehistory. The only thing I know about Steggo is that it was a plant eater and had giant spines on its back that made it extra crunchy when bigger dinosaurs ate it. |
| Braun // 17-Apr-08 |
| Q. how old am i |
| A. 22; you'd think you would know that yourself...me. I guess I am getting a little senile. |
| angelo // 16-Apr-08 |
| Q. Who has the best doughnuts in St. Louis? |
| A. You know what, the donuts I love the most are those funky ones you get at Chinese Buffets. There is a really nice Chinese Buffet near this weird Target with an underground parking lot around South West Saint Louis. Almost all Chinese Food places have them, though. I like them mostly because they are surrounded by the healthiest fast food in the United States, so at least you get SOME nutrients when you eat them. |
| Braun // 06-Apr-08 |
| Q. WOULD I GET MARRY |
| A. Ummmm...Not to anyone who speaks English, unless they wanted to take advantage of you. |
| ARTURO // 16-Mar-08 |
| Q. Where did all of the stuff go? |
| A. We're working on fixing the site. I saved all of the questions and answers, they will be put back up once we can figure out what went wrong. I will still be answering questions, but for now all the old ones are going to have to be stored away for abit. |
| Uh-oh! // 10-Mar-08 |
| Q. Take Two! How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could indeed chuckwood? |
| A. According to a study by the International Association of Hypothetical Scientists a common woodchuck would, if it could, chuck an average of 25.5 pieces of wood 5 feet, by 5 feet, by 5 feet an hour for five hours straight without getting tired. The average is increased to 30 if it is chucking wood backwards, 24.3 if forwards, 10.332 if with one hand, and 24.8 if thrown to either side. |
| Subculture Clash // 21-Feb-08 |
| Q. What do you think about scientology? |
| A. This will be answered in a video! |
| Ainsley // 20-Feb-08 |