Recent content by Quarkmaster

I don't think MBTI is going away. I think it's evolving. It has evolved since I first learned about it, and the last I heard, they still teach it to college students in psychology courses. Traditionally it is INTPs who build theoretical structures like this, which was first devised by Carl...

When I was young, all the kids in the neighborhood would gather together, the boys mostly, and play baseball. That was our forum. I don't know what the girls did, but I don't think they were interested. We also played football, depending on the season. And basketball. And between seasons we...

Sure, but that still doesn't answer the question about how to hide from five-dimensional beings. Especially when we're asleep. I gave up philosophy when I never bothered to look up the word, "dialectic" for an entire semester. I mean, I did recently, but it would have been so much handier...

There is a whole branch of mathematics devoted to just this. You get "relative infinities" which can give you real values. On the other hand, if you ever tried to work out a Bessel function by hand, your brain would squirt out like a zit. Well, mine did. I'm still looking for it.

Geez, I promised myself I would do some laundry this mornign.

But wasn't it Descarte who resolved this way back in the 14th, or 15th or 16th century, when he said, "I think, therefore I am." But honestly, if you can point to any alternative reality that might or could exist, or that we could imagine, then Descarte's statement would be insufficient...

I can't believe I'm responding to my own post... I was considering this and wondered at the notion that while matter and energy are sucked into a black hole, the reverse might be the case for white holes, which we think we're inside of (well, some of us think this), matter and energy are sucked...

Their batteries run down. And much more quickly than do ours. Also, it's Christmas Day and some of us have nothing better to do. Merry Christmas Even though I'm not really into it or even a believer.

I snagged some of these for a bit less. But let's face it, they're crappy at data storage.

I broke down a few years ago and finally bought a Blu-Ray burner, mainly for two reasons, first they apparently have longer data duration, and B, you can store a LOT more data for a lot lower price. So I bought 25GB BRDs by the cannister, and started backing up all of my data, which came to...

I had quite a few of Micheal Jackson's albums, including some that he made as a young boy. Then one day, someone broke into my home and stole all of my music CDs. I never did replace them. But I really enjoyed his music. When I consider the immensity of humanity that has come before me, even...

I saw that movie. I guess that's about all I have to say about it.

I always wondered who INFJs get into arguments with. Each other and ENFPs. Who knew.

Bill Gates started out in software engineering program, and dropped out to become the richest man in the world. He's dropped back a bit, but now it's Elon Musk, I don't recall his history, if I ever heard it, but I thought he started out as a techy type. Jeff Bezos, definitely spent many hours...

Epigenetics is a whole new science all by itself. How genes are turned on or off, the last I heard, is a bit of a mystery. How one of two twins gets cancer and the other doesn't. I haven't spent much time studying it, so I couldn't tell you. However, it seems to me that modifying DNA in its...