Science & Mathematics Unanswerable questions

[TurboHead]

If it take 2 men 8 hours to dig a hole, how long would it take 1 man to dig half a hole?

 

[lions_den]

If it take 2 men 8 hours to dig a hole, how long would it take 1 man to dig half a hole?

2 hours stooooopid!

 

[Walesy]

Aren't there places in outback Australia with no speed limit?

And if you're in a life and death situation, or hey an emergency vehicle, 120km/hr may not be optimal...

There used to be, but I'm pretty sure they got restricted to 110 back in 2007.

Zero.

If you really want a toughy from the maths field then the exact value of Pi?

This far-

 

[Pie eyed]

there used to be, but i'm pretty sure they got restricted to 110 back in 2007.



This far-

lol.

 

[Pie eyed]

Bible says 3!

Geez. To be honest I'm surprised the Bible would have even been aware Pi existed.
I think that figure was worked out, at a much later time, from the dimensions given for a vessel. The bible works in cubits (if I'm correct) which had insignificant fractional dimensions and those were the incredible variable fingers, hand breadth and the span. All measured o an individuals hand???

Deadly accurate no doubt.

 

[cancat]

Zero.

Isn't the answer any number?

a/b = c, then b*c = a

12/4 = 3, 3*4 = 12

0/0 = c, then 0*c = 0

0 lots of anything is 0. So c = any number.

That's how I always thought of it.

I was thinking it could be infinity, 1 or 0.

Divide any number by 0 and the answer is infinity.

Divide any number by itself and the answer is 1.

Divide 0 by any number and the answer is 0.

 

[Pie eyed]

I was thinking it could be infinity, 1 or 0.

Divide any number by 0 and the answer is infinity.

Divide any number by itself and the answer is 1.

Divide 0 by any number and the answer is 0.

I have read numerous explanations as to why 0 divided by 0 can be either 0, 1 or x.
None make any sense unless elaborate conditions are applied.

Go and get no apples.
Place them on a table.
Now carelfuly divide the no apples into no pieces.
How many peices of apple do you have on the table?

To take this further, distribute 1/5 of the apple peices on the table to one person and 4/5 of the apples to another.
Which has more apple pieces?


Conceptually you could find a theoretical answer which gives you 1, but practically you cannot. The variation lies in how different fields define and treat zero not in the reality.

 

[dr nick]

Why spend seven dollars to see a movie that you could just watch on tv?

Why go to a fine restaurant when you can just stick something in the microwave?

Why go to the park and fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?

 

[ballanFYNE]

Heres a quote from homer simpson.


Can GOD cook a burrito so hot that even himself couldn't eat it.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

What would win in a fight; a grilled cheese sandwich or a taco?

 

[Virgil]

What would win in a fight; a grilled cheese sandwich or a taco?

Definitely the sandwich. Tacos collapse under pressure.

 

[Pie eyed]

What would win in a fight; a grilled cheese sandwich or a taco?

Are they armed?

 

[DarwinRoo]

Why is it that car manufacturers manufacture cars that can go up to the speed of 200 km/h+ when you can't go faster than what is indicated on the speed limit?

Because they design the car so that it can operate at those high speeds of 100-120km/h without working it's guts out.

 

[DarwinRoo]

2 hours stooooopid!

It would be 8 hours.

 

[Greggy]

What would win in a fight; a grilled cheese sandwich or a taco?

If I was to use them as a weapon I'd say the soft body of the cheese sandwich would be no match for the hard edge of the taco shell. It would slice it open and spill cheese.

 

[Greggy]

Heres a quote from homer simpson.


Can GOD cook a burrito so hot that even himself couldn't eat it.

As god is a creation of man your question is unanswerable.

 

[Walesy]

As god is a creation of man your question is unanswerable.

If I was Christian, I would offer the alternate answer.

God could answer it, but you wouldn't understand it.

 

[darcytiger]

I have heard, that if you were to tap your finger on a table for eternity that at one point in time your finger would pass through the table becoming stuck.

Something to do with all the atoms lining up. Atoms in the wooden table moving although at a very slow rate. Is there any truth to this?

 

[Pie eyed]

Why spend seven dollars to see a movie that you could just watch on tv?

Why go to a fine restaurant when you can just stick something in the microwave?

Why go to the park and fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?

They're not unanswerable questions they're just challenges to get off the computer and do something.

 

[Walesy]

I have heard, that if you were to tap your finger on a table for eternity that at one point in time your finger would pass through the table becoming stuck.

Something to do with all the atoms lining up. Atoms in the wooden table moving although at a very slow rate. Is there any truth to this?

Deepak Chopra taught us quantum physics means anything can happen at any time for no reason.

 

[BomberGal]

Deepak Chopra

Out!

 

[Greggy]

I have heard, that if you were to tap your finger on a table for eternity that at one point in time your finger would pass through the table becoming stuck.

Something to do with all the atoms lining up. Atoms in the wooden table moving although at a very slow rate. Is there any truth to this?

As the table is made of materials that naturally repel our finger, this would never happen, that's the physics of it, it seems more a question of infinity. These type of theories are just philosophy w***ery.

 

[Pie eyed]

As the table is made of materials that naturally repel our finger, this would never happen, that's the physics of it, it seems more a question of infinity. These type of theories are just philosophy w***ery.

Finger repellent timber?

It's actually the strong Nuclear force which binds atoms together, how those atoms are bound to form the material in question and what state the material is in at the time.

You have no problem putting your finger through nitrogen gas or water at room temperature but a lot more trouble at say 150 degrees below. Likewise sticking your finger through steel is a sinche at 3000 degrees apart from the nasty burns.

 

[Krakeour Magic]

I have heard, that if you were to tap your finger on a table for eternity that at one point in time your finger would pass through the table becoming stuck.

Something to do with all the atoms lining up. Atoms in the wooden table moving although at a very slow rate. Is there any truth to this?

In reality, you never come in to contact with anything as both your finger and the table are composed of charged electrons that repel one another.

 

[Dan26]

1.) Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?



2 i.) Why does the Universe exist?

2 ii) What causes the big bang, and if there was "nothing" before the Big bang, how can such an event come out of nothing?

2 iii) And if the Universe has been expanding for 14 billion years since the Big Bang, at what point does it stop expanding? Is there a point where everything stops, or does it just keep expanding infinitely? And this "point" at which it stops (if it does) - is that then the point we reach when "another" Big Bang somehow takes place? Was this in fact how the first one took place? i.e the Universe has been "completed" so we start all over again? Could there have been infinite Big Bangs?

3.) Is life inevitable, given a planet is in the right location? Or is life a total fluke where the probability of it happening is something akin to the likelihood of the monkeys typing out Shakespeare and we are just the beneficiareis of a total fluke?