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Has anyone ever developed a way to harness the power of lightening?

In theory, it seems that this should be possible with a giant capacitor or something. I am no electrical wiz’, but it seems that the earth gives up more “free” electricity than we can even come close to creating ourselves. Shouldn’t we figure out a way to use it? I understand it would be very regional, but so is wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, etc.

Space’s true identity?

I am starting to believe my own theory that behind the curve of space. Space is a non-conforming or free-forming magnetized mass of energy. Pulling all of space toward the center of the curve. Almost as if light is traveling so fast the very orgin of it has shifted toward it’s present destination.

Fundamentalist Christians – at what point do you decide to stop believing in science?

The internet, evolutionary theory, cars, studies of the origin of the universe 13 billion years ago, medicine, solar power, etc. are ALL the product of scientific research and observation. You depend on some, and reject others even though scientifically they exist in the same spirit. What is the principle behind rejecting certain aspects of science, while profiting from others?
If you reject science, please GET OFF the INTERNET!!
To some of you: the estimated age of the universe has nothing to do with carbon dating. It is based on observations of light travelling to the earth from distant galaxies which allow you to go back in time. Light travels at a certain speed so if it arrived from a very distant location it had to have been created a long time ago, i.e. billions of years ago. (a simplified explanation).

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Does anyone here really believe in conspiracy theory??

Im not paraonoid but look at the history of government in general
why arent we using the availbe energy sources like magnatism wind solar?. They are all availble is government really controlled by select few the rich or have mores?? Why arent more young people in Goverment why is politcs so biased and why isnt america and other so called super powers making progress in the world???

determinism or free agent theory?

basically there is determinism, which states that things are all caused and therefore, with enough info, everything is perfectly predictable…and then there is the free agent theory in libertarianism, that states that we are not simply a link in this causal chain, and our choices just causes, impulses based on experiences of youth, etc….but that we have the capacity, albeit a primitive one to be the ‘first mover’ (Isac Newton describes God as the ‘first mover’ as follows: Something in motion must have been moved by something else, and that by something else yet, until the first mover, which can be called God, implicitly using the laws of motion and the conservation of energy to prove God)..

so we have a primitive ability, through rationalization, to selectively respond and react to every challenge s et before us.

Actions of animals are pretty much determined because their neural prescepts…”emotions, impulses” control them,
we as humans, can over-ride them
this view does concede that many things are determined…but that we have a very limited ability to create, just as “god created us in his image”—it makes sense we would have some capacity to create.

so we are not simply a cause in a chain, but can be an ‘emitter’ of causes.

I am for agent theory with deterministic aspects to the Universe…I do beleive that humans have, through our ability to respond selectively and rationally, the power to mold the Universe.

we are not a passive link, but a active participant in the cosmic dialogue.

there is soft and hard determinism…

if you choose determinisim in the answer, say which one you beleive, etc..

just an opinion on the philosophies will be fine.
3rd answerer…yes, randomness is a big part of things…

agent theory concedes that many things are determined, and our actions to a large part are random due to quantum mechanics and many random events that happen in the Universe…

but our actions according to agent thery do not happen completely by chance or by determined causes….as if leaving us just a helpless being to the workings of the Universe….as humans, we have the power to be the ‘first mover’.
and to act shape the Universe…

if complete chaos were to occur, people would do things randomly and unpredictably. It is a balance…between caused and random…for the rules of the Universe…but humans can rewrite the rules, because we have the power of the first mover. We have a primitive ability as creator, and we can mold our Universe.
through rationalization we can respond, and alter course, we can rig an experiment…we can shape our reality. We are the first mover in that we all have the ability to imagine and alter our enviroment.
through rationalization we can respond, and alter course, we can rig an experiment…we can shape our reality. We are the first mover in that we all have the ability to imagine and alter our enviroment to some extent or another

Limits to step-up transformers?

In step-up transformers a smaller number of turns in the coil corresponding to the input power source is constrasted with a high number of turns to make for a higher voltage output. Is there any limit to this and if not why could we not (in theory) take, say a single solar cell, and put the output through a step-up tranformer with a large enough ratio to power an entire country and solve all our energy needs?