-laughing- It's still funny to me how much that person changed over the years.

well thats specialised knowledge, only physicians at the end of their master studies who specializes on astro physics would bother about big bang theories and astro physicians which write their dissertation or habilitation.

but back to the topic, what do you mean with increase in size of the nothing, i read that the universe is a compact submanifold and has finite volume with the corresponding submanifold lebesgue measure? and also do you know stokes theorem and how its used to build a consistent field theory?

I don't know Stokes.

As for inflation and "nothing" increasing in size, the theory of inflation requires the universe to grow much larger than it could if the speed of light was a speed limit. It breaks this barrier by making the nothingness in-between particles increase in size much faster than the speed of light.

E=mc^2 means that energy and mass are related -- one and the same, really. You can manipulate the equation so that you show a change in the amount of energy in a mass due to its velocity. When you push a block, a piece of it turns into energy. When it stops, it converts back into mass. The faster you push it, the more mass turns into energy. But you can't push it faster than the speed of light, because all of its mass will be energy. There will be nothing left.

If you turned on a laser that had its beam go straight up and down and then put it on a spaceship that flew past you on earth, the light would move diagonally to you. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ whereas the astronaut would see it moving vertically |. You can use this idea in combination with the Pythagorean theorem and the speed limit c to quickly deduce that time must change for this event to happen. When something moves relative to something else, the rate that time passes changes in order to keep the speed limit c from being broken.

But the space between matter is neither energy nor matter. So it does not have to follow this law. It can grow or shrink as much as it wants to (according to Inflation, anyway, which at this point I'm pretty sure is just not a correct theory). So the nothingness between particles in the early universe expanded 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000+ times faster than the speed of light.

The problem with inflation is that if the universe expanded that fast, why is their homogeneity in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB)? The CMB temperature has been measured to be within ten-thousands of a degree from any one point to another. It's all the same temperature. And that's not possible b/c at the point in the universe's creation, it was too big too soon for those particles to talk very far from each other. So we have a very major problem with inflation.

I think I'm going to burn out on match-3 in a hurry. Really, really glad these games don't seem very long.

"I'm Henry VIII, I Am" by Herman's Hermits stuck in my head. Again. If you don't hear from me by this time tomorrow, play Postal for an idea of what I may be up to.

Also, good evenight to anyone who is around :-)

-laughs- Fingers crossed that you can find a method for getting that song dislodged without having to resort to anything too painful.

Have a good night, sleep well. =)

I'm half tempted to make a thread praising MDickie as a lot of his games were extremely original (one being like Minecraft before Minecraft) despite most of them being very very rough around the edges. But...I think I'll go play Shadowrun: Dragonfall instead.

CarrionCrow you seem to know more about the Shadowrun universe than I do (which isn't saying much, heh), do you have any reading material suggestions? It's an extremely interesting setting and I'd love to get into it beyond just what the games offer.

Good Morning! (with a bit of a sarcastic tone)
I can give you guys a review on ROM later today... if anyone is interested.
Have to take back all giveaway-related ideas: my 2 copies have no giftable steam keys for some reason... not sure if there is a way out, but kinda not feeling up to trying any gimmicks.
I'll just settle for the fact I gave a bit extra cash to the developers of a game I haven't even tried :)
Perhaps needless to say, hopes are sky high with this game... ^__^

Endre and Stilton were wondering about ROM earlier today.
They'll probably find your input on the game useful.

Hi!
Ok, Thanks :)
A quick try before heading to work shows two things already: there's a huge amount of reading to do in-game and the other thing is the gameplay and design are very clean and easy-to-get-into. Looking good so far :)

Other than getting into what can become a massive investment by way of the pen and paper RPG source material, I'd suggest trying some of the Shadowrun novels. This list might help you locate things you'll enjoy.

In the name of thoroughness, this is a good place to grab .pdf versions of the pen and paper game, if you decide to go that route.
Caution is suggested - they've put out a lot of books for every edition, and they're on 5th edition now. Massive potential rabbit hole to fall down there.

--Conversational Free-For-All Thread Song of the Day--

Feels like the First Time

RPGs are definitely a money sink, every single one of them from what I've seen haha.Thanks for the info!

Yes, they certainly can be. There are some that avoid going completely insane, but all the big companies do the same thing - put out the corebook (or corebooks, if they chopped up the content to get more money by selling it in multiple parts), then it's a slow burial in supplements.

A few games that come to mind as going against that trend would be Don't Rest Your Head and its one supplement Don't Lose Your Mind, Unknown Armies with its half dozen or so supplements. Feng Shui also kept their supplements to a bare minimum if I remember correctly.

Also, if you want RPG's but don't want to spend a lot of money, you can get good deals here. They put out a few bundles a month at incredibly low prices compared to retail.

Thanks! I never got into tabletop RPGs but I'm looking to change that I guess, at least get into reading the corebooks/lore books etc.

The Shadowrun games sure do like to punish you for daring to spend your cash on gear after the tutorial, it happened in Returns and just happened in Dragonfall. Not that I mind, mind you, it gives some incentive for a future playthrough. I do wonder if Hong Kong continues that trend though...