Questions to keep your head busy when it shouldn't be

Oh! These are the type of questions that just drive me nuts sometimes!
If you have any good suggestions or answers, PLEASE do let me know.

If the universe will die when it achieves its maximum entropy, and living things help reduce entropy, then would it be in the interests of a sentient universe to create living things to prevent its inevidible demise?

If time is supposed to be the fourth dimension, then presumably it would be all taken up in space recording the progress of the other three in time. So if there is no room left in that dimension except in places where there is only a vacuum, how could one possibly travel through it without creating considerable gravity-like distortions?

What would the world look like if our eyes were sensitive to photons of the Radio wavelength?

If a particle with mass travelled at light speed into a black hole (it would, of course, now have infinite mass), would it create a highly oxymoronic double- singularity?

Why can I only take 20 undergrad courses?

Prompted by a teacher proclaiming, "We're hitting Warp 2! Don't blink!": If you were indeed travelling at twice the speed of light (I don't know how those trekkies do it), would you be able to see anything? Would it matter if you blinked?

What is wrong with people that look at me funny?

What will I eat for dinner tonight?

What would life be like now if Newton had undergone psychotherapy (but he would have had to waited around for Freud, so never mind that)?

Why can Roger Penrose envision the Fourth Dimension and I can't?

How does a Christian Fundamentalist feel?

Why are people in awe of those who can create donughts?

Do people become less migratory (in both a physical and an mental sense) as they age, or does having children just wear them out? I only know that I can't seem to sit still for too long, and was wondering if that tendancy would dissipate after a while.

And so many others. But I forget them now. I'll throw them in later.

And truly, I am an entity of my word. Here are some new ones.

You will, of course, that I display an abnormal interest in the consequences of the fourth dimension.
Okay. When asked, "If this fourth dimension thing is for real, then where the heck is it?", experts have been know to respond, "Somewhere too small for three-dimensional objects to occupy." At first, this defied my instincts, but then it struck me that indeed, three-dimensional objects are quite tiny (think quarks, electrons, that stuff). So it is plausible that, for every nth dimensional area, there exists an (n+1)th dimension such that (n+1) is smaller than n. Conversely, there must exist a corresponding (n-1) that is larger than the nth. So does that imply that the zeroth dimensional area, being in theory a single point, is THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE? That one really scared me.

Do modern scientific developments such as quantum mechanics and the Big Bang theory prove that the Hindus and Buddhists are right? Think about it.

Is saying that the meaning of life is to have fun equivalent to saying that there is no real meaning?

Here's a rhetorical one: Why does the afterglow from eating a really good mango not last as long as the afterglow from reasonable good uh..uh..whoopee?

Is there any possible situation where the recording of information is accompanied by a decrease in entropy?

Hey, feel free to throw out any answers! I might enjoy it!

How about this one, borrowed from William Poundstone's Labyrinths of Reason? A supernatural being one day decides to play with a lamp. It is a normal lamp with a push in-out switch. It turns the lamp on for 1/2 a second, off for 1/4 of a second, on for 1/8, off for 1/16, and so on. All us good Finite students know that the sum of the infinite series of *sigma notation*(k=1)to(k=n), 1/2^k which equals 1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16......is equal to one. So at the end of one minute, is the light switch on or off?

What a horrendous question!

Done scratching your head? Back to scratch around in the Litterbox!

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