Long before you reach the event horizon, the difference in gravitational force between your head and your feet would greatly exceed the electromagnetic forces that hold your body's cells and molecules together. You would be ripped to pieces. A black hole is a singularity, and so all matter that goes to it condenses into an infinitesimally small point, where there is an infinite amount of density. These singularities exist because the gravitational force is so incredibly strong, that even the uncertainty principle fails (the principle that no particle can be moving with the same velocity and direction in a certain area). If you somehow made it through the event horizon alive, you would be sucked into this point, and your mass would join the trillions and trillions of mega tons that encompass a space smaller than a grain of sand. You would not go down some magical hole that takes you to a paradise, unless heaven is real that is.
edit: And like the poster above said, for you this would happen in milliseconds, but from a third party's perspective it would appear to take extremely long amounts of time, more slowly as you reach then center.
I really hope that synergies return. The skill system in D2 was the best I've seen in any game, and the synergies made it better. Synergies meant builds be more specialized, which I liked. The only problem with the way it was in Diablo 2 was that some skills were made really powerful and others sucked (like hydra/frozen orb) because of lack of synergies. If Blizz can do a similar thing as was in D2 but with more balance, that would be great.
You do realize it is only a theoretical philosophy and not fact right? But if it were to be right and there was a predictable future based on past actions then a question raises.... If everything follows the laws of the universe so precisely, where did those laws come from? Why do the electrons have a set path? What stops matter from going berserk? IF it were to be a divine being then everything would happen based on a specific creator and determinism would be an extension of that being...
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Who knows. These questions are unanswerable as of now. There is still a lot to be learned, and because of that many theories can not be proved. But because some theories can not be proved (like determinism, gravity, evolution, relativity), we shouldn't not accept them. We should hesitantly embrace them if there is enough evidence behind them and they seem logically accurate and work with them, until something better arrives.
I don't know if that can be universally agreed upon. The world would appear to be deterministic, just as the world would appear to be Newtonian. But I'm not so sure that holds true on the atomic level, just as Newtonian mechanics don't work in the extremes of the Universe. An example would be electron movements. From what I understand, that movement is random without the need for any cause to make it move. If electron movement can then affect other particles, the world couldn't be entirely deterministic.
That is somewhat true, but it hasn't been shown that electron movements are random. Indeed it is much stranger than this. Moving electrons are like waves, and the actual electron has a probability to be at any point on the wave, with a greater probability in the center and less towards the outside. Also there is an inverse relationship to being able to calculate the whereabouts and destination of an electron at a given time. The closer someone comes to finding one, the further away the other slips.
What your describing is HARD determinism, not just determinism. Determinism and free will can exist, but the other view of hard determinism is what you talked about, where we have no free will e.t.c
I suppose it depends on one's definition of 'free will'. Obviously no person here is blocked by psychological, societal, or social constraints to the point where they cannot make their own decisions. However, every choice is made for a reason, all effects come from a cause, and all effects become causes in the future.
It is still 'you' that decides everything, and there is no divine force that causes us to do things. But because the world is deterministic, there is no randomness. Everything will react exactly and consistently if enough information is known. This is why I say there is no true free will. It doesn't matter to me how hard the type of determinism you are talking about is, there is one underlying principle which all share that makes our universe what it is.
Bleh, what else is there to say? Lowest form of rumor, no evidence or validity and no detail at all. I highly doubt blizzard would put a 'minuscule' amount of people on a game like Starcraft 2.
Day 13. People don't like video games, because they think it as a bad influence on people. Whenever they talk to me about that I always say, "I would rather play videos games 10 hours a day then to be in the position and having to say to as judge, I taught she was 18";)
They just changed the law in Canada. Now if you are 21 or under you can go for 16 year olds! Miley Cyrus here I come!
Well, whatever. I have read books on this sort of thing and took philosophy last year in university. Humans are kinda like super complex machines, and of course our technology is far too low right now to completely predict their reactions. This theory is backed, it's called determinism, you should research it for your better knowledge. Most people agree, even my professors, that we do live in a deterministic universe (in fact, it wasn't even discussed much in my philosophy class, but accepted as true and the consequences were discussed).
This shouldn't be too surprising, nothing just happens because, or from random chance. If scientists can predict everything from motion of planets, motions of particles, and actions of small cellular organisms, then why are we special? (The concept of being able to predict something is key because it means that there is no choice/free will, or that decision was determined long before the choice was apparent.)
It sounds like people are refusing to give up their accepted notion of free will. I for one, believe that everything in the universe is governed by the laws of physics, including the human body. I believe that if some scientist were smart enough and knew every position and destination of every atom in the universe, they could completely and unconditionally know the future of everything. This includes human interaction. The human psyche is just a much more complicated system than perhaps what we see in planetary orbits or mathematical equations. Our brain does operate in 0's and 1's (although there are thousands if not millions of these happening every minute), and I believe that they are predictable. We live in a deterministic state whether we like it or not. You will react a certain way to a certain scenario because of your previous history and because of your current physiology. Free will is a theory that can not be justified as there is no such thing as choice without bias.
It is comforting to think that we are in control of our own destiny, but the more you delve deeper into the understanding of the human mind and philosophy, the more you realize you are helpless in the battle for what we desire most. I say accept it. Accept our physiology and do what we are evolutionarily designed to do. Meet women, have fun, become what you want to be. There is nothing holding you back but yourself, and if you have this attitude then you will achieve greatness.
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Well quest rewards yea sure, like Lam Esem's or the elixir of health from Alkor or the scroll from Malah, but not monster drops.
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Long before you reach the event horizon, the difference in gravitational force between your head and your feet would greatly exceed the electromagnetic forces that hold your body's cells and molecules together. You would be ripped to pieces. A black hole is a singularity, and so all matter that goes to it condenses into an infinitesimally small point, where there is an infinite amount of density. These singularities exist because the gravitational force is so incredibly strong, that even the uncertainty principle fails (the principle that no particle can be moving with the same velocity and direction in a certain area). If you somehow made it through the event horizon alive, you would be sucked into this point, and your mass would join the trillions and trillions of mega tons that encompass a space smaller than a grain of sand. You would not go down some magical hole that takes you to a paradise, unless heaven is real that is.
edit: And like the poster above said, for you this would happen in milliseconds, but from a third party's perspective it would appear to take extremely long amounts of time, more slowly as you reach then center.
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I hope there are no permanent elixirs like in Diablo 1. Very imbalanced.
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Who knows. These questions are unanswerable as of now. There is still a lot to be learned, and because of that many theories can not be proved. But because some theories can not be proved (like determinism, gravity, evolution, relativity), we shouldn't not accept them. We should hesitantly embrace them if there is enough evidence behind them and they seem logically accurate and work with them, until something better arrives.
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That is somewhat true, but it hasn't been shown that electron movements are random. Indeed it is much stranger than this. Moving electrons are like waves, and the actual electron has a probability to be at any point on the wave, with a greater probability in the center and less towards the outside. Also there is an inverse relationship to being able to calculate the whereabouts and destination of an electron at a given time. The closer someone comes to finding one, the further away the other slips.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=double+slit+experiment&emb=0&aq=0&oq=double+slit+ex#
But as far as science can tell, none of this has seemed to have any impact on the world beyond the sub atomic level.
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It is still 'you' that decides everything, and there is no divine force that causes us to do things. But because the world is deterministic, there is no randomness. Everything will react exactly and consistently if enough information is known. This is why I say there is no true free will. It doesn't matter to me how hard the type of determinism you are talking about is, there is one underlying principle which all share that makes our universe what it is.
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Bleh, what else is there to say? Lowest form of rumor, no evidence or validity and no detail at all. I highly doubt blizzard would put a 'minuscule' amount of people on a game like Starcraft 2.
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This shouldn't be too surprising, nothing just happens because, or from random chance. If scientists can predict everything from motion of planets, motions of particles, and actions of small cellular organisms, then why are we special? (The concept of being able to predict something is key because it means that there is no choice/free will, or that decision was determined long before the choice was apparent.)
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It is comforting to think that we are in control of our own destiny, but the more you delve deeper into the understanding of the human mind and philosophy, the more you realize you are helpless in the battle for what we desire most. I say accept it. Accept our physiology and do what we are evolutionarily designed to do. Meet women, have fun, become what you want to be. There is nothing holding you back but yourself, and if you have this attitude then you will achieve greatness.