Even if WW3 ends it all, will it matter?

BIG

Presidential Quiz

I took the Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz for 2008 and here are my results:

74% Bill Richardson
73% Chris Dodd
72% Barack Obama
71% John Edwards
71% Dennis Kucinich
69% Mike Gravel
69% Hillary Clinton
66% Joe Biden
43% Rudy Giuliani
36% John McCain
30% Mike Huckabee
30% Mitt Romney
24% Ron Paul
20% Tom Tancredo
18% Fred Thompson

A Sweet Fact

Sorry that I haven't been able to post a lot, I won't be posting as much because of school. Here's a cool fact I just learned:

Did you know that honey is the only food that does not spoil? Jars of honey discovered in ancient Egyptian tombs have been tested and found edible.

Nothing

What is nothing? Is it the absence of particles? Is it only a mere concept? Does "nothing" exist? If "nothing" exists, what shapes would it take? If it is nothing then you shouldn't be able to see it - right? What was there before the Big Bang? Nothing or "Nothing"? If there was a block of nothing a mile long could I stick my hand into it and have my fingers stick out a mile away because of course it is nothing. No space, no distance - "Nothing" or nothing?

Consciousness - what does it mean?

I got an interesting question from theo regarding the Blue Brain post:

"What, do you think, does it mean to become [artificially] conscious at the level of a human brain?"

I thought about this and have some thoughts. To become conscious means 3 things -

1) Being able to acknowledge your own existence
2) Being able to have a change of opinion
3) Being able to have an irrational bias

What do you think it means?

Brain Food

Welcome to The Wide Screen! This is my first blog post and I'm not quite sure what exactly I'll be talking about, but once in awhile I'll just throw out some questions or ideas like this one:

This is a philosophical question I came up with on my own when I was about 9. If there is a perfectly round sphere and a perfectly flat surface, could either one of them touch the other?

We've all played with the spherical blocks in pre-k and hit them together against the flat blocks, trying to stack them into a tower, and of course they touched. This is my own answer to the question...

If they could touch, then the part of the sphere touching the flat surface would not be perfectly round. So they cannot touch if they are both perfect, even past the molecular level, as if there were no atoms or molecules.

Another question is if they cannot touch, then what would the distance be between them at which they could not move any closer?