[mkirkpatrick]

I wouldlike to set of this thread with the question,what is the speed of Life;
we hear so much talk about the speed of light etc,what about life,what is its
velocity,is it faster than a speeding bullet?Would be grateful for any input/.







kindest regards michael.

[Guille]

Well, I think life itself is just a concept. So it can't have a physical speed. But you might think of life's speed as:

1. The speed of the charges that contain the concept of life in our brain
2. The speed of life in our minds
3. The speed of evolution
4. The speed of things that are alive
5. The speed of life as in the space that it has covered in our brains divided by the time we have had it as concept

There are defiantelly many possibilities.....

[michellemfry]

6. The speed of mass

I believe all mass is attracted to spacetime at a certain speed, and that is the speed of mass.

[Guille]

Originally Posted by michellemfry 6. The speed of mass I believe all mass is attracted to spacetime at a certain speed, and that is the speed of mass.

OK, but what does the speed of mass have to do with the speed of life?

[subversion]

a cheetah is the fastest land mammal. They travel 89 yardangs per whollop

[mkirkpatrick]

Before you can really answer this question,you must first agree justwhat life is!
Now for me,I accept that all is alive.that there is no "dead" thing in this universe
or any other come to that!Life in its essence,is unknown to us,at best we give
it a name like Spirit,or soul,What is known,is that this essence of life is present
every-where,and therefore ominipresent,and if that is the case,which I think it
is,then the speed of life is zero=absolute-motionlessness.Now that is the essence of life,the inner,unknowable core,but at the many centres of consciousness,and self-aware entities,they can and do have varying speeds?
There is the paradox of life,which is simply-that from stillness comes Motion!

kind regards michael.

[Guille]

Originally Posted by subversion a cheetah is the fastest land mammal. They travel 89 yardangs per whollop

I know not what yardangs or whollops are but I guess they are spatio-temporal measurements. I did know though that the cheetah is the fastest of the animals, in fact, not really. I's the fastest mammel, and also the fastest of all animals on land. But if you put him in the air, all the speed he will ahve will be the gravity pulling him down, the fastest bird I think is the falcon? And in sea the fastest animal is the electric eel. But this doesn't matter, the question of who is the fastest should be answered with the animal that goes fastest in proportion to it's ability, size... conditions in general. But the speed of those alive doesn't have to do with life's speed itself. It's like saying the speed of existence is the speed at which my fingers type because they exist.

[michellemfry]

Could we use years we put off extinction per unit area as a speed of life, i.e. years of existence per square mile occupied in the solar system? years/square miles?

[zeroca]

If conventionally, we call any separate amount of matter (for inst. – a piece of ice, or let’s say a plane with its engine turned off, or any amount of gas or steam) single system, or independent system, than any separate amount of matter itself can be in two states: expended and contracted. When matter converts to expended form, it looses mass but acquires kinetics, but when converts into contracted form, looses kinetics but acquires mass, i.e. mass and kinetics of single system are inverse proportionally to each-other.
Independent, i.e. self-dependant motion of any single system in a contracted form is only free fall, or concentration of matter to some center, but motion of thrown by somebody a piece of ice or flying plane with working engine can’t be counted a single system, as they present a kind of motion, caused by external force – in first case caused by fuel’s combustion, but in the second – by influencing of mechanical outer force (anyway changing of forms of a single system is depended on outer environment: e.g. water "placed on the Sun" will turn into light at once, but placed in refrigerator to piece of ice) i.e. the speed of any matter, already being in expanded or contracted state at given moment can be divided into three sorts:
The speed that is given by
1. Outer influence 2.Inner capability at given moment to expend, 3. Inner capability at given moment to contract. The highest form of inner capability to expend is light. I’ll repeat again:

• Independent, i.e. self-dependant motion of any single system already being in a contracted form is only free fall, or concentration of matter to some center.
• Dependent motion of any single system in contracted or expended forms can be of several kinds of motions, caused by several kinds of influence of outer force on a single system either in a contracted or expended forms.
• The highest, ultimate form of capability of any single system to expend is light (i.e. turning of any single system's condition from any "heavy" to the "lightest" form), i.e. capability to occupy any free ("empty") part of space "easily".

[michellemfry]

Congratulations on your black star, Zeroca.