Walpurgis Night...

[quote=Darcurse]Read Goethe's Faust Part 1 from 1808. In the night before May, it's said to be a time when witches hold a meeting/feast on the "Blocksberg" also called "Brocken" (a mountain located in north Germany) and other high places. And therefore the people do stuff like the "Tanz in den Mai" (Dance into May) to protect themselves and fend off evil. (or so I remember it...)[/quote]

[quote=IceCreamy]Never heard of that, lol.[/quote]

[quote=Blowfeld]Well, today it's just a reason to get drunk as f*ck and get laid by people that tend to get more and more ugly the further the time constant brings you to morning. And Goethe's Faust helped me in a very mean case of sleeping disorder (though the protagonist and me share the name)... XD[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Blowfeld] time constant[/quote] Time isn't constant.[/quote]

[quote=Blowfeld]Sorry Searz, I am not educated, so I do not know such things. Just thought it was appropriate, as it quite well describes the exponential decrease in nice women you will fool around the later the night gets.[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Blowfeld] Just thought it was appropriate, as it quite well describes the exponential decrease in nice women you will fool around the later the night gets.[/quote] Well, time can't be a constant if it changes. Then time would stand still :P Time is a variable in your equation, my boy! (now you're probably older than me just because I said that >.>) Time is a result, a function if you will, in the units we use (seconds, min, h, days, years), although we treat them as constants because of how little they vary.[/quote]

[quote=Blowfeld]Well, isn't a time constant used in physics? I remember it being the greek "tau" which my keyboard has no button for :D Also, I believe the term is also used in neuroscience, but I am no specialist. Also I really believe I could be older than you :D EDIT 1 I also ment the flow of time as time is constantly moving forward (at least from my POV ;) EDIT 2 .... and sorry for the off topic. I guess tonights bedtime reading will be about time and physics for me =/[/quote]

[quote=Searz][quote=Blowfeld] Well, isn't a time constant used in physics?[/quote] Time units (seconds, minutes, hours) are constants, even though they in reality aren't, but since they differ so extremely little they are treated as constants everywhere in society. [quote]I also ment the flow of time as time is constantly moving forward (at least from my POV ;)[/quote] Well, sure the flow of time would be pretty much constant (although as I've said, "time-flow" isn't constant), but you mislabled it as a constant, when in fact, it is a variable in an equation like that. In an equation it would look something like this: Number of attractive females = ASS Number of females = f ASS = f * 0.9^t or ASS = f * 0.9t t being a variable that decreases the amount of ASS as time goes on. :)[/quote]

[quote=Blowfeld]I see what u did there ;)[/quote]

[quote=Wintermond][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1fzGaAUXZE[/youtube] This is a very nice explanation of the relativity of time and time itself. Neil deGrasse Tyson is the man.[/quote]