Impossible-to-answer Questions... - title says it all

ive got some.

How do you explain colours, excluding black and white, and what they look like to a blind person that has been blind all his life?

Get a red sheet of paper, and stare into it. Look closely at the "colour" itself, examine it. Think about what it looks like. Notice after 15 - 30 secs you cant see the colour. Its invisible. Is that what colour looks like?

Why do they have frosted windows on the toilets on a plane?

and some more...

If the Big Bang Theory is true, and all matter was condensed into one extremely small and dense area, then what was outside of the area where all matter existed?

Does a mirror have a colour?

If it is 0 degrees celcius one day and it is twice as cold the next day how cold is it the next day?

If god created everything on earth then where did God come from? Did he just appear one day and decide to create us? Is there a God who created God?

Is it better to be burnt alive or frozen alive?

 

 

 

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1. Most blind people become blind after birth, so, they have an idea of how colors look like. Very few were born blind.
2. If BB is true (which I believe) - nothing around it could exist, since a singularity that strong would suck anything into it.
3. I've read somewhere that it's silver. Not sure
4. That's impossible:) Or, at least relatively - if yesterday was 10 degrees, today is 0, then tomorrow it's going to be -20 by that theory. You can't answer the question without knowing some previous data
5. Sorry, I am an atheist.
6. Burnt - you would loose conciouseness from overconcentration of CO2 around you and thus not feel anything.

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[1]The question implies that everything is limited to earth.
[2]The question implies that God created Himself, it's also not necessary to ask after asking the first question.
[3]After asking the second question, it's not necessary to ask this question.

To answer these questions properly:
[1]Him creating everything on earth doesn't mean He didn't create anything else that is visible to us. God is capable of being everywhere, He does not need to come from somewhere in order to be there.
[2]Refer to my first answer for His "appearing". And, also, the question is self-contradicting, making it not a question at all.
[3]No. To say yes is to talk about another god other than God, the Most High.

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When i entered this topic, i was expecting actual impossible-to-answer questions. The only why question is the plane's toilet one—and even that is answerable. You should stick to why questions to increase the chances of making them impossible to answer; not to say that the why questions you choose are impossible to answer.

 

 

 

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If it is 0 degrees celcius one day and it is twice as cold the next day how cold is it the next day?

-35.55555555555556 degrees celsius,
if its 0 degrees celcius one day, thats 32 fahrenheit
so twice as cold would be -32 F
which equals to -35.55555555555556 C

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Twice as cold would be 0 degrees Celcius, unless you can multiply by zero.
Any number times zero is equal to zero, so two times zero is equal to zero.

If you convert to degrees Fahrenheit, then 2 times 32 degrees would be 64 deg F.

Not exactly twice as cold....

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Okay, I will only try the first question ..

How do you explain colours, excluding black and white, and what they look like to a blind person that has been blind all his life?

Blind people from Birth cannot be defined. A child after being born can be blind after 5 secs... I hope you get my point. But Blindness cannot be talked much unless you are blind yourself.

Coming back to your First Question,
There is all Black. And where there is light, its not black. may be vice Versa. I learn't in high school that colors are the result of reflecting light. Usually "things" are just absorbing all light (filled with all colors ..packed like ZIP file) falling on it and these "things" fail to absorb certain light which reflects.. However, because this reflected light is no longer in the ZIP file of Light, it emits a unique color which our retina in eye(kept alive & classified by heart) can come as a Vision i.e. broad level of color spectrum. Which you can see in a colorful graphic designing computer software or even better, Make One.

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Is it better to be burnt alive or frozen alive?

Intresting Question, the fun lies both ways. But I m curious though, Why are you burning Alive? You must do that to the dead.

-Shree

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Here are some questions that i've been asking them myself for a long time:
Why do we exist?
Are we alone in this galaxy?
Why do we have souls?
How to find true love for everyone?
How many electrons are in one ocean?
Is there life after death?
Does reincarnation exist?
When is the end of the world, and is there one?
When is the start of Time?
Is there any End of the Universe? (not end like, boom, it's gone, but like.. in a game, when you finish all levels, the End comes. End of the road for example )
I know that there are some theories about every question, BUT NOT FACTS. More to come next post

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How do you explain colours, excluding black and white, and what they look like to a blind person that has been blind all his life?

Assuming blind from birth...

The blind person will not be able to fully grasp what you experience, but what I would try is to use an analogy with sounds.

First I would explain that with sight we can detect the shape of objects at a distance as long as there are no other objects standing in the straight line from the object to the eye using an energy that moves very fast in straight line and bounces off objects, providing a lot of information about their position, shape, etc (light).

Then I would move on to colors and explain that different kinds of surfaces of objects modify that energy (light) and with sight we can detect the different kinds of surfaces because the energy reaches our eyes in a modified form and our eyes have detectors that classify the energy that reaches them.

This is the point where I would use the sounds as analogy. Assuming the blind person is not deaf, she will be able to understand the analogy (obviously not experience it, but at least try to think about it). I would explain that the same way each object produces a sound of a different tone when we hit it and that has to do with the frequency at which the object vibrates, so does that energy we call light come in "different tones" depending on the surface it hits.

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By the way, did you know that dolphins have a sense that we do not have?

They send and detect sonar signals that at least in theory allow them to build 3D images of objects around them, including the internal structure of those object, not just their surface (and do not think it is an internal surface, it is all the matter that light cannot penetrate).

Maybe dolphins have something analog to colors when perceiving the structures of objects of different densities.

Can you think about how they "see" the internal structure of objects in 3D?

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Is it better to be burnt alive or frozen alive?

I would definitely choose frozen.

As you start freezing there is some sharp pain, but as this proceeds, your pain sensors gradually stop working and you go numb. Eventually, you start feeling sleepy and loose consciousness before dying, I think, from heart failure.

Burned alive?
No, thank you. I do not care if CO2 will eventually make me loose consciousness. By the time that happens, I will have experienced a hell of pain, an unbearably acute pain. In fact, I think a person burned alive (as in a bonfire, for instance) will probably become unconscious due to the terrible pain before CO2 does anything. Besides, I would not advise that you try this, but, for the sake of the scientific method, you could burn a person fitting him/her first with a gas mask to avoid CO2 entering his/her lungs).

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