We only use 18 % of our brain in carrying out day to day affairs. The only person in human history to utelize 22% it his brain was Albert Einstien. the question is "is it possible to "kick start" the rest of the brain to get the password to unlock the mysteries of the real ultimate truth ? if at all there is a truth true enough to be considered true ? secondly, it is known all around that there are some star in the universe so far away that their light reaches us after say millions of years after death (supernova) . Doesn't that mean that we are actually living in the past of the universe ? What is happening around us has actually happened.
2006-12-08 18:20:14 · 8 answers · asked by yasir_sahab 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
we use the whole of our brain in the "Conscious " state only. what about the "subconscious" and "para-conscious states" ? the part responsible for your dreams ????
2006-12-08 18:37:26 · update #1
We use all of our brain. This 18% or 10% use is a myth. Please check it out here:
http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/10percnt.htm
2006-12-08 18:26:17 · answer #1 · answered by dawnsdad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an average person uses from 5% to 10%...18%??we wish! we have no idea what most of the brain does, a 1% change could make us discover how to fly or levitate....the only way to discover what the human brain is hiding is evolution...and it takes a lot of time. Almost every star you see on the night sky has already died out. That is why the call them light years away, it takes several years for the light of that star to reach us. for instance, the Andromeda galaxy is 2.5 mill light years away, which means that it takes 2.5 mill years for it's light to reach us. And Andromeda is really close!
2006-12-09 03:15:58 · answer #2 · answered by Scooby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is very complicated because you are introducing aspects of philosophy, biology, cosmology and quantum physics.
The issue of time is a relative issue. As one answer above stated, although we may not be able to observe a celestial event, as far as known, this does not affect the time line that our "observable" universe is experiencing. If one "imagines" our universe (time and space) similar to a loaf of raisin bread, then "time slices" are relative to a past and present and future in a particular place in space to a different remote location in space. Then it would be theoretically possible to travel through time. However, the questionof time travel is still a very controversial subject.
On a quantum level, there are some vague indications that time may be fundamental in nature (like string) and be composed of quanta and not be continuous and fluid (the quanta are too small for us to experience in anything other than being continuous and fluid). If this is the case, then the entire debate about time will be totally upset from our current experience.
Another interesting idea is that our universe may actually be larger than the observable universe, whereby distant galaxies are travel AWAY from our own galaxy at a speed greater than the speed of light. This theory does not violate Einstein's theories on relativity. If we go back to our raisin bread the raisins on the outer limits would be expanding at a rate greater than c., however, that galaxy is not traveing at a speed greater than c. - it is only greater relative to us and we are accelerating at a rate greater than c relative to them. But when observations are made in our observfable universe, everything within that area is traveling slower than c.
This is a very brief response - I would encourage you to explore this subject with further reading, education, etc.
2006-12-09 03:33:10 · answer #3 · answered by Scarp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like the above answerer said, the % of the brain we use is a myth. We use all of our brain. However, cognitive thinking still has some people stumped.
And just to clarify, there is no "Absolute Truth". Truth is a concept based soley on perception.
2006-12-09 02:29:03 · answer #4 · answered by johngrobmyer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are living in the present but when you look up into the sky you are not seeing the stars as they look NOW but as they looked years, to hundreds of years, to thousnads of years ago.
In fact, the sun we see is really the sun as it looks 8 minutes in our past. If the sun faded for a moment at this instant we would not see it until 8 minutes from now.
2006-12-09 02:28:07 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, we're not in the past - WE are in the present and live in the present... and if you really want to use more of your brain - ask your doctor, there is a procedure called "brain-freeing" - ask your doctor and you'll find out how to use more of your brain
2006-12-09 02:25:01 · answer #6 · answered by forex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you. I'm not the only one who knows that we use 100% percent of our brain.
2006-12-09 18:20:01 · answer #7 · answered by joe_89_9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so what is your question
2006-12-09 05:14:32 · answer #8 · answered by bprice215 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋