Am pondering testing this to address the chronic severe tension headache every single doctor agrees I have as well as whatever causes the spikes. I call this constant ache the background buzz. : p

Maybe useful against the migraine as well...

Any hope this might have any effect on the CH that the neurologists think I have as well (when they don't get caught on the 'but you're a woman' point : p)?

Anyone tested it by a pro?

I went to a really good acupuncturist for a few months in high cycle... I would not say she could effectively treat a severe attack, but while in her office on the table she could knock me out and I would sleep without triggering an attack. Usually I can not even get horizontal for more than 30 minutes without getting hit. It was the only sleep I got for months, so I would say it helped me... more about breaking the tension cycle and getting some sleep.
Not too many acupuncturists will let you take up an exam room for 4 hours sawing major logs in their serene environment, and only charge you for an hour session.

I imagine that it would help with some of the stress and anxiety of being mid cycle, but I don't understand why it would help the headaches themselves.

I'm willing to try basically anything to make the cycle stop though.

Tussilago wrote on Sep 19^th, 2012 at 2:27pm:



Oh I was just curious why you mentioned astronomy and was trying to think of something that's happened just once, but only came up with nothingness.  The asymetry of grey matter and antimatter in my head collided, the leftover matter too small for gravity to contain an ever expanding space when thinking.

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I don't know how long ago that was, but by far that's not a one time occurrence, a lot have been found now. The "speculation" has been refined to a degree that 200 particular stars will be observed with the top 80 priortized, then reducing to the 20 best candidates for signatures that one that may hold life.  They've refined where to look, also. 

NASA and Europe's ESA each have competing projects, the Terrestial Planet Finder and Darwin respectively, which will be combined into one endeavor.  To avoid the dust of our inner solar system that makes it difficult to pick out weak features, it will be launched out to the orbit of Jupiter and use interferometry with a series of 4-6 telescopes.

Tussilago wrote on Sep 19^th, 2012 at 11:34pm:


I was sat, looking through what appeared to be a window. Through the window I saw what looked to be a woman who had what looked to be red hair on the side of the head that I could see.


There is a similar joke:

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Her title is PT, which I assume means Physical Therapist/ couldn't get into chiropractory school.
She didn't snap anything like I've heard chiropractors do, just sorta messaged and touched my snipe, neck, eyes, nose etc.

She wanted to see me again in three weeks. I had my hit around 6 again at the same intensity and I expect to have the same cycle continue tomorrow regardless of what this woman did.
She was very nice, I just think she's full of it.

Math, sheep, etc.

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The dark energy of space with a positive cosmological constant would forever keep it expanding, unable to contain the sheep.

Unless...


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Can't travel through space faster than the speed of light according to special relativity, but space itself can do whatever it wants in general relativity. If the space within the fence collapsed in reverse-inflation at superluminal speed, the physicist will realize the singulary in his time, but will contain everything else in the universe.  The mathmetician is right to "define" himself outside, but I'd go with the engineer.

Mike NZ wrote on Sep 21^st, 2012 at 6:09am:


I can see that, Mike.  I had a hard time with:

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A circular fence of infinite radius spread over infinite space would not seem to have the aggregation in one area to create gravity.  This was my sticking point that expansion would rule, which doesn't take place in gravitational fields, such as our solar system.  Infinities are hard to grasp, though.

Wouldn't the Mathematician cease to exist if he defined himself as outside the universe?

I would assume that he, given the precedent of the other two getting what they wanted, would also get what he wanted, therefore end up outside of the universe.
Now all we know is the universe contains our laws of existence, so when the mathematician is removed from those set laws as defined by our existence, he would cease to exist by the laws defined by our universe and existence and instead start to exist by the laws defined by the current universe or nothingness in which he currently resides. In the case the outside of the universe has no laws for existence, he would cease to exist.
Not the best analogy, but if you were in the United States and flew to another country with which the U.S had no extradition treaty and were caught doing something illegal, you would be bound by those laws, not the U.S laws.

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I might agree with Mike.  How our universe evolved and is evolving and the processes governing our existence may be revealed with discovery by science, but to supplement our understanding with reflection could be called philosophy.






It may be possible to claim that only God can exist outside the universe, timeless and eternal, the cause of all causes, First Cause, or prime mover. 

Alternatively, there is the mathematical conjecture of multiverses in each of which any number of fundamental aspects of physical reality may be different and the laws of physics are merely accidents correlated to our existence.  If the laws of nature are themselves random, then there is no prescribed cause for our existence.



I might think the joke was written by an engineer, to show the practicality of the profession as opposed to the theoretical occupation of a mind and paper world. The other two responses to the question of containing the sheep are possibilities presenting themselves as obviously impractical, in no way a better idea, and as to appear silly.

Yet it all makes for a bit of rumination.

Please, folks, can we get back to the subject?

Beer.