legacy2007

that's your problem. it takes about a full tube of mentos to get a sizable reaction all dropped in at the same time.

Ok i've done this quite a bit and watched lots of vidoes. Eppy bird are the people who originally created the massive chain reaction video. It's on their website somewhere.Also, the reaction does work with non diet coke, pepsi, and diet pepsi. It works with other soda but isn't as spectacular as using coke. As to why and all the science stuff, i have no idea.I've looked for the active reactant in mentos that causes this on the web and haven't been able to find one. So as far as scientific usefulness goes, coke + mentos is probably useless. But you have to admit, it is fun.Has anyone managed to put the cap on a 2 liter before the reaction takes place? I've tried but it all happens too fast and I just end up soaked. If you could get the cap on, the reaction would have a little more time to reach explosiveness before it blows everything out of the bottle. Theorically, it would either blow up the 2liter entirely, or launch the cap an insanely far distance. <Legacy2007>

Interesting theory. To understand the natures of time, the speed of light, black holes, time dilations, and event horizons with respect to gravity one must understand Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity and of Special Relativity.In essensce, his theory of General Relativity says Gravity effects time. His equations prove a now observable fact that a clock at the bottom of a skyscraper runs slower than a clock at the top of the skyscraper with all conditions the same except heigth from the earth. There are other evidences that gravity affects time.According to your theory, it sounds like you have gravity increasing the speed of light. Did i misunderstand?Gravity does not change the speed of light. The speed of light is a constant. When light approaches a black hole, the black hole absorbs it and light cannot 'escape' the dense gravitational field because gravity 'bends' light back on itself. This doesn't change the speed of light, only it's direction. I guess i'd like more clarification on your theory because I don't quite get what you're trying to say. I'm currently researching a similar topic; why we can see light from stars billions of light years away in a universe that I believe is only thousands of years old. But I think that discussion belongs in a separate topic and I won't go into the details of the theories surrounding that issue. However I will make this point about you're theory. Observer A and Observer B are both correct in their perceptions of the other. How? Well, if a person in China called a person in America, both would think it was a different time due to time zones. But both would be correct. Gravity does the same thing to time. To two different observers they both 'see' different times, yet both are correct. This is an unusual phenomenon and difficult to grasp since human nature latches onto time as being constant.Just my thoughts,<Legacy2007>

I'm not offended, just a little suprised. I've heard a lot of theories before but that one definately takes the cake. I'll start from the beginning. Historical evidence shows there really was a man named Jesus who lived in the early AD. Most people accept that. The real question however, is whether he was who he said he was. There are several possiblities. Jesus was a liar. Jesus was brainwashed. Jesus was just a good man. Jesus was insane. Jesus was really God. The are probably others, but most of them fit under one of those categories. Before I continue I will say I'm 18, have grown up in the church, and am definately not an expert. But, I'm not stupid either. In the very least, consider what I have to say. Lee Strobel has written an exellent book about this very topic. Case for Faith Strobel grew up as an avid athiest and became a reporter in Chicago. His wife became a Christain and he set out on a quest to prove that the Bible was a lie, that Jesus wasn't God, and ultimately that God didn't exist. As he progressed through his research, he reached the opposite conclusions. I highly recommend reading his book. But I will make an attempt to add to this discussion here. The first thing mirdux mentioned was that there was an inconsistancy of 18 years in the Bible. This is not true. Actually the Bible is the most accurate historical document ever created. Errors (other than mispellings) have yet to be found. But yes there are roughly 18 years where the Bible records nothing of Jesus. The gospels imply Jesus was learning, working as a carpenter, and living the life of a Jew. Why he choose to begin his ministry when he was about 30 we don't know. Could the Romans have brainwashed Jesus during that time? Mabye, but not likely. The Jews were one of the most troblesome tributaries of the Roman Empire. The Jews beliefs made it difficult to exercise Roman Law and since the Jews believed it was their divine right to posess the Holy Land, they were rebelious. When Jesus began his ministry, many Jews thought he was going to overthrow the Romans and rallied behind him. If He had been brainwashed, why would the Romans have used Him to create more problems for them? John the Baptist was not in cohots with the Romans. The reason he lived so long is because God wanted him to and because Herod didn't have a ligitmate excuse to execute him because John had committed no crime. But the opportunity did indeed come and Herod had his head chopped off and served on a plater. Mirdux makes the point that John helped Jesus and Jesus pacified the Jews and "took the fight out of them." As explained in the previous paragraphs, Jesus did not take any fight out of them. In fact he aroused it more than ever before. Now as for the Pharasees. The Pharasees were a self appointed Jewish sect who worked closely with the Priests and were the most knowledgable men in the community. They worked relentlessly to protect the faith and keep themselves from sinning. Some of them even walked while looking at their feet so that they would not see a pretty woman and lust. They carried bruises on their forhead as a result of not looking where they were going. These men also worked closely WITH the Romans. They had power and their power corrupted them. The Pharasees had a close audience with the ruling Roman (Pilate at this time) because if Pilate wanted to stay in power, he had to keep peace with the Jews, and the best way to do that would be to befriend the Pharasees. The Pharasees knew the only way to get what they wanted and more power was to be close to the Romans who ruled the known world. The Pharasees were so focused on the laws of Moses and the little picky rules, they missed the big picture. So when Jesus came around preaching a message which seemed like the exact opposite of what Moses wrote in the Torah, they jumped all over him and tried to use their power to get him killed for blasphemy. Christ specifically pointed them out and 'challenged' them because he saw their hypocracy and how they led the Jews and was horrified by it. The Pharasees angered the public and eventually managed to get Jesus killed. I'll back track a second and discuss the disciples. The twelve disciples were nobodies. Completely and entirely outcasts. Every Jewish boy had the opportunity to become learned men and study under Rabii. This was what every Jew worked toward. But it wasn't easy. They had to have memorized the Torah by age 10. If they couldn't do that, then they were given until age 13. Those who failed took on their father's occupation as a LAST RESORT. If the Romans were going to 'choose' disciples for Jesus, they wouldn't choose the worst, most powerless, outcasts of the lot. But Jesus did and in three years turned them into some of the most influencial men in Jewish history. Back to the cricifiction. So the Jews were all riled up and wanted Jesus cricified. Pilate couldn't find anything wrong with Jesus so he turned him over to the Jews. Pilate then washed his hands. Most ignore this little fact, but this is significant in the Roman Empire. Washing hands after passing judgement signifies that Pilate had nothing to do with the man and Jesus' blood was not his responsibility. The Romans didn't brainwash Jesus. Instead, they wanted nothing to do with the man! (this is getting long, i'll finish in just a second so bear with me) So they strung him up and he died. Guards were present and there was no way anyone could have 'stolen the body,' much less put a different one on the cross. The Roman crucifiction system was the worst way to kill a man in the world and still may be. Nails were specifically placed through the wrists severing a very sensative nerve to cause excruciating pain in the hands. The same was done with the ankles. Then the man was left to die. This usually took THREE DAYS. The man died of suffocation literally. His muslces would get tired and he couldn't pull himself up any more to open his lungs to breathe. The lungs of a crucified man literally colapsed due to the way he was nailed to the cross. Christ died much earlier due to his whipping and loss of blood. Two guards were then placed at the tomb because the Romans feared Jesus' disciples would try to steal the body and claim he'd risen from the dead. Roman guards worked under the threat that if they messed up, they would be executed. These men were the best trained soldiers in the world and probably used to trouble since the Jews were troublesome. Some how they both were unconsious or deeply asleep at the same time. and Jesus rose from the dead. Now the Romans had a problem. Jesus soon gathered many followers and this religion started to poison the Roman Law system. The Romans would have done EVERYTHING possible to dispute the religion. They would have produced a body to show Jesus hadn't risen if there had been one to produce. The Pharasees would have done the same. Logically the disciples couldn't have stolen it because they were scarred out of their minds and ran away and locked themselves in a secluded house during those three days. They wanted nothing to do with Jesus, because they thought they'd get killed like he was. I won't go into the other theories i mentioned at the beginning since this is already quite long. Hopefully that shed some light on this uh most unique theory i've ever heard and perhaps made it's reader think twice about believing random theories anyone comes up with. I hope I haven't offended anyone. Oh and sorry for the mispellings. I am like the worst speller in the world, especially when I'm typing without spell check. One last thing, the Gospel of Judas has been proven a LIE and was written by the gnostics several hundered years after Jesus died. <legacy2007>