Do you believe in Astrology?

[Woozie]

But I don't want to be a Capricorn!

This. I don't even know what a Capricorn is. Though, come to think of it, I don't know what an Aquarius is either.

[chiyio]

is it strange that while I obviously believe none of this astrology crap, I'm still annoyed my sign changed ; ;

[Pirian]

This. I don't even know what a Capricorn is. Though, come to think of it, I don't know what an Aquarius is either.

[Tsuko_Asura]

Haha, I completely forgot Jane Lynch was in that movie

[Diamicles]

was a virgo before, and I'm still a virgo. and I'm ok with that.

although I don't think it's really as accurate as a lot of the hardcore fans would have you believe, I do tend to think that celestial forces do have an effect on our personalities. I mean, if the moon and the sun generate enough gravity to change the tides, don't you think that forces on a scale as large as that can affect our brains in some way?

[Pirian]

was a virgo before, and I'm still a virgo. and I'm ok with that.

although I don't think it's really as accurate as a lot of the hardcore fans would have you believe, I do tend to think that celestial forces do have an effect on our personalities. I mean, if the moon and the sun generate enough gravity to change the tides, don't you think that forces on a scale as large as that can affect our brains in some way?

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[Diamicles]

I have some great, cheap, beachfront property in Tennessee I'd like to sell you

c'mon man

The Unified Theory points out that gravity and electromagnetism are directly related since gravity affects anything that has a mass. Electrical pulses are the basis of our CNS and brain function. It's not that far of a reach to say that the interaction of celestial gravitational forces MIGHT have some effect on our brains. Honestly, it's not that big of a deal to me, I just like to think about interactions between different forces (with a background in physics, shouldn't be surprising)

[Pirian]

It's really good property!

[Alleya]

If it were quantifiable to the point of being a measurable effect, as astrology would have you believe, then it would be a very simple experiment to administer batteries of personality and other psychological tests to a random sample of the population and see if birth dates correlate with answers/scores on the tests.

Spoiler alert: it's been done, and there's no correlation between astrological sign and personality traits.

[Tsuko_Asura]

c'mon man

The Unified Theory points out that gravity and electromagnetism are directly related since gravity affects anything that has a mass. Electrical pulses are the basis of our CNS and brain function. It's not that far of a reach to say that the interaction of celestial gravitational forces MIGHT have some effect on our brains. Honestly, it's not that big of a deal to me, I just like to think about interactions between different forces (with a background in physics, shouldn't be surprising)

A background in physics and you believe that these forces would effect each of us differently? That's frightening.

[Diamicles]

If it were quantifiable to the point of being a measurable effect, as astrology would have you believe, then it would be a very simple experiment to administer batteries of personality and other psychological tests to a random sample of the population and see if birth dates correlate with answers/scores on the tests.

Spoiler alert: it's been done, and there's no correlation between astrological sign and personality traits.

was a virgo before, and I'm still a virgo. and I'm ok with that.

I suppose I should have said "I'm ok with that because I don't really care"

I'm much more interested in theorizing about the interaction of celestial forces (gravity, solar/stellar flares, gamma and xray radiation) on electromagnetic forces/fields here on earth. It is interesting to think that such large objects that are at extreme distances (relative to our thinking) can have an effect on us at all, really.

A background in physics and you believe that these forces would effect each of us differently? That's frightening.

neural paths in people's brains aren't identical. if they were, we'd learn things exactly the same, and see things the same way. so yes, they could potentially affect each of us differently.

[Tsuko_Asura]

You believe that they effect us in some way by virtue of how powerful the forces are and how obvious their effects are on our planet, while simultaneously suggesting that these bulldozing effects are precisely invasive enough to influence us individually?

[Alleya]

The gravity exerted on your feet by your head is greater than the gravity exerted on your head by mars.

[Tsuko_Asura]

Not sure who you're talking to- if its me, I'm aware. Just trying to get to the bottom of what it is exactly that he's suggesting, because they seem incredibly contradictory.

[Diamicles]

You believe that they effect us in some way by virtue of how powerful the forces are and how obvious their effects are on our planet, while simultaneously suggesting that these bulldozing effects are precisely invasive enough to influence us individually?

what, you expect concrete evidence? I'm not really sure what you're trying to get at (other than the joy of trolling). I think I made myself pretty clear that I think that those forces MAY have an effect on us, you know, since we all have brains (although some don't function as well as others). It's something I find 'fun' to think about.

The gravity exerted on your feet by your head is greater than the gravity exerted on your head by mars.

yes, and a solar flare releases enough energy to cause disruptions in our magnetosphere and it's about 150 million miles away

[Tsuko_Asura]

Trying to figure out what the hell you're talking about is trolling?

[Shiro]

stuff

I was remembering some analogy about a grapefruit at arms length having the same gravitational pull as jupiter, but actually throwing numbers in that didn't even come out close.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i...iter%29%5E2%29

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i...+in+m%2Fhr%5E2

Suffice to say if you've ever lifted a bag of grain or a 5 gallon bucket of water, you've exerted just about as much gravity on your brain as all of Jupiter. It just doesn't make a difference.

As a bonus: the Earth doesn't make a perfect closed orbit around the sun during its cycle, it wobbles about in a slightly irregular path, meaning it's position relative to earth doesn't have any consistent interaction with the calendar year. Sun spots / flares are on what, something like a 20 years cycle too? Chinese zodiac is a closer gauge to that...

Anyways, your personality is totally defined by your blood type, duh.

[Diamicles]

Trying to figure out what the hell you're talking about is trolling?

I'm definitely not talking about these things in relation to astrology...the only relation to astrology I think it has is that astrology uses positioning of celestial bodies to determine your personality, whereas I think that the forces of celestial bodies - edit: primarily the sun and the moon - can have some (although probably not tangible) effect on our brains due to the interaction of those forces on electromagnetic fields - and not necessarily individually, although each person's brain is 'wired' differently.

[Tsuko_Asura]

I'm not calling you an astrology nut, your premise just doesn't seem to hold much water.

[Kerberoz]

Oh, it holds water, but it's magical homeopathic memory-water.