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Mon Nov-08-10 11:04 AM
Response to Reply #73 |
| 74. Not familiar with that, actually |
| -Do you know how big the universe is? |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Nov-06-10 07:14 PM |
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Well it certainly puts ones problems into perspective. |
Lyric |
Nov-06-10 07:16 PM |
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More than 100 Billion galaxies in the observable universe... |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Nov-06-10 07:19 PM |
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so if a rocket ship travelling at 17,000 miles an hour were to travel |
rurallib |
Nov-06-10 07:20 PM |
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That's hard to say... he uses them for so many purposes |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Nov-06-10 07:20 PM |
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Depends (geddit) how often he changes |
ikri |
Nov-07-10 07:27 AM |
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The Big Rip is far from comforting. |
denem |
Nov-06-10 07:20 PM |
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That's one possible outcome |
derby378 |
Nov-06-10 07:22 PM |
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I blame it on the Republicans. |
rurallib |
Nov-06-10 07:25 PM |
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Black hole points of singularity would remain: |
denem |
Nov-06-10 07:32 PM |
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So some see the Big Rip as half-empty, some see it as half-full? |
pinboy3niner |
Nov-07-10 01:58 AM |
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And therein lies one of the great conundrums of astronomy |
derby378 |
Nov-06-10 07:20 PM |
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It's even beyond that |
Xipe Totec |
Nov-06-10 07:24 PM |
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We can only detect a 14 billion light year radius. |
the redcoat |
Nov-06-10 07:24 PM |
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Or so it would seem... |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Nov-06-10 07:28 PM |
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I don't know about the "infinite volume" part |
derby378 |
Nov-06-10 07:35 PM |
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I'm with you. I had a problem with that as well. |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Nov-06-10 07:39 PM |
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"must by definition have borders and therefore a center" -- No. Follow me. |
Commie Pinko Dirtbag |
Nov-06-10 07:52 PM |
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And a sphere contains an infinity of circular sections.... |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Nov-06-10 07:55 PM |
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Make sure you understand the flatpeople's scenario first. |
Commie Pinko Dirtbag |
Nov-06-10 08:02 PM |
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That 3D balloon shape, however, still has a center |
derby378 |
Nov-06-10 09:21 PM |
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You're ignoring the most important part of the sentence you quoted: |
the redcoat |
Nov-06-10 08:12 PM |
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No. nt |
Obamanaut |
Nov-06-10 07:32 PM |
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'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss |
ipaint |
Nov-06-10 07:35 PM |
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"From the begining not a thing is." - Hui Neng 700 AD |
RagAss |
Nov-06-10 07:40 PM |
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I wouldn't miss the science behind the theory for anything. |
ipaint |
Nov-07-10 03:08 AM |
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I think Bill O'Reilly's head is larger! n/t |
RKP5637 |
Nov-06-10 07:36 PM |
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Not larger, but definitely stuffed with more fatty tissue (n/t) |
derby378 |
Nov-06-10 07:37 PM |
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LOL !!! n/t |
RKP5637 |
Nov-06-10 07:38 PM |
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Purely my opinion but... |
icnorth |
Nov-08-10 01:56 PM |
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We can see only 0.5% of the universe. |
denem |
Nov-06-10 07:37 PM |
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All we are is dust in the wind... |
leeroysphitz |
Nov-06-10 07:37 PM |
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It's all about distribution |
Duer 157099 |
Nov-06-10 07:40 PM |
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But first, someone must invent the hyperdrive |
derby378 |
Nov-06-10 07:46 PM |
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Perhaps that's where we go when we die? |
Duer 157099 |
Nov-06-10 07:55 PM |
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I just wonder what it is expanding into? |
razorman |
Nov-06-10 09:02 PM |
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That's an excellent question |
derby378 |
Nov-06-10 09:29 PM |
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All the big. |
Iggo |
Nov-06-10 09:04 PM |
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I think you're wrong....n/t |
unkachuck |
Nov-06-10 09:05 PM |
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Really big, as Douglas Adams explained to us. |
DavidDvorkin |
Nov-06-10 10:01 PM |
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So small that there is only one universe in it |
jberryhill |
Nov-06-10 11:16 PM |
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Compared to us, it's really, really, really, big. |
Warren DeMontague |
Nov-06-10 11:18 PM |
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Everything is relative. Compared to Admiral Nelson, the universe is quite large indeed. |
Richard Steele |
Nov-06-10 11:25 PM |
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He may have had trouble comparing sizes, lacking that old |
dimbear |
Nov-07-10 01:20 AM |
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The universe is a sphere about 5'11" through the center |
Zanzobar |
Nov-06-10 11:31 PM |
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Be careful in high winds on flat surfaces.......n/t |
dimbear |
Nov-07-10 01:24 AM |
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I can't believe nobody posted this yet: |
lightningandsnow |
Nov-06-10 11:34 PM |
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... cuz there's bugger-all down here on earth. |
lumberjack_jeff |
Nov-06-10 11:38 PM |
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That sort of stuff is why religion is completely laughable to me. |
Arugula Latte |
Nov-06-10 11:48 PM |
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I didn't want to get into that in the OP because |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Nov-07-10 08:37 AM |
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And why would god send a son to a backward era with no technologies, no video, no printing press? |
AnArmyVeteran |
Nov-08-10 10:59 AM |
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It basically means the chances of extrasolar life are extremely high. |
BzaDem |
Nov-06-10 11:53 PM |
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It also means the chances of us ever interacting with extrasolar life are extremely low |
scheming daemons |
Nov-07-10 01:27 AM |
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Indeed. :( Though wormholes and/or some other manipulation of spacetime itself could conceivably |
BzaDem |
Nov-07-10 01:40 AM |
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And when discussing such probabilities in other contexts we call them certainties |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Nov-07-10 08:43 AM |
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Well to be fair, I think it is at least possible (though extremely improbable) that life is unique |
BzaDem |
Nov-08-10 10:44 AM |
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This was explained to me a few years back |
jimlup |
Nov-06-10 11:55 PM |
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Thats about as old as GOP economic policies. n/t |
deacon |
Nov-07-10 01:31 AM |
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It also means them Aliens have the Same God/Goddess as we have...has to be. |
opihimoimoi |
Nov-07-10 01:43 AM |
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bigger than a bread box |
DeadEyeDyck |
Nov-07-10 01:46 AM |
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. |
JCMach1 |
Nov-07-10 01:49 AM |
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I guess it means we could be squashed like a bug since we are but one little speck. |
dkf |
Nov-07-10 01:57 AM |
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If the Universe IS the Universe, into what is it expanding? |
WinkyDink |
Nov-07-10 05:10 AM |
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membranes |
meow mix |
Nov-07-10 05:21 AM |
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delete |
meow mix |
Nov-07-10 05:21 AM |
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sorry hippy |
Kltpzyxm |
Nov-07-10 05:23 AM |
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and to think it all started from a peanut shaped asteroid. |
B Calm |
Nov-07-10 05:36 AM |
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Short Answer: Freaking Huge |
Taitertots |
Nov-07-10 05:48 AM |
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unprovable speculation |
Motown_Johnny |
Nov-07-10 07:32 AM |
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au contraire |
Kurt_and_Hunter |
Nov-07-10 08:46 AM |
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Isn't there some way we can blow it up? |
Toots |
Nov-07-10 07:39 AM |
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Space and Time are artificial intellectual constructs. So questions like those are similar to |
KittyWampus |
Nov-07-10 08:43 AM |
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Time is what enables you to exist as KittyWampus instead of inert Planck-scale goo |
derby378 |
Nov-08-10 10:36 AM |
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So what time is it then? :) |
AnArmyVeteran |
Nov-08-10 11:02 AM |
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Not familiar with that, actually |
derby378 |
Nov-08-10 11:04 AM |
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The entire universe is probably just one cell of a hair on a massive creature in another dimension. |
AnArmyVeteran |
Nov-08-10 10:55 AM |
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Bacteria all the way down; universes all the way up. |
immoderate |
Nov-08-10 12:35 PM |
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No, and neither does anyone else. |
JackRiddler |
Nov-08-10 11:07 AM |
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So, can we have your liver? |
montanto |
Nov-08-10 12:57 PM |
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And we live on "a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam". Carl Sagan. |
A HERETIC I AM |
Nov-08-10 01:46 PM |
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Big enough to have a minor species on a speck of dust think they're the center of it. |
Tierra_y_Libertad |
Nov-08-10 01:48 PM |
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