Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird

Discovery.com ^ | 3/21/11 | Ian O'Neill

[LibWhacker]

Perhaps a slightly more comprehensible article about this than the one SunkenCiv posted the other day. But no less mind-blowing!

[LibWhacker]

Ping!

[ConjunctionJunction]

Sounds kind of like Flat Stanley!

[DannyTN]

If we get an additional dimension, am I going to have to buy more clothes?

[DannyTN]

If we get an additional dimension, am I going to have to buy more clothes?

[DManA]

Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind.

So no you don’t need to wear clothes there, unless you want to.

[DannyTN]

"So no you don’t need to wear clothes there, unless you want to."

Yeah, I've heard that before. I think I'll wait to see what other people are doing.

[WayneS]

Probably not, but you better make sure you give the ‘correct’ answer when your wife/significant-other asks the question: Does this additional dimension make my butt look big?

[taxcontrol]

So, 13.75 illion years ago ... there was nothing and the nothing became tired of being nothing so the nothing which had neither thought or reason, decided to be something. Then without energy or purpose all of the nothing gathered at one tiny (though not measurable as there was nothing to measure with) spot and everything then was created out of the nothingness. Then the nothing, having become something, expanded far and wide then became ordered by the rules of nothing so that all of the nothing, now everything might follow the previously nonexistent rules. Further, with the addition of the magic of time (one of the dimensions of the nothing) the universe became ordered and arraigned itself so that at a random place, random bits of energy and material would link together and become life.

What a giant leap of faith if you ask me.

[Dr. Thorne]

I have a real problem with "scientists" who state unequivocally what the universe was like 14,000,000,000 years ago. Most are not real scientists since they begin with a preconceived notion and employ a lot of fantasy and wishful thinking in order to sell people (and fund $$$!) their theories.

Then, next month, they discover a tiny wrinkle which refutes everything they said. However, they will be just as unequivocal in the certainty of their next theory.

BTW, did you know that coffee is bad for you? Oh, wait. Now, it's good for you. Oops. My bad. Now, it's bad for you... until the next "study".

[blueunicorn6]

“Mr. Science has the really big question today, Bobby. ‘Was the universe created by a big bang?’ Hmmm. You know the Mr. Science motto, ‘Doing Is Knowing!”. We have here a five pound can of black powder. Let’s set it off and see! Wow. That blew a hole right through the roof. Are you OK camerman Steve? Once again, science triumphs over superstition! ‘Was the universe created by a big bang?’ The answer is ‘No, Insurance was created by a big bang.’ Remember viewers, Mr. Science will be at the Harrison Street Mall this Saturday from noon to four demonstrating The Big Bang Theory. Look for me in the hearing aid store.”

[DannyTN]

"Probably not, but you better make sure you give the ‘correct’ answer when your wife/significant-other asks the question: Does this additional dimension make my butt look big?"

On the show "Scrubs", the black guy told the white guy, "the only difference between a black girl and a white girl is that when a black girl asks you if these jeans make my butt look big, you BETTER say YES!"

[blueunicorn6]

“Mr. Science has the really big question today, Bobby. ‘Was the universe created by a big bang?’ Hmmm. You know the Mr. Science motto, ‘Doing Is Knowing!”. We have here a five pound can of black powder. Let’s set it off and see! Wow. That blew a hole right through the roof. Are you OK camerman Steve? Once again, science triumphs over superstition! ‘Was the universe created by a big bang?’ The answer is ‘No, Insurance was created by a big bang.’ Remember viewers, Mr. Science will be at the Harrison Street Mall this Saturday from noon to four demonstrating The Big Bang Theory. Look for me in the hearing aid store.”

[RichInOC]

As opposed to now?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

What a giant leap of faith if you ask me.

Nope, not at all - just the conclusion drawn from the evidence we have so far, which points to an expanding universe and therefore implies an age and initial state for the universe.

[James C. Bennett]

The giant leap of faith is considering sentient entities that exist beyond time - a logical impossibility because without time, there can be no separation between the acts performed by the said sentient being. If you bring in time, such entities themselves have a beginning.

[PIF]

If we get an additional dimension, am I going to have to buy more clothes?

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No. The future universe will be fully clothed. Which is to say that the picture we have of this universe (of the galaxies known and plotted) bears a resemblance to a standing man with arms held out to his side.

[Our man in washington]

It hasn't gotten any more normal:

[kosta50]

The giant leap of faith is considering sentient entities that exist beyond time - a logical impossibility because without time, there can be no separation between the acts performed by the said sentient being. If you bring in time, such entities themselves have a beginning.

yeah, but they will tell you (they possess knowledge) that such a being is not "bound" by logic either...(because they say so!).

[Jonty30]

No. You’d look rather flat from a fourth dimensional viewpoint.