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Is this the fabric of the universe?
Telegraph ^ | 3/19/07 | Roger Highfield

Posted on 03/19/2007 8:34:38 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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To: LibWhacker

"On the Moon, we have five thousand dimensions. Don't question it!"

61 posted on 03/20/2007 8:49:55 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: LibWhacker

Dangblastit!


I mispronounced it.


62 posted on 03/20/2007 8:52:00 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

You limit God to only three dimensions?


63 posted on 03/20/2007 8:53:59 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: MHGinTN

My sentiments too.

It's like opening a gift from the Master and getting a surprise.


64 posted on 03/20/2007 8:55:16 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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65 posted on 03/20/2007 8:59:00 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: jatopilot99
Personally, I think the fabric of the universe is based on Palindromes.

Blessed are they that believe that they are blessed.

66 posted on 03/20/2007 8:59:09 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh
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To: LibWhacker

Are you are (un)excited over this as I am?


67 posted on 03/20/2007 9:00:35 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: LibWhacker

Finally something that makes sense around here. :-)


68 posted on 03/20/2007 9:01:40 AM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: LibWhacker
You can file this away in the same govt Ark warehouse where the other 2000 mathematical breakthroughs are stored.

There's a new one discovered every week now.

It's a good thing that our surroundings are real and NOT a math model. Otherwise evolution would have never happened.

Give me a break.


BUMP

69 posted on 03/20/2007 9:08:28 AM PDT by capitalist229 (Get Democrats out of our pockets and Republicans out of our bedrooms.)
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To: LibWhacker

Somewhere, at the end of the E8 calculation, I am sure the answer ultimately = 42.


70 posted on 03/20/2007 9:10:23 AM PDT by Miles the Slasher
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To: LibWhacker

ROTFL - thanks for the laugh, LW. I needed that.


71 posted on 03/20/2007 9:14:35 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
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To: dayglored
Well said.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

72 posted on 03/20/2007 9:29:42 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: spunkets

/brain exploding


73 posted on 03/20/2007 9:46:24 AM PDT by Danae (Anail nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do chel denmha)
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To: capitalist229
You can file this away in the same govt Ark warehouse where the other 2000 mathematical breakthroughs are stored.

You are partly correct. There happens a lot in the world mathematics and, only seldomly, the general public will get informed - and even less frequently, it will be excited (Can't remember the last time that happenend...)

Whether there is any "use" for the ideas in the "real world" is to be seen - but even if not: it's a great task and at least a brilliant work of art.

74 posted on 03/20/2007 9:57:53 AM PDT by si tacuissem (sapere aude!)
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To: spunkets

Is that you, Michio?


75 posted on 03/20/2007 10:09:57 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: LibWhacker
structures that Nature has left for the mathematician to play with

Nature doesn't leave structures, mathematicians create them. This is nearly pure cartesianism, modernism. Even art left this stuff behind a century ago.

76 posted on 03/20/2007 10:14:02 AM PDT by RightWhale (Treaty rules;commerce droolz)
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To: ThomasThomas

I have read a great deal about St. Feynman and his life. Unquestionably a brilliant scientist...who was occasionally wrong. However, like many gifted people, he had quite the ego and seldom admitted mistakes.


77 posted on 03/20/2007 10:48:25 AM PDT by darth
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To: myprecious

I once gave a talk using a large poster that a graphics friend made for me of one of the Hubble photos. Mentioned that it was something like .01% of the universe and showed at least 10,000 different galaxies. (I forget the actual numbers - but it was something unbelievable like that).

I mentioned how in the Psalms and elsewhere God's power is discussed in terms of "who created the Heavens" and the countless stars in the sky, etc. And to me, the more we discover about the Universe, the "rules", etc. - it just makes me more awed by the power of the Creator. (And - if the article can use "Nature" - with a captial "N", I figure I can use a capital "C"!)


78 posted on 03/20/2007 11:08:28 AM PDT by geopyg (Don't wish for peace, pray for Victory.)
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"Is that you, Michio?"

No, just old spunkets.

79 posted on 03/20/2007 12:03:16 PM PDT by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: geopyg
at least 10,000 different galaxies

And yet He knows your small voice. Wow.

80 posted on 03/20/2007 1:33:49 PM PDT by myprecious
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