Posted on 04/04/2013 12:23:46 PM PDT by fishtank
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dr sheldon cooper is impressed.
Ok. That was a really really dumbed down explanation. But given the complexity of the subject matter, I’m not surprised.
Every solution the ego develops is merely another problem. The whole universe is an illusion. Get over it.
Are we still “here”? Did we get sucked into a black hole?
Fairytail for grown-ups.
But nicely done. My quandry is with the multiverse. If our universe is the product of same it seems to me we must return to the original task, the origin of the multiverse. It is one and the same issue. As are a multitude of universes, unknowable except in the most theoretical sense. The very idea is akin to the conundrum, “Can we both exist and not exist simultaneously”? Thyere is by definition no way to test the syllogism.
“how the Big Bang created something out of nothing”
Then the “Big Bang” was the creator. That’s what it says.
Sorry bud. the “Big Bang” is not a sufficient explanation for the existence of the universe. If there was a “Big Bang” (there wasn’t) then the “Big Bang” was what happened to the universe after it came into existence.
Other ludicrous theories: “The universe pops in and out of existence.”
“there is a multiverse and our universe is but one of many”
“alternate universes”
Does this mean Obama is going to get another Nobel Prize?
As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly's systemic, creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.
I would guess that the number of serious physicists (not armchair phyicists or those with a political agenda) who believe that proof of the existance of the Higgs boson is the “death knell of Christianity” can be counted on two hands.
OTOH, there are probably even less serious physicists who believe in Young Earth theories.
Most simply appreciate the advancement of the science through the confirmation of a theory.
“dr sheldon cooper is impressed.”
Hawking disproved Cooper’s theory. Simple math error. Sort of like the Nork Nuke program. They estimated the US mainland was 4000 kilometers away. They should have calculated for miles.
Oops!
Every solution the ego develops is merely another problem. The whole universe is an illusion. Get over it.
We could just be living in a simulated universe running on god’s desk....
Let’s see the math on your proof.
I just want them to tell me where the Big Bang came from.
Stopped reading here. Major red flags. What other kind of physicist is there?
PRECISELY!!
Scientists attribute our existence to the Higg’s field because it is through its interaction with particles that mass emerges. No mass, no matter, no stars, no planets, no chemistry, no biology, no people. I don’t believe it was ever considered part of inflation theory.
The Big Bang theory of cosmology is accepted by scientists because they have satellite pictures of it taken shortly after it took place. The light has been distorted somewhat over 13.7 billion years but its quite measurable. Scientists call it the surface of last scattering or Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).
They were able to measure the CMB temperature and found that it was nearly identical everywhere. This was a problem because it was too widely dispersed in space to have allowed the temperature to equalize over such a large region. Alan Guth figured this could be explained if it had started out much smaller and expanded rapidly. He calculated the expansion rate and called this inflation theory. Later scientists confirmed that his theory agreed with the CMB temperature maps they had made using the WMAP satellite.
In quantum theory anything that isn’t forbidden must occur. If inflation happened once it must be an eternal process creating multiple universes with various physical laws. In some of these conscious beings have evolved to appreciate their good fortune.
I’ve done quite a bit of work in quality, 6-sigma, auditing, and manufacturing. One of the issues I’ve repeatedly found with our engineers when delivering new things is that they don’t understand or apply gage repeatability and reproducibility when developing so when it gets to the floor we have to ask for changes to meet what the process can actually achieve and measure.
As a Physics major I cannot recall one time conducting GRR in a lab and most of the scientists I studied with or worked with later in life were remiss to spend costly lab time doing it either.
The only reason I bring this up is that I’m starting to wonder if some of the “unknowns” that we still have aren’t actually accounted for by the measurement process variation. If this variability failed to be taken into account in the core science (not in regards to heisenberg either) it would have significant impact to what is being said or assumed.
“It’s turtles all the way down, mister!”
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