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CERN—looking for God particle, or Opening Portals of Hell?
Times of Israel ^ | Cbristina Lin

Posted on 04/13/2021 2:43:00 PM PDT by algore

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To: Renfrew
"Our concept of time might just be how we perceive the operation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics."

I don't understand your point even after reviewing the second law. What does our human perception (time) have to do with energy? Please use stupid layman words if you answer. I'm not a physicist nor mathematician nor even a degree in Basket Weaving For 21st Century Neo-Pornouns.

41 posted on 04/13/2021 6:02:38 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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To: PIF

“The Universe has no known boundaries.”

I don’t mean that literally, but if it is expanding, well then what is expanding. It is supposed to be moving out and away.


42 posted on 04/13/2021 6:19:21 PM PDT by odawg
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To: PIF

The Great Attractor itself is moving toward something even bigger, the Shapeley Supercluster, but the universe is too big for even it to attract everything.


43 posted on 04/13/2021 6:30:21 PM PDT by odawg
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To: algore
CERN's mini black holes could cause trouble if they got out of hand.


44 posted on 04/13/2021 6:56:35 PM PDT by CapnJack ( )
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To: algore

We sure spend a lot of money to keep egg heads busy


45 posted on 04/13/2021 7:09:25 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: A Navy Vet

“I don’t understand your point even after reviewing the second law. What does our human perception (time) have to do with energy? Please use stupid layman words if you answer.”

I’m happy to try. The core idea is that all the processes that we see in physics are theoretically reversable . E=mc2 and all the other equations work just as well run backwards in time as forwards.

The one exception is the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. When an event occurs there must be more randomness afterwards than before. The universe must always be getting less ordered as time goes on.

Since that same rule applies to ourselves, we perceive time as an irreversable flow going one direction. This creates our perception of time.


46 posted on 04/13/2021 7:43:38 PM PDT by Renfrew
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To: Renfrew
Thank you. I think I got your point about equations being reversed on a white board. Of course it can. It's like reverse engineering. Just do the equations backwards. I still don't see how that affects human perception of what we call time.

I wonder if the Red Shift plays into this? Isn't that how physicists determine the speed of a mass/particle moving away, and how they just reverse the numbers to come up with a basketball size super-mass for the Big Bang? Physics is way beyond my pay grade. I just go by what I read. I won't bother you further.

47 posted on 04/14/2021 10:14:33 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021 under Biteme.)
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To: PIF

I’ve always been an AMD guy, never buy Intel. But ARM... that is cool company. I’m pretty sure they have a bright future.


48 posted on 04/14/2021 4:45:56 PM PDT by SandwicheGuy
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To: Hot Tabasco

The idea of “God” is incompatible with God having a beginning. If God is not eternal, then God is not God.


49 posted on 04/15/2021 7:53:22 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: A Navy Vet

Time isn’t another dimension, even Einstein was very firm about that. However, it’s still a real thing, not something that humans invented. You might say that time is just a measure of accumulating entropy, or at least that it is linked strongly to entropy, since those are the only 2 fundamental things in the universe that seem to have an irreversible “arrow” associated with them.

What I’m getting at is that time couldn’t have existed “before” a Big Bang event, because a singularity with all the matter of the universe condensed to one point is simply not possible if time and entropy also exist. So if you posit there was a singularity that could lead to a Big Bang, then you are also positing, by extension, that time didn’t exist until the Big Bang happened.


50 posted on 04/15/2021 7:59:52 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: bigbob

+1


51 posted on 04/25/2021 11:04:57 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: algore

There are three “Portals of Hell” existing now in the US. They are the office doors of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Kamala Harris.

The “Uber Portal of Hell” is the door to George Soros’ office, aided by his “Less Devils” Cuomo, Newsom, Maxine Waters, Bezos, Steyer, Dorsey, Hoyer, and Democrat governors all across the US.


52 posted on 04/25/2021 11:58:13 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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