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Our universe is merging with 'baby universes', causing it to expand, new theoretical study suggests
SPACE.com ^ | 18 February 2024 | By Andrey Feldman

Posted on 02/18/2024 10:39:57 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: frank ballenger

Lol—don’t know if you remember the Ringer rules for debating....

No mercy—go straight for the jugular...

Lol.


41 posted on 02/18/2024 12:03:39 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Red Badger

In the seventh grade, I asked the teacher what was on the other side that the edge of the universe was expanding into. She got mad.

In college chemistry, someone asked the professor and he got mad.

No one has yet explained that to me.


42 posted on 02/18/2024 12:12:36 PM PST by odawg
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To: dragnet2
I don’t no the nuts and bolts of astrophysics and cosmology, I just like finding and looking at objects in the sky, I am curious as to how it all works, but a lot of this stuff is (pardon the pun) waaay over my head. Even watching every episode of The Big Bang Theory hasn’t helped.
43 posted on 02/18/2024 12:13:55 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: odawg

There isn’t “edge of the universe.” The universe is infinite but expanding. Imagine a loaf of raisin bread of infinite size, but where the space between the raisins is getting ever larger.

Your teachers were mad because you didn’t understand the basics.


44 posted on 02/18/2024 12:17:05 PM PST by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
"The reason they call it “dark energy” or “dark matter” isn’t that we can’t see it, but rather that we have no clue what it is. It’s “dark” in the same sense as any mystery. And it’s not outside the possibility that it might not even exist, but we just don’t understand enough about physics itself to explain it."

Exactly. Dark matter and dark energy are only theories that even the best physics people have yet to explain what they currently don't know for fact. So how did that "string" theory work out? Last I knew, they still can't explain gravity, but they have some theories.......

45 posted on 02/18/2024 12:19:20 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: odawg

“what was on the other side that the edge of the universe was expanding into”

Great question.

The scientists have been “faking it” from day one.

Imho they do not even know the right questions to ask so they have no chance of getting the correct answers.

They layer assumption on assumption until they have a huge pile of garbage—that collapses each time our observation ability improves.

“I don’t know” is the right answer.

They really need to try it on for size.


46 posted on 02/18/2024 12:19:32 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: telescope115

So far as I can tell, BBT has little real physics content. And those guys are not really like actual math and science types.


47 posted on 02/18/2024 12:26:50 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
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To: Red Badger

how do they know it has always expanded? could it not be pulsating out and then, like a quivering water droplet?


48 posted on 02/18/2024 12:33:29 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: A Navy Vet

Dark energy and dark matter are literally dark in that they emit and reflect no radiation, although in another sense they are transparent. They do affect radiation though - dark matter’s gravity bends light and other radiation and dark energy’s acceleration darkens light through the Doppler effect.


49 posted on 02/18/2024 12:38:42 PM PST by only1percent
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To: A Navy Vet
"they still can't explain gravity"

Gravity is a space-time curvature created by the presence of mass (or energy). How does mass create space-time curvature? No one has a freaking clue.
50 posted on 02/18/2024 12:39:10 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

“I have a theory that theories are increasing, as the gravitational pull of grant money spawns more and more theories. This is, of course, theoretical....”

Precisely. Well done!


51 posted on 02/18/2024 12:42:50 PM PST by Afterguard
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To: only1percent

Dark matter has mass so it has gravity, which is the only property by which we are able to detect it. It does not carry any strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, or electromagnetic force, which is why it is dark. Hypothetically.


52 posted on 02/18/2024 12:42:56 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Red Badger

The use of hallucinogens in science is reaching major proportions...

“Flat Earthers” by any other name.........


53 posted on 02/18/2024 12:55:48 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Red Badger

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54 posted on 02/18/2024 1:08:57 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: Renfrew

“There isn’t “edge of the universe.” The universe is infinite but expanding. Imagine a loaf of raisin bread of infinite size, but where the space between the raisins is getting ever larger.”

I have heard that one too. The loaf of bread, its edges, still has to have somewhere to expand, first against the sides of the pan and then up. You can’t figure that out?


55 posted on 02/18/2024 1:29:52 PM PST by odawg
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To: odawg

“The loaf of bread, its edges, still has to have somewhere to expand, first against the sides of the pan and then up. You can’t figure that out?”

I can because I passed grade 9 math.

Do you think that the list of numbers ends somewhere if you just count high enough?

The infinite exists.


56 posted on 02/18/2024 1:41:59 PM PST by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: Red Badger

“theoretical study suggests”

theoretical $tudy $ugge$t$ more $tudy needed

There, fixed it


57 posted on 02/18/2024 1:46:58 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Red Badger

“The universe is expanding faster and faster,,,,”

Fed.gov is expanding faster and faster.....there. Fixed it


58 posted on 02/18/2024 1:49:50 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Red Badger

What do Samantha Carter and Merideth Rodney McKay have to say about this?


59 posted on 02/18/2024 1:50:10 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: Renfrew

“Do you think that the list of numbers ends somewhere if you just count high enough?

The infinite exists.”

Well, yes, but we were talking about an expanding universe.

What is your point?


60 posted on 02/18/2024 2:11:30 PM PST by odawg
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