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Whats Science Ever Done For Us: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe What's Science Ever Done For Us:
What the Simpsons Can Teach Us
About Physics, Robots, Life,
and the Universe

by Paul Halpern


1 posted on 11/04/2007 10:07:37 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 11/04/2007 10:08:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Monday, October 22, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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4 posted on 11/04/2007 10:46:09 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Second try: (First one didn't show up, unless we're backlogged or sumpin.) I've had this illustration for 30 years.


5 posted on 11/04/2007 11:03:30 PM PST by Eastbound
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To: SunkenCiv
Okay, now I want to know if the donut is expanding, is the outer perimeter the only place where it is happening, or is the ‘hole’ shrinking as the donut keeps pace with Homer's inflation's appetite?
9 posted on 11/05/2007 8:24:54 AM PST by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm .... Uuuuniverses....


10 posted on 11/05/2007 8:31:42 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SunkenCiv

The universe is spherical, finite, and unbounded.


12 posted on 11/05/2007 9:16:04 AM PST by RightWhale (anti-razors are pro-life)
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To: SunkenCiv
Not available at Dunkin' Donuts.


14 posted on 11/05/2007 10:39:17 AM PST by Eastbound
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To: SunkenCiv
Wow. That article was cool enough to cause me to miss the first six minutes of Big Bang Theory.
28 posted on 11/05/2007 5:36:55 PM PST by Hyzenthlay (Halo 3 is making me realise that Microsoft is not entirely evil.)
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‘’Cosmologists have built a house of cards and it stands,’’ said Dr. James Peebles, a cosmologist at Princeton.

-From the NYTimes version of this story, March 11, 2003

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E3D6163EF932A25750C0A9659C8B63


33 posted on 11/05/2007 6:00:52 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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"Ich bin ein doughnut!"
35 posted on 11/05/2007 6:13:30 PM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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Hey hey,
night fights day,
there’s food for the thinkers and the innocents can all live slowly
all live slowly.
My my,
the sky will cry
jewels for the thirsty and the guilty ones can all die slowly
all die slowly.
And all the world is biscuit shaped
its just for me to feed my face and i can see hear smell touch taste and
i’ve got one two three four five senses working overtime
trying to take this all in
i’ve got one two three four five senses working overtime
tryin to taste the difference between the lemons and limes,
pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime


39 posted on 11/05/2007 7:00:07 PM PST by null and void (No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
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To: SunkenCiv
Is the universe a doughnut?

Actually, it's a container of cinnamon swirls we call galaxies...

40 posted on 11/05/2007 7:15:08 PM PST by mikrofon (And some Milky Ways)
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To: SunkenCiv
Ich bein ein berliner


42 posted on 11/05/2007 8:00:56 PM PST by P.O.E.
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To: timer

You might want to dunk this theory in your expresso-ion. ;)


45 posted on 11/05/2007 9:30:22 PM PST by anymouse
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To: SunkenCiv

BEWARE THE SUPER-GIANT COP!!!


46 posted on 11/05/2007 9:39:57 PM PST by Nick Danger (www.wintersoldier.com)
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To: SunkenCiv; All

Food for thought here. Thanks for the Ping.


47 posted on 11/05/2007 9:54:11 PM PST by Eastbound
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Universe to God:

“bite me”.


51 posted on 11/06/2007 3:52:16 AM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - man's surrender. Joy - God's redemption.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I always shape my stew and spagetti like a torroid when using microwave. It heats faster and more evenly.


54 posted on 11/06/2007 9:37:11 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Al Gore, the Jessie Jackson of weather.)
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To: SunkenCiv
He really meant to say toroidal but knew if he did, no one would read the article.
66 posted on 11/07/2007 8:33:51 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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"Time to make the universe."

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83 posted on 11/07/2007 10:14:02 PM PST by decal (This tagline is subject to change without noti........)
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