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Once Upon a Time, the Universe Was Really Weird
Discovery.com ^
| 3/21/11
| Ian O'Neill
Posted on 03/21/2011 12:42:01 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Perhaps a slightly more comprehensible article about this than
the one SunkenCiv posted the other day. But no less mind-blowing!
To: SunkenCiv
To: LibWhacker
Sounds kind of like Flat Stanley!
To: LibWhacker
If we get an additional dimension, am I going to have to buy more clothes?
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:46:05 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: LibWhacker
If we get an additional dimension, am I going to have to buy more clothes?
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:46:18 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind.
So no you don’t need to wear clothes there, unless you want to.
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:48:59 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: DManA
"So no you dont need to wear clothes there, unless you want to."Yeah, I've heard that before. I think I'll wait to see what other people are doing.
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:51:29 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: DannyTN
Probably not, but you better make sure you give the ‘correct’ answer when your wife/significant-other asks the question: Does this additional dimension make my butt look big?
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:51:29 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: LibWhacker
So, 13.75 illion years ago ... there was nothing and the nothing became tired of being nothing so the nothing which had neither thought or reason, decided to be something. Then without energy or purpose all of the nothing gathered at one tiny (though not measurable as there was nothing to measure with) spot and everything then was created out of the nothingness. Then the nothing, having become something, expanded far and wide then became ordered by the rules of nothing so that all of the nothing, now everything might follow the previously nonexistent rules. Further, with the addition of the magic of time (one of the dimensions of the nothing) the universe became ordered and arraigned itself so that at a random place, random bits of energy and material would link together and become life.
What a giant leap of faith if you ask me.
To: LibWhacker
I have a real problem with "scientists" who state unequivocally what the universe was like 14,000,000,000 years ago. Most are not real scientists since they begin with a preconceived notion and employ a lot of fantasy and wishful thinking in order to sell people (and fund $$$!) their theories.
Then, next month, they discover a tiny wrinkle which refutes everything they said. However, they will be just as unequivocal in the certainty of their next theory.
BTW, did you know that coffee is bad for you? Oh, wait. Now, it's good for you. Oops. My bad. Now, it's bad for you... until the next "study".
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:52:34 PM PDT
by
Dr. Thorne
(Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
To: LibWhacker
“Mr. Science has the really big question today, Bobby. ‘Was the universe created by a big bang?’ Hmmm. You know the Mr. Science motto, ‘Doing Is Knowing!”. We have here a five pound can of black powder. Let’s set it off and see! Wow. That blew a hole right through the roof. Are you OK camerman Steve? Once again, science triumphs over superstition! ‘Was the universe created by a big bang?’ The answer is ‘No, Insurance was created by a big bang.’ Remember viewers, Mr. Science will be at the Harrison Street Mall this Saturday from noon to four demonstrating The Big Bang Theory. Look for me in the hearing aid store.”
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:52:34 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: WayneS
"Probably not, but you better make sure you give the correct answer when your wife/significant-other asks the question: Does this additional dimension make my butt look big?"On the show "Scrubs", the black guy told the white guy, "the only difference between a black girl and a white girl is that when a black girl asks you if these jeans make my butt look big, you BETTER say YES!"
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:53:17 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: LibWhacker
“Mr. Science has the really big question today, Bobby. ‘Was the universe created by a big bang?’ Hmmm. You know the Mr. Science motto, ‘Doing Is Knowing!”. We have here a five pound can of black powder. Let’s set it off and see! Wow. That blew a hole right through the roof. Are you OK camerman Steve? Once again, science triumphs over superstition! ‘Was the universe created by a big bang?’ The answer is ‘No, Insurance was created by a big bang.’ Remember viewers, Mr. Science will be at the Harrison Street Mall this Saturday from noon to four demonstrating The Big Bang Theory. Look for me in the hearing aid store.”
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:53:49 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
03/21/2011 12:59:40 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: taxcontrol
What a giant leap of faith if you ask me.
Nope, not at all - just the conclusion drawn from the evidence we have so far, which points to an expanding universe and therefore implies an age and initial state for the universe.
To: AnotherUnixGeek; kosta50; taxcontrol
The giant leap of faith is considering sentient entities that exist beyond time - a logical impossibility because without time, there can be no separation between the acts performed by the said sentient being. If you bring in time, such entities themselves have a beginning.
To: DannyTN
If we get an additional dimension, am I going to have to buy more clothes?
—
No. The future universe will be fully clothed. Which is to say that the picture we have of this universe (of the galaxies known and plotted) bears a resemblance to a standing man with arms held out to his side.
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:09:55 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: LibWhacker
It hasn't gotten any more normal:
To: James C. Bennett; AnotherUnixGeek; taxcontrol
The giant leap of faith is considering sentient entities that exist beyond time - a logical impossibility because without time, there can be no separation between the acts performed by the said sentient being. If you bring in time, such entities themselves have a beginning. yeah, but they will tell you (they possess knowledge) that such a being is not "bound" by logic either...(because they say so!).
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:17:34 PM PDT
by
kosta50
To: DannyTN
No. You’d look rather flat from a fourth dimensional viewpoint.
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posted on
03/21/2011 1:40:54 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
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