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1 posted on 02/20/2015 6:01:20 PM PST by LibWhacker
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When I was five years old, an older Lady who lived upstairs from us was babysitting me.

We ware sitting on the Stoop (front porch) the enjoying the evening and looking up at the Stars in the Sky. I turned to the poor Lady and asked, where does Space end?

She looked at me like I was a Community Organizer from Chicago and I don’t think she really answered my question.

When my Parents got home, she told my Mother that I was an “interesting” Child. LOL


52 posted on 02/20/2015 7:35:03 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (If you think the Mulatto Marxist is bad, just wait until the Menopausal Marxist shows up.)
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But it’s an untested assumption, which begs the question: Is it actually true?

Once upon a time, somebody heard the expression "begs the question" and started using it without bothering to find out what it means.

Even worse, although it has appeared on many lists of "commonly misused expressions," there still exist so-called writers who keep misusing it. They should, of course, be lined up against a wall and...

53 posted on 02/20/2015 7:42:15 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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“Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.” Sir Arthur Eddington
English astronomer (1882 - 1944)


60 posted on 02/20/2015 8:03:18 PM PST by donaldo
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If you try to find the limit of liberals’ stupidity, you’ll see that infinity does indeed exist.


78 posted on 02/20/2015 9:27:05 PM PST by Cementjungle
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Hasn’t quantum mechanics abolished the concept of infinitely small already? Isn’t the planck length the point at which the universe “pixilates” — that is, at which no smaller thing could exist? Or does the theory of inflation suggest that the size of the planck length itself has grown?

Also: How weird would it be if there isn’t enough matter in the universe to cause a Big Crunch, but there is something else altogether which would limit the universe’s size before Heat Death? Some force or property of space which limits expansion, the way you can only stretch a waistband so far before it resists further stretching?


79 posted on 02/20/2015 9:30:18 PM PST by dangus
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I think I’ll stay well outside this one.


85 posted on 02/20/2015 11:08:00 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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“Computer models”

Guess that solves it.


88 posted on 02/21/2015 12:03:56 AM PST by Organic Panic
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