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To: Right Wing Professor
No, it's a well defined thermodynamic state function that one can measure.

This reminds me of a discussion I had with some folks a little while ago. If the Uncertainty Principle is sound, the universe can never achieve perfect flatness or "total entropy." That would mean the position and velocity of every particle would be known, and that makes Heisenberg grumpy. So this means the most spreading out the universe could achieve is that of a sea of very low probabilities. Since there's no reason to assume time would just arbitrarily end, the probability is non-zero that regions of the universe would, in essence, spontaneously re-coalesce into gravity wells, sparking the reformation of macroscopic structures. It seems to me the probability of some section or region of the universe reforming in this manner would be higher than the probability of the entire universe achieving that baseline flatness to begin with. This suggests to me that in all likelihood, we are in fact in a steady-state universe that has been and alway will be here.

446 posted on 10/02/2005 8:11:19 AM PDT by Cephalalgia
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To: Cephalalgia

I hate to say this, but it really sounds like you describe a currently ill described phenomenon. It fits the definition of supernatural.

I guess the nature of God is not a prerequisite.

DK

So why doesn't all dark matter lead back to the cosmic egg, pre-big bang? A rather useless wormhole theory.


449 posted on 10/02/2005 8:22:53 AM PDT by Dark Knight
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