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New String-Theory Notion Redefines the Big Bang
PhysOrg.com ^
| 31 March 2006
| Laura Mgrdichian
Posted on 03/31/2006 1:11:53 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: RightWhale
But, either way, if it was unstable it must have been unstable before. Not if there's no before. Which is a problem in itself, the way my brane brain works.
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posted on
03/31/2006 1:50:31 PM PST
by
VadeRetro
(I have the updated "Your brain on creationism" on my homepage.)
To: VadeRetro
If something is unstable it must have existence in time. If time began with the Big Bang, then instability would not have been a factor.
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posted on
03/31/2006 1:53:54 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Nothing can evolve which has not been involved)
To: Red Badger
I'll be pondering the string theory of bikinis at the beach.......What would happen if I pulled that string?........Sure hope its not the same as when you pull my finger.:)
To: RightWhale
If time began with the Big Bang, then instability would not have been a factor. Then nothing was unstable and nothing happened. Never mind.
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posted on
03/31/2006 1:59:54 PM PST
by
VadeRetro
(I have the updated "Your brain on creationism" on my homepage.)
To: VadeRetro
Nothing happened. That's probably correct. Inflation and quantum microvariation probably explain some present observations, but that wouldn't imply that is necessarily what actually happened.
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posted on
03/31/2006 2:03:57 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Nothing can evolve which has not been involved)
To: MineralMan
Reading about string theory will give a guy a serious headache. You're not kidding. How many dimensions are we up to now to make the math work, 10?, 11? I have enough trouble with 4 and that time dimension keeps speeding up.
To: All
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posted on
03/31/2006 2:05:39 PM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Yo momma's so fat she's got a Schwarzschild radius.)
To: DeFault User
It's 26 and time is not a dimension.
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posted on
03/31/2006 2:06:22 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Nothing can evolve which has not been involved)
To: llevrok
>The only
string theory I know about is ...
I'm looking for grants
for string bikini research . . .
Big bang theory rules!
To: MineralMan
String theory hurts my brane!
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posted on
03/31/2006 2:15:36 PM PST
by
MooseMan
To: PatrickHenry
Hoo, boy... Okay, how big was this brane before it decomposed? As big, or nearly as big, as the present universe -- or are they sticking with the mathematical point beginnings of the universe and superluminal expansion? Why was the brane unstable? Exactly HOW did it ("it" presumably being pure "unstable" space but not matter) decompose into an innumerable bunch of tiny closed strings (i.e., actual matter), etc.? Not annoyed at this new theory. Just fascinated and awed at it all.
To: PatrickHenry
A spacelike singularity at t0. Yes. That would do it, obviously.
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posted on
03/31/2006 3:04:25 PM PST
by
VadeRetro
(I have the updated "Your brain on creationism" on my homepage.)
To: theFIRMbss
No mention of the black hole as this is a family site.
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posted on
03/31/2006 3:27:02 PM PST
by
llevrok
(Vote Conservative First.)
To: PatrickHenry
this stuff always makes my head hurt
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posted on
03/31/2006 3:33:46 PM PST
by
King Prout
(many complain I am overly literal. this would not be a problem if so many were not under-precise)
To: PatrickHenry
Not brand brand new...I've been stumbling over the occasional article leading in this direction.
We will see.
String theory. So much promise. So much frustration. It ties one up in knots.
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posted on
03/31/2006 3:35:08 PM PST
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: LibWhacker; All
Would someone explain where the Void came from for all of this to occur in. If our Universal space has no boundary then how can anything else outside our universe exist? If there are borders to our universe, what happens when we reach the limit. One last question. Does time differ on a Universe, Galaxy, Solar System if it is expanding or contracting.
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posted on
03/31/2006 4:13:27 PM PST
by
No2much3
(I did not ask for this user name, but I will keep it !)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
03/31/2006 9:36:31 PM PST
by
Wiz
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