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One universe or many? Panel holds unusual debate
World Science ^ | March 30,. 2006

Posted on 04/02/2006 7:46:13 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored

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To: muawiyah
"42"

Fine. What's the question?

101 posted on 04/03/2006 8:58:01 AM PDT by pgyanke (Christ has a tolerance for sinners; liberals have a tolerance for sin.)
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To: the anti-liberal

One thing I never understood about this movie... if they were so concerned about concentrating power in one individual, why did they send one of the remaining two to a place where he will have to constantly fight for his life?


102 posted on 04/03/2006 9:05:05 AM PDT by pgyanke (Christ has a tolerance for sinners; liberals have a tolerance for sin.)
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To: pgyanke
Short answer? Shortsightedness.

And good point!

There were a lot of logical inconsistencies in that movie, but these days inconsistency is the rule and not the exception.

(What every happened with the woman with the rat? Where did she come from (what universe? and where did she go? Was there an ongoing relationship? If he could move faster, couldn't he also think faster? And if so, how could he have possibly have been caught by those normal moving and thinking 'agents'? Etc...)

103 posted on 04/03/2006 9:18:58 AM PDT by the anti-liberal (Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
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To: PatrickHenry
Why is this so, Linde asked—“did someone create this special universe for us?”

Got to love the open-mindedness from which this scientist approaches the question. He, without evidence, has ruled out an option and formed a theory to suit his own pre-conceived notions.

Does that disprove the theory? Of course not; it is interesting, nonetheless.

104 posted on 04/03/2006 9:23:05 AM PDT by SeƱor Zorro ("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
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To: pgyanke

there was a lot to not understand about that movie. Like why it was made.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a BIG Jet Li fan, but I mostly go for the stuff he did IN CHINA. Most of his movies that have been targeted for the US audiece have quite frankly stunk.

Have you seen "Fist of Legend"? It has some of the best fight scenes of any martial arts film I've ever seen!!!!


105 posted on 04/03/2006 10:35:57 AM PDT by gomaaa (We love Green Functions!!!!)
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To: balrog666

And when we manufacture a gene pool for them, are they going to get into debates over evolution or intelligent design?


106 posted on 04/03/2006 10:39:37 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: gomaaa
Have you seen "Fist of Legend"? It has some of the best fight scenes of any martial arts film I've ever seen!!!!

One of the best. Too bad they changed the ending when they dubbed it into English.

107 posted on 04/03/2006 10:53:56 AM PDT by balrog666 (Irrational beliefs inspire irrational posts.)
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To: pgyanke

The Answer to The Ultimate Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything


108 posted on 04/03/2006 11:08:57 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch
When the established view is...

Don't you agree that the established view is that the universe best described by QM in the small scale and GR in the large?

109 posted on 04/03/2006 11:09:33 AM PDT by edsheppa
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To: Elyse

Intelligent aliens refer to us as "apes with guns", an apt description, yes? They say earth is a school. Some never make it out of the something-for-nothing cradle(democrats), others see the light of truth and mature. The parable of the sower sowing seeds : which are you? The hard soil, the weed-chocked soil, or the fertile ground that brings forth abundantly? n/0=n and nx0=n is telling you a great truth about reality vs fantasy, are you hearing without understanding, or seeing without perceiving? For if you have the truth within you to begin with your heart will sing for joy upon first hearing it. Have you ever seen these mathematicians that constantly run off at the mouth about infinity being some THING that they, and only THEY, can understand...produce said infinity...hmmmm? Or, the emperor has no new "infinite" clothes, he's BUCK NAKED...as people laugh...and know that n/0=n...you can't get something from nothing...


110 posted on 04/03/2006 12:26:51 PM PDT by timer
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To: fso301

Well, fso301, perhaps the writer(s) of those passages had something specific in mind (and perhaps not), but, whatever it was, it clearly has nothing to do with inflationary cosmology and multiple universes. In my view, anyway.


111 posted on 04/03/2006 3:58:02 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: snarks_when_bored
As I said, I don't know one way or the other. The bible is most definitely not a science book. My point was that a person could believe in scripture and have no conflict with this topic.
112 posted on 04/03/2006 4:05:36 PM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301
My point was that a person could believe in scripture and have no conflict with this topic.

The Bible is directly contradicted by at least two mainstream scientific theories (The Big Bang and Evolution). If Christians can reconcile those conflicts between faith and science in their minds, as so many apparently have, then they should have no problem reconciling the Bible with the concept of a multiverse.

113 posted on 04/03/2006 4:48:55 PM PDT by BearArms
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To: GW and Twins Pawpaw
How about Intelligent Design then?
114 posted on 04/03/2006 9:51:59 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: muawiyah

I know... the answer was far easier to come by than the question... so the mice tell us.


115 posted on 04/04/2006 6:12:48 AM PDT by pgyanke (Christ has a tolerance for sinners; liberals have a tolerance for sin.)
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To: ImaGraftedBranch
When the established view is...

Don't you agree that the established view is that the universe best described by QM in the small scale and GR in the large?

116 posted on 04/04/2006 7:47:10 AM PDT by edsheppa
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To: BearArms
How does the Big Bang contradict Genesis' account of the creation of the Universe?

Both stories seem to me to be absolutely identical.

117 posted on 04/04/2006 7:48:04 AM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: onedoug

What about it? I don't have a problem with Intelligent Design.


118 posted on 04/04/2006 10:23:50 AM PDT by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: pgyanke; muawiyah
"42" Fine. What's the question?

"...why the answer to life, the universe and the third moment of the Riemann zeta function should be 42..."

Prime Numbers Get Hitched

119 posted on 04/04/2006 10:40:23 AM PDT by StopGlobalWhining (Only 3 1/2-5% of atmospheric CO2 is the result of human activities. 95-96.5% is from natural sources)
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To: snarks_when_bored

Weird.


120 posted on 04/04/2006 10:41:22 AM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality) - ("Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein)
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