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ASTRONOMERS CRUNCH NUMBERS, UNIVERSE GETS BIGGER
Ohio State University ^
| 03 August 2006
| Staff (press release)
Posted on 08/03/2006 12:52:54 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: dinoparty
...or so he would say (I should add)
To: dinoparty
There is no outside. The universe is everything, although the geometry of the everything is in doubt.
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:44:12 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: PatrickHenry
If this stands up under further scrutiny (and I suspect it will) there will be a huge amount of "certain knowledge" that will have to be revisited.
83
posted on
08/03/2006 2:44:30 PM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: RightWhale
What's the evidence for the dimensions beyond three?
To: longshadow
Doing the Grand Master's bidding again, no doubt.....Fool! Don't post such things in clear.
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:45:58 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Everything is blasphemy to someone.)
To: RightWhale
Who says? That seems like more of a dogmatic quasi-philosophic assertion than a provable hypothesis.
To: lepton
Yes, something doesn't add up. But, if it all added up we would be done with this cosmology thing and then what would we do for entertainment?
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:46:15 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: MilesMonroe
One might think that entropy is increasing as the universe expands. Yet biology - which we admittedly know only from our own environment - is a process whereby
entropy "decreases". Thus too, we live in the optimum time for observation
on a planetary, stellar and galactic platform "designed" for discovery.
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:46:20 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: PatrickHenry
Fool! Don't post such things in clear. :-0
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:47:29 PM PDT
by
longshadow
(FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
To: onedoug
I have a 13-month old boy at home. I know all about entropy. (Irrelevant side comment.)
To: dinoparty
Why three? For most people there are only two if their apartment is on one floor, or even just one most of the time they are driving.
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:50:18 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: RightWhale
But, if it all added up we would be done with this cosmology thing and then what would we do for entertainment? Climatology? :P
92
posted on
08/03/2006 2:51:21 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: MilesMonroe
I'm what you would call a teleological, existential atheist. That's nice....
I was just pointing out that, when one makes teleological, existential, atheistic, negative ad hominem generalizations about an entire group of brilliant people, one invites upon oneself specific, ad hominem lambasting. ;-)
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:51:46 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah" = Satan in disguise)
To: dinoparty
That's the mathematical model, the one used by cosmologists at cosmology conferences.
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:51:53 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: scrabblehack
The COBE mission to study the Cosmic Background Radiation from the Big Bang indicated 15 billion years, now it's down to 13.7 billion years. Perhaps the next time one of you is abducted by aliens you can ask them : are you guys still working on this age-of-the-universe problem too?
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:54:12 PM PDT
by
timer
To: RightWhale
They invite models to the conferences, and then they use them?! I'll never look at a cosmologist the same again.
To: Strategerist
This is my universe. There are many others like it, but this one is mine. Without my universe, I am nothing. Without me, my universe is nothing.
To: lepton
I am on to bigger problems such as why when I am sitting at the table in the sun in the garden reading cosmology texts the chickadees seem to take that as a personal affront.
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:56:36 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: dinoparty
Yes, indeed. Like rock stars, but they still have their hearing. :)
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posted on
08/03/2006 2:59:05 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: longshadow
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posted on
08/03/2006 3:00:14 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Everything is blasphemy to someone.)
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