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Ummm. Bare shoulders and Ph.D. astronomy . . . I'm guessing this gal is the gal to take to the next science fiction convention that's up . . . |
I'm not complaining, but this is not the first posting of this story. You can find a long discussion of it here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1677257/posts
A search for "universe" turns it up.
/joke
How can infinity get bigger?
Maybe this thread can stay on the trail. The other one sure wandered off into the deep bog very quickly.
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Ummm. Bare shoulders and Ph.D. astronomy . . . I'm guessing this gal is the gal to take to the next science fiction convention that's up . . . |
"It's a great big universe, and we're all really puny / We're just tiny little specs about the size of Mickey Rooney"
So bascially scientists are coming up with new terms to say "It's a big a$$ed universe out there"
A better headline might be:
People Who Think They Can Determine the Size and Age of the Universe Fooling Selves, Few Others
If a finite dimension is placed on the universe, doesn't that imply a boundary and by implication something beyond that boundary? Or, presuming the universe curves back on itself, are they just saying if you head off in any direction, you'll get back to where you started after traveling 180 billion L.Y.'s?
it only makes sense that infinite expansion leads to infinite contraction back to another "big bang" and it starts up all over again.
Well, this news screws up a lot of my plans.
Should read - (a figure that has seemed firm since 2003, based on measurements of radiation leftover from the Big Bang - which we are pretty sure happened, and if it did, likely involved radiation, which we are reasonable sure must have had a certain starting level, and we believe must currently (and for the past several billion years) decay at a certain fixed rate.)
Abaal the size of earth made out of steel. Once a year a bird lands on it and sharpens his beak for a few secs. It will take an eternity for the ball to be whittled away to nothing.
This would happen just as gas hits an all time high!
And if the universe is bigger and older than previously thought, so what? Why is that newsworthy? Years ago, I was at a planetarium show about the age and fate of our universe. At one point the narrator said that, in about 8 billion years, the sun would burn out and our solar system would perish. Somebody not paying close attention raised a hand to ask about that time frame. The narrator repeated the 8 billion years reference. The questioner breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Whew! I thought you said, 6 billion years!"
That's what they said about me last time I went to the doctor's office.
Hummm.. Bigger than what?... Older than what?...
Interesting stuff...
If the universe were created and sustained by an eternal God, how old and how big should it be? How young and how small?
The world is 6000 years old. Nothing you can say will change my mind. Fossils were planted by God. Carbon dating is false.
My book and my pastor are right. You all are wrong, and will go to hell for doubting my book.
--signed, Mohhamed
p.s. Fornicators will go to hell first. Have you seen my fat wife? You do her, you are almost there.