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Build Your Own Universe
NPR ^ | 11/27/06 | Robert Krulwich

Posted on 11/29/2006 4:19:47 PM PST by LibWhacker

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1 posted on 11/29/2006 4:19:49 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Professor Hubert Farnsworth has already done it.


2 posted on 11/29/2006 4:22:34 PM PST by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: cripplecreek

Don't liberals already live in their own universe?


3 posted on 11/29/2006 4:25:25 PM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: LibWhacker

Mr. Grene, what color is the sky in your universe?


4 posted on 11/29/2006 4:25:35 PM PST by lmr (The answers to life don't involve complex solutions.)
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To: LibWhacker

Boy, this is gonna send real estate prices tumbling.


5 posted on 11/29/2006 4:26:06 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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Click on the NPR link and you can listen to a 10-minute interview with Brian Greene in which he says you could theoretically build our universe with as little as 10 pounds of "seed" matter!
6 posted on 11/29/2006 4:27:50 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Ok. This just begs the question...

Intelligent design?


7 posted on 11/29/2006 4:32:37 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: LibWhacker

The "shock value" of this idea relies on misusing the term "universe." By definition, there is only one universe. To speak of "multiple universes" necessarily involves a new, different meaning of "universe."

Of course, the same fate befell the term "world."

My prediction: This new meaning of "universe" will eventually come to be accepted as its canonical meaning, and some new term will have to be adopted with the same meaning as the term "universe" had originally.


8 posted on 11/29/2006 4:34:11 PM PST by sourcery
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To: LibWhacker

I thought the US treasury was a black hole.


9 posted on 11/29/2006 4:35:17 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Bigh4u2

Seems so. Except in this scenario, the creator could be far from all-knowing.


10 posted on 11/29/2006 4:37:43 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

I don't know about you but, I haven't finished exploring the universe we have now to even consider building another one.


11 posted on 11/29/2006 4:42:01 PM PST by adorno
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isn't San Francisco in an alternate universe?


12 posted on 11/29/2006 4:42:59 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: sourcery

You're right, it does open one hell of a can of worms. The metaphysics of it all is mind-boggling. Philosophers' heads are probably exploding as they read this.


13 posted on 11/29/2006 4:44:24 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: LibWhacker

I do understand the basic concepts reported in the article, and so it being a serious theory, I hesitate launching one of my lighter blurbs...but, do you suppose that our current universe is the result of some sharp teen-ager playing around in a higher universe with a school homework lab?


14 posted on 11/29/2006 4:44:28 PM PST by gb63
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To: The Duke

Yes there are liberal outposts of the liberal universe. A universe in which diversity is celebrated, tolerance is the only virtue, and all types of sexual expression are considered normal.


15 posted on 11/29/2006 4:44:57 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: LibWhacker

This guy needs to lay off the acid.


16 posted on 11/29/2006 4:44:58 PM PST by KoRn
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To: lesser_satan

I wonder what the ideal liberal universe would be like. It would be full of idealistic people who celebrate diversity and be full of people who don't work for a living, so they have time to dream about the utopia they hope to create. Everyone would have equal access to universal healthcare, though few would be working to pay for it, because most can't work because they need time to dream about the utopia they want.


17 posted on 11/29/2006 4:48:12 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: LibWhacker

Every now and again, I imagine some alien civilization out there gets snuffed out by a physics experiment gone wrong.

What followed the start of the first universe?

A monstrous fireball that inflated about 100 million light years in a few hours.

Create that universe and you snuff out every living thing and every star within 100 million light years (which would be thousands of galaxies.)


18 posted on 11/29/2006 4:49:44 PM PST by JustDoItAlways
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To: cripplecreek

smelloscope bump...


19 posted on 11/29/2006 4:51:15 PM PST by steveo (ADVERTISEMENT)
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To: LibWhacker

Vanity, vanity, all is vanity saith the PREACHER. Men thinking of themselves as gods, just like satan...


20 posted on 11/29/2006 4:51:19 PM PST by timer
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