Posted on 11/29/2006 4:19:47 PM PST by LibWhacker
It does create myriad fascinating possibilities. You could create your own universe and have it your way. And if things go south, just walk away and create another one more to your liking!
The principle that there can be no possible communication between these bubbles allows each to be treated as an independent universe with different physical laws. A universe then would be a region with a particular set of physical laws.
That's what I was thinking, but it may be too late for him.
universe
n.
All matter and energy, including the earth, the galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space, regarded as a whole.
Back in the Forties, Robert Heinlein wrote a pulp sci-fi story exploring precisely this scenario. The flaw of this universe was the "Bird" and the "Sons of the Bird". Keywords: "The Bird is cruel."
Ideally, its expansion wouldn't displace space or time or matter in our own universe, but create its own.
He is one of the best popular expositors of current cosmological thought. Even better, he actually understands the cosmologists. Even better, he is one.
Sounds like Sid Meiers is working on Civilization V.
Note the source. I'm surprised the heretofore respectable Andre Linde would have anything to do with this.
More like his way of saying "I fantasized the other day about..."
Until now, "universe" has been completely synonymous with "all that exists." The same used to be true of the term "world" (and it still is, in some usages of the term "world.") The new meaning no longer encompasses "everything that exists," and so leaves us with no single word with that meaning.
Me and a few good dogs.... sounds good
Oh, you must be talking about that Bizzarro Universe where the fetuses of unborn animals are celebrated with their own television specials, while the fetuses of human beings are regularly and systematically murdered with the full blessing of the law.
Yep, I know *that* universe! :(
Greene also describes a kind of energy, called a "repulsive force," that might be capable of turning that seed into a new universe.
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Please do NOT post any Helen Thomas pictures! I had a really bad day already!!!
Hmm..I've seen people not be able to get past the idea that the big bang was expanding into something that was already there, before, and I can't figure out how to explain what it's actually saying.
You have to completely empty your mind of the idea of "space" as this permanent, empty, unchanging thing. If a new universe expands in a big bang, it's not expanding "into" anything - it doesn't swallow up any pre-existing stars or galaxies. Spacetime ITSELF is expanding.
The Democrats already have one, where up is down, lwft is right, strong is weak, right is wrong, Hillary makes a great president, Ted Kennedy is guarding the bar, Al Gore is considered an expert on something, and Howard Dean is the spokesman for something other than Dr. Loonbizkit's Strait Jackets.
Yes, and they did it through use of a black hole; there is no light there, it's hard to escape, and it sucks up every resource you can imagine.
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