Posted on 05/11/2008 2:31:15 PM PDT by yankeedame
Wow, you managed to take it where I thought it would go. Your mom must be proud.
Even brilliant minds can occasionally go off the rails...
There. Fixed it for you. My mother is in fact proud. But I am also a masochist, leaving you all kinds of openings to make me look like a total fool, by sharing all the secret documented histories written for Africans by Africans, describing all the scientific achievements that were presumably stored for safekeeping in the Library of Alexandria.
The Greeks were just lucky. They had branch libraries...
Damned plagiarists!
Steve, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the Einsteins (of whatever hue) got the hell out of there while the getting was good.
I was talking about Africa, but I guess it can apply to Philadelphia.
Physicist Neil Turok: Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning - According to Turok, who teaches at Cambridge University, the Big Bang represents just one stage in an infinitely repeated cycle of universal expansion and contraction. Turok theorizes that neither time nor the universe has a beginning or end. It's a strange idea, though Turok would say it's no stranger than the standard explanation of the Big Bang: a singular point that defies our laws of physics, where all equations go to infinity and "all the properties we normally use to describe the universe and its contents just fail." That inconsistency led Turok to see if the Big Bang could be explained within the framework of string theory, a controversial and so-far untested explanation of the universe as existing in at least 10 dimensions and being formed from one-dimensional building blocks called strings. Within a school of string theory known as m-theory, Turok said, "the seventh extra dimension of space is the gap between two parallel objects called branes. It's like the gap between two parallel mirrors. We thought, What happens if these two mirrors collide? Maybe that was the Big Bang."I sure am glad that we have "Einsteins" like this guy to explain the universe to us ignorant slack-jawed yokels."In our picture, there was a universe before the Big Bang, very much like our universe today: a low density of matter and some stuff called dark energy. If you postulate a universe like this, but the dark energy within is actually unstable, then the decay of this dark energy drives the two branes together. These two branes clash and then, having filled with radiation, separate and expand to form galaxies and stars. Then the dark energy takes over again. It's the energy of attraction between the two branes: It pulls them back together. You have bang followed by bang followed by bang. You have no beginning of time. It's always been there."
"...it means that time runs forward for a while. Then there's a random state without an arrow of time, then time runs backwards, and then time runs forward again. That's the bigger picture: We're still very far away from understanding it, but that would be my bet. But my main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we don't seem to have any understanding of the laws of particle physics."
Wow, what a silly, needlessly obscure way of saying “black people are stupid,” which I’m guessing is the apparent point of your post.
My tongue was firmly planted in cheek.
Well, he’s a smart man. He went to Cape Town, not Bongo City. What does that tell you?
by sharing all the secret documented histories written for Africans by Africans, describing all the scientific achievements that were presumably stored for safekeeping in the Library of Alexandria.
Nothing I or anyone else could do would change your mind. If you are a racist, you’re a racist. Do your own research, dude.
-—Steve, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but the Einsteins (of whatever hue) got the hell out of there while the getting was good.-—
Speaking of getting out:
http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/stephen-hawking-may-leave-britain-settle-canada
Stephen Hawking may Leave Britain, Settle in Canada
by Rob Walker | July 16, 2008
Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist whose work in quantum mechanics and black hole theory, amongst other things, is considering moving to Canada.
The news comes after Hawking lashed out at the British government for $160 million worth of cuts in science funding he thinks will cause ‘enormous damage both to British science and to our international reputation’.
Dr. Hawking has received an offer from the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario
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