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Time Travel & Outer Space (Mon 11-15)
Coast To Coast AM | November 15, 2010 | Unknown

Posted on 11/15/2010 11:01:41 AM PST by righttackle44

Professor of astrophysics at Princeton University, J. Richard Gott will talk about his work with the physics of time travel and helping people quantify how vast outer space really is, as well as the "Doomsday Argument" which shows how statistically there is a 95% chance of human extinction within 9,120 years.


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The program will air tonight. I don't know about you, but I intend to protest the extinction of the human race by eating more chocolate and popcorn. That'll show them. Do you suppose there's a chance we could put off the extinction a little? I'm going to Hawaii for Christmas that year.
1 posted on 11/15/2010 11:01:51 AM PST by righttackle44
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bkmk


2 posted on 11/15/2010 11:05:15 AM PST by quickquiver (No, means N O.)
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To: righttackle44

Extinct in 9120 years.

Morning or afternoon?

(The plumber’s coming in the morning.)


3 posted on 11/15/2010 11:06:22 AM PST by samtheman
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To: righttackle44

Good think he is working on time travel. In 1911 year we can just go back to the beginning.

Imagine, there will never be a time when people didn’t have indoor toilets.


4 posted on 11/15/2010 11:09:24 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: righttackle44

At the rate we are going, I think he is a little optimistic on his date.


5 posted on 11/15/2010 11:12:19 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: righttackle44
the "Doomsday Argument" which shows how statistically there is a 95% chance of human extinction within 9,120 years.

I don't think this is correct. I get 93% chance of human extinction within 8,953 years.

6 posted on 11/15/2010 11:13:49 AM PST by Prokopton
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To: righttackle44

Here’s a question.

We all know that if a man gets into a space ship and travels away from earth at a significant fraction of the speed of light C when he returns many more years will have passed on Earth than he experienced on his space ship.

What if you parked an eternal man in a spaceship, strapped on massive propulsion units to the Earth, and blasted it away at a significant fraction of C. When the Earth returns, will the inhabitant of the space shop have experienced many more years then the inhabitants of the rocketing Earth?

What is it? Majority rules?


7 posted on 11/15/2010 11:13:51 AM PST by DManA
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Only if the space shop became a barber shop.


8 posted on 11/15/2010 11:17:13 AM PST by shineon
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To: righttackle44

Whenever somebody posits the extinction of the human race, they commit a religious reduction ad Hitlerum.

When Jesus Christ ascended, He was seated at the right hand of the Father. That is His Session. The Son of God or the Alpha is now also the Son of Man, or the Omega, and has been in Hypostatic Union since the first Advent.

During the Church Age, believers today have the same access to God, as provided by the Son, during this period of hypostatic union.

All things that have been created or could be created have been created by Him and stand under His authority. Today, He is both God and human.

Humanity in Him, is now higher in authority than the angels, although prior to our receipt of a resurrection body, they still have more power over man. Through faith in Christ, though He controls all history.

Prophecy regarding Israel still has not been fulfilled, so humanity will continue to exist for quite some time (gross understatement).

Conclusions that mankind will go into extinction, or any other such reasoning, should immediately trigger a error message to those making such conclusions,, even if they haven’t understood the theological doctrines regarding the hypostatic union, which is central advancing in Christianity.


9 posted on 11/15/2010 11:18:19 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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oh no! we’re gonna DIE!!! AAAARRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!

that said time travel is an impossibility. unless you can show proof of all those people in strange clothes attending historic events, such as the crucifixion, critical battles, etc..


10 posted on 11/15/2010 11:21:15 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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Forget time travel, how do I tunnel myself over to a alternate reality where Karl marx was never born?


11 posted on 11/15/2010 11:21:35 AM PST by GraceG
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To: DManA

I appreciate the dilemma of your argument. I suppose one would have to take into account whether or not we take the freeway, and whether or not it’s regular or premium. Oh, and if we’ll have more than one driver.


12 posted on 11/15/2010 11:21:39 AM PST by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: Prokopton

You may be right, but 97.16% of all statistics are made up on the spot.


13 posted on 11/15/2010 11:22:06 AM PST by PUGACHEV
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Air when and where? The program sounds interesting.


14 posted on 11/15/2010 11:22:51 AM PST by uscabjd
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I think you must mean Hyperspace Bypass. There are no freeways in space silly.


15 posted on 11/15/2010 11:28:00 AM PST by DManA
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To find out when Coast To Coast AM airs in your area, go to the www.coasttocoastam.com website--note that it is coast to coast, not coastocoast--and click on affiliates.

It airs at 10 p.m. PST, so you will have to adjust to your time zone.
16 posted on 11/15/2010 11:29:46 AM PST by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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We’re DOOOOMED ;-)


17 posted on 11/15/2010 11:29:57 AM PST by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: righttackle44

HERE’S A QUESTION:

If the “Universe” is everything there is, and it’s “expanding”, what is it expanding in to?.................


18 posted on 11/15/2010 11:32:15 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: DManA

LOL. I dare you to find a Hyperspace Bypass. (But if you do find one, I’ll guarantee it won’t be under the administration of the California Highway Department. They don’t have the budget.)


19 posted on 11/15/2010 11:33:06 AM PST by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a United States Marine.)
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To: DManA

Time dilation occurs as a result of acceleration, so the “eternal man” would be much older compared to the accelerated Earth.


20 posted on 11/15/2010 11:33:43 AM PST by piytar (There is evil. There is no such thing as moderate evil. Never forget.)
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