Posted on 10/07/2011 9:35:53 PM PDT by neverdem
All they have to do is interview Helen Thomas...
ping
So the universe is going to hell faster than we thought.
Discovery of cosmic handbasket yields team Nobel prize...
The beginning of wisdom is being able to make intelligent statements like this.
The elephant in the room IS.....
The Universe is Expanding into WHAT?... i.e. something bigger?..
Note: You buy them books they eat the pages..
It doesn’t really matter what it’s expanding into. It’s a conceptual framework. A trick of open versus closed spaces, in a mathematical sense.
The entire concept of gravity as something that “pulls” mass together is being shown to be wrong. Backwards.
Empty space as we seem to know it is actually the most dense part of the universe. It’s compacted and compressed, under enormous pressure,
What we call “mass” is the least dense part. It gets pushed together (or better said towards each other) by the “empty” space.
Just like bubbles rising in a beer. It’s a kind of surface tension in three dimensions.
Sakharov was right.
The big bang didn’t “happen”. The big bang is happening.
Take a saucepan or like a pressure cooker that you can seal.
Just for the hey of it, make it a clear one you can see through. Fill it halfway with water.
Put it on the stove. It will start to boil, but all the “air” above it will still seem clear. It is normal air but with alot of water vapor mixed in, under huge pressure.
Now release the spigot.
You will see a huge cloud of steam emerge. stuff which seems solid but is really just stuff that condensed out of something way more dense.
That’s what mass is. We are the “steam” of the big bang. And the expansion will continue forever. We can never gather up a;; the vapor and compress it back down, realize we are not talking truly about water vapor, we are talking the fundamental stuff that matter is made of.
I came up with equations in the early 90’s that predicted:
The mass of the universe is increasing linearly with the time
The volume of the universe is increasing in a cubic relation to the time
So
All we know is getting bigger, but really evaporating before our eyes
And the numbers I was working with at the time predicted that the “age” (if you can define it that way) of the universe was 18 billion years, with an average density of about one proton mass per 10,000 cubic centimeters.
But I might be wrong.
[ The big bang didnt happen. The big bang is happening. ]
IF eternity future is possible, why not, eternity PAST?....
Linear time may be a limited concept..
i.e. in the box thinking..
The question of whether time is eternal or ending is the same question as to whether the universe is straight or curved.
Zeno’s paradox.
Walk halfway to your mailbox. It will take time.
From there, walk half the distance again. It will take more time.
Keep going.
It will take forever.
Whether the universe is finite (closed and curved) versus whether it is infinite (open and flat) is a question that has no mathematical meaning because straight lines in curved space turn out to be exactly mathematically equivalent to curved lines in straight space.
If the expansion is accelerating, what happens when it
reaches 186,214(?) miles/second???
Ok...I get that part...but doesn’t that presuppose a static amount of mass?
OK, I’ll byte {sic} what does PLAID stand for??
I thought it went poof, and started all over again with a big bang,
PLAID, Please Look Ahead, Imminent Destruction
BTW, what's the little red X in the box?
I marvel how quickly one can pull up a relevant picture, unless, of course, you had the picture and was waiting for an opportunity to use it. Happy to oblige.
Soooo you don’t know either!?...
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