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Universe 'Could Condense Into Jelly'
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| 9-6-2001
| Helen Briggs
Posted on 09/06/2001 4:07:20 PM PDT by blam
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To: Frohickey gcruse
Nope.
The cat came back, the very next day...
To: blam
"The fact that the Universe has existed for 15 billion years should tell you it's not likely to happen tomorrow," No!!!11 It just tells me that we're about due to get crunched into a bunch of jelly, any day now!111 Now I'm really scared. ;)
To: blam
Have I got a jam for you!
Mangled Baby Ducks...yes, Mangled Baby Ducks!!!
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:07:22 PM PDT
by
Benrand
To: Zon
"How many grains of sand...?
It depends what beach you're on.;^)
To: Reaganesque
Where will we find an english muffin that's 20 trillion light years in diameter? That's a big Twinkie. Er.. english muffin.
To: Dr. Frank
Nope! That's the 'Gambler's Fallacy'.
To: blam
Brings to mind a conversation I had in the far distant past while very stoned, before I gained some meager semblance of today's sanity, regarding the possibility that the theory of evolution was backward. Are we, in fact, evolving into rocks?
To: headsonpikes
;)
To: Storm Orphan
Fruit flavored, or K-Y?Uhm, I uh.....I yum.....uhm......
(is Baby watching?)
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:11:05 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: headsonpikes
You know, I thought 'e was a goner.
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:12:49 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: Zon
I've heard similar analogies before. They strike me as unimaginative. It may be unimaginative, but it is also true.
The nice things about math and physics is that constant and we can use them to learn about things we cannot perceive directly (like the whole of the Universe).
The odds I gave were calculated based on the likelihood of all the various requirements needed to form the Universe we observe. The odds of intelligent life forming were based on the likelihood of 1) the proper building blocks for life being present, and 2) the likelihood that these building blocks would evolve into something intelligent.
If you don't like the odds, then attack their basis.
There are a lot of things I don't like, but unfortunately my not liking them doesn't make them any less true.
Tuor
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:16:15 PM PDT
by
Tuor
To: Tuor
"There are a lot of things I don't like, but unfortunately my not liking them doesn't make them any less true." So, what you're saying is, We're all gonna die?
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:19:19 PM PDT
by
blam
To: staytrue, physicist
If I recall, supersymmetry also posits the decay of the photon...is it 10³² years? There's been some study of this in neutrino detection tanks of pure water at deep mines both here and in Japan, the idea being that with ~10³² protons about, by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, one might expect to see perhaps one decay/year. Negative results, so far, it seems. But if and once the proton goes, boys and girls, we're all done.
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:22:11 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: blam
Awww, foot. I'm not going to hold my breath over supersymmetry predictions. Not a very testable theory--it looks nice, sure, but I want more than that to keep me up at night.
To: blam
One in 13 million squared? Probably happen tomorrow. Lets start talking some really big numbers, say Avogadro's constant (10 to the 23rd, some hundred thousand billion billion) or, if you like, some small ones, like the Planck time length (10 to the minus 46th) of a second. Guess I'll go back and meditate on the fine-structure constant.
;)
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:24:09 PM PDT
by
djf
To: blam
And it's all because of evil white Republicans burning something. Crusade against "jellification"! Forget global warming, this is universal!
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:26:04 PM PDT
by
Cleburne
To: blam
So, what you're saying is, We're all gonna die? Yep. I guarantee that everyone reading this post will be dead within a hundred years. For most of us, it will be sooner than that.
Yes, we're all going to die -- it's just a matter of time.
Tuor
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:29:54 PM PDT
by
Tuor
To: headsonpikes
The cat came back, the very next day... Thought it was a goner but....
That's one of my favorite shorts. I managed to get it on tape the 2nd time I saw it. It currently resides at the end of my Pink Floyd "Pompii" tape.
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:33:34 PM PDT
by
zeugma
To: blam
The only kind of jelly I like is grape, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:40:28 PM PDT
by
ALASKA
To: Tuor
It may be unimaginative, but it is also true.What happens to your odds if when we find an abundance of life throughout the Universe? Say, millions of planets with intelligent life -- conscious beings. Sort of changes "everything" from an Earthling perspective.
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posted on
09/06/2001 5:46:49 PM PDT
by
Zon
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