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Time to start looking for an alternate universe.
1 posted on 11/23/2007 3:45:30 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
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by making this observation in 1998 we may have caused the cosmos to revert to an earlier state when it was more likely to end.

In 1998 Clinton was President.

So it's Clinton's fault.

66 posted on 11/23/2007 7:12:38 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy ("I believe in Santa Claus. I believe in the tooth fairy." - John Edwards)
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Did they submit their findings to this magazine?


67 posted on 11/23/2007 7:47:16 AM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy 1980-2012)
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“In a nutshell, the theory suggests that we change things simply by looking at them and theorists have puzzled over the implications for years.”

QUIT STARING AT THE POT OF WATER! IT WON’T COME TO A BOIL IF YOU DO!!!


68 posted on 11/23/2007 7:49:00 AM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy 1980-2012)
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And some say that these scientific theories aren’t a religious belief, a faith in something that they cannot prove (e.g. the cat is alive until you try to prove that it isn’t dead).


69 posted on 11/23/2007 7:50:29 AM PST by weegee (End the Bush-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton-Clinton/Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton/Clinton Oligarchy 1980-2012)
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The team came to this depressing conclusion by calculating how the energy state of our universe - a kind of summation of all its particles and all their energies

I'm curious how they did this, considering that we can't see beyond the cosmological horizon i.e., it's physically impossible to calculate any summation of the physical universe because no one has even the slightest idea how big it might be.

71 posted on 11/23/2007 8:09:09 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Islam: Imagine a clown car......with guns.)
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An alternate universe already exists: inside the heads and in the imaginations of people on the political Left.


73 posted on 11/23/2007 8:18:42 AM PST by quadrant
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These people should have to turn in their “doctorates” for scientific malpractice. The term “observation” in physics is most often interpreted to mean “macroscopic change.” All of the so-called paradoxes occur when a quantum-level event influences a non-quantum (i.e. much larger) scale event. We don’t actually “see” wave-particle duality in experiments... a machine records the results of particle collisions... and that macroscopic change in the state of the machine is enough to count as “observation.” It’s not like the event doesn’t happen until a person watches it... it is indeterminate until it makes a macroscopic difference. If the dark matter was heating surrounding interstellar gas, then its effects are “observable” and would effect the universe, even if man had never existed...

What a load of crap!


74 posted on 11/23/2007 8:32:48 AM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwæt! Lãr biþ mæst hord, soþlïce!)
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Thank goodness the report way by a few hair dressers. I would have been askeered if they had been real scientists. Do you think that Krypton can be glued back together?


78 posted on 11/23/2007 9:24:12 AM PST by Napoleon Solo
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oh no! - universe to end! - mankind looking at things! - sight pollution - oh no!


79 posted on 11/23/2007 9:50:33 AM PST by bill1952
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People who think all day about deep subjects have lost their connection to normal life.
These brain-deficient people live and breathe quantum mechanics, which contains the idea that some things are changed when someone observes them. Observing them requires light. Light “rays” or photons affect those tiny particles so loved by these scientists.
So observing things on that level affects them. True. But they have gone mad or else they wouldn’t say that our observations of the universe are affecting it.
One more reason why my trust in scientists has faded.


80 posted on 11/23/2007 10:01:12 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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“the universe splits into two,”
so then for every event “the universe splits into two”. If so, there would be a rather large number of “universes”, and more happening all the time. Each time I open a box with a Christmas present, the universe splits into two. Same for everyone else. Gonna be a lot of universes after Dec 25.

Obviously nonsense. There is ONE universe.


81 posted on 11/23/2007 10:11:53 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (looks like a lot of scientists are mentally deranged too)
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YEC INTREP


84 posted on 11/23/2007 10:49:16 AM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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Roger Highfield, Science Editor

An editor; not to be confused with a scientist.

86 posted on 11/23/2007 10:53:50 AM PST by okie01
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The startling claim is made by a pair of American cosmologists investigating the consequences for the cosmos of quantum theory, the most successful theory we have.

Just take THAT, you EVOLUTIONISTS!

88 posted on 11/23/2007 12:12:01 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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I see another Oscar in algore’s future.


93 posted on 11/23/2007 12:18:52 PM PST by Tribune7 (Dems want to rob from the poor to give to the rich)
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LFHEN = LIBERALS FOR HUMAN EXTINCTION NOW

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

96 posted on 11/23/2007 12:20:58 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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"New Scientist reports a worrying new variant as the cosmologists claim that astronomers may have accidentally nudged the universe closer to its death by observing dark energy, a mysterious anti gravity force which is thought to be speeding up the expansion of the cosmos."

Seen in this photo, it obviously has s huge chip on it's shoulder and hates mankind for looking at it...


106 posted on 11/23/2007 1:08:26 PM PST by DocRock (All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)
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A couple DU`ers are actually pissed off at this and blaming humans for shortening the lifespan of the universe. So should Astronomy be outlawed, observatories and the Hubble telescope be destroyed, and anyone who looks up at the night sky be arrested for Crimes Against the Universe?


108 posted on 11/23/2007 2:25:50 PM PST by chessplayer
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“Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen “dark matter.” While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.”

http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/

“IN AUGUST, radio astronomers announced that they had found an enormous hole in the universe. Nearly a billion light years across, the void lies in the constellation Eridanus and has far fewer stars, gas and galaxies than usual. It is bigger than anyone imagined possible and is beyond the present understanding of cosmology. What could cause such a gaping hole? One team of physicists has a breathtaking explanation: “It is the unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own,” says Laura Mersini-Houghton of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.”

“It is a staggering claim. If Mersini-Houghton’s team is right, the giant void is the first experimental evidence for another universe. It would also vindicate string theory,”

http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19626311.400-the-void-imprint-of-another-universe.html

So did humans cause that hole, and will our destruction of our universe cause the destruction of other universes?


109 posted on 11/23/2007 3:28:05 PM PST by chessplayer
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Why can’t I make money shovling this kind of BS? I guess it’s Bush’s fault too.


112 posted on 11/23/2007 7:36:11 PM PST by Perdogg (Elections have consequences.)
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