Adding Trillions Of Years To The Life Of The Universe

spacedaily.com ^ | 3 May 02 | staff

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as the fifth dimension undergoes a collapse.

I don’t know about The Fifth Dimension, but I think The Mamas & The Papas had this problem on a stage in San Fran, due mainly to the mass of Cass.

[RightWhale]

Steinhardt's cyclical 5-D brane model isn't completely new. In fact the unique-event version was discussed on FR sometime last year. The brane theory is testable, but the equipment is very expensive and not yet available. This cyclical brane version seems to be an addition to the single colliding branes model, and is not closely related to the Big Bang or oscillating models.

[RightWhale]

space-time place-moment marker

You are here, but if you weren't, how would you know?

[RightWhale]

The million monkeys with a million typewriters hypothesis. Would they ever recreate Hamlet? Maybe that's all it is anyway.

[longshadow]

You are here, but if you weren't, how would you know?

One of the turtles holding up the Universe would tell me.

[RightWhale]

"turtles all the way down"

The nested gravastar hypothesis didn't get far, but give it time.

[RightWhale]

how may we assume that the view is the same from everywhere?

That would be an extrapolation, but that the universe looks roughly the same in every direction from here deserves consideration.

[RightWhale]

That's how this sounds to me, too. It just keeps growing and growing with pauses between growth cycles.

[RightWhale]

Where have I heard this before?

On FR last year; a less-embellished version of the colliding branes. You may have heard about brane theory in your other circles; it has been nearby whenever string theory is brought up.

[RightWhale]

astronomers keep finding bigger and bigger structures

There was a repeating structure model from some French astronomers a few months ago. A kind of cell structure that can be found from existing deep space observational date using crystallographic analysis techniques.

[fella]

"Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt and Neil Turok of Cambridge University"

Any teachers who give their students an average grade of A- must be a very doubtful source of kowledge at best.

[techcor]

That's how this sounds to me, too. It just keeps growing and growing with pauses between growth cycles

If it grows, doesn't that imply a time that it didn't exist (take it back to a time when it was really, really, small -then take it back further)? Also, if it is growing, doesn't that imply that it will grow so much it will reach a limit -eventually? Infinity should imply a static amount of matter, energy, and therefore time for each cycle .

[RightWhale]

Infinity should imply a static amount of matter, energy, and therefore time for each cycle .

The density of matter, or energy, might remain within limits. But what would be the total if it just keeps on going and going? You are probably familiar with sums of infinite series. Some infinite series have finite sums, others have no limit.

Time and space may be without limit, but we might still be the only planet with creatures who are conscious. Just thought I would add that side note.

[Teacher317]

BOOOOOOOOOO!

Okay, okay, it took me a second to get the joke. =^)

[det dweller too]

... if the Universe is only 13 billion now it's probably going through puberty.

Just think, if the above is true, maybe we are just a zit?
Oxycreme anyone?

[billbears]

Do any of these turtles have elephants walking on their backs?

[det dweller too]

...but we might still be the only planet with creatures who are conscious.

After reviewing the last several months of news broadcasts, are you sure you want to stick with that "conscious" crack?

[Pagey]

"........if it would only cut back on the drinking and fatty foods, and stop smoking" Exactly... LOL!

[RightWhale]

a very doubtful source of kowledge at best

Want to be a cosmologist - Princeton or Columbia. Want to be a physicist? Chicago. Want to be an electrical engineer? Stanford. Want to be president? Yale. Want to be an astronomer? Arizona.

[RightWhale]

Nowhere in the post was an implication that all creatures on the planet are conscious. :)