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The end of the universe is cancelled
The Sunday Telegraph ^
| February 9, 2003
| Robert Matthews
Posted on 02/08/2003 5:43:08 PM PST by MadIvan
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Just for those of you making long-term plans. ;)
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
02/08/2003 5:43:08 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: PhiKapMom; carl in alaska; Cautor; GOP_Lady; prairiebreeze; veronica; SunnyUsa; Delmarksman; ...
Bump!
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posted on
02/08/2003 5:43:20 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
Good. That means that I won't have to cancell my reservations at The Resturaunt At The End of The Universe.
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posted on
02/08/2003 5:51:00 PM PST
by
uglybiker
To: MadIvan
I wonder if an alternate explanation to "dark energy" is the possiblilty that something exists outside our universe that is pulling it outward so that it merely seems like "dark energy".
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posted on
02/08/2003 5:52:47 PM PST
by
staytrue
To: MadIvan
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To know that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
(Robert Frost, 1920)
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posted on
02/08/2003 5:54:09 PM PST
by
friendly
To: uglybiker
Um, you might want to re-read the article. You see, if this is true, then there will never be a "The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe", because there will never be an end of the universe to build the restaurant at. Just FYI.
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posted on
02/08/2003 5:55:20 PM PST
by
Billy_bob_bob
("He who will not reason is a bigot;He who cannot is a fool;He who dares not is a slave." W. Drummond)
To: MadIvan
well, that is a load off of my mind!!
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posted on
02/08/2003 5:57:10 PM PST
by
fatrat
To: Billy_bob_bob
To: MadIvan
All things come to an end. maybe not in a crunch, but they come to an end. it is the only certainty in the universe.
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posted on
02/08/2003 5:58:57 PM PST
by
Cacique
(Censored by Admin Moderator)
To: new cruelty
I do not jest. And don't call me Shirley.
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posted on
02/08/2003 5:59:29 PM PST
by
Billy_bob_bob
("He who will not reason is a bigot;He who cannot is a fool;He who dares not is a slave." W. Drummond)
To: MadIvan
I thought Hawking argued for a cosmological mass at the Omega Point, which would not lead to a collaps.
Anyway, how soon can we start powering shuttles with "Dark Energy" instead of rockets?
To: PatrickHenry; Physicist; longshadow; Scully; RadioAstronomer; RightWhale
Dark Energy ping.
I was reading today about the decade when Wrenn, Hooke and Halley were wrestling with the problem of describing paths of comets and planets. Kepler's third law was known, and it appeared to them that some sort of inverse-square force was at work. They had no real sense of gravity as we know it.
This was the scene just before Newton focused on the problem.
It seems that's about where we are now with the 'dark energy'
force.
To: MadIvan
Excuse me ... there is this book I've read and it says, "and you will be with me forever".
Hmmmm? This book was written over 2000 years ago and it would appear the author already knew this information.
A Baptist minister had a close friend who was a Biologist. One day when they were having lunch, the Biologist told the Minister, "after 25 years of study, I have come to the conclusion that the universe is composed of 5 major elements: time, force, energy, space and matter.
The minister began laughing! You could have saved yourself 25 years of study - all you had to do was read the first sentence of the Bible:
time - In the beginning
force - God
energy - created
space - the heavens
matter - and the earth
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posted on
02/08/2003 6:03:13 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
( Yo! Syracuse)
To: uglybiker
Well, if my bistromath calculations are correct, you should have no reservation about eating at the restaurant at the end of the universe.
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posted on
02/08/2003 6:04:32 PM PST
by
new cruelty
(let's meet the meat!)
To: Billy_bob_bob
Impossible? Or just highly improbable?
To: MadIvan
What will remain is a universe full of black holes, which after trillions of years, will explode Yeah, but then what? |
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posted on
02/08/2003 6:06:30 PM PST
by
Nick Danger
(Freeps Ahoy! Caribbean cruise May 31... from $660 http://www.freeper.org)
To: uglybiker
Highly improbable won't work. Infinitely improbable, on the other hand....
Hmmm. You say the universe WON'T implode, therefore it will never end, which makes the RATEOTU infinitely improbable, which means that if the Infinite Improbability Drive is ever engaged....
I'll have to consult the Gospel According to Douglas Adams and get back to you on that one.
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posted on
02/08/2003 6:08:54 PM PST
by
Billy_bob_bob
("He who will not reason is a bigot;He who cannot is a fool;He who dares not is a slave." W. Drummond)
To: MadIvan
In his 1998 bestseller A Brief History of Time, Prof Hawking claimed that the universe would eventually implode. This assessment was challenged in 1997...Must be a special relativity time bending kind of thing. Those cosmologists! Always sneaking up behind themselves.
To: VadeRetro; jennyp; Junior; longshadow; *crevo_list; RadioAstronomer; Scully; Piltdown_Woman; ...
Cosmology ping.
[This ping list for the evolution -- not creationism -- side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. To be added (or dropped), let me know via freepmail.]
To: MadIvan
Just one more 'proof' that the eggheaded physicists
dont know a lot more than they
do know.
I believe with further study, someone will discover a new 'dark force' that is making scientific hubris and arrogance expand at an ever increasing rate, notwithstanding the ego deflating discoveries that would otherwise cause these attributes to contract.
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posted on
02/08/2003 6:15:34 PM PST
by
keithtoo
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