Posted on 08/13/2003 9:02:05 PM PDT by nwrep
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By RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM, Associated Press Writer
BOMBAY, India - U.S. and Indian scientists said Wednesday they have discovered a new carnivorous dinosaur species in India after finding bones in the western part of the country.
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The new dinosaur species was named Rajasaurus narmadensis, or "Regal reptile from the Narmada," after the Narmada River region where the bones were found.
The dinosaurs were between 25-30 feet long, had a horn above their skulls, were relatively heavy and walked on two legs, scientists said. They preyed on long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs on the Indian subcontinent during the Cretaceous Period at the end of the dinosaur age, 65 million years ago.
"It's fabulous to be able to see this dinosaur which lived as the age of dinosaurs came to a close," said Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago. "It was a significant predator that was related to species on continental Africa, Madagascar and South America."
Working with Indian scientists, Sereno and paleontologist Jeff Wilson of the University of Michigan reconstructed the dinosaur skull in a project funded partly by the National Geographic (news - web sites) Society.
A model of the assembled skull was presented Wednesday by the American scientists to their counterparts from Punjab University in northern India and the Geological Survey of India during a Bombay news conference.
Scientists said they hope the discovery will help explain the extinction of the dinosaurs and the shifting of the continents how India separated from Africa, Madagascar, Australia and Antarctica and collided with Asia.
The dinosaur bones were discovered during the past 18 years by Indian scientists Suresh Srivastava of the Geological Survey of India and Ashok Sahni, a paleontologist at Punjab University.
When the bones were examined, "we realized we had a partial skeleton of an undiscovered species," Sereno said.
The scientists said they believe the Rajasaurus roamed the Southern Hemisphere land masses of present-day Madagascar, Africa and South America.
"People don't realize dinosaurs are the only large-bodied animal that lived, evolved and died at a time when all continents were united," Sereno said.
The cause of the dinosaurs' extinction is still debated by scientists. The Rajasaurus discovery may provide crucial clues, Sereno said.
India has seen quite a few paleontological discoveries recently.
In 1997, villagers discovered about 300 fossilized dinosaur eggs in Pisdura, 440 miles northeast of Bombay, that Indian scientists said were laid by four-legged, long-necked vegetarian creatures.
Indian scientists said the dinosaur embryos in the eggs may have suffocated during volcanic eruptions.
Nice play on words but you still have lots of pennies and no dollar bills.
Recently, Freeper betty boop speculated on the possibility of an extra time dimension. That is to say, in addition to the 4 dimension view which includes a time dimension, what if there were an additional, 5th dimension of time?
As soon as she mentioned it, it rang true to my Spirit and all sorts of pieces started falling together.
Extra time dimensions have previously been shunned by physics basically because instead of the time dimension in 4D being a line - this occurs before that - from the viewpoint of an extra dimension, that timeline becomes a plane and past, present, future are all accessible. This means that cause and effect can be inverted to effect and cause thus unsettling the most fundamental concept of causation.
Nevertheless, it rings true because....
Dark matter which represents 23% of the mass of the universe is like ordinary matter (Higgs boson/field theory, etc.) which represents 4% in that they are both characterized by positive gravity. Dark matter is a more extreme manifestation in space, e.g. black holes and massive neutrinos (if any.) Dark Matters: New Telescope to seek elusive matter and energy.
On the other hand, dark energy which represents 73% of the mass of the universe is characterized by negative gravity and thus, acceleration.
And much like there is a duality between particle and wave - there is a "duality" between gravity (field) and space/time.
In fact, one should view gravity as a warping of space/time that causes objects to orbit and spin into the space/time indentation caused by higher, positive gravity. Conversely, viewed as an indentation of space/time a certain escape velocity is necessary to free ordinary matter from the indentation. In black holes, not even light has sufficient escape velocity.
When we look at gravity as space/time then Einstein's desire to transmute the "base wood" of matter into the "pure marble" of geometry becomes accessible.
In the space "vacuum" which accounts for 73% of the mass of the universe, gravity (space/time) is negative, causing acceleration and strongly suggesting something else factoring into the balance. betty boop's extra time dimension fits that speculation to a "T". Constraints on extra time dimensions
Moreover, it potentially utterly solves the mysteries of non-locality, superposition and absence of dark energy in local space.
Concerning non-locality, since time would be a plane instead of a line, superluminal activity would be expected. With regard to superposition (Schrodinger's cat) all states would exist from the aspect of the extra time dimension, the determination of one being currently relevant only in the 4D block. Moreover, because the 4D plane of time is accessible by the extra time dimension - not only present and future events in the 4D block become malleable, but past as well - though, of course, none would notice such a change in 4D.
Finally, gravity (which represents space/time) would be the necessary coupling between the 4D block and the extra time dimension. Where activity is sparse, i.e. the "vacuum" of space, gravity would locate towards the extra time dimension, appearing negative in 4D, a space/time "outdent" which causes acceleration.
And for Grandpierre, Menas Kafatos and Robert Nadeau and others who seek an integrative science, the extra time dimension potentially hosts consciousness and resolves any issue concerning a renewing of the cycle of the evolution of consciousness, i.e. top down and also bottom up concurrently.
And because an extra time dimension yields our familiar 4D spacetime as a block --- and hence, the time dimension therein as a plane rather than a line --- it also potentially explains virtually all psychic phenomenon - remote healing, near death experiences, precognition, retrocognition, extrasensory perception, extra body experiences, etc.
And if all of that were not enough, it also reconciles very nicely with Scripture, including how there can be both predestination and free will!
Just some food for thought
I always attributed it to my paranoia. But, think of the caricature (a former FReeper) posted of Pres. Bush kicking Darwin. I can easily see that used in D*m propaganda.
Planting inflammatory cr@p here, to quote it back later as typical FR (and by extension GOP) attitudes or manners, is not beyond the ethics of power-mad l*b*r*ls
Well, E.coli is alive and billions of them don't make dollar bills. I don't think that jillions of them would make an elephant either. Now give me an unlimited amount of E.coli a few pieces of laboratory ware, a few reagents and I feel confident I could make something resembling a dollar bill.
If you can't spell or add, you're a West Virginian.
No, it's a theory. It makes extensively detailed, quantitative predictions that have been tested and borne out in every particular by observation.
This is not proof it happened.
That's true. It's not logically possible to prove any theory by observation. All you can ever do is test its predictions, and the best you can ever say is that it has passed all of its tests. That is the case with the Big Bang.
Demanding to know the cause of the big bang demands the evolutionist to put his money where his mouth is.
Please try again to digest what I posted. At the Big Bang time (as we define it) folds back upon itself; all possible directions point towards the future. Causes, by definition, are necessarily prior to effects. At the instant of the Big Bang, there's mathematically no such "prior" time. It's actually very simple.
Excuse if I am a bit incredulous.
I excuse you on the grounds of your ignorance. These things do sound incredible to someone who is unfamiliar with the evidence. Fortunately, that is correctible to someone with an open mind.
You don't have a plant turning into an animal or a horse turning into a kitty cat.
And it's a good thing, too, because such an event would utterly refute the entire edifice of evolution. Anyone with the most cursory understanding of evolution understands this.
I think the creationist label is a slam on Bush that people like Gary Trudeau love to perpetuate. He's an Ivy-Leaguer with a fine mind, if verbally a bit prone to ... Bushisms.
There's no question he's very religious, but I think (sure hope, anyway) that he's not the kind to reject science for theology.
Argument from scientific authority? Creationists should never never never never never never do that. If scientific authority means anything, we've got you thousands to one.
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