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Universe Could be 250 Times Bigger Than What is Observable
Universe Today ^
| 2/8/11
| Vanessa D'Amico
Posted on 02/10/2011 1:21:07 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
Well, this will negatively affect real estate prices.
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posted on
02/10/2011 1:28:03 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
To: Lazamataz
To: Lazamataz
That’s just great. I’m already upside down.
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posted on
02/10/2011 1:49:03 AM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 751 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: LibWhacker
How could there be a finite universe? What would contain it?
On the other hand, how could there be an infinite universe?
Either way, I get dizzy just thinking about it.
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posted on
02/10/2011 2:10:51 AM PST
by
giotto
To: LibWhacker
Age of universe = 13.75 years
Photons have traveled = 45 billion light years
Speed = Warp 3?
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posted on
02/10/2011 2:13:00 AM PST
by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
To: LibWhacker
What this means is that there are physical limits to what we can know. Will the insight provided by this article humble our central economic planners? No chance.
To: NTHockey
It’s because the universe expanded (faster than c) and those photons got a free ride.
To: LibWhacker
Conversation from sometime back in the 70s...
"Man...the universe...its big...I mean really really big...ya know?"
"Yeah...its big."
"Yeah...big."
"Yeah."
"You want anymore of this?"
"Might as well...can't dance."
Things got a might phi-lo-soph-i-cal at times back then.
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posted on
02/10/2011 2:44:53 AM PST
by
Tainan
(Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
To: Lazamataz; LibWhacker
Nah, 249 times, tops.
Not counting the crawl space.
To: Lazamataz
Well, this will negatively affect real estate prices. Location, location, location. A nice little ocean front property on a planet with oxygen, water and moderate tempratures, near, but not too near, a yellow star is going to be worth a lot more than undeveloped space trapped in a time warp near a black hole in some God foresaken corner of a remote galaxy cluster. Especially if the proptery has access to a reliable airport and a stable government.
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posted on
02/10/2011 2:52:13 AM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Socialists are to economics what circle squarers are to math; undaunted by reason or derision.)
To: LibWhacker
Currently, cosmologists believe the Universe takes one of three possible shapes:
* It is flat, like a Euclidean plane, and spatially infinite.
* It is open, or curved like a saddle, and spatially infinite.
* It is closed, or curved like a sphere, and spatially finite.
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Correct answer is all three - it just depends on one’s state of mind and which direction one heads out in.
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posted on
02/10/2011 3:15:10 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: giotto
At least we have universal wrench sets that will work everywhere.
To: giotto
Dizzy?.. Me too. If the universe is spherical, then what is only the other side of the edge of that sphere?
This topic is worth thinking about 30 seconds, otherwise you go to brainlock.
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:04:08 AM PST
by
catfish1957
(Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:09:25 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: LibWhacker
No wonder it’s taking me longer to drive to work each morning.
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:19:48 AM PST
by
3rd of the 12 CAV
(Socialized medicine is a 10 month wait for a maternity ward)
To: LibWhacker
What about Michelle’s rear end?
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:20:30 AM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
("Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking" - Barack Hussein Obama)
To: LibWhacker
"But what if the Universe turns out to be closed, and thus has a finite size after all?"Okay... then what would this closed, finite-sized universe be floating in? A petri dish sitting under somebody's microscope?
My vote is that it is spherical with infinite space in all directions.
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:25:21 AM PST
by
Hatteras
To: LibWhacker
That explains Leon
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:35:22 AM PST
by
JRios1968
(Laz would hit it!)
To: catfish1957
If the universe is spherical, then what is only [on?]
the other side of the edge of that sphere? The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:38:45 AM PST
by
Roccus
(Joe Biden.....America's only living brain donor.)
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