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Evidence of Big Bang May Disappear in 1 Trillion Years
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| 4/13/11
| Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 04/13/2011 8:47:56 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
If the world lasts another 200 years, I’ll be surprised (and really, really old!)
To: NormsRevenge
I’ll believe it when I see it.
To: NormsRevenge
However, in the distant future, these clues won't be visible to scientists on Earth or its near environs.Who wrote this! The Earth won't be around after three billion years!
To: KarlInOhio
OR, how a black hole creates a black hole.
sorry
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posted on
04/13/2011 9:20:28 PM PDT
by
MestaMachine
(Note: I do NOT capitalize anything I don't respect...like obama and/or islam...but I repeat myself.)
To: NormsRevenge
It is not possible for beings who live for a century and maintain a 10,000 year old knowledge base to comprehend deep time.
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posted on
04/13/2011 9:25:10 PM PDT
by
mmercier
To: dragonblustar
Who wrote this! The Earth won't be around after three billion years!
Yeah good point, our sun would have gone red gaint and collapsed into a dwarf long before taking all the planets with it...
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posted on
04/13/2011 9:34:53 PM PDT
by
battousai
(Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
To: NormsRevenge
I’ll worry about in a trillion years. Right now high gas prices are causing my disposable income to disappear!
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posted on
04/13/2011 9:36:37 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: NormsRevenge
Astronomers today can look at galaxies more than 13 billion years away that were formed only millions of years after the universe began.How can we see the light from a galaxy 13 billion light years away unless we are moving at least the speed of light away from it? IOWs how did our galaxy get ahead of the light coming from a galaxy that is supposed to be closer (or was closer) to the center of the explosion everything is supposedly moving away from?
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posted on
04/13/2011 9:40:51 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
To: NormsRevenge
That's okay, I'll know the answers to every question that flummoxes me here on Earth in 40 or so years, when I meet my Savior, Jesus Christ. If they're really smart, those scientists won't write off The Man Upstairs so quickly...He's the one with all the answers.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
04/13/2011 9:41:53 PM PDT
by
wku man
(Who says conservatives don't rock? www.myspace.com/10poundtest)
To: dragonblustar
Really! They say the Universe is around 14B years old, earth is maybe 4B, and they are worked up over something that will happen in 1T years?
Some people have way too much time on their hands (pun intended).
I say let ‘em crash. And stop calling me Shirley.
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posted on
04/13/2011 9:45:13 PM PDT
by
West Texas Chuck
(Why yes, I do speak Spanglish - "Hasta la later on, amigo. Pardon, would you have any salsa verde?")
To: NormsRevenge
At one time, the theory of the so-called “Big Bang” (thought up by a theologian) was too religious for irreligious scientists, who actually used to think that the universe itself was eternal and had always been there. Then observable red shift proved the theory. (Whoops.) Since then, they’ve been scrambling to secularize the theory somehow . . . desperately . . .
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posted on
04/13/2011 10:15:47 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: NormsRevenge
Disappear in a trillion years? Good thing I have it on my hard drive with a back up disc.
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posted on
04/13/2011 11:32:21 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: TigersEye
IOWs how did our galaxy get ahead of the light coming from a galaxy that is supposed to be closer (or was closer) to the center of the explosion everything is supposedly moving away from? The Big Bang created space. Put two dots on a small inflatable balloon and then inflate it. Those dots move away as the balloon inflates. If one dot radiates light it can be received by the other dot, even though both dots were "created" at the same time and didn't even move on their own (neither our galaxy nor our star system have engines, though they may have relative speeds.)
This also puts the limit to how far we can look in the Universe (you can't see things before Big Bang, and distance = c * t.) So 13.75 ± 0.11 billion light years it is. This also means that farther objects are unreachable and unknowable to us at this time; the light from them is still traveling toward us.
There is more discussion here.
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posted on
04/13/2011 11:34:07 PM PDT
by
Greysard
To: Olog-hai
The red shift proves expansion. Logic dictates that expansion indicates a singular point from which the expansion began. We can not understand why the periphery is accelerating rather than slowing after the bang. It is a dark matter or dark energy thing.
If a singularity caused the expansion it had to exist in a specific point/time/space.. Thus the eternal universe theory.
Both theories are valid, and both are not within our capability to conclusively reconcile. We call these things we can not comprehend dark or black. Not a racial thing, just acknowledgment that we can not see what is happening. Some of the newer thinking goes along the lines of there being a time when there was no time/no space and in fact no possibility of a point. The singularity. One can easily lose ones mind thinking about this stuff.
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posted on
04/13/2011 11:54:27 PM PDT
by
mmercier
To: NormsRevenge
Once on a star in a remote corner of the universe, some clever animals invented knowledge. Then the star grew cold and the clever animals had to die. One might invent such a fable, and still not sufficiently have illustrated how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist, and when it is gone, nothing will have happened. - F.N.
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posted on
04/14/2011 12:33:13 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: Greysard
Actually I think you cleared it up for me without my going to the link. I have heard that explanation before but not in the context of answering the question I asked. That would mean that from the center of the Big Bang to the
surface of the balloon would essentially be devoid of material since it was all blasted away at the same time by the same force. Right?
This also means that farther objects are unreachable and unknowable to us at this time; the light from them is still traveling toward us.
How would that necessarily be so? If light emitting objects existed further than 13 billion light years away yet have existed longer than 13 b. years then the light could be reaching us now. Say; an object 20 b. light years away that has existed for 30 b. years. No?
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posted on
04/14/2011 1:48:59 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
To: NormsRevenge
We should take pictures now, then.
To: NormsRevenge
May disappear? May? MAY?
Can’t these guys say with certainty that something will happen a trillion years from now?
I might want to set the DVR.
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posted on
04/14/2011 3:28:08 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Obama got his 3am call about Egypt. The call went right to the answering machine.- Sarah Palin)
To: NormsRevenge
Some say the truth about the Impostor and his missing
birth certificate might be available in that amount of time.
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:01:47 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
( Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
To: NormsRevenge
Evidence of Big Bang May Disappear in 1 Trillion Years All that money of the LHC, down the drain.
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posted on
04/14/2011 4:03:41 AM PDT
by
IamConservative
(Liberalism - the surety of knowing that which cannot be proven.)
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