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"Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: The universe might not make sense"

I'm glad to hear this because I'm too dumb to understand this stuff anyway.

1 posted on 06/03/2013 5:18:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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It is said that in at least one of the Multiverses
the US Congress is NOT an abject treasonous,
selfserving failure, groveling to help
Enemies of the people of the USA.

It is said, but not seen on this planet.


2 posted on 06/03/2013 5:21:43 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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Their model sure doesn’t make any sense. That is why they keep coming up with nonsense like “Dark Matter.”


3 posted on 06/03/2013 5:22:52 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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I have to admit in delighting in the paradox that the more we believe we know about the universe the less we understand it.


4 posted on 06/03/2013 5:26:06 PM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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i question if they really found a higgs boson given the lack of expected particles. there is more than one explanation than it must mean a multiverse.


6 posted on 06/03/2013 5:28:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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what i don’t understand is why people listen to these educated stupid people.


7 posted on 06/03/2013 5:29:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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“Yet a few constants — including the mass of the Higgs boson — are exponentially different from what these trusted laws indicate they should be, in ways that would rule out any chance of life, unless the universe is shaped by inexplicable fine-tunings and cancellations.”

And God laughs last.


9 posted on 06/03/2013 5:36:16 PM PDT by DugwayDuke
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One night, I travelled to another universe. All sorts of wild things were happening! Animals were talking! Water was air! Then I realized I was just watching a Spongebob Squarepants cartoon.


10 posted on 06/03/2013 5:37:36 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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if there are an infinite number of universes then there are an infinite number of answers to any question
or, which would seem about the same thing,
no particular answer to anything?


11 posted on 06/03/2013 5:38:09 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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When I was growing up, I took a particular interest in nuclear physics. And I majored in it in college, until I changed my mind and went elsewhere.

Frankly, science has gotten so politicized and ideological since then that you can scarcely believe anything you read these days. Global warming, multiverse theory, no one allowed to question evolution in the public schools. . . .


12 posted on 06/03/2013 5:41:25 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Bookmark.


14 posted on 06/03/2013 5:47:16 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Trey Gowdy......Nuff said.)
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Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: The universe might not make sense

If the universe doesn't make sense, then literally anything is possible because reason (sense) can't rule it out... abracadabra magic, faster than light travel, God Himself. In trying to prove He doesn't exist, science seems to have tied itself into a knot.

16 posted on 06/03/2013 5:59:01 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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It occurs to me that Higgs Boson would be an excellent name for a car model.


17 posted on 06/03/2013 6:05:05 PM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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Now presenting the Multiverse: brought to you by Occam’s two-by-four.


18 posted on 06/03/2013 6:07:18 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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If there are multiple universes can I click my heels and go to the one where Bozo is still a homosexual mule out of Afghanistan? (I guess I better be careful what I ask for.)


19 posted on 06/03/2013 6:42:24 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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"Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: The universe might not make sense"

Or it may make sense. The entire article doesn't advocate either position, but does say that experimental results in the next few years are likely to steer us down one path or the other.

21 posted on 06/03/2013 6:55:38 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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"Decades of confounding experiments have physicists considering a startling possibility: The universe might not make sense"

Hmmm..Universe doesn't seem to be homogeneous...

No homo???

23 posted on 06/03/2013 7:51:41 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: BenLurkin

I love science where there are theories, experiments to test theories, evaluations of the data, and acknowledgements of failures. It all makes science seem real again after having been inundated with trashy climate science.


24 posted on 06/03/2013 8:09:05 PM PDT by pallis
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I don’t recall reading before about naturalness/unnaturalness in the context of cosmology and particle creation. Maybe my memories were cancelled out?


25 posted on 06/03/2013 8:31:57 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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Actually, the degree to which atheist materialists have embraced “multiverse” theory is quite amusing.

They profess to be empiricists and atheists have, at least traditionally, wielded Occam’s razor against the existence of an unobservable, transcendent deity. Now, in preference to one unobservable entity, they posit a vast, perhaps infinite, array of necessarily unobservable entities (if it can be observed, it’s in our universe, not another one), thereby ceding control of Occam’s razor to us theists.


26 posted on 06/03/2013 8:34:49 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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>> which enables them to form big structures such as galaxies and humans egos.

27 posted on 06/03/2013 8:35:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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