[PatrickHenry]

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[PatrickHenry]

Science Ping!

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[LibKill]

And his "teachers" called him "retarded".

I think he got the last laugh on them.

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[SteveMcKing]

I came up with this odd idea--

When mathematicians wanted to solve an impossible problem, they invented "i", such that: "an imaginary number is a real number times the positive square root of -1." The subsequent results yeilded amazing observations in many aspects of mathematics.

Why not do the same with physics? Just define a black-box figure (declare some "impossible" equivalence, perhaps?) and don't worry about how it works- just accept the result as true.

(The details of such a thing are well beyond my skills, which are presently stuck at undergraduate standards...)

[stripes1776]

"Gyroscopes moving through curved spacetime will gradually change their direction of spin (i.e. tilt) with respect to the stars.

Why would a gyroscope change its direction of spin?

[Tench_Coxe]

Now that is fascinating. And I will be nice.

[Richard Kimball]

I still think Hawking was right. Einstein did not prove Newton wrong, he proved him incomplete. The next great breakthrough will not prove Einstein wrong, it will prove him incomplete. The next breakthrough will build on his work, not eradicate it.

[Izzy Dunne]

If you want to watch a TV show (online) about Einstein and the birth of string theory, go to The Elegant Universe.

It's three hours, all online. I've been watching it with my homeschooled six-year old. (I have a hunch he understands more than I do :).

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Why is space not simply the absence of anything else and all of the attributes we assign to space simply other forces acting upon each other?

[RebelTex]

This leads scientists to believe that current theories will eventually be replaced by a single, elegant theory that explains all physical phenomena from the subatomic to the cosmic, the so-called "Theory of Everything."

Gee - all they have to do is read 'A Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.  They answer is right there - 42.

[muir_redwoods]

I have no religion. I have no complaint with anyone who does have one but this is just my opinion. For me the study of cosmology is the study of creation and it ultimately leads to the study of whatever or whoever created it all. Scripture might be a fine answer for some but cosmology gives me a better look at the elegance, beauty and grandeur of the ultimate work.

It might be put that I am less interested in what men say G-d said then I am in what G-d has done. The results are there to see and the understanding, though hard to manage, is the trip of a lifetime.