Posted on 11/27/2007 8:06:25 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
I had a chance to visit a parallel universe once. It was pretty much the same as ours.
That’s what I believe, too, which makes it all the more awe-some.
i wonder who he favors more. me or you.
I’M KIDDING.
i already know the answer.
they probably have something like AA in the other universe only they probably call it ZZ.
Speaking of z’s... it’s 1:00a.m.!
Mayhap … we might have met there … mind altering drugs take us places and allow us to meet folks that we don’t recognize in normal life. ;-)
was gas 3.00 a gallon there, too?
From a recent article ( http://huterer.physics.lsa.umich.edu/~huterer/PLOTS/CMB_Huterer.pdf ) it would seem that the very, very minor temperature variations in the CMB (which give rise to the void and for that matter everything else on the WMAP) have a good chance (IMHO) to be due to a local or semi-local phenomena rather than imperfections in the afterglow of the big bang.
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hole in the universe ping
Cf. the first part of Mark Twain’s essay, THE DAMNED HUMAN RACE, entitled, WAS THE WORLD MADE FOR MAN ?
He says to suppose so is like supposing that the purpose of the Eiffel Tower was to support “the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit.” ... “anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, dunno.”
Actually, it doesn’t validate string theory, it validates an offshoot called M (as in membrane) theory...
Sarc, right? Because the “hole” in a torus shaped universe it not observable from within that universe. Think in terms of two dimensional beings residing on the surface of a sphere trying to “see” the hollow inside of that sphere, then up the order of dimensions a couple times...
It is just a hole. You have to do better than to assume one cosmological theory is true in order to use a big hole to confirm another theory.
And especially if you have to go all out and talk about other universes??? Just from a big hole??? Is this the 21st century version of the epicycle-just add extra unobservable dimensions and universes and dark energy until everything fits?
much simpler explanation. According to the “standard texts” about the big bang that I’ve read (Hawking and Forward, IIRC, as examples) there should have been as much anti-matter as matter created initially. Lot’s of work has gone into explaining why we don’t see evidence of it.
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Wouldn’t antimatter release light just like normal matter does?
The trouble with this kind of discovery is, it makes the universe so incomprehensible, so large and awe-some, that it makes me wonder how in the hell any creator could possibly care about any insignificant speck in it, such as our earth, much less a meaningless little gnat on that speck, such as me. I hope he has deputies all over the place whose job it is to care.
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Most matter is empty space, matter is probably made up of 0 dimensional particles, no more tangible to God then 1’s or 0’s in a computer. The Matrix has you.
Yes, if you consider 11 dimensions "unraveling".
I have a bit of trouble with Einstein's Theory of Relativity....so I have a real problem with 11 dimensions!
Lets see, apparently we live in a universe with no visual boundary, it seems to go on forever, and all matter is made up of mostly, if not all, empty space.
There is nothing tangible to matter, and there is no end in sight.
The Universe obviously serves no purpose.
Matthew 13:
Jesus says
The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared.
The owner’s servants came to him and said, “Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?”
“An enemy did this,” he replied.
The servants asked him, “Do you want us to go and pull them up?”
“No,” he answered, “because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.”
Psalm 8 (New International Version)
A psalm of David.
1 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.
2 From the lips of children and infants
you have ordained praise [b]
because of your enemies,
to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
5 You made him [man] a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the air,
and the fish of the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
What I get a kick out of is the ancients looked up in the sky and were amazed - and they had NO IDEA how amazing it really is!! (And neither do we no doubt!)
Alright, how many libs do we have to give up to fill it?
“This is just the area where the matter and anti-matter of our single universe came together in symmetrical opposite “halves.” Enough of the matter/anti-matter at the edges have annihilated each other to leave this void between the two sectors.”
I like your explanation better. Scientists should really heed the principle of Ockam’s Razor more often. Two universes???
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