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Rock-it science: Queen star conquering the universe (Brian May coauthors physics book)
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| Mon Oct 23, 1:22 PM ET
| Robin Millard
Posted on 10/23/2006 3:10:02 PM PDT by dead
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:10:04 PM PDT
by
dead
To: dead
I tend to think when all is said and done, we won't say "the big bang happened x billion years ago...."
We will say "We are now in the x billionth year of the bang..."
It sounds like a semantic ploy, but I think there's something different to it.
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:16:47 PM PDT
by
djf
(I'm not ISLAMOPHOBIC, just BOMBOPHOBIC!! Whether that's the same is up to Islam!!!)
To: dead
I don't see the big deal. The "Big Bang" is so easy to explain already. In the beginning, God said . . .
. . . and there was.
End of story.
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:18:59 PM PDT
by
Petruchio
(* Censored *)
To: djf
I think you are correct. The effect of the Big Bang is still underway, thus the expansion of space.
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:24:48 PM PDT
by
gb63
To: djf
I especially like the "from the big bang up to the present day and into the unforseeable future" part, implying that they have exactly what happened at the beginning down cold.
I suppose that theories are like that: once you are working on another one, the preceeding ones become "fact."
When I read it in News of the World, I'll believe it.
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:25:02 PM PDT
by
PoorMuttly
("Character is Destiny" -- Heraclitus)
To: Petruchio
In the beginning, God said . . . FLASH!!! Ah-ahhhhhh!
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:27:54 PM PDT
by
Physicist
To: gb63
I think you are correct. The effect of the Big Bang is still underway, thus the expansion of space.
The expansion of space into what? Total nothingness? The very idea is absurd on its face.
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:29:20 PM PDT
by
Jaysun
(Idiot Muslims. They're just dying to have sex orgies.)
To: Physicist
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:30:27 PM PDT
by
Gator101
To: dead
Brian May is the lead guitar player in a legendary rock band. He is also an astronomer and a leading researcher in solar system dust and the zodiacal light.
Is this what happens when you combine ultra cool with ultra nerd?
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:31:37 PM PDT
by
spinestein
(Now why didn't you list that among our assets?)
To: Jaysun
The expansion of space into what? Total nothingness? The very idea is absurd on its face. If instead of saying that the universe is expanding, I said that everything within it is shrinking, would you still face the same conceptual crisis?
(Hint: the two ideas are mathematically equivalent.)
To: dead
"It wuz like all dark, see, then like it wuz all bright and loud, like a Stones concert. That wuz what the Big Bang wuz like."
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:35:35 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: Physicist
Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void,
without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here.
If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe,
anything at all,
you would've hidden from it in terror.
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:37:03 PM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: spinestein
Is this what happens when you combine ultra cool with ultra nerd?Well for one thing, you have a guy who built his own guitar including the wiring and even the winding of the pickups.
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:38:21 PM PDT
by
facedown
(Armed in the Heartland)
To: spinestein
Is this what happens when you combine ultra cool with ultra nerd? or this:
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:44:28 PM PDT
by
Gator101
To: nnn0jeh; TR Jeffersonian; Cailleach
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posted on
10/23/2006 3:44:32 PM PDT
by
kalee
To: dead
One hell of a guitar player.
To: Physicist
If instead of saying that the universe is expanding, I said that everything within it is shrinking, would you still face the same conceptual crisis?
(Hint: the two ideas are mathematically equivalent.)
Thanks for the hint but I've heard the comparison before. And no, I wouldn't face the same conceptual crisis.
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posted on
10/23/2006 4:07:40 PM PDT
by
Jaysun
(Idiot Muslims. They're just dying to have sex orgies.)
To: Jaysun
There is nothing from the Big Bang Theory that implies that we are expanding into nothingness. We could merely be expanding into that-which-is-not the universe. Since we are a part of the universe, we may never know what is 'outside'.
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posted on
10/23/2006 4:12:35 PM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
(It's a fight to the death with Democrats.)
To: Blue Jays
Hi All-
Great guitarist and glad to hear he has other worthy interests. He should consider a decent haircut as well.
~ Blue Jays ~
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posted on
10/23/2006 4:13:37 PM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: weegee
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posted on
10/23/2006 4:31:10 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
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