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    Our universe...

    I've always found these kinds of articles fascinating.
    Lifted from Google News-

    http://io9.com/5694701/does-cosmic-b...e-the-big-bang

    How would it work with string theory? Any suppositions???

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    It doesn't really matter any way.
    God created the world in 6 days and rested on the seventh.

    Do you know how I know? Because I have disproven evolution. If we are all all supposed to evolve according to our environment, then I suggest that people should be getting skinnier, not fatter. We should all be evolving into creatures that manage to eat McDonald's and Burger King and have a metabolism that keeps up. Not become giant, fat beasts.

    I continue to gain weight. I continue to live and eat in our world. Therefore Evolution is disproved. :)


    By the way I'm just being silly. The article was very interesting, but I'm still sticking with my God theory.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Fester View Post
    Any suppositions???
    I don't stick anything up my butt, thank you!
    ...Just ask me...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Fester View Post
    I've always found these kinds of articles fascinating.
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    http://io9.com/5694701/does-cosmic-b...e-the-big-bang

    How would it work with string theory? Any suppositions???
    String theory - which one? and as far as the universe's existence --- I don't believe the universe exists, therefore - how can it? Actually I don't believe optiboard exists, so what am I doing then?

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    Wait...There...It passed...

    Quote Originally Posted by MarySue View Post
    String theory - which one?
    I prefer E flat:bbg:

    and as far as the universe's existence --- I don't believe the universe exists, therefore - how can it? Actually I don't believe optiboard exists, so what am I doing then?
    Existing in an infinite number of dimensions simultaneously!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Fester View Post
    I prefer E flat:bbg:

    Existing in an infinite number of dimensions simultaneously!
    Actually, I believe it's 11 parallel dimensions, which can exist and therefore must exist. I got lost between old string theory (superstrings) and new, sexier modern string theory. Still, it's the only treatment (of which I'm aware) of the boundary between energy and matter, where the one becomes the other.

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    Silly string comes in a can. When you let it out it expands, so we know the universe is expanding. If you throw it into a fire, you get the big bang. It's all very simple.

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    We know the universe is expanding because of the red shift in the spectral lines in interstellar light. The arguement for years has been about whether the universe is closed (enough mass to halt, then reverse expansion, resulting in Big Crunch followed by another Big Bang) or open (we expand forever). Lately, the thought is that even with all the dark matter and dark energy, there is insufficient gravity to pull everything together, and that means that this universe is the first one, it's not a cycle. Fester's article says sure, we don't contract, but it's still cyclical. Like most things related to quantum mechanics, it contradicts itself to achieve truth. It's like Schroedinger's Cat, simultaneously dead and alive.

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    Some articles say the expansion is speeding up, some say it is slowing down. I believe that it will slow down and lead back to a "big crunch," as I've seen more evidence to that point. However, as in science, I will change my view if I or someone else discovers and provides evidence to the contrary.

    That's the beauty of science; it's always up for change as long as there's proof.

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    One of the commenters on Fester's article restates Penrose as mapping the previous universe's infinite future to the beginning of a new universe, compressing it it to a finite region on a diagram, thereby making the previous infinite entropy into the new low entropy. He labels this as an "esoteric concept". You have to agree with that!

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    This premise also begs the question...........

    Will we get the chance to make the same mistakes again?
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