Big Bang Theory or can we drop 'theory' now? - Page 2

sleepyjeff · 03-18-2006, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

In a battle of the four fundamentals forces - being electromagnetism, strong nuclear force, weak nuclear force, and gravity - gravity will win every time. May take a while, but it will, and eventually the universe will collapse back upon itself.

Ok if electormagnetism is your Point Guard and strong nuclear force is your power forward and weak your small; does that make gravity your center or your shooting guard?

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Alex · 03-18-2006, 01:43 AM

No, gravity would be the head coach. On the court at any given moment it is an extremely weak influence but casually over time and distance it is the strongest force on the team.

Alex · 03-18-2006, 05:33 PM

Coincidentally, this video interview was posted at Slate today and is a bit on topic.

innerSpaceman · 03-17-2006, 12:15 PM

And since "science" comes up with something new every decade (collapsing, accellerating, warbling), let's just assume we will really never know what's going on.

There may in fact be zillions of universes existing all at once, on different planes of existence. Or there may be just one, our own. If just one, what is "beyond" that one universe? For that matter, if there are a zillion, what is beyond the zillion of them?

Unanswerable questions, fun to ponder.

Though it doesn't matter a whit in my daily life, I am unaccountably thrilled to be amoung to first generations of humans to know that we live on the outer arm of the quadrillionth galaxy in the known universe (which may or may not be one of many now existing, or periodically existing due to endless expansion and contraction) - - that the earth beneath us is changing and moving all the time, with continents joining together in mega-gloms and separating again with oceans filling in between - - that humans are the latest blip in eons of different life forms on the planet, constantly evolving, elephants ages after mastodons, birds ages after dinosaurs, dinosaurs ages after each other (Disney was wrong: The Tyronnosaur 'fighting' that stegosaurus are separated by a lava stream of several hundred million years) - - and that all the life on this planet that now lives or ever died has been constructed from the atoms of the stars that lived and died long before our sun burned hot in space.

None of this gets me so much as a cup of coffee, but I love knowing it.

Gemini Cricket · 03-17-2006, 01:12 PM

I have a horny friend who is 6'8". He calls himself the Big Bang.

Prudence · 03-17-2006, 01:53 PM

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
It's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
Through an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Moonliner · 03-17-2006, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Prudence

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
It's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
Through an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Don't let NA catch you making a python reference or you'll be turned over to Dimsdale straight away and you without a hedgehog I might add.

Not Afraid · 03-17-2006, 02:20 PM

Who's Dimsdale?

scaeagles · 03-17-2006, 03:11 PM

Interesting.....I thought new theories about the existance of "dark matter" that provides a large portion of the mass to the universe were contributing to thinking in the other direction. As in more mass = higher energy output to continue the expansion = slower accelaration to the point of stopping and reversing.

But to be honest, I do not consider myself an expert or even well read on the subject.

Not Afraid · 03-17-2006, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

.......existance of "dark matter"

Dark Matters laughed and danced and lit the candles one by one. bum bum bum.

Or, how about....

Old dark matters, keep on rollin’
Mississippi moon, won’t you keep on shinin’ on me

I'm easily amused.

03-18-2006, 01:43 AM	#2
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	No, gravity would be the head coach. On the court at any given moment it is an extremely weak influence but casually over time and distance it is the strongest force on the team.
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03-18-2006, 05:33 PM	#3
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Coincidentally, this video interview was posted at Slate today and is a bit on topic.
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innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	And since "science" comes up with something new every decade (collapsing, accellerating, warbling), let's just assume we will really never know what's going on. There may in fact be zillions of universes existing all at once, on different planes of existence. Or there may be just one, our own. If just one, what is "beyond" that one universe? For that matter, if there are a zillion, what is beyond the zillion of them? Unanswerable questions, fun to ponder. Though it doesn't matter a whit in my daily life, I am unaccountably thrilled to be amoung to first generations of humans to know that we live on the outer arm of the quadrillionth galaxy in the known universe (which may or may not be one of many now existing, or periodically existing due to endless expansion and contraction) - - that the earth beneath us is changing and moving all the time, with continents joining together in mega-gloms and separating again with oceans filling in between - - that humans are the latest blip in eons of different life forms on the planet, constantly evolving, elephants ages after mastodons, birds ages after dinosaurs, dinosaurs ages after each other (Disney was wrong: The Tyronnosaur 'fighting' that stegosaurus are separated by a lava stream of several hundred million years) - - and that all the life on this planet that now lives or ever died has been constructed from the atoms of the stars that lived and died long before our sun burned hot in space. None of this gets me so much as a cup of coffee, but I love knowing it. Last edited by innerSpaceman : 03-17-2006 at 04:19 PM.
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03-17-2006, 01:12 PM	#5
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	I have a horny friend who is 6'8". He calls himself the Big Bang.
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Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour. It's orbiting at ninety miles a second, so it's reckoned, The sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day Through an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way. __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	Who's Dimsdale?
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03-17-2006, 03:11 PM	#9
scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	Interesting.....I thought new theories about the existance of "dark matter" that provides a large portion of the mass to the universe were contributing to thinking in the other direction. As in more mass = higher energy output to continue the expansion = slower accelaration to the point of stopping and reversing. But to be honest, I do not consider myself an expert or even well read on the subject.
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