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sam_handelman writes "The nytimes has another astrophysics article up. Free subscription etc. It talks about how inflation predicts multiple universes, this week. Dennis Overbye wrote the article, which is nice if lightweight. More info on the theory of inflation. Inflation, which is harebrained on first examination, actually predicts stuff, giving it credibility. Want to be the Right Pinky of God? It may yet be possible."
Personally, I'm having trouble reconciling the theory of inflation with a few well established notions about the universe. Does this mean that there are many turtles supporting other planets almost identical to our own?
Can anyone explain why I keep coming here? Every day at work, probably a dozen times. I hate the stories, I hate the editors. I'm not a big fan of Linux. I hate almost all of you, and I loathe the group-think that goes on here. It oozes out of all the highly modded comments... the /. party line.
Because we're mind control experts. We know you hate us, but we just love to have you around telling us how much you hate us, so we force you to come back. insert obligatory "all your base are belong to us" joke here
I'll be the brain :)
Got brain?
Do today's highschool physics students laugh at the scientists of 50 years ago?
They might, if they could count to 50. Kids these days...
Great - and we thought the flat earthers were bad enough...
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And there I was thinking that I was special and unique.
Only to find out there may be more out there like me.
Damm you Slashdot!!
If you get modded down for a first post... What do you get for a last post?
Moreover, cosmologists say, the laws of physics themselves, as experienced by creatures like ourselves, confined to four dimensions and the energy scales of ordinary life, could evolve differently in different bubble universes
...boy wouldn't that just burst ourbubble!
Or what if our bubble universe was just a small bubble trapped in another huge Whammo Bubble universe? Sure hope those giant kids are careful while they are waving their magic bubble wands around...
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Don't tell Alan Greenspan about the inflationary universe. He'll try to control it with interest rates.
The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.
Note to God: Remember to make English better in next universe.
Now it is obvious why the world seems strange...we're in a "dud" universe.
Why oh Why must the [editors] post these type of articles early in the morning! My head is going to hurt all day now!
thanks slashdot!
God does not play dice with the universe.
Looks like He just blows bubbles with it.
Or maybe He's making a giraffe. In the end we may find out we exist inside of a cosmic balloon animal. God! I hope we're not a snake hat.
Cake or Death? Cake Please!
to understand this theory, all you have to do is visit your favorite pr0n site using IE. you see the way your screen fills with an endless swarm of pop-up windows, each with their own content? think of those as little universes, each separate from the others, but united in their love of barely legal asian teens.
"You want a toe? I can get you a toe by three o'clock... with nail polish."
and since the very definition of the word is unchangeable, we must stop these heathenish studies before it changes the definition of the words!!!
Multiverses?
You mean this might mean that somewhere in the multiverse there might be a universe comprised entirely of "people" that look exactly like Lance and Britney?
Excuse me while I (and the rest of the "me's" in the multiverse) go out and hang ourselves....
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Silly humans, still debating simple things like evolution, astrophysics, and whether Star Trek or Star Wars is better(non-geeks: read that as "penis size"); and yet you still wonder why alien civilizations haven't contacted you yet.
We're still grappling with the galactic pickle matrix.
If there are infinite universes, there must be universes which contain other universes.
Let U be the universe which contains all universes which do not contain themselves.
Then the multiverse disappears in a puff of logic.
Besides... I'd would be darn horrible to find out that we have been preforming planicide on entire civilizations and races every time a cyclotron or particle accelerator is fired up.
Imagine all the legal ramafications if lawyers find out about even the possibility.
Table-ized A.I.
I have enough trouble worrying about economic inflation to give a rats ass about the inflation of multiple universes (universi?). For me, the existence of multiple universes(i, whatever) means one thing: somewhere, out there, another me is having sex with another Natalie Portman and another Janet Jackson AT THE SAME TIME.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."