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The Death of A Universe
ninthwave writes "The Guardian is running an article on research into the visible effects of entropy in the Universe. Alan Heavens of The University of Edinburgh did the research also posted at The Royal Astronomical Society with this article" I dunno - expansion, heat death - it all reminds me of a teacher who said "I'm not a premillenialist, postmillenialist - I'm a pan-millenialist, as in it's all going to pan out in the end." Update: 08/18 16:36 GMT by S : Headline fixed.
And some slashdot them headline am grammar did die hot death ugh.
RST
So, if I'm alive in 5 billion years, I'll die in a fiery red version of our sun.
Doesn't this guy also go on to invent transparent aluminum then come back to the present and give away the formula to a fabricator in San Francisco?
"Computer! Oh computer?"
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
Oh, and Karl Rove has declared that entropy was created during the Clinton administration and a partisan Congress has prevented W from eliminating it.
Does that mean we'll never get to see Duke Nukem Forver?
Alan Perlis once said: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing"
...when the universe fails to modernize the electrical grid.
It's "An universe" to people who pronounce "universe" correctly. The proper pronounciation is "oo-nee-vers" not "you-nee-verse"
Just the other day I was told I couldn't put "minimize entropy" as my job description where I work. Now look what's happening. I'm going to take this article to my boss and say "I told you so!"
I've found that my posts don't format quite right w/o a sig.
Tell that to the goatse guy. You better believe he doesn't go around saying "a universe" anymore, that's for sure.
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I for one welcome our old entropy overlord!
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
I oonilaterally disagree with your oonique position. Ur ooninformed.
You down with Entropy? Yeah, you know me! (mp3 link)
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aaaahhh, forget it..
I, for one, welcome our grammar-challenged Slashdot Editor overlords.
Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
Actually, the human race will be wiped out by the Y3K bug.
Announcer: "Today, in our studios, we have an Elk, I mean, an expert..."
Anne Elk: "Not Anne Expert, Anne Elk!"
Announcer: "Yes. Sorry. Today we have a-n expert, not a-n-n-e Expert on... the Universe..."
Anne Elk: "That's right Chris, I am."
Announcer: "An Expert?"
Anne Elk: "No... Anne Elk"
Tim
haha i forgot to put '/sarcasm' in there...sorry to scare you like that.
Did anyone else notice the name of the compression system mentioned in one article? MOPED?
Mozilla brought you Firebird.
Apple brought you Jaguar (Puma/Ocelot/Tabby).
Now, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey brings you: MOPED!
And people wonder why science has image problems...
it all reminds me of a teacher who said "I'm not a premillenialist, postmillenialist - I'm a pan-millenialist, as in it's all going to pan out in the end."
This guy must have been fun at parties.
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
... i thought the blackout was confined to new york, detroit and cleveland?
// "Can't clowns and pirates just -try- to get along?"
Hey, you found my acid! Give it back!
Who then, if not humans, would you suggest make grandiose statements?
bad sig...no donut.
"But language is an evolving invention of the people and not a set of rules defended by an elite crackerjack force of grammar gnomes."
Tell that to the French.
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I dunno - expansion, heat death - it all reminds me of a teacher who said "I'm not a premillenialist, postmillenialist - I'm a pan-millenialist, as in it's all going to pan out in the end."
Hemos, this does prove that you have been to a school and even listened to what the teacher was saying!!
The Universe is dying.
You are not the customer.
I'm sure this document is very enlightening to those with the property background knowledge, but any paper with the phrase "according to conventional four-dimenional quantum field theory" (page 3) is a bit beyond my comprehension, and I'm not sure if it can be called easily digestable...
Hemos,
You have embarrassed we for the last time. Get an box and clean out you locker.
Loves,
Taco
So long, michael. Don't let the door hit you...
While not a cosmologist, I am well aware that by some definitions a universe is that which outside of which nothing else can exist (or at least be known -- let's not get into epistemology), and I accept the word multiverse. But I am an English major and I have to quibble. I think the words 'universes' and 'multiverse' are both acceptable as plurals, depending on one's meaning and ideology.
An analogous situation would be a monotheist refusing to accept the word 'gods' as plural of 'god' because of her ideology. She is quite welcome call my gods daemons, but not to constrain my terminology.
But, then, what the hell do I know? I use 'octopodes' when speaking of more than one octopus.
The first of your links seemed to suggest that this conclusion depended on not taking the tidal effects of the moon into account, i.e. that with the tidal effects considered, Earth was more likely to be engulfed.
:) (By that time we'll probably be dead or Vorlons, anyway.)
I was amused by this line (from the second link): "Perhaps this 200 million year reprieve will give humans enough time to form their own survival capsules and escape into deep space."
I think that if we really haven't invented "survival capsules" 5.5 billion years from now, that another 200 million aren't going to matter much.
...who won the Nobel prize in 1974 for his work in discovering quasars at Cambridge University...
You'd think someone would have noticed before then. They were behind the couch the whole time.
Ba-BOOM! Thanks, I'm here all evening.
I vote for dead Vorlons.
Hmm... let me check the CA governor ballot again, maybe I CAN vote for a dead Vorlon.