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NASA Reaffirms Big Bang Theory
Peretz writes "NASA has found evidence reinforcing a theory of what took place post-Big Bang and time expansion. They claim: 'Over the course of millions of years, gravity exploited the density differences to create the structure of the universe---stars and galaxies separated by vast voids.' Thereby creating a 'structure' to the universe -- a kiddush cup. '...finds that the first stars---the forebears of all subsequent generations of stars and of life itself---were fully formed remarkably early, only about 400 million years after inflation. This is called the era of reionization, the point when the light from the first stars ionized hydrogen atoms, liberating electrons from the protons.'"
Well, looks like that's it for their funding.
---stars and galaxies separated by vast voids.' Thereby creating a 'structure' to the universe -- a kiddush cup. '...finds that the first stars---the forebears of all subsequent generations of stars and of life itself---were fully formed remarkably early, only about 400 million years after inflation. This is called the era of reionization, the point when the light from the first stars ionized hydrogen atoms, liberating electrons from the protons.
Fantastic!
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If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
First I clicked on the link and there was this: Nothing for you to see here.
Then I clicked and there was a story.
It happened in less than a second, so we can call that a Big Bang.
Q.E.D.
You can't handle the truth.
And we all know the answer will be 42, so why bother?
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Era of reionization? Time expansion? Doesn't Nasa know this is friday afternoon, time to go drinking and chase skirts? I can't think about this now!
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"So for anyone who...thought you finally had complete triumph over all the creationist wackos, I hate to burst your bubble"
Feel free to believe whatever you want, just don't call it science or I'll tell you how you should pray.
Oh great, now the Kansas Board of Education will have to have another meeting.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Now what exactly happened billions of years ago? And what happened before that? And before that?
*Head asplodes*
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
In Soviet Russia, there are no articles.
English is easier said than done.
no, you jackass, it proves that the instruments produce the same measurements when measuring hydrogen and oxygen as they do when measuring evaporated water. The devil would be furious if he knew you were advocating so ineptly.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
So the universe decides to expand massively and abnormally right after it begins to exist. Why?
It was depressed and binge-eating?
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Upon closer inspection of the results, scientists found evidence of giant supergalactic noodles and meatballs.
...to explain it all to you:
Big Bizang
Words: MC Hawking & Fred Ciesla
Music: Dark Matter
In the beginning there was nothing, not even time.
No planets, no stars, no hip-hop, no rhyme.
Then there was a bang like the sound of my gatt,
the universe was born and the shit was phat
The universe began as a singularity,
nobody knows what went on then G.
For ten million, trillion, trillion, trillionths of a second
the state of the universe cannot be reckoned.
The fundamental forces were unified,
we've no theory to describe that 'though I've tried,
then the forces split and the universe was born,
it was hotter than a priest watching kiddy-porn.
Protons, neutrons and electrons came to pass,
as photons collided changing energy to mass.
Three minutes go by, temps a cool one billion,
down from one hundred million, trillion, trillion.
This reduced heat allowed a new event,
the formation of heavier elements.
Still it was millions of years, 'fore the first start glowed,
if you're down with the bang sing along here we go!
It was a big-pow, piz-ow,
bang-a-dang, bigitty-digitty,
boom, bigitty-boom,
ka-boom, the big bizang.
Hold on now what about inflation?
Well that's a little tricky,
and could use some explanation.
Inflation, one could fairly state,
was a time when the universe expanded at a rate,
that was faster than the speed of light,
but that over simplifies and it ain't quite right.
Still for purposes here it will have to do,
'cause I ain't got the time to explain it to you.
The beginning of time and the birth of all matter,
say it took seven days you're as mad as a hatter,
it was millions of year 'fore the first star glowed,
if you're down with the bang sing along here we go!
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