One Big Bang, Or Many?

butterwise writes "From the Guardian Unlimited: 'The universe is at least 986 billion years older than physicists thought and is probably much older still, according to a radical new theory. The revolutionary study suggests that time did not begin with the big bang 14 billion years ago. This mammoth explosion which created all the matter we see around us, was just the most recent of many.'"

Comments

Whew!

[Kelson]

"All we can say is [the next big bang] won't be within the next 10 billion years." Good job, because if we were around we would instantly disintegrate into massless particles of light.

And you know how quickly that kind of thing can ruin your day!

Taking Numbers at Face Value

[Stranger4U]

"...at least 986 billion years older ..."

I always found it amusing when people take scientific estimates at face value. The article says something along the lines of "the universe could be up to a trillion years old," so, obviously, the universe is precisely 1 trillion years old.

Re:Taking Numbers at Face Value

[Frequency Domain]

Reminds me of the story about the museum curator who was leaning on the second floor railing looking down at the T-Rex display, one of his personal favorites. A small family group were in front of the display, looking up in awe, and the kid asked his parents how old it was. The janitor, who had been listening nearby, sauntered over and said "I happen to know that that there skeleton is sixty five million and thirteen years old." The curator cracked up as the janitor continued, "Yup, I been workin' here thirteen years now and the curator himself told me on the day I started that it was sixty five million years old."

Re:God is one kinky SOB

[remembertomorrow]

In other news, pornography much older than originally thought.

So...

[Moby Cock]

So...This is all just deja vu all over again?

Never know!

[git68]

Vista might be released before the next big bang.

Re:God is one kinky SOB

[jdgeorge]

Created the universe in one giant gang bang

** I hope I don't get smited for that

For some reason, when I conjugate the verb word "smite" in that context, I get "smut".

(Yes, I know, it should be "smitten", but that's hardly humorous.)

Re:Global Warming, Universe Competition

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

> parallel/oposite/mirror universe

Where people hang out on dotslash.moc, a web site for intellectually average people with magnificent sex lives. News for normals. You look mahvelous.