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Study Hints At Time Before Big Bang
canadian_right informs us that scientists from Caltech have found hints of a time before the Big Bang while studying the cosmic microwave background. Not only does the study hint at something pre-existing our universe, the researchers also postulate that everything we see was created as a bubble pinched off from a previously existing universe. This conjecture turns out to shed light on the mystery of the arrow of time. Quoting the BBC's account: "Their model suggests that new universes could be created spontaneously from apparently empty space. From inside the parent universe, the event would be surprisingly unspectacular. Describing the team's work at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in St Louis, Missouri, co-author Professor Sean Carroll explained that 'a universe could form inside this room and we'd never know.'"
new universe.
Their they're doing there hair.
They need to get cracking on this. A universe from my closet? Fan*TAS*tic! My rent/sq. ft. is going down as I write...
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Sounds like MIB may have a lot more correct.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
that once we fully understand the universe it will be replaced with something even more complicated.
Others argue that this has already happened...
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When I first read this, it sounded so strange that I was unable to conceive it in any meaningful way. Then I got really high. Now it seems self-evident. It may not be genuinely insightful, but it sure is fun.
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...String hypothesis.
Sounds like you are insane in the membrane.
Maybe it is just one overlord. Our universe could just be formed when some dude dropped a hard deuce.
Balderdash!
Damn, this got modded flamebait?
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I must have misunderestimated the ire of the cosmic physicists on
... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about.
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More like :
Universe newUniverse = new Universe(oldUniverse);
Slipping shoelaces ?
1. Engage in baseless conjecture about alternative, unproveable universes.
2. Define new branch of mathematics that can support a complex multi-dimensional model reinforcing your baseless conjecture.
3. Publish in academic journals and popular media.
4. Lecture to gullible masses.
5. Profit!
6. Avoid performing any work beneficial to mankind. ~
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Good thing your slashdot posts will turn this bulldozer trend around and return us to the one, true meaning of the words!
Although the word "nazi" is now accepted to mean "a person who is fanatically dedicated to, or seeks to control, some activity, practice, etc." this is etymologically inaccurate. Outside of playful uses (such as "grammar nazi" or a TV serial's "soup nazi") the word "nazi" should be synonymous with "a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party," and we ought to come up with some intermediary term (like "asshole" if you feel like you require a more abusive term) to refer to this kind of pedantic overbearing we've found ourselves saddled with.
Word definitions and connotations have a tendency to move around quite a bit. The word "stink" for example, was once a neutral term to describe something giving off a scent, and now has decidedly negative connotation, if not being outright denotative of giving off a bad odor. Similarly, nazi once meant the members of the political party that established a murderous and expansionist totalitarian regime in Germany. Now it used to describe someone who likes to pick on people's misuse of its vs. it's.
You can use it to describe [...] even the counter-Earth ideas from waay back
I didn't know you could describe third-rate SciFi-as-an-excuse-for-BDSM hrough mathematics. Were Norman's publisations peer-reviewed? (Given their literary qualities I doubt it.)
SciFi with BDSM AND Mathematics? I find myself intrigued with your ideas, Sir, and would like to subscribe to your publications.
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
Great, now my brane hurts.
That should be:
Grate, now my brane hertz.
Hinjo, he knows too much. Use the uranium apple.
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