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Do We Live In a Giant Cosmic Bubble?
Khemisty writes "Earth may be trapped in an abnormal bubble of space-time that is particularly void of matter. Scientists say this condition could account for the apparent acceleration of the universe's expansion, for which dark energy currently is the leading explanation.
Until now, there has been no good way to choose between dark energy or the void explanation, but a new study outlines a potential test of the bubble scenario.
If we were in an unusually sparse area of the universe, then things could look farther away than they really are and there would be no need to rely on dark energy as an explanation for certain astronomical observations.
'If we lived in a very large under-density, then the space-time itself wouldn't be accelerating,' said researcher Timothy Clifton of Oxford University in England. 'It would just be that the observations, if interpreted in the usual way, would look like they were.'"
Like, cosmic, man.
Man you ain't kidding. Take a look at the Capitol Hill region of space. That is one ultra dense region of hot air, that isn't just warping space-time this is a region of space where the wildest of idea's are warped into reality.
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Maybe the Large Hadron Collider can help us with this. The scientists can try to recreate this as well - after they fix the magnet issues.
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See, that didn't turn out so badly.
Are we in some kind a time loop / time DILATION FIELD. If we are we should use the ZPM powering it for other stuff.
Dude, don't worry God will just be there with a 700 quadrillion ton slab of dark matter to bail... I mean patch the hole right up.
I got a catholic block.
One of my Favorite episodes from all the Star Treks. Best part was that the time bubble around the planet prevented the inhabitants from communicating or interacting with the galaxy, their SETI program was ultimately a failure and they didn't understand why.
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. So therefore, the universe should appear to have different properties in different directions. Has anybody seen that?
Oh, but it does indeed! haven't you noticed that the universe is at daylight here but at night in China?
Capitol Hill region of space. That is one ultra dense region of hot air
Actually, that particular region of the universe consists of dark matter. It's an enormous pile of it, brown in color, steaming and giving off fetid odors that would knock a buzzard off a shit-wagon*. The region is full of it and amazingly, endless numbers of primitive little life-forms actually burrow themselves into it and suck nutrition from it.
* We miss you, George.
Always thought it was upper management that lived in a bubble.
Dr. Crusher: "If there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe!"
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Dr. Crusher: "Here's a question you shouldn't be able to answer: Computer, what is the nature of the universe?"
Computer: "The universe is a spheroid region seven hundred and five meters in diameter."
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer." -Adolf Hitler
"We are one Nation, we are one People." -The One 'leader'
Nah, you meant to say Jack Thompson. The vacuum between his ears sucked in all the copies of Duke Nukem Forever, and we can't get them out now.
It's globules all the way down!
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Why does the first thing that comes to mind after reading just this headline, make me think of that one episode on Star Trek Voyager
Wow, our minds just totally work differently. I thought of J-Lo's ass.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
I've always preferred the misanthropic principle, myself. "We see the universe the way we do because people are idiots."
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
> what can we do with this new knowledge other than escape the bubble to realize our true freedom?
We can finally say that beer is the true meaning of the universe. This finding confirms what beer drinkers around the world have suspected for years: our universe is just a bubble in a giant glass of beer! In the beginning, the beer was flat. Then suddenly the bottle was opened, and the lowered pressure lowered carbon dioxide's solubility and enabled creation of bubbles. As the primordial beer gas accumulated in our bubble, gravity appeared (the surrounding universe is made of light beer, which does not bend space as much as the regular beer) and caused the carbon dioxide to coalesce into stars and planets, and eventually into people. Our bubble is expanding now, and floating upward in the glass. Eventually it will reach the top and become a part of the giant cosmic head, at which point we shall all be judged for our actions and be doomed to either sink back in the glass, or to fly up into the cosmos with the angels. Yup, dude, this is some heavy stuff! But don't worry, the more beer you drink, the better you understand it!
but compensates for it by having more stupid.
None of them can see the clouds; The polished wings don't care.
Are we in some kind a time loop / time DILATION FIELD. If we are we should use the ZPM powering it for other stuff.
Yes, and then put our hands on our hips and do the pelvic thrust.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
It wouldn't surprise me at all. One-in-a-million chances crop up nine times out of ten.
Violence is like duct tape. If it doesn't solve the problem, you didn't use enough.
Somehow she would use that in your divorce proceedings and you would lose your senate race.
I don't know, but it'll probably cost a lot more than 700 billion dollars to bail the universe out.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Well, no more a hack than adding an arbitrary number of dimensions to the universe until all your equations work out. Oh, wait...
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