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It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org)

Posted by msmash on from the confirmed dept.

Reader sciencehabit writes: Ever peer into the night sky and wonder whether space is really the same in all directions or if the cosmos might be whirling about like a vast top? Now, one team of cosmologists has used the oldest radiation there is, the afterglow of the big bang, or the cosmic microwave background (CMB), to show that the universe is 'isotropic,' or the same no matter which way you look: There is no spin axis or any other special direction in space. In fact, they estimate that there is only a one-in-121,000 chance of a preferred direction -- the best evidence yet for an isotropic universe. That finding should provide some comfort for cosmologists, whose standard model of the evolution of the universe rests on an assumption of such uniformity.

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  1. So Christianity is right... by 110010001000 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...God is everywhere. Well at least there is a 1 in 121,000 chance He is. That is good enough for me!

  2. Re:Space by UnknownSoldier · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Like Descartes, and the typical male human perspective, your perception is backwards.

    Mind creates space/time not the other way around.
    Consciousness is not limited by space/time -- it is outside it.

    i.e.
    Newton and Leibniz simultaneously rediscovered calculas.

    If you had spent any time investigating the Lucid Dream and Out-of-Body state you would understand these fundamentals.

  3. ROFL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Thanks for the blast from the past. Your post made me feel like I was in high school again.

    Since then I learned that philosophical idealism has no scientific support, and it is, in fact, logically impossible to build scientific support for it. It is really popular among people who love the idea that they can get super-powers if they believe hard enough...the rationalizations they cook up are truly amazing.

    But it is all just tripe at the end of the day. Ancient tripe, at that.

    i.e. Newton and Leibniz both lived in a period during which the state-of-the-art of mathematics was primed for the discovery of calculus, and they were both doing work for which calculus was a natural solution, and they were both geniuses capable of making the logical leap, so they both did. This story is actually quite common, which creates a lot of fuss in patent law.

    Anyway, if you prefer fairy tales to objectivity, there isn't anything an anonymous internet post can say to dissuade you. So...good luck.