Since space itself has been expanding (at varying rates throughout the history of the universe)
Plus there may be parts of it which expanded at different rates than others, which complicates it even more... we may be in one portion of the universe that conforms to what we call the hubble constant, and a few hundred billion ly away there's another "bubble" which has different properties, etc...
Or, put another way, Douglas Adam's assertion about the size of space was a massive understatement;-)
But the universe is not a three dimensional array. The analogy really doesn't work, but if you think of it as an n-dimensional array in which the other dimensions are something whose existence we can only infer from observing their effects on the three/four we can measure, that may be closer...
Conservation of mass/energy isn't violated - nothing is being created nor destroyed within the system as a whole. So far as we know:) It's just that we can't see the whole system. Our assumptions on what happened after the big bang have to depend on what we can measure - even if we know that it's not an accurate picture of what we are observing.
That's about as simple as I can put it after four beers. It's incredibly hard to explain:-)
The expansion of space itself is not constrained by the speed of light, only the matter/energy within it.
Read Inflation for Beginners which is an excellent, relatively (argh) non-technical treatment of the subject.
Relevant quote: "One of the peculiarities of inflation is that it seems to take place faster than the speed of light. Even light takes 30 billionths of a second (3 x 10(exp-10) sec) to cross a single centimetre, and yet inflation expands the Universe from a size much smaller than a proton to 10 cm across in only 15 x 10(exp-33) sec. This is possible because it is spacetime itself that is expanding, carrying matter along for the ride; nothing is moving through spacetime faster than light, either during inflation or ever since. Indeed, it is just because the expansion takes place so quickly that matter has no time to move while it is going on and the process "freezes in" the original uniformity of the primordial quantum bubble that became our Universe."
I don't know what you mean by "information coming from apparently nowhere."
So, you can do something with a computer with NO OS on it?
Yeah, I can boot a livecd that'll give me the option of trying out the operating system choices, and install them if I feel like it.
Oh, wait, Microsoft doesn't give you that option. More bad, they - they should at least really try to keep up with the real innovations happening in the OS world...
They don't hate America. They just want to profit from it, and neither understand nor care what the cost is, as long as they and theirs benefit from it.
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
and
Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)
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Justification of salaries apparently knows no rational bounds.
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The sharing of information between sentient/sapient beings shall not be repressed. Doing so benefits the few at the expense of the whole.
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Since space itself has been expanding (at varying rates throughout the history of the universe)
;-)
Plus there may be parts of it which expanded at different rates than others, which complicates it even more... we may be in one portion of the universe that conforms to what we call the hubble constant, and a few hundred billion ly away there's another "bubble" which has different properties, etc...
Or, put another way, Douglas Adam's assertion about the size of space was a massive understatement
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RTFL.
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But the universe is not a three dimensional array. The analogy really doesn't work, but if you think of it as an n-dimensional array in which the other dimensions are something whose existence we can only infer from observing their effects on the three/four we can measure, that may be closer...
:) It's just that we can't see the whole system. Our assumptions on what happened after the big bang have to depend on what we can measure - even if we know that it's not an accurate picture of what we are observing.
:-)
Conservation of mass/energy isn't violated - nothing is being created nor destroyed within the system as a whole. So far as we know
That's about as simple as I can put it after four beers. It's incredibly hard to explain
Read the link again, is all I can suggest.
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What is gravity?
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The expansion of space itself is not constrained by the speed of light, only the matter/energy within it.
Read Inflation for Beginners which is an excellent, relatively (argh) non-technical treatment of the subject.
Relevant quote: "One of the peculiarities of inflation is that it seems to take place faster than the speed of light. Even light takes 30 billionths of a second (3 x 10(exp-10) sec) to cross a single centimetre, and yet inflation expands the Universe from a size much smaller than a proton to 10 cm across in only 15 x 10(exp-33) sec. This is possible because it is spacetime itself that is expanding, carrying matter along for the ride; nothing is moving through spacetime faster than light, either during inflation or ever since. Indeed, it is just because the expansion takes place so quickly that matter has no time to move while it is going on and the process "freezes in" the original uniformity of the primordial quantum bubble that became our Universe."
I don't know what you mean by "information coming from apparently nowhere."
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So, you can do something with a computer with NO OS on it?
Yeah, I can boot a livecd that'll give me the option of trying out the operating system choices, and install them if I feel like it.
Oh, wait, Microsoft doesn't give you that option. More bad, they - they should at least really try to keep up with the real innovations happening in the OS world...
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They don't hate America. They just want to profit from it, and neither understand nor care what the cost is, as long as they and theirs benefit from it.
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In addition, PI should be equal to 3.0000000...
I mean, think of the children, can't have'em being confused by mathematics, could fuck up their whole life...
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I'll bite.
;-)
From evilbible:
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
and
Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT)
There's more where that came from
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Yet they are still around...
Hey, third party distribution of microsoft patches saves microsoft bandwidth costs. Likely a significant amount. Beancounters take note...
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Your username was a perfect comment on the dozens of informative posts that followed.
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People with sight can be stupid... true.
There's the understatement of the new century...
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I would think that people with that handicap probably have better things to do with their time... if they aren't obscenely rich, that is.
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All dears have three eyeballs. Two in the front of their heads, and one in the back.
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In the long run, perhaps.
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Do we allow blind people to drive unsupervised?
That depends, is that blind with or without cellphones and/or children in the back seat?
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Hopefully we won't have to debate this issue again for a few thousand years.
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presence of a specialized and expensive dongle.
;-)
There, fixed that fer ya
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Shouldn't that be "Here Be Dragons"?
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A very small group of people with boxcutters managed to do pretty well against the "system" a while back.
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You know there's something fundamentally out of balance in the R&D module when the wall worts are bigger than the devices they are recharging ;-)
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Yeah, but imagine a laptop which is obsolete before it's power source fails.
Now that'd be innovation...*g*
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It's simple, fool.
;)
They'll have a database of every IP in existence.
Next step is pr0fit, of course.
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