"Einstein initially pooh-poohed the idea"... and your proof is from where exactly???
Einstein actually proved the opposite mathematically, and then later retracted his findings and fudged the result to coincide with dodgy astronomical data.
Hence Einstein's Cosmological constant.
So in reality from this we can learn than some one can claim anything and then someone else can interpret it as something else.
Unless Poe gives PARAMETERS of a known dimension (ie mass) or makes a true prediction of its results then it means nothing in both theory and/or practice.
In fact he predicted Poe would predict black holes!!!
No, seriously its almost as if you could predict anything from a convoluted sentance.... no really!
Its misinterpreted 'trivia' like this that belittles the actual work of the professional scientist.
Good grief!! If someone as simple as Poe can come up with the origin of the universe what the hell are we paying Stephen Hawking for?!?!?
Sack him! He is not worth his wheel chair my man!!!... and so we all become cretins.
No Hawking, proposed Hawking radiation. A special type of pair producing radiation found emitted around the schwarschild radius of a black hole.
He did not discover black holes.
Lagrange... as in the 3 body problem.
The Lagrangian points symetrical positions between 2 or more massive bodies create positons of zero gravitational influence. The opposite points produce instances of masximal gravitational influence.
This is vector calculus as devised by Newton!!! Refinde by Lagrange.
"Proffesor">>
"For all we know, the absence of light in these areas may well be merely extremely dense clouds of cosmic dust rather than pinpoints of near-infinite gravitational power."
So the fact that the rotational velocity of the Milky Way Galaxy REQUIRES the existance of something as massive as the super massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, means you are ignorant and not worth while moderating above (-1
TROLL)
Mc Hawking - F*ck the Creationists
Do NOT forget!!!
Astrodamus and is inane writtinings can be interpreted as meaninging anything you want, should you feel so passionately inclined.
"primordial particle" in "one instantaneous flash."
In the context of Edgar's writings...
"From the one particle, as a center," he wrote, "let us suppose to be irradiated spherically -- in all directions"
By which he means from a point source, let something expand. A concept that was already so blindingly obvious at his time....
" -- to immeasurable but still to definite distances in the previously vacant space -- a certain inexpressibly great yet limited number of unimaginably yet not infinitely minute atoms."
Whoah!!! Clearly a genius!!! As if the concept had never been thought of before! No really! Newton was a child incomparison to Poe!
Shame on you contempory historians for getting it all wrong!
Its as if the Greeks had never been OMG!!!!.
... and unless there is as good a foundation in his works as Feynman's Quantum Electron Dynamics then I bet he didn't.
Stop pulling, anal FUD on slashdot...
Lets face it. If all Slashdot has to say about the world (and seriously!!! Iraq!!!!! Saddamm!!! the EU, Russia!!!) is an editorial about a game where you have to press a button to beat a drumb, then OMG kill me now!!!
Unless you have something important to say then go check out Shadowbane
Shadowbane
Its as much fun as real life... except you can keep your pants on if you like.
... for those of you in the music industry that didn't hear it the first time.
It is not the function of the government to be bribed into creating laws to enforce a revenue stream for your redundant buisness model.
If you sell a commodity which is essentially worthless then your commercial failure is assured.
To the 'artists'. Everyone else gets paid for their work by performance be it digital or otherwise. You are not intrinsically any different to us, why should your 'rights' be any different? Anyone can rent space on a server farm to distribute their work, but only the truely talented will be employed to perform their function regularly.
In short, get a real job, join the real world, get on stage and EARN your money.
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"But it seems in just the last 5 or so years, the facts about what we *don't* know about the universe are begining to make the theories of cosmology a bit out of touch."
Well, a good analogy would be to liken the process of developing theories of the universe to reverse engineering a very large software project. The underlying code language the software developers would be writing in would be represented by Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. Objects, functions and such would be analogous to the Big Bang Theory, Newtonian Mechanics, Electromagnetism etc etc.
Astronomers and their equipment are likewise similar to software users/testers. As their tools get better and the number of testers becomes larger the more likely they are to notice features, bugs and quirks in the software application as a whole.
As the software developers (theorists) get better they are able to tweak the functions and sometimes discover new parts of the programming language in an attempt to make their emulation a better representation of the original.
Progress always goes in ebbs and flows. There are somedays when you think you have hit a break wall, but there are others when you can write some wonderous code and feel like you know it all. Its the same for a Theoretical Physicist.
"For example back in 1998 when studies of distant supernova gave thorough evidence of an increase in the speed [indiana.edu] of the universes expansion. Now, this one still seems to be giving headaches to most all the theorists, and it seems to me that working around, or flat out ignoring that fact when building the "big theory" leaves a bit to be desired."
Well the link you provided suggested evidence for the existance of Einstein's cosmological constant. Something that has recently been proposed as a mechanism for aberrations in the velocity of some of NASA's deep space probes. It didn't suggest the expansion waas increasing in speed though.
"Now enter Dark Matter [queensu.ca]. The lack of a comprehensive understanding of either A) the particle composition of the universe in the order of about 88% or B) an understanding of gravity to a power of 10 gives us yet another piece of the puzzle we're basically clueless about."
Dark matter is a theory to plug the holes produced by astronomers own conflicting observations. It is entirely consistant with previous theories, and explains nicely why galaxies rotate at the speed they do, but do not appear to have enough *luminous* matter around them to produce the gravitational forces needed. It is becoming more and more obvious that the missing matter is in fact super massive black holes at the centres of these galaxies.
"but it seems like maybe we should shelve the Big Theory Of Everything and work a little harder on the Theory of Very Specific Things That We Know We Don't Know."
Well, the Big Bang theory per se has been shelved! Just like the original software, it is still in developement, producing new and strange things like the article above. Personally as an ex-physicist, In would consider the origin of the universe as something very SPECIFIC that we know we don't know much about;o)
"That being said, IANA(astromomer/cosmologist/physicist) so please, jump down my throat and tell me what *I* don't know because I for one am willing to admit that I don't have it all figured out quite yet."
Ask any of the big names in Physics today and they will all agree with you, they haven't figured it all out either. You are not alone.
... first aired a couple of years ago. It was a great idea and made for some good viewing. Can't remember which station it was on though:o(
Highlights for me included the making of photographic equipment and a compass.
See:
http://www.shadowbane.com
Kinda like UO with full pvp, but with guild vs guild seiges and warfare, build player run cities.
With no level treadmill like in Evercrap it might be right up your alley.
"Puffer demonstrated to a county official and a Chronicle reporter"
Most people would be grateful for such a demonstration. If YOU leave holes in your system then YOU should be liable for any clean up bill. Not the guy who showed it to you.
Although I didn't read the article so I don't know if this is the case here.
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"Einstein initially pooh-poohed the idea" ... and your proof is from where exactly???
Einstein actually proved the opposite mathematically, and then later retracted his findings and fudged the result to coincide with dodgy astronomical data.
Hence Einstein's Cosmological constant.
... and I have an honors degree in Astrophysics and am quite prepared to shoot anyone down who tries to argue otherwise.
So in reality from this we can learn than some one can claim anything and then someone else can interpret it as something else. Unless Poe gives PARAMETERS of a known dimension (ie mass) or makes a true prediction of its results then it means nothing in both theory and/or practice.
No really.... you ought to learn everything from first principles.
In fact he predicted Poe would predict black holes!!! No, seriously its almost as if you could predict anything from a convoluted sentance.... no really!
Its misinterpreted 'trivia' like this that belittles the actual work of the professional scientist. Good grief!! If someone as simple as Poe can come up with the origin of the universe what the hell are we paying Stephen Hawking for?!?!? Sack him! He is not worth his wheel chair my man!!! ... and so we all become cretins.
Such is the misconception of the cult of Arthur C Clarke.
No Hawking, proposed Hawking radiation. A special type of pair producing radiation found emitted around the schwarschild radius of a black hole. He did not discover black holes.
Lagrange... as in the 3 body problem. The Lagrangian points symetrical positions between 2 or more massive bodies create positons of zero gravitational influence. The opposite points produce instances of masximal gravitational influence. This is vector calculus as devised by Newton!!! Refinde by Lagrange.
"Proffesor">> "For all we know, the absence of light in these areas may well be merely extremely dense clouds of cosmic dust rather than pinpoints of near-infinite gravitational power." So the fact that the rotational velocity of the Milky Way Galaxy REQUIRES the existance of something as massive as the super massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, means you are ignorant and not worth while moderating above (-1 TROLL) Mc Hawking - F*ck the Creationists
Do NOT forget!!! Astrodamus and is inane writtinings can be interpreted as meaninging anything you want, should you feel so passionately inclined. "primordial particle" in "one instantaneous flash." In the context of Edgar's writings... "From the one particle, as a center," he wrote, "let us suppose to be irradiated spherically -- in all directions" By which he means from a point source, let something expand. A concept that was already so blindingly obvious at his time.... " -- to immeasurable but still to definite distances in the previously vacant space -- a certain inexpressibly great yet limited number of unimaginably yet not infinitely minute atoms." Whoah!!! Clearly a genius!!! As if the concept had never been thought of before! No really! Newton was a child incomparison to Poe! Shame on you contempory historians for getting it all wrong! Its as if the Greeks had never been OMG!!!!.
... and unless there is as good a foundation in his works as Feynman's Quantum Electron Dynamics then I bet he didn't. Stop pulling, anal FUD on slashdot...
Lets face it. If all Slashdot has to say about the world (and seriously!!! Iraq!!!!! Saddamm!!! the EU, Russia!!!) is an editorial about a game where you have to press a button to beat a drumb, then OMG kill me now!!! Unless you have something important to say then go check out Shadowbane Shadowbane Its as much fun as real life... except you can keep your pants on if you like.
... for those of you in the music industry that didn't hear it the first time. It is not the function of the government to be bribed into creating laws to enforce a revenue stream for your redundant buisness model. If you sell a commodity which is essentially worthless then your commercial failure is assured. To the 'artists'. Everyone else gets paid for their work by performance be it digital or otherwise. You are not intrinsically any different to us, why should your 'rights' be any different? Anyone can rent space on a server farm to distribute their work, but only the truely talented will be employed to perform their function regularly. In short, get a real job, join the real world, get on stage and EARN your money.
"But it seems in just the last 5 or so years, the facts about what we *don't* know about the universe are begining to make the theories of cosmology a bit out of touch." Well, a good analogy would be to liken the process of developing theories of the universe to reverse engineering a very large software project. The underlying code language the software developers would be writing in would be represented by Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. Objects, functions and such would be analogous to the Big Bang Theory, Newtonian Mechanics, Electromagnetism etc etc. Astronomers and their equipment are likewise similar to software users/testers. As their tools get better and the number of testers becomes larger the more likely they are to notice features, bugs and quirks in the software application as a whole. As the software developers (theorists) get better they are able to tweak the functions and sometimes discover new parts of the programming language in an attempt to make their emulation a better representation of the original. Progress always goes in ebbs and flows. There are somedays when you think you have hit a break wall, but there are others when you can write some wonderous code and feel like you know it all. Its the same for a Theoretical Physicist. "For example back in 1998 when studies of distant supernova gave thorough evidence of an increase in the speed [indiana.edu] of the universes expansion. Now, this one still seems to be giving headaches to most all the theorists, and it seems to me that working around, or flat out ignoring that fact when building the "big theory" leaves a bit to be desired." Well the link you provided suggested evidence for the existance of Einstein's cosmological constant. Something that has recently been proposed as a mechanism for aberrations in the velocity of some of NASA's deep space probes. It didn't suggest the expansion waas increasing in speed though. "Now enter Dark Matter [queensu.ca]. The lack of a comprehensive understanding of either A) the particle composition of the universe in the order of about 88% or B) an understanding of gravity to a power of 10 gives us yet another piece of the puzzle we're basically clueless about." Dark matter is a theory to plug the holes produced by astronomers own conflicting observations. It is entirely consistant with previous theories, and explains nicely why galaxies rotate at the speed they do, but do not appear to have enough *luminous* matter around them to produce the gravitational forces needed. It is becoming more and more obvious that the missing matter is in fact super massive black holes at the centres of these galaxies. "but it seems like maybe we should shelve the Big Theory Of Everything and work a little harder on the Theory of Very Specific Things That We Know We Don't Know." Well, the Big Bang theory per se has been shelved! Just like the original software, it is still in developement, producing new and strange things like the article above. Personally as an ex-physicist, In would consider the origin of the universe as something very SPECIFIC that we know we don't know much about ;o)
"That being said, IANA(astromomer/cosmologist/physicist) so please, jump down my throat and tell me what *I* don't know because I for one am willing to admit that I don't have it all figured out quite yet."
Ask any of the big names in Physics today and they will all agree with you, they haven't figured it all out either. You are not alone.
I expect the people at OU are smiling at all the license money thye got from the deal.
... first aired a couple of years ago. It was a great idea and made for some good viewing. Can't remember which station it was on though :o(
Highlights for me included the making of photographic equipment and a compass.
See: http://www.shadowbane.com Kinda like UO with full pvp, but with guild vs guild seiges and warfare, build player run cities. With no level treadmill like in Evercrap it might be right up your alley.
"Puffer demonstrated to a county official and a Chronicle reporter" Most people would be grateful for such a demonstration. If YOU leave holes in your system then YOU should be liable for any clean up bill. Not the guy who showed it to you. Although I didn't read the article so I don't know if this is the case here.