We are able to recreate in laboratories the conditions in the universe to within 10e-33 seconds of the Big Bang.
If this is true, then in the first 10e-33 seconds (or less) the whole matter of the universe expanded from a point size to something approximating its current density (or close enough for the purposes of a laboratory approximation) There's a lot of acceleration involved there!
I'm pretty skeptical of the big bang theory. I find the idea that the universe started as a point quite difficult to rationalise. It would be nicer (i.e. more satisfying) if it were not expanding and there was another explanation for red shift - but I think big bang has been so widely accepted that most scientists are not thinking outside that particular box. Everything that gets observed in the universe these days gets shoe-horned into the big bloody bang. Come on guys... its rubbish, it's on par with god-based explanations. I think we can do better.
The Vostok graph (P4 of Monckton's paper) shows a 10 degree cycle around 100,000 years or so in period. We're currently near the top of the temperature band in the wobbly bit where 2 degree variation is to be expected. If we continue to follow the same trends, we can expect the temperature to vary up and down a couple of degrees for another few thousand years or so, then drop by 10 degrees over the following 90,000 years. I'm not too worried about it, we're still on track.
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Wow, that's the same MD5 hash as your last message. Incredible. Maybe MD5's arent as reliable as we thought.
If this is true, then in the first 10e-33 seconds (or less) the whole matter of the universe expanded from a point size to something approximating its current density (or close enough for the purposes of a laboratory approximation) There's a lot of acceleration involved there!
I'm pretty skeptical of the big bang theory. I find the idea that the universe started as a point quite difficult to rationalise. It would be nicer (i.e. more satisfying) if it were not expanding and there was another explanation for red shift - but I think big bang has been so widely accepted that most scientists are not thinking outside that particular box. Everything that gets observed in the universe these days gets shoe-horned into the big bloody bang. Come on guys... its rubbish, it's on par with god-based explanations. I think we can do better.
Just my opinion.
Spot on. Mod parent up please. God I hate /. modding system. Oh, and the karma system too.
Doesn't that include Canadians, Peruvians, Brazilians, et al...
The Vostok graph (P4 of Monckton's paper) shows a 10 degree cycle around 100,000 years or so in period. We're currently near the top of the temperature band in the wobbly bit where 2 degree variation is to be expected. If we continue to follow the same trends, we can expect the temperature to vary up and down a couple of degrees for another few thousand years or so, then drop by 10 degrees over the following 90,000 years. I'm not too worried about it, we're still on track.
The "France surrenders preemptively" comment is a standard France joke - see Fark.com, not an Iraq jibe