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NubiWan
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 03/17/2006 : 11:09:06
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Wow! Have always been told that the "Big Bang" wasn't actually an explosion.., but an expansion rate from "submicroscopic to astronomical" in a 'trillionth of a second,' makes the distinction kind'a moot for moi. Am a firm supporter of science over faith, but this degree of revealation of our 'reality,' is certainly not devoid of "awe and wonder" for me either...
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0603/16wmap/
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Edited by - NubiWan on 03/17/2006 11:13:20
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 03/17/2006 : 11:49:35 [Permalink]
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| I too not only loved this discovery, but also am mind boggled about how all the stuff of the Universe could fit in the space of a marble. You have to wonder if we are correct that those quark flavors and similar particles are indeed the smallest divisions of matter. After all, weren't atoms believed to be the smallest for a while? |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 03/21/2006 : 12:41:57 [Permalink]
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| Or perhaps the Universe is just a lepton in another dimention. The 8th Dimention to be exact. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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NubiWan
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 03/30/2006 : 12:33:07 [Permalink]
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",..how all the stuff of the Universe could fit in the space of a marble." Try this on for size, beskeptigal. 
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At the big bang, theory says, all the matter and energy in the universe was compressed into a space about a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a meter across.
A press release yesterday, gave a somewhat more detailed explaination of the new data's implications, should you be interested.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/cuns-sdr032906.php
It seems certain to bring cosmology into the realm of the "hard sciences."  |
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Bill scott
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 03/30/2006 : 12:42:29 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Or perhaps the Universe is just a lepton in another dimention. The 8th Dimention to be exact.
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Or perhaps the Universe is just a lepton in another dimention. The 8th Dimention to be exact.
Perhaps, or perhaps a pink and white striped circus elephant put it there? |
"Lets get one thing clear, Bill. Science does make some assumptions." -perrodetokio-
"In the end as skeptics we must realize that there is no real knowledge, there is only what is most reasonable to believe." -Coelacanth-
The fact that humans do science is what causes errors in science. -Dave W.-
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