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Randy
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 Posted - 06/07/2008 : 17:23:04
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7440217.stm
"A team of physicists has claimed that our view of the early Universe may contain the signature of a time before the Big Bang."
Good topic for that next Monday morning coffee break.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 06/07/2008 : 18:15:23 [Permalink]
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| Good stuff. Another article touching on some of these topics was noted in last week's summary. |
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 06/08/2008 : 07:51:14 [Permalink]
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I am duly impressed; that's pure coolness on a stick!
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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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Hat Monster
New Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/19/2008 : 16:33:16 [Permalink]
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Not quite.
Beyond the media spin on this, it's a rather weak assertion. It assumes a very specific type of 'precursor universe' (which we do not have any evidence whatsoever of) and attempts to predict from there.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/19/2008 : 17:12:32 [Permalink]
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Um, I didn't see any assertions beyond tentitive hypothsis, Hat. In science, those come and go every day as new information is gathered. How the media spin those hypothisis matters not at all.
Myself, as a layman, I'll just have to wait & see.
Welcome to SFN!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 06/20/2008 : 02:59:32 [Permalink]
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Wow! It's been a while, hasn't it? But, he's new to me so my welcome still stands.
How come gone so long, Hat? Were you also on the old forum?
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Hints of 'time before Big Bang'
