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RE: Somebody said this to me
April 27, 2012 at 6:45 am
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I tend to lean towards Multiverse Theory. A multitude of universes exist and it's possible that the laws that govern them are all different. This would possibly mean only a few (thousand, trillion, however many there are) would even contain matter or generate life. This is obviously beyond our comprehension however, we'll likely never know if there are other universes, but it makes sense that there would be. Why did our universe expand with matter? Because the laws that govern it allowed it to and it happened.
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RE: Somebody said this to me
April 27, 2012 at 7:48 am
(April 26, 2012 at 6:16 pm)aleialoura Wrote: One of my friends posted this today:
"Why do people think science has any real answers? Today a scientist told me the sun is a star when it's obviously a circle and anyone can see that!"
And they were serious too.
The stupid! It burns! ![[Image: banghead.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=rationalia.com%2Fz%2Fbanghead.gif)
Almost as stupid (or perhaps just as stupid), a religious member of my family didn't know that all those countless stars in the night sky were other suns. She thought they were just lights.
![[Image: ddpan.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=rationalia.com%2Fz%2Fddpan.gif) People. Are. Stupid.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Somebody said this to me
April 27, 2012 at 7:50 am
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(April 27, 2012 at 7:48 am)Ace Otana Wrote: (April 26, 2012 at 6:16 pm)aleialoura Wrote: One of my friends posted this today:
"Why do people think science has any real answers? Today a scientist told me the sun is a star when it's obviously a circle and anyone can see that!"
And they were serious too.
The stupid! It burns!
Almost as stupid (or perhaps just as stupid), a religious member of my family didn't know that all those countless stars in the night sky were other suns. She thought they were just lights.
People. Are. Stupid.
Do these people even try to learn about things??
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RE: Somebody said this to me
April 27, 2012 at 7:52 am
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The stupidity is hurting me greatly. Did these people not go to primary school?
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RE: Somebody said this to me
April 27, 2012 at 7:55 am
(April 27, 2012 at 7:50 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Do these people even try to learn about things??
I would have to say no, but that's just a guess.
Quote:Did these people not go to primary school?
Either their school is to blame for not teaching them or they're just too stupid to understand anything that's being said. You can't fix stupid. ![[Image: dunno.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=rationalia.com%2Fz%2Fdunno.gif)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
Mankind's intelligence walks hand in hand with it's stupidity.
Being an atheist says nothing about your overall intelligence, it just means you don't believe in god. Atheists can be as bright as any scientist and as stupid as any creationist.
You never really know just how stupid someone is, until you've argued with them.
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RE: Somebody said this to me
April 27, 2012 at 7:55 am
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RE: Somebody said this to me
April 27, 2012 at 8:28 am
aleialoura Wrote:It was my baby's daddy's soon-to-be ex wife's mother. She's done a lot for my daughter and is really sweet, but yeah.... not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Understatement of the year.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Somebody said this to me
April 27, 2012 at 8:31 am
(April 27, 2012 at 7:55 am)Phil Wrote: Quote: The idea of it collapsing again is absurd, what would cause that?
If it were going to, gravity would cause it to contract but there will not be a big crunch.
At the centre of most galaxies are supermassive black holes which are slowly but surely consuming their parent galaxies.
If one extrapolates forward far enough(to a time when all suns have finally petered out) then it is easy to foresee that eventually the universe will consist of nothing but these blackholes and gravity.
And when they finally(after trillions of years)coalesce into one vast singularity which will contain the entire material universe, what then?
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RE: Somebody said this to me
April 27, 2012 at 8:38 am
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(April 27, 2012 at 8:31 am)Zen Badger Wrote: (April 27, 2012 at 7:55 am)Phil Wrote: Quote: The idea of it collapsing again is absurd, what would cause that?
If it were going to, gravity would cause it to contract but there will not be a big crunch.
At the centre of most galaxies are supermassive black holes which are slowly but surely consuming their parent galaxies.
If one extrapolates forward far enough(to a time when all suns have finally petered out) then it is easy to foresee that eventually the universe will consist of nothing but these blackholes and gravity.
And when they finally(after trillions of years)coalesce into one vast singularity which will contain the entire material universe, what then?
Are you asking what happens when all the black holes merge? If so, if that happens to black holes that haven't evaporated through Hawking Radiation, they will evaporate through Hawking Radiation. By the way, this isn't even on the scale of trillion cubed years.
Zen,
There isn't much of a question that all matter eventually will find itself in black holes but why would two black holes (using this as an example) that are widely separated by say 10 35 light years in a three dimensional space necessarily meet one another before the length of time it takes Hawking Radiation to evaporate them? Look at it this way, you have two atoms of Hydrogen in an otherwise "perfect" vacuum. How easy do you think it is for them to miss one another in a three dimensional container? I'll let you work out the math but the probability of them meeting is somewhere in a container say 10 light years on a side is so phenomenally large for all intents and purposes you can say it will never happen.
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RE: Somebody said this to me
April 27, 2012 at 8:51 am
Evaporation is really only an issue for small black holes.
A black hole with the mass of the sun would take about 2.098 × 1067 years to evaporate so how long would it take it take if it has the mass of the universe?
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