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Scientists Claim Laws Of Physics Change Throughout The Universe
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Scientists Claim Laws Of Physics Change Throughout The Universe
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/09/scient...-universe/

This would throw a spanner into the works...

Although, rather incredible, it shows how little we know about the universe.
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RE: Scientists Claim Laws Of Physics Change Throughout The Universe
Arg, it throws a wrench in NOTHING. It's new information that means we may have misunderstood something. WE ARE NOT LOCKED INTO A FIXED STRUCTURE THAT WE CONCEIVED.
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RE: Scientists Claim Laws Of Physics Change Throughout The Universe
The superstitious HATE new information.
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RE: Scientists Claim Laws Of Physics Change Throughout The Universe
(September 12, 2010 at 7:43 pm)solja247 Wrote: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/09/scient...-universe/

This would throw a spanner into the works...

Although, rather incredible, it shows how little we know about the universe.

You have just realised this?Facepalm
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RE: Scientists Claim Laws Of Physics Change Throughout The Universe
This isn't that new, the idea has been around for a while - Still hasn't been published though - I'm waiting for the peer review process, so far he's kept his methodology very private - This is somewhat suspicious.

On a positive note, this argument would certainly defeat fine-tuning for once and for all Smile
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I keep waiting for universe 2.0 to be released with brand new faster than light travel.
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RE: Scientists Claim Laws Of Physics Change Throughout The Universe
FTL = wormhole Smile You already have it (theoretically, provided you can sustain the throat with exotic matter)

Also, inflation was FTL.

2.0?
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RE: Scientists Claim Laws Of Physics Change Throughout The Universe
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(September 12, 2010 at 8:37 pm)theVOID Wrote: Also, inflation was FTL.

I'm not any sort of physicist. I barely passed my high school class, but from what I read general relativity precludes anything with mass from traveling faster than the speed of light. (Spaceships and their occupants generally have mass.)
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RE: Scientists Claim Laws Of Physics Change Throughout The Universe
(September 12, 2010 at 8:33 pm)lrh9 Wrote: I keep waiting for universe 2.0 to be released with brand new faster than light travel.

Waitaminute... if Gawd is Bill Gates... oh, shit, we really are fucked! get me outta here!!
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RE: Scientists Claim Laws Of Physics Change Throughout The Universe
(September 12, 2010 at 8:41 pm)lrh9 Wrote: Version number.
(September 12, 2010 at 8:37 pm)theVOID Wrote: Also, inflation was FTL.

I'm not any sort of physicist. I barely passed my high school class, but from what I read general relativity precludes anything with mass from traveling faster than the speed of light. (Spaceships and their occupants generally have mass.)

It sure does, to be specific it states that information (matter) cannot traverse two points faster than the speed of light, however spacetime is not matter and is masseless, that means that at the very least spacetime expands at the speed of light, however we have reasons for suspecting it was faster.

Effectively inflation was proposed to solve many observational discrepancies with the standard big-bang theory, namely the horizon problem, flatness problem etc.

The visible universe is 19 billion lightyears across, if expansion happened at the speed of light it should only be 13.7 billion lightyears across.

Spacetime can move away from it's self (from the equidistant point of two edges) faster than the speed of light, provided that no two ends of the expansion are in communication with each other (can "see" each other).

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