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How something can come from nothing.
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RE: How something can come from nothing.
November 19, 2010 at 7:35 am
(November 19, 2010 at 7:10 am)ib.me.ub Wrote:
(November 18, 2010 at 12:10 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Then how do you explain the cosmic microwave background radiation?

http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/universe...yl_www.jpg

Where is Australia in all this?

See the big dark blue hole in the middle? ROFLOL
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RE: How something can come from nothing.
November 19, 2010 at 2:52 pm
(November 19, 2010 at 7:10 am)ib.me.ub Wrote:
(November 18, 2010 at 12:10 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Then how do you explain the cosmic microwave background radiation?

http://laps.noaa.gov/albers/sos/universe...yl_www.jpg

Where is Australia in all this?

An uncomfortably long plane ride from anywhere interesting I would guess.

In order for me to go to australia someones gonna have to move it closer.



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RE: How something can come from nothing.
November 21, 2010 at 5:09 pm
I actually found a rather interesting video addressing this subject:



19:00 - 20:30 addresses the issue most succinctly. If you don't feel like waiting for the video to load:
Quote:"If you take empty space, and that means get rid of all the particles, all the radiation, absolutely everything, so there's nothing there, if that nothing weighs something, then it contributes a term like [Einstein's equation]. Now, that sounds ridiculous. Why should nothing weigh something? Nothing is nothing. And the answer is nothing isn't nothing anymore, in physics. Because of the laws of quantum mechanics and special relativity, on extremely small scales, nothing is really a boiling bubbling brew of virtual particles that are popping in and out of existence in a time scale so short you can't see them."
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RE: How something can come from nothing.
November 22, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Orogenicman,

You are not fooling anyone with that magic eye image! I can see the dolphin.
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RE: How something can come from nothing.
November 22, 2010 at 5:27 pm
(November 22, 2010 at 12:58 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: Orogenicman,

You are not fooling anyone with that magic eye image! I can see the dolphin.

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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens

"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".

- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "

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