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Post Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:56 am

You got that off Red Dwarf!

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Post Sun Feb 22, 2004 11:54 am

Darn, someoen saw through it. But I changed the man's name :p

"Xenos, the breakfast of champions" -YowuLing

Post Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:57 pm

@Stormscape,
Just a little thought but is time existent as such, in other words, The big Crunch, would it reverse the time?? I think not, because that would mean that the Human Race is somesort of Paradox that would happen over and over and over. And time moves only in one Direction.

I imagine the Big Crunch some different way, by comparing it with a Supernova.
Before a SuperNova Happens there is a moment of silence as in the reactions have stalled. after that single moment in Time, The whole thing Collapses, because the reactions that have stalled, all the time supported the sheer immense size of the star.
The collapse itself doesn't last more then a Millionth of a seconth. Or to put it in Scientific terms no more then 1.10^-6th of a second, but in that VERY short period of time the star collapses with such force and so fast that it can reach maximum compression to have a shockwave occur.

Now compare this with a possible theory about the big Crunch.
In other words, see the Big Freeze that Kyp mentioned as that moment when all reactions stall out, that single moment could last a year or a second but eventually the whole universe will become unstable... and inevitably, Collapse under its own size.
That would possibly occur so fast that the shockwave afterwards would spread out the NEW buildingblocks in the universe and create the new universe itself.

Remember that this is only a theory and my interpretation of the whole matter.

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Oh, dear, How sad, Never mind!!-Battery Sergeant Major Williams

'Cos it's strange innit??, whenever you stand in a Library and go AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH,
People stare at you, Whenever you do it in an Aeroplane everyone joins in.. - Tommy Cooper


Edited by - Locutus on 2/22/2004 1:59:36 PM

Post Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:37 pm

Which means then the Universe is a Paradox. Well, it makes sense.
And I liek to think of humans as a disease on Earth. Humans are the planetary German Measles.

"Xenos, the breakfast of champions" -YowuLing

Post Sun Feb 22, 2004 3:33 pm

@Stormscape,
<Edited with a sincere apologies to Stormscape for the remark, I am sorry please accept my humble apologies for the error!!>.

second, your comparison of a human race with a disease, Why is that.
any organism is parasitical (sp?) because it feeds on his or her environment

Edited by - Locutus on 2/23/2004 1:24:34 PM

Post Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:32 pm

German Measles is a disease though. It really is... geez... some people... so uneducated....

"Xenos, the breakfast of champions" -YowuLing

Edited by - Stormscape on 2/22/2004 4:31:59 PM

Post Mon Feb 23, 2004 6:47 am

Stormy,

You could have just said measles or smallpox. From other threads, I think the point would be that there are members of TLR from other countries, not just English speaking. Even if it is perfectly correct to refer to a strain of measles as
German doesn't make it perfectly OK in an international setting. In fact, medically speaking that kind of measles is known as RUBELLA.

Post Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:13 am

so by that argument you couldn't say "spanish flu" then?

Post Mon Feb 23, 2004 11:27 am

Or Scottish Insanity?

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You could no more evade my wrath... than you could your own shadow!

Post Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:56 pm

Depends. Is that the only name for it? Recent strains named after geographic locations are generally common. I.e, Hong Kong flu.... but I may be wrong about this.

Spanish flu also was known as La Grippe but I don't know if that is a medically
correct name of the illness.

All I'm saying is that when we use our own culturally biased names for things that don't necessarily ring very nicely to others ears, it isn't helpful.

When's the last time you've heard of a flu generating in England that the local papers seriously would refer to it as the English flu? Why wasn't it English cow disease instead of mad cow? That's all I'm saying.

In the rubella case, I think that after the point was made, it could be recognized that, instead of German measles it also is known, around the world, as Rubella. Besides, the choice of that disease to make the point being made was rather pointedly unflattering, to say the least.


Edited by - Indy11 on 2/23/2004 2:35:53 PM

Post Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:16 pm

Back on to astronomy, here is a link to a site about Einstein and dark energy, etc. Just thought that you might find it interesting.

Post Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:41 pm

As about Einstein, what would happen if HIS theories were wrong?

I read this someplace, as a title. Did not read it though

Any thoughts on this?

Post Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:29 pm

Well it would change our views of physics obviously. Nothing else would happen. Time (and space) wouldn't stand still you know. We might as well as ask what would happen if Newton where wrong. I think we all know the answer to that; there would be no gravity, and we'd all end up floating!

Post Tue Feb 24, 2004 6:24 pm

I know someone earlier pooh-poohed String Theory as useless but the mention of Einstein reminds me that, before he died, he was searching for the "Unified Theory."

I read somewhere that, right now, String Theory has the best shot at becoming it.

Post Tue Feb 24, 2004 7:35 pm

yep, that's what i've heard, even though i have no idea what string theory entails...

Kyp

The other day, in study hall, i farted really loud, you know...so the guys would laugh...and i swear it was so hanus that Susie Johnson almost ralphed up her salsbury steak.
it was freakin sweet...

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