27 Sep 05
I've actually got a serious question about all this.
Yes. The universe is 14 billion years old (much like some Swiss cheeses, by the way).
Yes. The universe is expanding...
And this is what baffles me. If the univese is expanding, then the stars are moving. And they're moving in a coherent direction. So...where are they moving from? Where is this center of the universe?
I once was told there is no center of the universe. But if this is possible, how can the universe be exanding?
All help on this matter (serious fcuking answers please, none of that SPAM or religious crap, thank you very much) is welcome!
27 Sep 05
Originally posted by shavixmirAll theorists who support the big bang theory acknowledge there is a centre of the universe.
I've actually got a serious question about all this.
Yes. The universe is 14 billion years old (much like some Swiss cheeses, by the way).
Yes. The universe is expanding...
And this is what baffles me. If the univese is expanding, then the stars are moving. And they're moving in a coherent direction. So...where are they moving from? Where is thi ...[text shortened]... us fcuking answers please, none of that SPAM or religious crap, thank you very much) is welcome!
27 Sep 05
Originally posted by shavixmirgalactic central point... we go round every two hundred million years.
I've actually got a serious question about all this.
Yes. The universe is 14 billion years old (much like some Swiss cheeses, by the way).
Yes. The universe is expanding...
And this is what baffles me. If the univese is expanding, then the stars are moving. And they're moving in a coherent direction. So...where are they moving from? Where is thi ...[text shortened]... us fcuking answers please, none of that SPAM or religious crap, thank you very much) is welcome!
well...according to eric idle that is 🙄
27 Sep 05
Originally posted by shavixmirThe universe has been compared to a current bun being cooked.
I've actually got a serious question about all this.
Yes. The universe is 14 billion years old (much like some Swiss cheeses, by the way).
Yes. The universe is expanding...
And this is what baffles me. If the univese is expanding, then the stars are moving. And they're moving in a coherent direction. So...where are they moving from? Where is thi ...[text shortened]... us fcuking answers please, none of that SPAM or religious crap, thank you very much) is welcome!
Where the raisins are stars that move apart from each other as
the bun expands.
Stephen Hawkins considers it more doughnut shaped which would
make sense as a even a bun has a centre.
Maybe if our physicists didn't spend so much time in the pastry shop,
we might have a reasonable answer.
27 Sep 05
Originally posted by UmbrageOfSnowI see dead people.
The whole point of schrodinger's cat was that Erwin Schrodinger was trying to show that this whole thing was ridiculous. He was trying to say that a cat cannot be some mix between a dead state and an alive state until it is observed, that it is one or the other before we see it just as much as after.
27 Sep 05
Originally posted by UmbrageOfSnowSchrodinger's cat aside.
The whole point of schrodinger's cat was that Erwin Schrodinger was trying to show that this whole thing was ridiculous. He was trying to say that a cat cannot be some mix between a dead state and an alive state until it is observed, that it is one or the other before we see it just as much as after.
Did the universe exist before measurement or did it just
probably exist?
27 Sep 05
Originally posted by Thequ1ckI can't tell you. "Miles & miles & miles of square kilometers" as my geographer teacher said. My guess would be "infinite" though in the sense that there is never a shortage of something to measure, both at the micro & macro levels. Another word for "infinite" is "immeasurable".
So if we were to humour me and say that our universe exists only
by means of measurements made by conciousness.
How big would this universe be?
27 Sep 05
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Originally posted by Bosse de NageI have heard that the average brain only absorbs a few terabytes
I can't tell you. "Miles & miles & miles of square kilometers" as my geographer teacher said. My guess would be "infinite" though in the sense that there is never a shortage of something to measure, both at the micro & macro levels. Another word for "infinite" is "immeasurable".
of sensory information in its life time.
If we measured the universe by the total amount of sensory information, ever
processed by consciousness, it would only be in the order of 10^30 bits.
That would make the universe very small indeed.