Originally posted by Yeager
the universe is thick with life, life has existed for billions of years (probably 13 or 14 billion, give or take a few hundred million). Life will continue to exist and evolve for many more billions of years...perhaps as long as 30 to 40 billion more years but alas....eventually everything that is energy, life...will eventually be extinguished forever. Our universe will eventually die.
Where did you get that from? The age of the universe is around 13 billion years, with best estimate of 13.7 I think. The youngest galaxies we observe are 8-9 billion years ago. And no sign of life anywhere outside the solar system. So far only 1 non-solar planet discovered that has any potential to host life.
Originally posted by USHilDvl
And, I think there are some interesting questions on the table these days concerning the absolutes of Einsteinian physics..especially in light of quantum physics, which seems to put the lie to Einsteinian and Newtonian physics both, and return us to the realm of PFM (Pure Freakin' Magic). Remember, at the quantum level, a particle CAN exist in more than one place, and only appears in one place when observed. Schroedinger's Cat, and all that.
Not really. Quantum mechanics does not contradict relativity (general or special). The problem is opposite, they do not cross at all. It's just that gravity is explained so differently from the other forces. Gravity is not even a "force" in relativity.
Dark matter and dark energy are gravitational things we can't explain yet. Either there's something new out there, or that gravity needs another revision. Eitherway this is exciting and people are working on both approaches. Some crazy ideas are raised from modified gravity laws, through new particles, to compact or warped extra dimentions.
NON of this is PFM. There's no problem in particles who exists in more than one place except for our poor preception of what a particle is.
Bozon
btw, I can assure you Schroedinger's Cat is already dead.
