Author Topic: Origins of the Universe (Read 918 times)

Wlfgng · « **Reply #15 on:** August 30, 2002, 03:38:55 PM »

actually we were' just little atoms in a big person's body...
the little plantes orbiting their suns.. hogwash.. it's atoms man!
we're like less than bacteria.. not even bacteria scum!

the universe was born when the big person's body parents 'did' it.

Just about as easy to prove as the conjecture's above IMO.

AKSWulfe · « **Reply #16 on:** August 30, 2002, 03:46:27 PM »

I saw that on the Outer Limits one time Wlfgng.

I mean, talk about making you think!

If we are going to delve into theories... how hard would it be for this world to be run on a monster of a super computer? Like the Matrix... but not being harvested, just a simulation for some bored bellybutton creature to watch.

Thing about theories... only one can be right, but all of 'em can be wrong.
-SW

Thrawn · « **Reply #17 on:** August 30, 2002, 03:52:10 PM »

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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
This is the ultimate thinking outside the box..

There is no box.

Fyre · « **Reply #18 on:** August 30, 2002, 04:55:04 PM »

no....the box exists. just in the 5th dimension. it's so complex that only dolphins can understand it. so you see, when you think outside the box....wait.....i lost myself somewhere

ra · « **Reply #19 on:** August 30, 2002, 04:57:57 PM »

Wlfgng · « **Reply #20 on:** August 30, 2002, 04:58:10 PM »

lol Wulfe.. you got the point

it's all conjecture to us humans because we'll never know.
So we argue and argue over stuff that all of us could (and probably are) wrong about.

forget all this crap.. play AH this weekend instead !

midnight Target · « **Reply #21 on:** August 30, 2002, 05:21:37 PM »

Had a philosophy 101 teacher back in 197@....... who actually gave a lecture based on a Matrix type principle.

ie... It would be impossible to detect the difference between a world where everything is as you percieve it, and a world that is nothing more than a bunch of stimuli sent to your brain while it sits in some vat on a shelf collecting dust.

Dude!!

Wlfgng · « **Reply #22 on:** August 30, 2002, 05:24:02 PM »

must've had a related professor in school..
mine said that if a sufficiently advanced civilization were to be experimenting on us we'd be like bacteria in a petri dish.

Scientists sends a lil' jolt of electricy through the petri dish.. bacteria never know where/how/why..

senna · « **Reply #23 on:** August 30, 2002, 05:32:16 PM »

SC-Sp00k · « **Reply #24 on:** August 30, 2002, 05:56:32 PM »

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--Einstein--The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects."

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #25 on:** August 30, 2002, 06:03:34 PM »

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Originally posted by Fyre
no....the box exists. just in the 5th dimension. it's so complex that only dolphins can understand it. so you see, when you think outside the box....wait.....i lost myself somewhere

According to string theory, there are 11 physical and one temporal dimension.

SC-Sp00k · « **Reply #26 on:** August 30, 2002, 06:13:14 PM »

Until they answer the question "How long is a piece of string" the string theory can be regarded as so much bunk

vorticon · « **Reply #27 on:** August 30, 2002, 06:20:58 PM »

i read that particular article in the magazine and from it i can tell

its just another nutcase trying to be recognized

discover should change its name to
"nutcases who have created fictional evidence to prove there point"

of course newton was called a nut to
funny how the people who are actually right are called nutcases

(einstein was never called a nut)

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #28 on:** August 30, 2002, 06:27:42 PM »

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Originally posted by SC-Sp00k
Until they answer the question "How long is a piece of string" the string theory can be regarded as so much bunk

A string is a Planck length long.

The Planck length is the scale at which classical ideas about gravity and space-time cease to be valid, and quantum effects dominate. This is the ‘quantum of length’, the smallest measurement of length with any meaning.

And roughly equal to 1.6 x 10-35 m

Samm · « **Reply #29 on:** August 30, 2002, 07:30:35 PM »

Where's professor Frink when you need him .