Kablamo! wrote: » Peanuts grow underground.
server down wrote: » I even doubt that Bryson wrote that as it wouldn’t make sense to Americans.
Wibbs wrote: » It is an interesting area mind you. I suppose because we are of this reality, it makes it incredibly and increasingly difficult to describe a reality that may be or is outside of this one. In the singularity of the cosmic egg* at which point going backwards does the understanding and mathematics and language of our reality break down, because a different set of reality was/is/will be in play?
Is understanding, at least our understanding truly "universal"? Are the conditions that "caused" the singularity understandable at all, or are we forever mired in describing the goldfish bowl of our reality in terms of bowls and goldfish and the concept of blowing the glass and sourcing the water forever outside of our reach? TBH I bloody love that stuff. or Primeval Atom. I go old stylee. IIRC it was Hoyle who coined the "Big Bang Theory" and may have been in a derisive sense?
Fourier wrote: » Newtonian notions of mechanical power don't apply to spacetime, it's simply "beyond" lower level physics where things like power, etc apply. It doesn't require anything else to power its change. It simply shapes itself in accordance with the matter inside it, but the matter doesn't "power" its shaping.
Wibbs wrote: » IE sooner or later some intelligent life somewhere may reach a stage where they get so far in understanding and technology of a sort we would see as magic, even "godlike" and can create other realities in the "lab", so giving birth to new realities, which in time will give birth to more and so forth.
Wibbs wrote: » Oh oh, must be an Ayahuasca flashback I'm having. :eek::D
Fourier wrote: » I will just say that "singularity" is an unfortunate term that has enter the public consciousness on this stuff. It's just an artifact of the maths, not something which actually occurred. Saying the universe "came from a singularity" would be the equivalent in evolutionary theory of saying that man evolved from a "gap in the fossil record". The Cosmic Egg was of finite, not infinitesimal size. Again it's evolutionary equivalent would be the first single celled organisms. Again life sprang from these organisms, but there are questions over how they arose, how long they existed for, etc The Cosmic Egg might have been sitting there for 50 trillion years before it erupted. It itself may have been "birthed" from another universe. It might have literally been created out of nothing randomly. We really don't know. More on the rest later...
lmimmfn wrote: » I don't think so because you have a gravitational singularity in the centre of a black whole, so its a point, the fact its a point means all maths and physics break down because we can't tell how anything( matter etc. ) behaves when it is a point.
sbsquarepants wrote: » That's a bit too supernatural for my liking.
sbsquarepants wrote: » Change needs a driver and a power source of some kind (I reckon) otherwise it's just chaos. You can't have space just appearing at will otherwise you reach out to pick up your cup of tea and it could be on the far side of the room, or the galaxy! Something has to cause it to happen - we may not know or be capable of knowing what that something is, but surely it has to be there?
Fourier wrote: » Some of what I say may sound arseholish, this is simply because forums provide no tone. Your questions are deep and interesting ones, to which I am simply providing the direct answers. I do understand your confusion.
Fourier wrote: » Some of what I say may sound arseholish, this is simply because forums provide no tone. Your questions are deep and interesting ones, to which I am simply providing the direct answers. I do understand your confusion..
Fourier wrote: » Let me emphasise one point. What I am saying here is observationally confirmed scientific fact. It is as far from supernatural as it is possible to get, i.e. directly confirmed mathematical models of natural behaviour. They describe something counter-intuitive, but reality does not have to conform to human intuition..
Fourier wrote: » You are confusing two issues here, causation and power. I said that the expansion of spacetime requires no energy or power to occur. I did not say it was uncaused or that it occurs randomly for no reason. There are definite reasons/causes for the expansion of space, it's just that the mechanisms don't require energy or power.
david75 wrote: » The last wolf in Ireland was killed in 1759. We had wolves and bears apparently. I never knew this. Wonder when the bears went.
sbsquarepants wrote: » If they don't require power, how can they "do" anything? Surely the transfer of power of some kind is the difference between something happening and nothing happening?
stimpson wrote: » I have to say that this is one of the more interesting topics on the thread. I think you are doing a good job of explaining a complex subject in layman’s terms. You’re no Brian Cox, but you’re not far off.
server down wrote: » That’s the reason alright. And it works. Anybody who knows America knows that if an item has a sticker price of 2 dollars you don’t just hand over 2 dollars, not in most states anyway. The tax is calculated at the cashier. It’s not on the price tag. With a sales tax of 8.5% after rounding the cost is $2:17 for a sticker price of $2 or $1.99 I even doubt that Bryson wrote that as it wouldn’t make sense to Americans.
FishOnABike wrote: » Polar bears can trace their family tree back to Ireland. Genetic evidence shows they are descended from Irish brown bears that lived during the last ice age.
Greybottle wrote: » About 2000 BC. Give or take. There are plenty of sites where bear remains have been found in Ireland, most famously in the Ailwee Caves also known as the Very Dark Caves. There's a good article on bears in Ireland here: www.google.ie/amp/amp.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outdoors/richard-collins/irish-brown-bear-no-polar-ancestor-227656.html
Fourier wrote: » Does Brian Cox have an explanation of the expansion of space?
Ipso wrote: » I'll try to find the book and read the bit again. I used a bad example phrasing it in modern terms like 0.99, he was speaking about the early days of the US so sales tax may not have been around.
Hector Bellend wrote: » A whales mickey is called a dork
Fourier wrote: » The Cosmic Egg might have been sitting there for 50 trillion years before it erupted.
Anders Shy Aircraft wrote: » I'm afraid not. That's another myth. I know several internationally renowned Marine Biologists and this came up in conversation years ago. None of them had ever heard 'dork' used in reference to a whale's anatomy. Some internet myths say it only refers to a Blue Whale but that is equally incorrect.
Ipso wrote: » A bit off topic, but I wonder if the fairly recent survival of Wolves helped the banshee ghost story hang around. From hearing Coyotes in the US and how human they can sound, I wonder if the same thing happened with howling from Wolves.
