Pero_Bueno wrote: » Imagine a steel ball the size of Earth. Once every ten million years a fly alights on the ball. When that ball has worn away to nothing by friction from the fly - infinity hasn't even started yet.
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » It can fit the guests of an infinite number of buses each of which can hold an infinity of people and still have rooms over.
Malayalam wrote: » They loved their ginormous numbers in the old days. The Vedic and Buddhist scriptures are full of shockingly long time frames. I am sure other world cosmologies contain big numbers too. A single breath of Brahma or Vishnu, for example, takes about 310 billion years, and each exhalation creates billions of Universes, which are demolished on the inhalation (expansion and contraction a la Big Bang). Maybe we just lack imagination with our puny numbers, relatively short cosmologies and conceptions of spans of time?
Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: » He’s saying that the expansion due to the Big Bang will slow or stop and gravity will continue to exist as an attractive force and therefore the universe will contract. Perfectly sound in theory but the observations don’t show that the expansion is slowing, instead it is accelerating.
Avatar MIA wrote: » Is that relatively recent, how long ago were they talking about multiple universes? Or is that a modern interpretation?
BrokenArrows wrote: » If the current observations shows that expansion is accelerating then that just means the universe is still in the process of exploding.
Eventually it will slow down and stop followed by a contraction.
But the human race will not be around to see that so i really wouldnt worry about it. The universe is estimated to be 13.8 Billion years old. The earth is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old. The earth has held life for around 4 billion years. Humanoid species have existed for around 6 million years. Homosapiens (current humans) have existed for about 200,000 years. The industrial world has only existed for ~250 years! The internet was only made public 27 years ago! Time is huge. Humans have only existed on this planet for 0.005% of earths existence. We could be wiped out and a new species equal to us could evolve in another 0.005% of time and thats still only 0.010% of the time that this planet has been capable of holding life.
Doctor Jimbob wrote: » It's just a very big number
pleas advice wrote: » So, you're saying it can hold more than sixty characters?
The Backwards Man wrote: » All numbers are made up, the sun doesn't give a fcuk what age you are. How many characters bis that? Sixty or six squilion, it doesn't matter. Listen to Snap!
pleas advice wrote: » Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
Avatar MIA wrote: » Something that came to me while driving my car this afternoon... When we talk about the age of the universe, and infinity, we're making a very big assumption, that time exists at all. There is decay and entropy, but time?
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » And time is pretty much unidirectional too.
Hyzepher wrote: » Think about an infinite event within a finite time period. Lets say you have the ability to travel as fast as you want. I ask you to run 100m in exactly 20 seconds. The only condition is that you continuously run half the remaining distance in half the remaining time. The first 50m would be run in 10 seconds, the next 25m in 5 seconds and so on. Within these conditions you would never reach the finish line yet you would never exceed the 20 second time allowed.
Avatar MIA wrote: » As far as I know there's no law in physics that states we have to be going forward in time, we could be going in reverse to the time we think we're going. But, why can't we remember tomorrow in that case - can't remember what the supposition for that was :pac:
Avatar MIA wrote: » Is this to do with Zeno Paradox?
