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Re: Deep Thought

From The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written, sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity, alt.astronomy
Subject Re: Deep Thought
Date 2018-07-24 13:04 -0700
Organization Netfront http://www.netfront.net/
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> 
> [Please do not crosspost without Followup-To.  F’up2 sci.physics.relativity]
> 
> Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> > <sci-fi>
> 
> Yes, it is, for the most part.  And it appears to have little to do with my
> posting.
> 
> > I have always had a little feeling that the big bang might be nothing
> > more than a local hyper massive explosion contained within a much larger
> > universe.
> 
> A common misconception.
> 
> Contrary to what the term implies, the Big Bang is NOT an explosion.  Keep
> in mind that the term was coined by Fred Hoyle in order to *mock* adherents
> of the now-confirmed theory of universal *expansion*.  The name stuck,
> therefore we call it the Big Bang theory today.
> 
> The Big Bang as an event was not local in any sense of the word, but as an
> event was and as a process is global in every sense of the word: It
> happened/happens everywhere in our universe.  Regarding the event, because
> our universe was infinitesimally small back then; regarding now, because
> that is what our universe is.  The theory says that spacetime began with
> the Big Bang event:
> 
> ,-<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Expansion_of_space>
> |
> | […] The Big Bang is not an explosion of matter moving outward to fill an
> | empty universe. Instead, space itself expands with time everywhere […]
> 
> > Perhaps a cluster of ultra massive black holes all finally
> > merged together.
> 
> An interesting idea that might be difficult to disprove (which does not mean
> that it is correct).  IIUC it is a distinct possibility – and not
> science-fiction – that what we think is our universe is actually the inside
> of a supermassive black hole (see also:
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle>).
> 
> Dr. Lawrence Krauss answered to the question
> 
> ,-<https://youtu.be/7ImvlS8PLIo?t=3453>
> |
> | Q: […] If quantum fluctuations are able to actually produce universes […],
> | is there ever a chance we might actually observe another universe being
> | created?
> 
> after his (great) 2009 talk “A Universe from Nothing”:
> 
> | A: […] But interestingly enough – and this is one of the wonderful things
> | about general relativity ­– if a baby universe got created, an inflating
> | universe like the one we think we began in, it’s really weird: Because
> | from the inside it would look like it was growing exponentially; from
> | the outside it would look like it was shrinking to form a black hole.
> 
> This answer has puzzled me since I have heard it, and I would appreciate
> an explanation in simple terms (I have not yet a full understanding of
> general relativity) by a professional physicist.
> 
> > Wrt a larger universe, the big bang could be a single
> > pixel in the following rendering:
> 
> Not the Big Bang, but our observable universe.  The “larger universe” would
> be the multiverse.
> 
> IIUC, this is the theory of eternal inflation.  However, it appears to have
> been disproved by the “Planck” space probe’s 2015 data release.  The final
> dataset of the mission was just released, which might indicate something
> else; I have not had time to look at (analyses of) it.
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_inflation>
> 
> --
> PointedEars
> 
> Twitter: @PointedEars2
> Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.



More nonsense!

It's like a disease!!!!

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Deep Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-07-22 14:26 -0700
  Re: Deep Thought Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2018-07-23 16:43 +0200
    Re: Deep Thought Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-07-23 18:08 +0200
      Re: Deep Thought "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-07-23 21:45 -0700
        Re: Deep Thought Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2018-07-24 11:42 +0200
          Re: Deep Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-07-24 11:21 -0700
          Re: Deep Thought "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-07-24 16:52 -0700
            Re: Deep Thought Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2018-07-25 22:31 +0200
              Re: Deep Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-07-25 23:36 -0700
                Re: Deep Thought benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-07-26 10:00 -0400
                Re: Deep Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-07-26 11:23 -0700
                Re: Deep Thought benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-07-26 19:45 -0400
              Re: Deep Thought "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-07-25 23:56 -0700
                Re: Deep Thought "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-07-26 00:00 -0700
                Re: Deep Thought Daniel60 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2018-07-27 17:01 +1000
                Re: Deep Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-07-27 10:38 -0700
                Re: Deep Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-07-28 10:38 -0700
                Re: Deep Thought "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-07-27 14:29 -0700
                Re: Deep Thought Thomas Heger <ttt_heg@web.de> - 2018-07-28 12:00 +0200
                Re: Deep Thought Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-07-28 14:44 +0200
                Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-08-12 15:59 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-12 16:15 -0700
                Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. Jeff-Relf.Me  @. - 2018-08-12 16:30 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-13 21:20 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-13 23:42 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-14 00:36 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-28 00:21 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-28 00:56 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. Daniel60 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2018-08-28 19:23 +1000
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-29 00:01 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-28 23:58 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-29 11:09 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-08-29 20:24 +0200
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-29 13:39 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-08-30 03:43 +0200
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-29 20:43 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-08-31 00:52 +0200
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-31 09:48 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-08-31 22:46 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-09-01 13:50 +0200
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-09-01 09:37 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-08-29 18:09 -0700
                Re: Entropy converts black holes into SpaceTime. Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-08-30 04:36 +0200
        Re: Deep Thought Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-07-24 21:19 +0200
          Re: Deep Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-07-24 13:04 -0700
            Re: Deep Thought Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-07-25 03:36 +0200
              Re: Deep Thought The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-07-24 22:44 -0700
  Re: Deep Thought benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-07-23 11:05 -0400
  Re: Deep Thought "C. Deifir" <cdf@dfr.net.inv> - 2018-07-23 21:18 +0100

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