Scientists: Earth may exist in giant cosmic bubble

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[utexas_61]

hmmmmm

 

[NEWDOC2002]

I wish I could make stuff up like that, pretty cool to think about even if it has no merit at this point in our sphere of knowledge.

 

[KC-97HORN]

Doc- its real easy to come up with ideas like that.

Take 2 or 3 astronomy classes, along with a healthy dose of watching Star Trek.

Then smoke about 100 bucks worth of weed.

You will come up with ideas like that all the time.

Only problem is you need a recorder to say your ideas into so you dont forget.

 

[bozo_casanova]

I've always said dark matter was ********

 

[roy_batty]

This really isnt addressing the dark matter issue. Dark Energy, or the void hypothesis, or something else entirely is needed to explain the Hubble observations of Type Ia Supernovae. Dark Matter, or induced gravity, or something else entirely is needed to explain why galaxies don't fly apart from their own angular momentum.

Cool idea anyway. It'll be nice if it's ever testable.

 

[Austintxusa]

Scientific American mag has a new issue out talking about the "Big Bounce" instead of a "Big Bang."

Big Bang or Big Bounce?: New Theory on the Universe's Birth


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[Fried JJ Pickles]

I came up with that exact theory while stoned one day when I was in high school.

I'm dead serious.

 

[jadedscenester]

i hate reading media articles about science, theoretical physics in particular.

but more importantly, everyone should get really high and tape record themselves. listening to your insane ramblings and trying to figure out what the hell your train of thought was and why it was there is lots of fun. almost as fun as getting really high.

 

[A. BETTIK]

I didn't need weed to come up with a possibly related conjecture, just huffing up a hill at the end of a 2 mile jog at 11 PM thinking about colliding universes. ( I don't think it is the jogging that allows such meditation, only the shear monotony of doing it hundreds of times over several years.)

Drop a rock in a body of water and observe the altitude of point of entry. There is a series of decaying oscillations as the altitude rises and falls. If you map a small area around this entry point at time t, you would observe it inflating and deflating as tme passed.

I wonder if early inflation and now currently accelerating inflation might be a similar oscillation in response to the Big Bang.

...so space is atomic and a mesh. Sounds like electrons in a copper wire. Only we are the electrons in a Universe of these spatial atoms.

...certainly a very interesting read with regards to trying to deal with singularities.

 

[rickysrun]

Reminds me of a scene from Animal House with Boone, Pinto and the professor

 

[Statalyzer]

Just once I'd like to see a scientist say "Well honestly I really have no clue what the hell is the reason for this stuff"

 

[Heretic Horn]

OU sucks.

 

[shorty]

The bubble theory makes you ponder what controls the bubble or if there is anything outside the bubble. Are there more bubbles? You could speculate all day about these things and still know nothing more than you did when you started.

 

[A. BETTIK]

I know what you mean. You exist, so something is going on, but WTF? It's kind of scary for a second or two actually when you hit that moment. Kind of like right before you fall asleep and have one of those thoughts or semi dreams that immediately jerks you wide awake.