Nerd Report.....No, the Big Bang was not the beginning.....

[Blansky]

And no "I told you so's"......or we'll repossess your pocket protector.


https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-b...ign=pockethits

[m j b]

I was watching an episode of "Nova" recently dealing with subatomic particles, the names of which escape me at the moment (I suffer from CRS) and one of the scientists interviewed mentioned that we are aware of only 15% of the energy and matter in the universe. The rest is "dark matter".

Not sure how that relates to the Big Bang, but also, I didn't understand the reference to Lady Gaga either, so maybe I need more coffee?

[m j b]

It just occurred to me that coffee, without cream or milk, is perhaps some of that missing dark matter?

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by m j b

It just occurred to me that coffee, without cream or milk, is perhaps some of that missing dark matter?

It's all so complex that sometimes its better to put away the telescope and the computer and just enjoy the dark matter in your cup. Or be a rebel and throw in some cream.

https://newatlas.com/physics/light-g...-matter-model/

[Letsgodiving]

I was talking to my brother a couple of weeks ago and he mentioned that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the earth. That's all beaches, all deserts all grains of sand on the planet. I knew the number was mind boggling but not to that degree. I had to look it up and apparently with the latest studies and calculations they now estimate for every grain of sand on the planet earth there are 10,000 stars in the universe. Just try to comprehend that the next time you are at the beach or a desert.

I once read it is a statistical impossibility we are the only intelligent life in the universe and that would certainly seem to be the case.

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by Letsgodiving

I was talking to my brother a couple of weeks ago and he mentioned that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the earth. That's all beaches, all deserts all grains of sand on the planet. I knew the number was mind boggling but not to that degree. I had to look it up and apparently with the latest studies and calculations they now estimate for every grain of sand on the planet earth there are 10,000 stars in the universe. Just try to comprehend that the next time you are at the beach or a desert.

I once read it is a statistical impossibility we are the only intelligent life in the universe and that would certainly seem to be the case.

Absolutely mind boggling. And I have an 11th grade education.

Can you imagine how most other people are trying to deal with that.

[Mendota]

I'm a huge astronomy fanatic. Have been since I was a kid.

Check out the European Southern Observatory YouTube channel. They and the Hubbel channel post the most incredible "Zoom ins" I've ever seen. They have a ton of them.

What they do is they focus on a location, for example the center of the Milky Way and Sagittarius-A, and then they take thousands upon thousands of images as they literally zoom in. Then they use computers to merge the still images into a seamless video so it looks like you are just hitting the Zoom button. Incredible and breathtaking. The Sagittarius-A video is amazing because then they use time lapse images of the stars caught in orbit around the black hole and you can see them orbit, get closer, closer, and then get thrown out really quickly only to orbit around again. Then they Zoom back out and show the paths of all of the stars orbiting it.

https://youtu.be/Da_Wc_G9ms4

Speaking of galaxies, Google super clusters and the Laniakea supercluster. There are clusters and super clusters of galaxies all forming intricate webs throughout the entire visible universe. Hundreds of billions of galaxies just that we know of with as many as a trillion stars in each one. Maybe even a trillion galaxies, each with as many as a trillion stars in many cases. That's just incredible.

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[Brew]

I have been watching Leonard Susskind’s Stanford lectures and am in the middle of his Black Hole Wars book. This stuff is mind boggling. The math is absurd, to describe stuff so infinitely small and huge, but the concepts themselves are sooooo bizarre! Really neat stuff; at least the little bits that I kinda follow.


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[Andad]

My cousin’s friends brother told him the earth is in a bubble rising slowly from the bottom of glass of champagne on an other planet.

It must be large glass of bubbly.

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by Letsgodiving

I was talking to my brother a couple of weeks ago and he mentioned that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on the earth. That's all beaches, all deserts all grains of sand on the planet. I knew the number was mind boggling but not to that degree. I had to look it up and apparently with the latest studies and calculations they now estimate for every grain of sand on the planet earth there are 10,000 stars in the universe. Just try to comprehend that the next time you are at the beach or a desert.

I once read it is a statistical impossibility we are the only intelligent life in the universe and that would certainly seem to be the case.

I wonder how many of them have ADs with stock

[airchitect]

Isn’t it beyond crazy how we are here? And not any one of us have any real clue how or why? And that we all chose to believe different reasons to give us comfort regarding what happens when we are gone? Pretty flippin nuts really. Ntm the fact that people can believe in an omnipresent being that made everything but are so arrogant as to believe we are the only “intelligent” beings and basically the only things that matter…. It’s crazy

[Brew]

Turtles. All the way down.


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[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by Andad

My cousin’s friends brother told him the earth is in a bubble rising slowly from the bottom of glass of champagne on an other planet.

It must be large glass of bubbly.

I hope you told him it was a load of...B...B......Bolllinger!

[Speedbird-1]

All these theories are absolutely lovely.

And all totally unprovable.

Like the "all snowflakes are different".......prove it.

[AzPaul]

Always good to keep in mind that every generation looks back at the scientific conclusions of the previous ones, and says, 'Can you believe that's what they actually thought?'

[Brew]

Originally Posted by Speedbird-1

All these theories are absolutely lovely.

And all totally unprovable.

Like the "all snowflakes are different".......prove it.

This is not correct. There’s a whole buncha math behind it. The stuff is real real hard; sound and looks “unprovable,” but only because of our own limitations.


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[Blansky]

And the farther we delve into it, the less we seem to know and the more mind boggling it becomes.

That Einstein guy though, he was pretty smart.

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by Andad

My cousin’s friends brother told him the earth is in a bubble rising slowly from the bottom of glass of champagne on an other planet.

Sounds like he was in a bar at the time staring at the foam on top of his beer while watching the bartender pour a glass of champagne.

There have been a lot of amazing discoveries and theories arrived at during that particular pastime.

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by Speedbird-1

All these theories are absolutely lovely.

And all totally unprovable.

Like the "all snowflakes are different".......prove it.

I lived in the snow for a long time and I can attest they are all different. In fact that's why I moved away. I just needed some uniformity in my life at the time.

Consider that each snowflake is made up of a huge number of water molecules. By one estimate, a flake may have as many as a quintillion molecules [source: Washington Post]. Because each little branch of a snowflake can spawn many others, there are dozens and dozens of ways for various crystalline features to join. There are so many possible arrangements that some scientists say there are two times as many possible crystal combinations as there are atoms in the whole universe [source: The Naked Scientists].

I just no longer needed this kind of stress in my life anymore.

Now I spend my time pondering grains of sand. I'm working my way through California and Hawaii.

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by Blansky

I lived in the snow for a long time and I can attest they are all different. In fact that's why I moved away. I just needed some uniformity in my life at the time.

Consider that each snowflake is made up of a huge number of water molecules. By one estimate, a flake may have as many as a quintillion molecules [source: Washington Post]. Because each little branch of a snowflake can spawn many others, there are dozens and dozens of ways for various crystalline features to join. There are so many possible arrangements that some scientists say there are two times as many possible crystal combinations as there are atoms in the whole universe [source: The Naked Scientists].

I just no longer needed this kind of stress in my life anymore.

Now I spend my time pondering grains of sand. I'm working my way through California and Hawaii.

..."I can attest they are all different".
So, you checked every one?


...."some doctors/scientists say"......the fallback line, for an endless stream of BS since white coats were invented.


"the latest scientific research shows".....that coffee is bad/good for you...that red wine is good/bad for you.....that butter/margarine is good/bad for you...that chocolate is good/bad for you, etc, etc...

[Blansky]

Yes.


Some say,........ others aren't talking.


Coffee is good for you 1-2 cups. Red Wine is ok not every day. Butter is good for you (grass fed cows). Margarine is garbage. Chocolate 80% and over is good for you.


Hope this helps.

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by Blansky

Yes.


Some say,........ others aren't talking.


Coffee is good for you 1-2 cups. Red Wine is ok not every day. Butter is good for you (grass fed cows). Margarine is garbage. Chocolate 80% and over is good for you.


Hope this helps.

Nope!

[Letsgodiving]

A small section of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. And below, a cluster of galaxies from a section of the sky about the size of the head of a pin held at arms length.

[Andad]

Originally Posted by Speedbird-1

All these theories are absolutely lovely.

And all totally unprovable.

Like the "all snowflakes are different".......prove it.

You certainly are Speedy.......

[Andad]

Anyway, I think it all started with turbulence.

And at some time I will ask Him to explain this to me.

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by Letsgodiving

A small section of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. And below, a cluster of galaxies from a section of the sky about the size of the head of a pin held at arms length.

I posted those exact images here, about 2 years ago.

Mind boggling, to say the least!

All those galaxies!!

Our 'spacial environment' is unquantifiable.

No one, knows anything regarding this, that much we do know.
Our ignorance expands at the same rate as our knowledge. The more we know, the more we realize how little we know.

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by Letsgodiving

A small section of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. And below, a cluster of galaxies from a section of the sky about the size of the head of a pin held at arms length.

Originally Posted by Andad

You certainly are Speedy.......

I don't suppose your mates call you 'speedy'....you ol' codger!

[Blansky]

94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach....

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-b...ign=pockethits

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by Blansky

94% of the universe’s galaxies are permanently beyond our reach....

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-b...ign=pockethits

Are WE beyond their reach, that could be the question.

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by Speedbird-1

Are WE beyond their reach, that could be the question.

The universe is expanding at 82 kilometers per second and LUCKILY we are now, as of last week, out of reach of the nearest baddies.

Nah, nah na na nah. Can’t get us Can’t get us ….