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   brickster said, 11 months ago

   Tell Neil DeGrasse Tyson about it.
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   Hobbes said, 11 months ago

   
   “Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of 80 billion years has the right to ask, ’What’s in it for me?’ "
   
   — Peter De Vries, U.S. Author, The Glory of the Hummingbird
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   Nabuquduriuzhur said, 11 months ago

   Cosmology ceased to be a science about 20 years ago. The moment one goes beyond the 4 dimensions of space-time, it’s in the religion category… Or the province of some pretty esoteric mathematics that have no connection to reality. Same thing, today.
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   Hobbes said, 11 months ago

   When Bill Watterson published this strip in 1992, some cosmologists began using the term “Horrendous Space Kablooie.” They got a big bang out of it.
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   Linux0s said, 11 months ago

   Imagining Dr. Carl Sagan: "BIllions and billions of years ago, the Horrendous Space Kablooie… ".
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   Hobbes said, 11 months ago

   
   Click here: Peanuts (October 10, 1957)
   
   
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   Alain Harper (מיכאל בן-אברם) said, 11 months ago

   Originally “the Big Bang” was a term of derision by famed astronomer Fred Hoyle of Edward Lemaitre’s discovery – that if Albert Einstein’s characterizations of space, time and matter were correct, the universe had to be expanding over time from an original “primeval atom”. Even Einstein strongly disliked that idea and invoked a “cosmological constant” to get around it. When Edwin Hubble’s observations showed that the universe was indeed expanding, Einstein called his particular fudge factor the biggest mistake he ever made.
   
   Now, of course, “the Big Bang” has caught on but a much better description would be “The Lost Chord” or even “Harmonia Mundi” – the generation of all possible upper and lower harmonics from a single wave form. No bang, no horrendousness, no kablooie – only harmonic and interference patterns worthy of the implications of Genesis 1:1 and of the name Yehawweh itself.
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   Hobbes said, 11 months ago

   
   @Nabuquduriuzhur: Cosmology isn’t exactly rocket science. But they are very closely related.
   
   by Sidney Harris:
   
   
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   JohnnyDiego said, 11 months ago

   Waiting for the baseball game to start yesterday I switched over to the local Fox station and saw a scene apparently from a re-run of The Big Bang Theory.

   In the scene a nerdy guy was going into a nerdy girl’s apartment to have a Yoo-hoo.

   Upon entering he saw a monkey smoking a cigarette and asked, “Is he allowed to smoke in here?”

   The nerdy girl replied, “I’m doing a project on emphysema and the least I could do is let him watch cable TV.”

   The TV audience roared with laughter.

   Do people really watch this show?
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    JoelJ said, 11 months ago

    Physicist use simple words to describe these things because it is hard enough developing any real understanding especially on the basis of mathematics of these extraordinary events. If we named it something really difficult for which physics students would have to remember on top of all the complex subject matter, then it may push them over the breaking point which they are constantly teetering.
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    Blackwolff9 said, 11 months ago

    @JohnnyDiego

    Yes,they do. It’s a great show,but even great comedies don’t always hit ’em out of the park. You just happened to catch a miss.
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    orinoco womble said, 11 months ago

    @JohnnyDiego

    I never have, and considering we have a channel that runs nothing but episodes of the Big Bang (having apparently finally worn out the DVD set of Friends), that’s quite an achievement.

    I’m not kidding, it’s all they show until the watershed. Each day, four episodes, overandoverandover.
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    Dogsniff said, 11 months ago

    @orinoco womble: Is Friends filmed on the Jersey Shore?
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    mkdonly1 said, 11 months ago

    @Hobbes

    I’m not surprised. Who doesn’t read Calving and Hobbes?
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    dukedoug said, 11 months ago

    @Nabuquduriuzhur

    It astonishes me that, over time, much of that esoteric mathematics comes to have real meaning in real world (Universe ?) terms. I follow this stuff closely and have done so for over 30 years and, fortunately, I have enough scientific, engineering and mathematical education to understand what develops. If you are interested, do some research on the distribution of prime numbers and how they are related to harmonic vibrations in crystals (and this is only only one example).
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