How will the universe end?
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From: HVAC on 19 Mar 2010 12:03 "Hagar" <hagen(a)sahm.name> wrote in message news:coCdnV4pycAqEz7WnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > > We know that most stars will end their lives as white dwarfs. A few > larger ones will go super nova. In either case, their planets are either > destroyed or left to aimlessly wander the Galaxy. But the Black Hole at > the center of each Galaxy will get its due. Slowly, one at a time, it > gravitationally attracts and then devours the hapless remnant spheres of > spent fusion glory, until the Black Hole is all that's left of the > progenitor Galaxy. One tea spoon of its matter weighs in at millions of > tons. These voracious beast are now hunting each other, merging and with > growing gravity more are attracted yet. As the Black Hole grows, its > sub-atomic particles are crushed together tighter and tighter under ever > increasing pressure. Until that final Black Hole joins into the fray, > pushing the pressures beyond the repulsive capabilities of the sub-atomic > particles, tearing them asunder to even smaller, as yet undiscovered > particles of infinitely small stature. The resulting inward collapse of > the Black Hole and the subsequent rebound is called "The Big Bang" and so > a new cycle in the long history of the Universe begins once again. Perhaps > this time we'll get it right ??? > Ah... The 'clowniverse'.
From: Larry on 19 Mar 2010 12:54 HVAC <mr.hvac(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:ca59a10e-2995-49e7-ba98- 6f6e49160766(a)t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com: > But that's not the end, according to University of Michigan > astrophysicist Fred Adams. An expert on the fate of the cosmos and co- > author with Greg Laughlin of The Five Ages of the Universe (Touchstone > Books; 2000), Adams predicts that all this dead matter will eventually > collapse into black holes. By the time the universe is 1 trillion > trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years old, the black > holes themselves will disintegrate into stray particles, which will > bind loosely to form individual "atoms" larger than the size of > today's universe. Eventually, even these will decay, leaving a > featureless, infinitely large void. > > > > > http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010625/story.html > > Because it really doesn't matter how it started, either, why does it matter how, if ever, it will end? Wouldn't all this wasted effort and funding be MUCH more profitably put to good use if the really intellegent people associated with these types of questions, NASA, astrophysicists, astronomers, physicists, and engineers of all types involved could pool their resources and brains to solve the basic solutions that face every human on the planet every day....starvation, environment, electric power, clean air/water/food, etc., because they have known since before the missions to the moon humans cannot live outside the protective magnetosphere around our little rock for long and the whole planet lacks the resources, no matter how great the engineering and physics problem solving get, to move the ruling elite off the planet to a safe place when this one is used up. Humanity needs a reality check and stop borrowing money for total nonsense like the whole religion of "origin" and "armagheddon" and solve the REAL problems right here on the planet we're all stuck on. -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry
From: Sam Wormley on 19 Mar 2010 13:09 On 3/19/10 8:25 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote: > > Yeah, the individual "universe-sized atoms" will likely be what we call > Bose-Einstein Condensates right now. These are basically particles with > wave functions that overlap each other. Due to the properties of Quantum > Mechanics, they can span infinite distances, faster than the speed of > light. > > Yousuf Khan Not faster than the speed of light.
From: HVAC on 19 Mar 2010 14:47 "Larry" <noone(a)home.com> wrote in message news:Xns9D408346CDC65noonehomecom(a)74.209.131.13... > > Because it really doesn't matter how it started, either, why does it > matter how, if ever, it will end? Luckily your type of mind set is being Darwined out of the human gene pool. I say this without malice. It's just that if your type of mind set had dominated human history, we would still be hanging out in trees, picking lice off each other. > Wouldn't all this wasted effort and funding be MUCH more profitably put > to good use if the really intellegent people associated with these types > of questions, NASA, astrophysicists, astronomers, physicists, and > engineers of all types involved could pool their resources and brains to > solve the basic solutions that face every human on the planet every > day....starvation, environment, electric power, clean air/water/food, > etc., because they have known since before the missions to the moon > humans cannot live outside the protective magnetosphere around our > little rock for long and the whole planet lacks the resources, no matter > how great the engineering and physics problem solving get, to move the > ruling elite off the planet to a safe place when this one is used up. > > Humanity needs a reality check and stop borrowing money for total > nonsense like the whole religion of "origin" and "armagheddon" and solve > the REAL problems right here on the planet we're all stuck on. The REAL problem is that there's too many people. We need a huge global war or plague to solve this problem. Personally, I'd vote for war. Plague doesn't play well on CNN.
From: Larry on 19 Mar 2010 15:59
"HVAC" <mr.hvac(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:ho0dch$p99$1(a)hvac.motzarella.org: > The REAL problem is that there's too many people. > > We need a huge global war or plague to solve this problem. > > Personally, I'd vote for war. Plague doesn't play well on CNN. > > > War the moneyed elite USED to be able to keep their families out of until the invention of the ICBM/Cruise missiles and atomic weapons. The reason you don't see that global war, now, is there's no way to stop it from crashing their investments, so they'd lose what's most dear to them....$$$$ Plague is harder to control, as they already know from the Middle Ages, but they have labs still working on the problem 24/7, medical weapons we only hear snippets about that can be "conspiracy theoried" away on the propaganda media channels of that billboard in your living room. There's gotta be a "better solution". They'll find it, eventually. I'm lucky I'm old. -- "iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!" Larry |