GungHo
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There is no "before" time zero. When spacetime is created, the notion of a before is created.
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There is no "before" time zero. When spacetime is created, the notion of a before is created.
The limit on how massive the white dwarf left over from a supernova can be before it becomes a neutron star is fairly easy to remember:
1.44 Solar Masses
Pretty much an interstellar floppy. The limit of mass before it becomes a black hole is less defined, but anything above 3 solar masses is a safe bet.
1.44 Solar Masses
Pretty much an interstellar floppy. The limit of mass before it becomes a black hole is less defined, but anything above 3 solar masses is a safe bet.
Strictly speaking, you're right, but when you leave the question of causality entirely open such a notion might also be considered.
Partial Gamification
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You never know, in a couple decades there could be a powerful space-based telescope array capable of imaging these objects in greater detail.
PaleFolklore
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Another reminder that the cosmos is unfathomably large and I'm likely stuck on Earth for the rest of my life.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
A pretty wild hypothesis is that the Big Bang was created by two "branes" colliding. This supposedly has to do with the whole multiverse one but it's a little tough to wrap the head around.
Partial Gamification
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Richard Branson has his private low orbits flights scheduled to launch this year. He's even talking of a space hotel. I don't see myself paying (affording) that ticket but its just to suggest that if you really want to get off this rock, there are options. Mars One is planning on sending four people to the Red Planet every four years starting in 2024. It is unlikely but don't create a self-fulfilling prophesy by ignoring opportunities that are in the works. I'm not trying to push false hope, just suggest it can be done if you put your mind to it.
Pakoe
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One can hope and dream.
Partial Gamification
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Support that, but a more powerful arraay would be needed. JWST is a step in that direction. Great for looking for the "Earth twins" though. Its not a star destroyer in the avatar.
Dragonborn
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That's just crazy. And black holes creep me the heck out. Like, seeing a picture or illustration of them is unsettling for me. I understand them (at least, as much as my unscientific mind can), but they're still so weird.
Not to mention our unusual large moon, which stabilizes earth spinning giving somewhat stable climate necessary for life. Planets in the solar system have all really small moons compared to their sizes, you couldn't catch Mars moons with the naked eye easily if you were in its surface, for instance. I don't know if we have found moons outside the solar system, I think not.
The whole thing really feels like an incredible coincidence, but at the same time the numbers of space are so enormous such coincidence might be common.
I always feel kind of dizzy after thinking about it.
Thursday War
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;_;
dripdripsplash
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Any links on this. Sounds interesting. I find space... so mindblowingly facinating.
Well..at least you exist. Think of all that that's non-existant! And how they're complaining that there's a plane of existance and they're stuck in the plane of non-existance.
Damn, and I thought it was a long way down the road to the chemist's.
One problem with this line of thought is that it lacks an universal perspective, it's the perspective of a human. You say we are intelligent, but compared to what?
I think it's like this:
we humans are like ants moving around and learning to survive and work together for a common well being. yes we are capable of many things but in the bigger scope of things, as clearly shown by the vastness of the observable universe, what we are capable of is ridiculously limited and reduced. In short, our intelligence sucks big time.
continung with the ants analogy, imagine that just about 30 miles away, there is a dog, but we'd lack the intelligence to be aware of it and actually make something out of it, if we had the means (as ants), to travel 30 miles. You can send some ants, but you don't know it there's water in the way or anything that will guarantee your safety.
It sucks but we definitely aren't the center of the universe,
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Multiverse article on Wikipedia
Branes artcile on Wikipedia
Brane Cosmology article on Wikipedia
String Theory article on Wikipedia
Also, check out theoretical physicist Michio Kaku as he talks a lot about the multiverse and related subjects.
killer rin
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Why is the Asteroid Belt forming a triangle like that?As large as the orbit of Jupiter? Damn son.
Jupiter's gravity.
GungHo
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killer rin
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Is it just Jupiters Gravity, I would have assumed that that alone would have given the belt a more circular orbit instead of a triangular shape.
Interesting
dripdripsplash
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Thanks for the responses. I'll check the links out. Appreciated.
VanquishUK
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Not all of them, but the Hildian asteroids are apparently in 3:2 mean motion resonance with Jupiter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_family
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Instead of posting a pic, perhaps you would like to elaborate on why you believe he's a crackpot?
GungHo
Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
The futurism is cute, but then he bills himself as the "co-founder" of string theory (which is a gross simplification of what went into string theory... He co-authored a paper on light-cones, which are one of the weaker presentations of string field theory and expressly rely on deviations from Lorentz covariance), opines on the scientific bases behind Mass Effect and The Force Unleashed (whatever the fuck that means) and is strangely Art Bell's most favorite science personality.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
As far as I know, he is the co-founder of string theory and more on that, I can't say. From what I read he is a co-founder not the co-founder in String Theory. The man has legitimate credentials. He's appeared on many legitimate television shows and his book Hyperspace was voted one of the best non-fiction science books by the New York Times and Washington Post. Because he appears on Coast to Coast AM occasionally or also being an 'edutainer' does not make him a crackpot. It is completely irrelevant whoever finds Kaku their favorite science personality or that he uses entertainment media as a way to help people learn about science.
http://mkaku.org/home/?page_id=5
That doesn't sound like some typical C2CAM crackpot to me.
Current astrophysics is based off of science and logical reasoning, whereas flat earth theory was literally completely faith and conjecture, with literally no logic backing it up. Our current understanding of the universe may at some point in time seem primitive, but it will never be compared to flat earth theory.
SquiddyCracker
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Jupiter protects Earth from the 'Oort Cloud' which contains billions of comets and likes to throw them our way because science.
Thank you Jupiter and Godspeed
The oort cloud will be a veritable source of water and heavy metals once we get out there and start mining that shit.
We'll (our descendants) will probably be more diverse than ever once we reach it.
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Oort Cloudstorm needs to be an RPG final boss attack.
grosvenor_92
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That's amazing and horrifying at the same time
Elfforkusu
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This is completely asinine.
Calling someone a crackpot because they don't meet your own personal standards of science perfection is, honestly, offensive.
Kaku is legit. Theoretical physics is weird and hard, and never so much so as now. Anyone who spends as much time as he does trying to explain it to the ordinary layman is deserving of praise, not derision based on arbitrary monday morning quarterbacking.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
It may be. It may not be. I suppose it's what makes him a theoretical physicist. He's still more qualified than anyone here to make those speculations. The point is he's not some crackpot that's talking out of his ass as GungHo claims.
Normally for a theory to be scientific it must contain conditions for its own demise. Even if such tests aren't currently doable they must be potentially doable. String theory is borderline in this regard.
Darkmakaimura
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Kaku didn't come up with the term String Theory as it has been called and what Kaku focuses a lot on. So, I think it would be safe to call him a theoretical physicist. You may not agree with some of his ideas, but that does not make him some kind of nutball. His credentials are pretty solid and they're right there on his website and around the web if you care to look.
TimeEffect
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Depressing as it is, be thankful you weren't born earlier!
I am trying to comprehend the size of that sun.
Imagine when or if that thing becomes a red giant, how much of it's surroundings will it engulf?
A thought that always falls into my mind is how everything on our earth will be destroyed in 5-6 billions years roughly, so anything we do or did will be erased unless we move to that sexy Gliese 581C...Just thinking about it is making my head spin.
Imagine when or if that thing becomes a red giant, how much of it's surroundings will it engulf?
A thought that always falls into my mind is how everything on our earth will be destroyed in 5-6 billions years roughly, so anything we do or did will be erased unless we move to that sexy Gliese 581C...Just thinking about it is making my head spin.
BouncyFrag
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Would Azuras Wrath suffice?
It's not a matter of him being a crackpot/nutcase. If your theory isn't falsifiable, it's not science, it's playing games with math.
Theoretical physics doesn't get a free pass with this.
Darkmakaimura
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This argument is going to go in circles and might be derailing this thread but I'm not going to argue much with established terms in regards to the field he focuses on. Even speculating, he's not just pulling random things out of his ass. Not coming from much of a scientific background, I can only go by his credentials, which again, are there for all to see. You may not agree with some of the things he has to say and that's fine and I understand. My main concern was calling out someone to be a crackpot simply because they don't like his field of study or because he appears occasionally on C2CAM and uses entertainment to talk about things.
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Only played the demo. Interesting.
There are actually six known larger stars. The current largest known star is UY Scuti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UY_Scuti
Stuggernaut
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So what are the odds of a star even bigger than that? What about a planet that size? What about a life form on that super large planet?
We are but a spec of galactic dust compared to something like that.
Crazy ;P
We are but a spec of galactic dust compared to something like that.
Crazy ;P
The bigger a star is, the more unstable. The odds actually decrease.
The current assumption is that planets significantly bigger than the Earth (but not as big as the gas giants) are covered with water or ice. A planet completely covered with with water is less likely to have complex life form though.
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