What if our entire universe is just an atom in the fingernail of a giant person...

Your brain hurting yet, too?

Hell, maybe Kirk Cameron is right afterall.

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[Nominal Me]

Tell me again how these "theories" are any different from religion?

[Cozmo]

Well, that's pretty simple, NM.

These theories are based on the scientific method, meaning that the explaination of events must conform to oberserved activity. Sometimes, as our observations become more calibrated, scientific understanding of the universe changes. This, of course is a healthy thing, and why they are called "theories" instead of "belief" or even worse "fact."

On the other hand, Kirk would have explainations conform to something he observed in a book written 3,000 years ago.

The point is, it's alot easier on your brain to think that a dude in White Beard made a banana with 5 grooves because it suited him, as opposed to trying to understand actually understand the physcial properties of the universe. Sometimes, that just makes your head hurt.

[Kristal K]

First of all -- the title of the Kirk Cameron should have been: Kirk Cameron IS Bananas.

And how did that guy go from being Mike Seaver to this? Ridiculous.

As for the universe theory -- yes, my head hurts and thank you for pointing out what socially inept people with money (other that the idiots I deal with on a daily basis) do with their free time. Clearly, these scientists have ample time & resources to do these little experiments in a vaccum and don't have personal relationships, families, rent payments, student loans, grocery bills, health care costs, commuting problems or anything else that the average New Yorker, nay citizen of the world, deals with on a daily basis.

So, if some kooky, cloistered, wankers from the UK and the Dirrty Jerz want to tell me the universe is old and we're all eventually going to die -- news flash -- we covered that around in the Third Grade.

[hkuszak]

I blatantly stole the Cameron vid for my sig on the Frog. Good stuff, Coz.

[Bobby P]

Yeah, not to rain on any parades, but lots of people for a long time have postulated on a cyclical aspect to the movement of matter in the 'verse.

The dark force is a bitch, yo.

Can't escape it. Every galaxy is speeding away from all the other galaxy's. To make the image clearer fill a baloon half full of air, draw some dots on it, then blow more and more air into it. All the dots get further apart. But the catch is, the speed at which the galaxies are speeding apart is slowing down. That means one thing - they have to eventually stop. Then what happens? Gravity starts pulling them all back to together. Slowly at first, because as everybody knows, the force of gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two masses - and we are talking about some massive distance. But we're also talking about some massive....uhm...mass. Then as they start to get closer they will accelerate faster and faster (as that inverse square thing works in the opposite direction) until...eh, who knows. A big big big big crunch, as all the mass in the universe squeezes into something infinitely small.

[Bobby P]

Sorry, let me make a part of that clearer - the rate of acceleration of the speeding apart galazies is slowing down. Not the speed. We are still speeding up. But it still means the same thing. What happens when things stop accelarating? They slow down.

[Jack Klompus]

"And how did that guy go from being Mike Seaver to this? Ridiculous.

Seriously. My eyes and ears nearly bled when I watched that. I think he tops Danica McKellar aka Winnie Cooper from "The Wonder Years." Apparently she's some sort of math whiz and co-authored an original math theorem back in 1998 (one year after making a guest appearance on "Love Boat, The Next Wave.") After a lingerie pictorial in Stuff, I last saw her on "How I Met Your Mother." It's no wonder our universe explodes every now and again.

But Cameron, he's cuckoo for fuckin' Cocoa Puffs. I'd like to see him battle Willie Aames (as Bibleman) in a no-holds-barred cage match. It's the least they could do for us "everyday people" having to put up with them.

[daveNYC]

"Clearly, these scientists have ample time & resources to do these little experiments in a vaccum and don't have personal relationships, families, rent payments, student loans, grocery bills, health care costs, commuting problems or anything else that the average New Yorker, nay citizen of the world, deals with on a daily basis."

Yeah, because I'm sure that scientists don't eat, travel, get sick, reproduce, or have ever gone to school.

[Kristal K]

"Yeah, because I'm sure that scientists don't eat, travel, get sick, reproduce, or have ever gone to school."

Eat: food, albeit cafeteria, likely provided by the University -- unless they want to eat off campus;

Travel: the walk across the lawn from faculty housing to the lab is a real bitch;

Sick: university health care plans, last I checked, were amazing;

Reproduce: See above three and keep in mind the free family tuition breaks given on the university and even graduate level;

School: Umm....of course they went to school, I doubt they are in the six-figure debt level.

I'm not saying they are wrong -- they worked hard for their education and this is a fantastic reward -- I'm just saying they live wonderful, cloistered, bucolic little lives and this is the best they could do? Isn't there a cure to cancer we could have spent this money on instead?

[daveNYC]

Shit man, an astrophysicist beat you up when you were young?