Did our universe escape from a lab? Why isn't the US intel community investigagating? (Page 3/5)
otakudude OCT 19, 02:52 PM

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Originally posted by randye:


Abraham "Avi" Loeb is an Israeli Jew obsessed with aliens and trying desperately to disprove the existence of God.




Not trying to stir anything up but what does his being Jewish have to do with anything?
rinselberg OCT 19, 05:37 PM

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Originally posted by otakudude:
Not trying to stir anything up but what does his [Avi Loeb] being Jewish have to do with anything?


I am about to approach this with the precision of mathematics--but only to the extent of counting 1, 2, 3, etc.

Start at the top and count the Reply messages until you reach "9" and that is where I posted about similar speculation that was published before, in 2017.

The cohort of somewhat prominent people who engage in this kind of speculation goes beyond just Israelis, or Jews, or Israeli Jews. Michio Kaku is a familiar face and voice that appears in the various and constantly emerging hour-long segments about astrophysics and cosmology on the Science Channel. (Or is it the Discovery Channel? Or both?)

Michio Kaku has narrated these speculations about how a new universe could be created in some future physics lab or particle accelerator--theoretically. He has a PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley (1972), has published in peer-reviewed science journals about String Theory and other topics that are current among theoretical physicists, and is currently the City College of New York’s Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics.

I respect this kind of speculation to the extent that it is connected to phenomena and topics that are rooted in empirical science. Like Quantum Tunneling and Dark Energy. Or the Magnetic Monopole, which no one has yet been able to create or observe, but seems to emerge as a possibility from what is more commonly accepted among Theoretical Physicists who connect their theories with empirical data from astronomical observations and particle accelerator experiments.

I don't see that this belongs in the same file folder as Science Fiction, because it's not being ornamented with obviously fictional characters like Luke Skywalker or set within a coherent story line, as you would find within the pages of one of Isaac Asimov's SciFi books like "I, Robot."

Infotainment, but not Science Fiction.

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randye OCT 19, 09:47 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

Michio Kaku is a familiar face and voice that appears in the various and constantly emerging hour-long segments about astrophysics and cosmology on the Science Channel. (Or is it the Discovery Channel? Or both?)




He is another proponent of pseudoscience and pseudohistory who regularly appears on History Channel's program ANCIENT ALIENS alongside another famous UFO nut, Giorgio Tsoukalos .



It appears as though a "fright wig" hair style and a particular hand gesture is de rigueur with these screwballs.

Kaku is also another sad, lost soul trying desperately to disprove the existence of God

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rinselberg OCT 19, 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by randye:

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Do we need to also provide you with the definitions of the words "speculative" and "imagined"?


I don't know who or what you think you represent here, other than yourself.

I have my reason(s) for creating this topic, but a belief on my part in the veracity of "our universe is a science project created by the inhabitants of some other universe" is not one of them.

It's infotainment--but not Science Fiction.

I respect it only to the degree that it is connected with actual topics of discussion among working theoretical physicists and cosmologists, like Dark Energy, Quantum Tunneling and Magnetic Monopoles.

And no, I don't pretend to understand it, beyond the superficialities that are narrated, without mathematics, in layman's or non-specialists publications like the Opinion section of Scientific American.

Your pathetic habit of persistently invoking the "royal we" only underscores that you cannot hope to Make Yourself Great Again until you log out from Pennock's and move on to something else.

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randye OCT 19, 10:57 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:
Your pathetic habit of persistently invoking the "royal we" only underscores that you cannot hope to Make Yourself Great Again until you log out from Pennock's and move on to something else.




The "we" is who gave you that screaming neon red negative ratings bar.


You should probably be the one to "log out from Pennock's and move on to something else" before we make that happen for you.

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I see that you're also back to your old habit of bizarrely and improperly capitalizing words in sentences.

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rinselberg OCT 19, 11:26 PM


randye OCT 19, 11:44 PM
IS THERE ANY MAGNETISM BETWEEN MONO-POLES?



Do Poles want "dark energy"?

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rinselberg OCT 20, 12:30 AM


rinselberg OCT 20, 07:48 PM
According to the newest hour-long segment that I've seen (just the other day) about the Big Bang, on the Science Channel--or was it the Discovery Channel?--whichever, but to wit:

In the first second after our universe "banged" into existence, all of its most important properties and characteristics were already in place, and fully evolved from its original or primordial form at Time Zero. The original and single universal force had evolved into the four universal forces that scientists talk about today: Gravity (first to evolve), then the Strong Nuclear force, followed by the Weak Nuclear force and the Electromagnetic force. Energy had transitioned into Matter and Anti-Matter, which began to annihilate one another, but because of an inherent asymmetry--not well understood, I think--Matter prevailed, because for every billion particles of Anti-Matter, there were a billion and one particles of Matter.

Cosmologists and astrophysicists who ponder these matters think about the emergence of the universe on the scale of the Planck time or Planck second--the smallest unit of time that has significance in their theories.

A single second is divided into more Planck seconds than the number of seconds that have elapsed since the beginning of the universe. It's not even close: the number of Planck seconds in a single second is 30 orders of magnitude or a factor of 1030 greater than the number of seconds that have elapsed since the beginning of the universe, approximately 13.8 billion years ago.

I wonder how all this "sits" with the other denizens of the online community that is delineated by the text string "Pennock's Totally O/T"..?

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williegoat OCT 20, 08:26 PM
If you travel I-8 west from Arizona into California and go another 16 miles, you will come to a spot where they have preserved a section of the old plank road. I have often pondered what it might have been like to cross the dunes on that road in a Model T 100 years ago. That is the only plank my mind has walked.

I read "A Brief History of Time" nearly 30 years ago. Some pages, I had to back up and get another running start at. That's about as deep as I need to go. My summary: "Whoomp! There it is."