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1951
« on: February 23, 2015, 07:02:02 PM »
In a few billion years, the universe will expand to the point where everything is so far apart and used up that no stars or well... pretty much anything will be able to form
It'd be eternal darkness
Pretty depressing
Not in a "few billion". We are talking about the upper estimate of 10^10^120 here.
It's been a while since I watched the documentary
The universe will be viable for life as we know it(used loosely) for another couple trillion years.
1952
« on: February 23, 2015, 06:58:08 PM »
White holes are theoretically impossible, but we believe one managed to occur.
The great attractor cannot be seen...
Is that what they think the great attractor is? Last I heard they thought it was a separate space time outside ours affecting our's gravitationally.
1953
« on: February 23, 2015, 06:43:45 PM »
That face when most of my physical knowledge isn't astronomical but theoretical and applied. Erm. . .
Cosmology counts. Ok I assume most of you have heard of the heat death of the universe, right? Essentially its the "final state" of the universe where it asymptotically acquires perfect equilibrium, no energy gradients nothing can happen. What most folks don't take into account is that thermodynamical law is statistical. Entropy basically being based on the fact that there are more ways(it's more likely) for a system to acquire a "disordered" state than for it to acquire an "orderly" one(order is in quotes because its not really correct but I can't think of a another way to get across what I'm saying).
What this means is that there is a vanishing but nonzero chance for an isolated system in equilibrium, "heat death", to acquire minimal or near minimal entropy, purely by chance. Apparently the reccurrence time for the quantum state of a blackhole the mass of our observable universe is somewhere on the order of 10^10^10^10^13 years. . .
It's prudent to point out that our universe is more likely to quantum tunnel back to a pre-big bang state before this amount of time elapses. It's also prudent to point out that this based on certain assumptions about our universe that may not be supported by later theories.
Heat death is something I'm very interested in. Over those massive time scales improbabilities like the Boltzmann brain could potentially form.
Do you read Sean Carrol's blog? He talks about that a lot. From my understanding the universe is more likely to quantum tunnel back to a pre big bang state long before Boltzmann brains become a major observer probability skewing phenomenon. There's also the fact that know one really knows how an accelerating universe affects conclusions like heat death. I mean can an exponentially expanding system reach perfect equilibrium?
1954
« on: February 23, 2015, 06:35:14 PM »
>Mentioned in a thread
my dick is so hard right now
totally off topic Fucking Voivod! Fuck you guys jim's taste is fckn impeccable.
1955
« on: February 23, 2015, 06:19:06 PM »
The cosmological constant of the universe is precisely fine-tuned to not only the capability of life to form, but for the universe to have not collapsed immediately after the Big Bang, to the scale of 120 orders of magnitude, and that there is nothing close to an explanation for this.
Please don't start trying to ruin what is currently an amazing thread. Also, if you're a believer in the multiverse theory, then the formation of a universe that can support life is a mathmatical certainty.
He's right though. And to me an unobservable multiverse is about as unsatisfying an explanation as an unobservable god is. I would't totally rule it tho because it does sort of drop out of certain theories on its own. If inflation is proven correct it's probably a certainty, not sure how I feel about that.
1956
« on: February 23, 2015, 06:01:56 PM »
That face when most of my physical knowledge isn't astronomical but theoretical and applied. Erm. . .
Cosmology counts. Ok I assume most of you have heard of the heat death of the universe, right? Essentially its the "final state" of the universe where it asymptotically acquires perfect equilibrium, no energy gradients nothing can happen. What most folks don't take into account is that thermodynamical law is statistical. Entropy basically being based on the fact that there are more ways(it's more likely) for a system to acquire a "disordered" state than for it to acquire an "orderly" one(order is in quotes because its not really correct but I can't think of a another way to get across what I'm saying).
What this means is that there is a vanishing but nonzero chance for an isolated system in equilibrium, "heat death", to acquire minimal or near minimal entropy, purely by chance. Apparently the reccurrence time for the quantum state of a blackhole the mass of our observable universe is somewhere on the order of 10^10^10^10^13 years. . .
It's prudent to point out that our universe is more likely to quantum tunnel back to a pre-big bang state before this amount of time elapses. It's also prudent to point out that this based on certain assumptions about our universe that may not be supported by later theories.
1957
« on: February 23, 2015, 03:34:02 PM »
I am, surprisingly. I get along with pretty much everybody I know, even if I'm blunt with them in serious discussions. It's actually become part of the expectations people have of me, to be exceptionally critical of the propositions people make.
But I find people--happily--are able to separate the social and intellectual aspects of life. I'm fairly friendly with the people I quite constantly disagree with.
Most people are like that in real life. You only really get real hatred over political/intellectual views over the interwebs. At least as far as I know.
1958
« on: February 23, 2015, 03:24:27 PM »
I laughed so hard on this part.
FCKNGOOK
1959
« on: February 23, 2015, 10:37:00 AM »
I'll say what I've said since day one. Going into the Middle East and wiping out an organized threat isn't the issue, "repairing" the area afterward is. We tore through Iraq in four months. The problem was the years we spent trying to restabilize it.
I say we get a regiment of 10,000 soldiers and exterminate any trace of ISIS. Then get the hell out of there. It needs to be done.
The way I see it the problem is that we left. That place was fucked up to begin w/, then we went over and destabilized it. Leaving the way we did just created a power vacuum and allowed crazy people to take over. If we go back we should be prepared for the long haul.
1960
« on: February 23, 2015, 10:01:24 AM »
Shitposting strongly
1961
« on: February 23, 2015, 09:59:00 AM »
>gooks
1962
« on: February 23, 2015, 09:43:55 AM »
Here's what we do. Lead them to think we mean to invade this Dabiq place, talk it up, make it look big. When they amass in order to defend we drop an ICBM on them. Gg no re. Spoiler k perhaps a nuke is a bit much, just drone them to kingdom come.
1963
« on: February 23, 2015, 07:52:03 AM »
I have to kind of go w/ turkey here, fedora tipper that I am. Science as we know it originally began w/ the assumption that God would create a comprehensible universe w/ regular laws that govern it.
This assumption, which still sort of holds in physics in the form of timeless laws, suggests to me that we should probably rethink how we think of natural law.
1964
« on: February 22, 2015, 03:51:34 PM »
So this person named bill walks up to this gay person named shaunand says to this person "Hi."
1965
« on: February 22, 2015, 03:44:39 PM »
Is this supposed to be a shit post?
1966
« on: February 22, 2015, 03:37:25 PM »
I don't even know if Sandtrap smokes weed. I'd take a stab at "yes".
I could forgive him for that, given the cancer.
Not that I'm against people smoking weed anyway. But you know what I mean.
I use weed occasionally and it hasn't done any lasting damage except maybe too my musical tastes. OT: Does Sandy really debate all that much? From what can tell he just tends to make long winded (thoughtful) posts about shit that happens.
1967
« on: February 22, 2015, 03:25:02 PM »
The shitter
1968
« on: February 22, 2015, 03:24:14 PM »
I met someone that thought RHCP was better than Faith No More.
I was like, "Rly nigga?"
1969
« on: February 22, 2015, 02:12:21 PM »
What the hell does that even mean? Is it one of those tumblr sexualities?
Nah, it means that if you're attracted to something, and it's legal, you don't givaf about anything.
For instance: I like this boy, but I'm a boy, so I will try to stop liking him.
That is an example of a non-pansexual person.
Now try an example of how it might work:
I like this girl, even though she thinks she's a panda.
^ If you're willing to tap it, you're pansexual.
Pansexual = The power of boners is the strongest one
"Would you fuck a baby?"
Would a hetero guy fuck a female baby?
So it's tumblr speak for being thirsty.
1970
« on: February 22, 2015, 01:42:28 PM »
Challenger is a fucking weeb
1971
« on: February 22, 2015, 01:39:07 PM »
What the hell does that even mean? Is it one of those tumblr sexualities?
1972
« on: February 22, 2015, 01:34:12 PM »
No tab gag, I'm disappoint Meta.
How does that second guy know that beaners stole his gas?
1973
« on: February 21, 2015, 10:35:40 PM »
1. must be cool w/ all our kids being clones of me
2. must be able to make me a sammich at a moments notice
3. must shut up when i say so
/s
1974
« on: February 21, 2015, 09:14:31 PM »
my inclination is not to take people seriously when they decry the evils of money because money is just an abstraction and the existence of the abstraction doesn't change the fact that goods and services have value and there is a finite amount of them to go around
someone is welcome to try to convince me I'm missing something
You're not wrong
1975
« on: February 21, 2015, 09:05:49 PM »
Really I'm not to worried about earning a lot of money, I'm just extremely interested in physics.
My redneck justification is that I want to make shit go fast.
1976
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:59:43 PM »
I don't even metal gear tho guys
1977
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:51:27 PM »
Yes
1978
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:51:00 PM »
I'm still depressed thy they cancelled making legion towns and cities.
It really annoys me that the only impression you can get of the legion in game without talking to characters is their military camps, which everyone uses to view the entire nation. And considering they've all but wipe out raiders to the point where caravans with expensive goods can travel unarmed, I'd say that'sa much e better place to love than NcR.
Unless you're a woman, or find stimpacks and other medical equipment useful, or like technology.
1979
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:46:04 PM »
When AI gets here we'll all be jobless bums.
1980
« on: February 21, 2015, 07:43:42 PM »
Picard is my nigguh
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