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[Professor T]

shrooma, on 24 February 2013 - 12:17 PM, said:

a quantum fluctuation of this type can happen at ANY time, not just billions of years into the future.
one could be happening right now.
one could've happened thousands of years ago, millions of light years away, and our universe is being swallowed up as we speak.
there ARE no time restrictions on events like these, or, by definition, they wouldn't BE quantum events.

OMG! what a mindbogglingly intelligent thing to say!
When we look to the stars each night we are in-fact looking into history.. The starlight has in some cases taken millions/billions of year to reach us. So is it not reasonable to say, that an alternate universe is already out there & speeding towards us at the speed of light..

[shrooma]

Professor T, on 24 February 2013 - 09:27 PM, said:

OMG! what a mindbogglingly intelligent thing to say!

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hahahahaha!
i'm not drunk ALL the time y'know professor!
:-)

[Professor T]

shrooma, on 24 February 2013 - 10:49 PM, said:

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hahahahaha!
i'm not drunk ALL the time y'know professor!
:-)

[Professor T]

This Video appears to be a good short explaination of string theory and why this discovery is so significant. Especially around 2 minutes in..

[Frank Merton]

I think the good Professor (T) has it right.  If a fluctuation has already happening, it is heading our way at the speed of light.  As a result we don't see it coming.  What we see is light emitted by stars that may no longer exist before the quantum wave passed.

[Mikami]

I'm having trouple wrapping my head around this conundrum.... takes us to warp 9...

[Tutankhaten-pasheri]

I still think our entire universe is contained in the energy released by a match struck by somebody in an alternate universe, and who's own universe is contained in the energy released by a match being struck by........
Or everything is simply so big and complicated that we are really doing this which leads to this where I've been a long time now

[Ad hoc]

shrooma, on 24 February 2013 - 02:20 PM, said:

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this doesn't mean what you think it means frank.
what it means, is that electromagnetic research in the nineteenth century was pointless, which is why I asked if you were being sarcastic.
so please, stop trying to be a smart-ass, it doesn't suit you.

I don't think he was being a smartass at all. Made sense to me: He's instructing people who want to show that pure research is useful to employ the sarcastic example of electromagnetic research. The sarcasm in that example is so unavoidable that your question about whether he was being sarcastic was actually confusing, and seemed like you might be asking if his overall point was sarcastic. :/

Edited by Ad hoc, 25 February 2013 - 07:11 PM.

[shrooma]

Ad hoc, on 25 February 2013 - 07:10 PM, said:

The sarcasm in that example is so unavoidable that your question about whether he was being sarcastic was actually confusing

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he he he he.....
i'm glad someone else around here has a sense of humour!

[Professor T]

Frank Merton, on 25 February 2013 - 08:02 AM, said:

I think the good Professor (T) has it right.  If a fluctuation has already happening, it is heading our way at the speed of light.  As a result we don't see it coming.  What we see is light emitted by stars that may no longer exist before the quantum wave passed.

Hmmmm, I saw that quantumn bubble in the bathtub last night.... It smelled funny..

Seriously though, It is of course a possibility.. but then here we are, google scientist, wondering WTF would it be like to be consumed by an alternate universe.. there'd be no warning, it would be done in less than the blink of an eye and we would be nun-the-wiser if we had lived or died.

Which makes one wonder, has it not already happened, and are we the unwitting result.

Edited by Professor T, 25 February 2013 - 09:17 PM.

[Eldorado]

Professor T, on 25 February 2013 - 08:24 PM, said:

Which makes one wonder, has it not already happened, and are we the unwitting result.

Those 'alternative comedians' had to come from somewhere strange, so you could well be right.

[shrooma]

Frank Merton, on 25 February 2013 - 08:02 AM, said:

I think the good Professor (T) has it right.

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-''google scientist miscredited with someone elses comment'' shocker-
film at eleven.
;-)

[DingoLingo]

Lord Vetinari, on 24 February 2013 - 09:35 AM, said:

And this is why they've spent billions on this Higgs-Boson thing? What is the actual point of any of this?

The search for the Higgs Field was a important one.. the standard model equation basically explained everything.. but mass.. they could not explain mass.. and that is where the higgs boson came in..


it all comes down to particle physics .. every invention in the modern age has a starting point in particle physics.. Confirmation of the Higgs Boson will actually open a new branch of physics and invention..

[shrooma]

Professor T, on 25 February 2013 - 08:24 PM, said:

Hmmmm, I saw that quantumn bubble in the bathtub last night.... It smelled funny..

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don't be posting that man, you'll have creationists turning up worshipping you!!
(which won't be as nice as it sounds, trust me....)
:-)

[shrooma]

DingoLingo, on 25 February 2013 - 09:08 PM, said:

every invention in the modern age has a starting point in particle physics..

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so now we know who to blame for the x-factor!
bloody stoopid scientists....
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