Ok, so here's just a general discussion topic I though of while reading a Scientific American article. For some reason, SA has decided to send me articles to get me to purchase a subscription again...I think I had a subscription like 6 years ago...anyway...
The article they sent me was on Parallel Universes. Now this is a subject that interests me a lot. Maybe that's because I watched a lot of Sliders in my day. Anyway, i've read a lot of books on the subject and in reading this article I wondered what others in this thread though of any of the multiverse theories?
The idea that there are an infinite amount of universes is one that has always intrigued me. Where every single possibility for every single atom is experienced. That is God right there.
So what theory do you subscribe to? Being able to empirically test these theories is always the challenge, and perhaps one day we can say for certain that we live in a multiverse, but what's your guess?
Personally, I think the many worlds hypothesis is kind of silly. Really, a new universe for every quantum event? Where's all the energy come from to create all these new universes? I have no problem with the idea of a multiverse. I kind of like the idea of branes myself, like soap bubble universes. You have these vast bubbles of formless energy out there in the nowhere that have certain properties, such as number of dimensions, energy density, and other very basic properties. As these bubbles float around the nothingness, they come in contact with each other and the point of contact creates a universe at the interface, the properties of which are determined by the properties of the 'energy bubbles' that have interacted to create it. In that sense our whole universe could be alot like what happens when you blow two soap bubbles and they stick together, forming a kind of combined surface. The energy bubbles themselves could provide the source for phenomena such as quatum foam, representing the interaction between the competing surfaces of the bubbles. Similarly, the non uniformity of the universe could be a result of the underlying structure of the bubbles. Even things like inflation could be represented by the idea of two bubbles touching in space, then becoming more and more attracted to each other the closer they get, causing the appearance of inflation as the combined surface of the bubbles gets larger.
I have no idea of how anybody would go about testing that kind of a theory, but it's how I visualize brane theory and thought it sounded like a cool way for things to work. Of course this may seem as whack to people as many worlds seems to me, but hey, it's just a hypothesis. I think it's kind of elegant and simple.
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Hahah that is awesome! I can eat potassium while eating potassium!
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Yup, I've got a big supply of Nude Scientist magazines under my mattress. I really loved last issues photo spread on 'Non-Newtonian Fluids and the Women who Study Them'.
Oh wait, after clicking on your link, I see we're talking about two different things.
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Octopuses have been discovered tip-toeing with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside for protection or deception, a new study says.
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The coconut-carrying behavior makes the veined octopus the newest member of the elite club of tool-using animals—and the first member without a backbone, researchers say.
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Not really science news, but science related.. Steorn's at it again, now with their demo of their "over unity" device. They've got live video feeds up even:
I love how the octi investigates the camera at the end of that clip, trying to figure out if it can use it for something. They're such interesting and intelligent creatures.
I'm pretty sure this is older footage from an earlier expedition (or at least very similar) that Mark Norman did to the Lembeh Strait. I remember seeing it in the show about the mimic octopus, also his discovery. Guess he went back and actually wrote a paper about the behavior.
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Wow, that's really a different look. Amazing image. Here's a more typical view of the same region in the visible spectrum imaged last year by a friend of mine.
Astronomers announced this week they found a water-rich and relatively nearby planet that's similar in size to Earth.
While the planet probably has too thick of an atmosphere and is too hot to support life similar to that found on Earth, the discovery is being heralded as a major breakthrough in humanity's search for life on other planets.
"The big excitement is that we have found a watery world orbiting a very nearby and very small star," said David Charbonneau, a Harvard professor of astronomy and lead author of an article on the discovery, which appeared this week in the journal Nature.
The planet, named GJ 1214b, is 2.7 times as large as Earth and orbits a star much smaller and less luminous than our sun. That's significant, Charbonneau said, because for many years, astronomers assumed that planets only would be found orbiting stars that are similar in size to the sun.
The most amazing video I've seen in some time, the fact it shows so beautifully the size of our known Universe as well as showing just how tiny the radio noise from earth has moved outward in comparison to the size of our own galaxy is pretty damn cool.
Anyhow, send this one to your friends and family, definitively a must see for everyone.
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