trevie asked:
How did you conclude that the universe is infinite? Surely it must end at the beginning of the big bang theory.
and:
You are saying now that there are two or more parallel universes, If so how did you find this out and where are they?
In my various website articles, I postulate that the cosmos must be infinite in both extent and duration. Believing this is tantamount to believing that God is eternal and omnipresent with the exception that one does not have to invoke spirit beings to rationalize the "cause" for physical reality. If the cosmos was not infinite in both extent and duration, then we would have a situation where everything we can observe around us would have come into existence from nothingness and, due to the laws of thermodynamics, would only eventually dissipate into nothingness again. That is, a cosmos that was not infinite in extent and duration would be a very transitory and improbable one, indeed. In any event, you might find my two website articles,
A Destiny for Cosmic Life and
Playing with Infinity, to be of interest.
No, there is only ONE cosmos. I do not believe in "parallel universes". However, there should, logically, be an array of identical
regions of the cosmos (separated by unimaginably great distances from each other) within our one cosmos. Again, this is justified by probability theory.
Scott wrote:
Thus I'd say Zeno was a pretty advanced thinker.
The ancient Greek philosophers and mathematicians were a somewhat advanced as a class and their ideas influenced later concepts that were developed in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. However, they also, occasionally, dug themselves into a pit when improperly applying their new plaything...logic.
All of Zeno's paradoxes can be satisfactorily resolved with the concepts of modern mathematics. For example, the paradox involving the hypothetical race between the tortoise and Achilles is flawed because it relies upon an argument that considers ever decreasing time intervals. It can be shown with simple algebra that, regardless of the head start the tortoise is given and the ratio of the velocities of the two, there is a certain distance at which Achilles will pass the tortoise and be in the lead. However, it is the case that the tortoise will always win IF the distance of the course is less than the calculated distance for Achilles to reach the tortoise.
Ralph wrote:
After 50 pages of accusations and name calling you dismantle the wheel with your partners blessing, so you can tell all, that no! you do not have a running wheel.
It sounds like the issues dismissed in the General Discussion thread that just got "locked up" are, once again, beginning to surface!
So, are you, Ralph, now suggesting that for the earlier part of that go-nowhere 50 page thread, James Kelly DID have a
working wheel, but then
purposely disabled it so that he could, finally, truthfully admit that "no" he does not
currently have one?
trevie, again, wrote:
Maybe the atoms that make up the universe thin out at the end, bit like our Earths atmosphere the higher you go. So whats in between the atoms? Maybe the answer lies here to beginning/end of the universe.
What I am convinced is happening is that we actually inhabit a "multiverse" and not just a universe. That is, what I call the "cosmos" is, in reality, a multiverse made up of an infinite array of separate expanding Big Band universes. While our best telescopes can see out to about 10 to 12 billion light years, they can not see the light of our immediately surrounding expanding Big Bang universes that is now radiating toward our local universe.
Over the course of the next, perhaps, hundred billion years, the outwardly expanding galaxies of our Big Bang universe will begin to encounter those of the immediately surrounding expanding Big Bang universes. As that happens, these burned out, dead galaxies will, via mutual gravitation, collapse into each other an, over the course of tens of billions of additional years, form Super Black Holes which are the several times the size of our solar system. Eventually, ALL of the matter and energy of the infinite multiverse will be "locked up" within an infinite array of these Super Black Holes.
After several more tens of billions of years of complete darkness, suddenly this array will begin to destabilize. Some process will come into action that will allow all of that highly energized neutronium to explode out of the Super Black Holes. When this happens, an infinite array of expanding Big Bang universes will be created that will go on to form galaxies, stars, planets, life, sentient beings, and, yes...mobilists like us! This process will be on that has always occurred, is occurring now, and always will occur...
John...
The simplest way to cope with the time travel paradoxes is to keep in mind that 20th century relativity theory established that backward time travel is
not physically possible. When that is accepted as true, ALL such time travel paradoxes disappear...thankfully!
ken
On 7/6/06, I found, in any overbalanced gravity wheel with rotation rate, ω, axle to CG distance d, and CG dip angle φ, the average vertical velocity of its drive weights is downward and given by:
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
