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I've been watching the History Channel series "The Universe", a 64 episode series that covers everything from the creation of stars, earth, our moon, to extraterrestrial planets, beings and more. Ever heard of parallel universes? How about multiverses? Quantum physics and Einstein's theory of relativity fight each other. How about Quasars? Pulsars? How about giant gamma ray bursts? Can you imagine something that is thousands of light years away exploding and quite possibly having the ability to destroy the earth with just a beam?

I would love to chat with anyone who is interested in this subject. Know what a black hole is? Is gravity the strongest force in the universe? what is dark matter, dark energy. Do you think that all that is out there is what we can see, even using telescopes that can measure different light forms and frequencies?

How does a star work. What is the biggest explosion in the universe? Can it be heard? How far is the farthest star/explosion that has been witnessed? Is Mercury hotter than Venus because it is closer to out sun?

So many questions and so much to learn. As an interested party to physics and astrology, this program has me glued to each and every episode. The things that have been learned in the last 30 years is phenomenal. I remember only 25 years ago, going to a planetarium at a local university and asking the professor what he thought about black holes. At that time they were just a theory and probably one that the professor didn't agree with. Now we know much about black holes and what they cand.

If anyone wants to grab a topic pertaining to physics, astronomy or anything out of this world, let's chat.
 
I find it interesting but most of that stuff goes over my head and just ends up with me staring blankly at the tv wondering why the Universe hasn't killed us all yet.
 
I find a lot of that stuff pretty interesting, but not so much that I would spend a lot of time watching people talking about it. I don't trust scientists much either, so I guess that could have something to do with it too. They just told me a lot of things when I was in school that they now say was incorrect. These are the same people who swore an oath that the earth was flat for years and years, and mocked those who disagreed with them as uneducated and foolish, among other things.
 
i'm also skeptical about so called fundamental laws of science to some degree. not that i don't find them fascinating. i don't set a schedule to watch any particular show but generally watch most science programs i come across. i've seen some of the the universe series. i'm sure i will eventually see them all.

speaking about so called fundamental laws of science, it appears neutrinos may be able to travel faster than the speed of light. somebody needs to build a spaceship to travel back in time to have einstein update his theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. :) that's if neutrinos are confirmed by other scientists as being able to travel faster than light.

Speed of light broken again as scientists test neutrino result
 
SlowNeasy said:
i'm also skeptical about so called fundamental laws of science to some degree.
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Hey, that's science. All we know is what we can perceive (see), but they are beginning to "see" more and more, not that they can actually see them. Dark matter or dark energy? Those are two very hard to understand principles. The the idea of parallel universes, maybe there is such a thing as Doppelgänger. That's what makes it all so interesting.

In the future, we may not need to move as fast or faster than the speed of light. Heck, even at that speed, we couldn't live long enough to really explore anything further than our own solar system. So far, we can't even come close to going that fast, but who knows what will come along. Warps, wormholes, what else could there be? Just think how far humans have come in just the last 100 years. The earliest human found to date is 200,000 years ago, but who knows. Lucy, the earliest humanoid, is said to be dated back over 3 million years, but even that is a very short time when you take into consideration what is believed to be the age of the universe. Remember, dinosaurs were around for 250 million years and what did they do? What will the next 100 years bring? The old saying "the sky's the limit" just might be wrong.
 
buckaroo said:
Hey, that's science. All we know is what we can perceive (see), but they are beginning to "see" more and more, not that they can actually see them. Dark matter or dark energy? Those are two very hard to understand principles. The the idea of parallel universes, maybe there is such a thing as Doppelgänger. That's what makes it all so interesting.

In the future, we may not need to move as fast or faster than the speed of light. Heck, even at that speed, we couldn't live long enough to really explore anything further than our own solar system. So far, we can't even come close to going that fast, but who knows what will come along. Warps, wormholes, what else could there be? Just think how far humans have come in just the last 100 years. The earliest human found to date is 200,000 years ago, but who knows. Lucy, the earliest humanoid, is said to be dated back over 3 million years, but even that is a very short time when you take into consideration what is believed to be the age of the universe. Remember, dinosaurs were around for 250 million years and what did they do? What will the next 100 years bring? The old saying "the sky's the limit" just might be wrong.
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so much to learn, so little time. :( i really do hope to live long enough to see man go to mars (doubtful). one can always hope though. :)
 
SlowNeasy said:
so much to learn, so little time. :( i really do hope to live long enough to see man go to mars (doubtful). one can always hope though. :)
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I don't know how old you are, but I believe that I will see that and I'm 63. Technology moves faster and faster as time goes by.
 
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