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At Lancaster University, they’re unraveling the secrets of how to build a universe. In fact, they have already formed one, or something very much like it. This scientific breakthrough lies in the bottom of a chamber no larger than your pinky finger, filled with helium and cooled to 0.0003 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero.
By placing helium in a state which most closely resembles the form it held at the beginning of the universe, scientists have created an opportunity for the gas to go through several low-energy evolutions. These defects in space-time, are represented by tiny whirlpools in the helium, which are created by the rapid expansion, and equally rapid slowing of the expansion; something that it’s believed our own universe did at the big bang and in the moments thereafter.
How, then, did our universe go from whirlpools that could fit in a thimble to galaxies larger than our imaginations can properly comprehend? Physicists, ever ready with their dry wit, have deemed these phenomena “inflation.” Nobody knows how this works or why, this happened; vast amounts of energy aren’t something you’d like to replicate in a lab. Black holes and supernovas aren’t pleasant lab partners. It’s quite evident to the researchers however, that inflation, or something very much like it took place and, lacking the ability to do field research of lab trials, they have built scale models. This is where the tiny galaxies come in.
The theory being presented by the physicists in Lancaster University is that inflation is the product of violent competition: a series of collisions between universes known as “3-branes;” a term related to string theory which I’m frankly not smart enough to explain to you. Suffice to say that our universe is one, because it exists in 3-5 dimensions.
What the string theorists claim is that in a collision of two 3-branes, or two different modes of pure helium like that containing the mini-galaxy, the universe will rapidly expand and stop instantly, mimicking the halting advance of the universe’s growth. Remarkably, when super cooled helium in different phases is mixed, it does exactly that: symmetries in the solution disappear, and aberrations form; the first step in several that lead to the forming of galaxies out of nothing. The secrets of the universe it seems, aren’t safe for long.
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Wowzers Man! That is absolutely crazy, sexy, cool. Yeah! Yip yip yoorah!
Quote: “0.0003 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero”
Do you mean Kelvin instead of Fahrenheit, b/c 0.0003 degrees fahrenheit is not that cold?
Hopefully their universe won’t expand into ours….
Yeah, great, but is there any way to determine
the status of the bioforms that are beginning their
existence on those small worlds?
Should they have a “bioform bill of rights”?
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Well…. IF they could get the thing to stabilize, THERE’s the answer to energy problems!
*Nobody knows how this works or why, this happened; vast amounts of energy aren’t something you’d like to replicate in a lab. Black holes and supernovas aren’t pleasant lab partners.*
Do scientists ever think out of the box any more?
“0.0003 degrees Fahrenheit above absolute zero”
JBL — the writer means exactly what he wrote. The temperature is above absolute zero (-459.67 F), not 0 degrees F.
And yes, it is that cold. Absolute zero is the coldest possible temperature, and the point at which there is no molecular motion (aside from quantum mechanical motion).
Absolute zero is equal to 0 K (Kelvin scale), 0 R (Rankine scale), -273 C (Celsius), and -459.67 F (Fahrenheit.)
Ignore this story. It’s a hoax. There is ONLY our universe and there are no other life forms. Our way f life is safe and the paradigm you operate in is completely true. Watch more T.V.
- The Management
Yip. I’m good with that. I didn’t believe it anyway. It is comforting to relax back into my routine. Ah, T.V., food, porn and work. Now just try to create THAT in a lab. No truer satisfaction there is.
Don’t forget soccer and bitching about American policy! THAT adds meaning to our lives here in Europe.
Soon this will lead to the discovery that we too in our little universe ,exist in someone else’s science experiment.
I have always thought about comment #12, that the universe is but a atom in a larger universe and that is a atom in a larger, ect ,ect
kinda messes with your mind
it realy does mess with your mind to concider that we are but a an atom of toe jam of something who is but an atom of dirt under the fingernails of something who but and atom of…….
it would be nice if we were able to have our own little universe in a fish tank instead of fishes.
And if you believe they have the Power to Create a Universe, or can even Know what ours was like at the beginning, I have Ocean Front Property on the Moon to sell you cheaply.
EdP if your serious send me an e-mail I might be interested, stltklguy@yahoo.com
Poster #17 is my new hero.
@EdP Word on the street is you are selling Ocean front property at discount cus of the recent credit crisis. Would that include an official execution of the transfer deed ?
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*Don’t forget soccer and bitching about American policy! THAT adds meaning to our lives here in Europe.*
I wish it’d add a little meaning to our lives here….
*Suffering under Stupid American Policy*
I get a little nervous when anyone tries to create a universe. The last one that was created, if I remember correctly EXPLODED VIOLENTLY. Might not be to healthy for the human species if that happens in the vicinity of the solar system. Some of these scientists are like little kids playing with their dads firecrackers. “Watch this”……..
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