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- BeShirtHappy, on 10/16/2008, -0/+14I marvel at the technology we have like the Submillimeter Array that allowed this discovery.
- postitnote, on 10/16/2008, -1/+7Yes. The age of the universe right now is roughly 13.7 billion years old.
- keithloughnane, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4black holes and dinosaurs were on the arc together
- inactive, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4Black hole sun, won't you come.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiSkyEyBczU - inactive, on 10/16/2008, -0/+4The title is extremely racist.
- Lucas123, on 10/16/2008, -1/+4Photos or it's not real
- youannoyme, on 10/16/2008, -1/+4How exactly does anything in this article indicate there was any conflict with the big bang? Besides, the thing is that physicists actually deal with the real theories, and not the simplistic layman versions that make it into the popular media you read. You see something as an alternative because you don't know better, but they see the detailed picture that makes most of your alternatives seem like so much garbage. They call it a consensus *both* because its not determined for absolute sure, and because the majority of the people in the field look at the available data...and reach the same conclusion. Besides, any of us would jump at the idea to have a demonstrable alternative theory. 'Tis how honors and Nobel Prizes are won!
- Zerander, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1What an amazing place we live in.
- pcpimpster, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2You are the only 1 Douchbaggensworthe
- vertigo32, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2What an amazing universe. Thinking of what we've learned in the past hundred...fifty...twenty years, I just wonder what mind blowing things we will learn just within our lifetimes.
- billbugger, on 10/16/2008, -1/+2GOD ***** blackholes!
- mdraper, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1What if the big bang is just another singularity in an infinite loop of construction and de-construction of the universe? Isn't that as plausible as something creating God?
- leerayIG88, on 10/16/2008, -1/+2Until a Colossal penis filled it up.
- billbugger, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory
here's an easy article talking about it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/1270726. ... - cnot3, on 10/16/2008, -0/+1You're only saying that because you haven't seen the fourth dimension.
- tehphoberer, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1Yeah but the "click here to enlarge" does nothing T_T
- britoca, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1there was no big bang...
- rmxz, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1I've always been curious how the matter that was so densely packed in the beginning of the universe didn't remain in one black hole. I thought if you stuffed that much mass close together nothing can get away from it. Or does the universe expanding pull stuff out of black holes?
- MtheoryX, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1Perhaps I just don't understand it enough, but could you elaborate on how, specifically, M-theory discounts the big bang theory?
- inactive, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1Great photoshop job
- inactive, on 10/17/2008, -0/+1Nothing can suck like a blackhole.
- inactive, on 10/16/2008, -1/+1Your digg icon eliminates any credibility you may have in any science discussion. You fail.
- blueneutrino, on 10/17/2008, -0/+0Ironically the universe *is* one huge black hole. One can verify that by computing the Schwarzschild radius for the mass of the known universe. This has the rather depressing consequence that we will never be able to get out and search for other universes...
- trollick, on 10/16/2008, -1/+1The question does not make any sense. Time is a part of this universe.
- palcs, on 10/16/2008, -1/+1What the heck came before everything? Even the universe? Something must have started it all...and that must have been started by something...
- billbugger, on 10/16/2008, -3/+2This has nothing to do with an alternate theory from the big bang theory. However, M-theory offers up a posible 'alternative' to the big bang theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-theory Einstein would be ***** himself with glee as he never liked the big bang theory anyways.
- jdduran, on 10/16/2008, -7/+2Sounds sexxxy... am I the only one who read it like a dirty headline?
- ivansusanin, on 10/16/2008, -7/+1the universe was only 1.7 billion years old 12 billion years ago?
- kelly, on 10/16/2008, -9/+2Oops... there's a problem with old-universe/big bang theory... lets find a plausible idea that would lend credence to these theories rather than consider the alternative as that would upset too many apple carts.
Boom. Done.
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