newscientistspace.com — If the universe has bounced through a long series of big bangs and big crunches for a trillion years, it could solve the puzzle of why thecosmological constant is a googol smaller than that predicted by particle physics theories
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ansibleMay 4, 2006
I've always thought that a cyclic universe made more sense than the big bang to eternal expansion theory. This also answer my question of what has Turok been up to since the N64... in his own words:"Ever since the 1960s, people assumed that the big bang was the beginning of time, because the laws of physics seem to break down there," says Turok. But the equations of string theory tell a different story, allowing time to exist before the big bang, he says.
shigMay 5, 2006
So it aged 996.3 billion years in a few years? It'll be 3 trillion by 2010.
dysfunctionMay 5, 2006
Good for you to think that, but sadly your musings are not supported by the facts.
arramolMay 5, 2006
As a Biblical text major, few things make me want to pull my hair out more than people who insist on taking the Genesis account literally. The language used is poetic and largely symbolic, and it really isn't intended to explain how God created the Earth. The real purpose, to the best of my understanding, is simply to state that God DID do it, and perhaps make other points, such as that he did it alone without the aid of any other gods - an important point to make in an extremely polytheistic world. It would be far more practical to achieve this through symbolism than to do it by trying to explain the Big Bang, accretion of dust and gases into planets and stars, evolution, etc. to ancient Hebrews. The Bible is not a science textbook, nor is it intended to be. Please don't treat it as such.
dwatchMay 6, 2006
::golf clap:: crnbrdeater,This short story was the first Science Fiction story I read by Asimov. I had read some other authors, but this one story made me a fan of Asimov, and subsequently reading pretty much everything he has ever written (except for some of his textbooks). I always thought his Foundation series of books would eventually be made into a movie (or trilogy) someday, but after watching Heinlein's Starship Troopers, I think that we are better off without a movie 'adaptation'. He had one book called "Atom", which was non-fiction... it was written at a layman's level, explaining the atom, radiation, matter, some chemistry, sub-atomic particles, quantum physics, and some light relativity theory. Even though we now know more about the atom than he did when he wrote the book, it still stands up well, and is the first book I recommend to anyone who is confused by sub-atomic particles and quantum physics. He has a way of making even the most scientific explanations simple, yet accurate, without a lot of math.
dkdivedudeMay 6, 2006
It makes very much sense! The universe is like a giant heart beat, each beat taking a trillion years /- 2 seconds.Perhaps the universe is the heart of some GIANT creature! Remember the crystal ball from Men in Black? Currently I see on the top of this page that this article is under review because of inaccruacy reports. They probably come from religious people who refuse to believe anything not conforming to the bible.
originalogMay 7, 2006
so what version of the universe are we in....2.0? If its universe 2.0 then we need a few things.1.) CSS has to validate2.) link to "digg it" 3.) pastel colors and gradients4.) rounded corners5.) font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large6.) AJAX
xanderMay 7, 2006
It seems to me that no one has a clue
dracosMay 8, 2006
Man created God in his own image.