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I wish I better understood maths. Those who do apparently opine that the universe is 93 billion light years in diameter, that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, and that the universe is almost 14 billion years old. This indicates an expansion from the center of the of over 3 times the speed of light. I know that they know what they are doing infinitely more than I do, but WTF!!!?
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I think you're talking Physics, more than Maths.
Interesting conundrum: if a "year" is one orbital revolution of Earth around the Sun, but Earth's revolution around the Sun is slower now than it was millions of years ago ... then how long was a "year" millions of years ago?
The mind boggles!
Interesting conundrum: if a "year" is one orbital revolution of Earth around the Sun, but Earth's revolution around the Sun is slower now than it was millions of years ago ... then how long was a "year" millions of years ago?
The mind boggles!
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Maybe that's why the Federation came up with Star Dates?
OP
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It's all Theia's fault!!
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Bob, I've read through books on physics, calculus, quantum theory tomes, Feynman's diagrams, Dyson, Einstein. Spoke personally with guys from CERN...
...but I stil come back to THIS as a best-guess. "I clutch my ideas."
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Again without substantial understanding, I think that at this level physics is just numbers on a page. I suspect that in answer to the length-of-a-year question a qualified physicist would (try to) explain to us what a year is not under the "space-time" concept. This leads me to another question that bothers me about this discipline. Why, when some remote thing, observation or event does not behave according to the "laws of physics" do they decide that things like dark matter [DUNNOS- Dark Unknown Nondetectable Nonreflective Objects Somewhere (thank you Bill Bryson)] are the explanation that will provide the consistency? Why is it not allowed that the locally observed "laws of physics" are just different in different places. I just DUNNO.
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well, with "Particle Duality" as a now given phenom, you may be right.
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Doc-
This very thing compounds my misunderstanding reflected in my last post. Why is quantum physics irreconcilable with macro physics? The second sentence in this post was written before Doc and Mac's last posts. We seem to agree, so I will notify Michio immediately.
Bob
This very thing compounds my misunderstanding reflected in my last post. Why is quantum physics irreconcilable with macro physics? The second sentence in this post was written before Doc and Mac's last posts. We seem to agree, so I will notify Michio immediately.
Bob
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Somehow, the equations have to make sense. Dark matter seems to explain the otherwise "unbalanced" equation.
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You bring me back to a question posed by the eminent physics comedy group Firesign Theater: "How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?"
Bob
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The strong and weak forces down in the piddly bits don't adhere to what an apple falling from a tree must adhere to.
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Not saying that it isn't possible that an invented concept consistent with doctrine and designed to explain a mystery may be right. They apparently have empirically verified the Higgs boson.
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