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... or "billions and billions" as Sagan also said.
This is kind of neat.

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Accretion due to gravity was the first culprit. Steven Weinberg's "The First Three Minutes" is a fine read. And subsequent findings like Dark Matter and Dark Energy are well founded speculation.

14 billion is a BIG number, 4.3 billion is a pittance.. three million is an eyeblink.

...and then there's that pesky 'brane theory bunch. Eleven seems to be popular with those fellas.


No matter what, we're ~golden~
 
DrEntropy said:
Accretion due to gravity was the first culprit. Steven Weinberg's "The First Three Minutes" is a fine read. And subsequent findings like Dark Matter and Dark Energy are well founded speculation.
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Read Weinberg... but, man, this accelerating universal expansion (dark energy?) makes my head hurt.
 
Just strap in, hold on and ~deep breathly~ Mark. It'll all work out in the end.
 
DrEntropy said:
Just strap in, hold on and ~deep breathly~ Mark. It'll all work out in the end.
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Which end? Mine or its? [Yeah, I know... both. :eek: ]
 
..or neither...

See: Heisenberg
 
Blame it all on the emergence of self-awareness and later, agriculture; Free time to speculate. On a full stomach. :smirk:
 
I shall ruminate on this.
 
And apparently bovine flatulence seems to be a concern lately, so don't get caught with cows or passin' methane into atmosphere personally!

...but ruminate away.

Mark said:
Read Weinberg... but, man, this accelerating universal expansion (dark energy?) makes my head hurt.
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As an aside.

"In the modern microscopic interpretation of entropy in statistical mechanics, entropy is the amount of additional information needed to specify the exact physical state of a system, given its thermodynamic specification."

Note the qualifier: "statistical".

...where'd I set down my CAB?!?
 
DrEntropy said:
And apparently bovine flatulence seems to be a concern lately, so don't get caught with cows or passin' methane into atmosphere personally!

...but ruminate away.



As an aside.

"In the modern microscopic interpretation of entropy in statistical mechanics, entropy is the amount of additional information needed to specify the exact physical state of a system, given its thermodynamic specification."

Note the qualifier: "statistical".

...where'd I set down my CAB?!?
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If I start having flashbacks of my Thermodynamics classes I'll never forgive you!
 
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