The Mind Boggles

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Do you ever watch "The Universe" or "NOVA" or the like and hear things that both boggle your mind and make you giggle?? No..? It's just me then...

So, I'm watching "The Universe", and apparently, the foundations of all life may be clouds of ethyl alcohol floating aimlessly through space; other molecules hang around in this cloud, hopiing to find other organic molecules with which they can form stronger bonds (or possibly just look more attractive to one another! :grin

So...is it Space-cohol?

Spooze???

What boggles YOUR mind?

 

[dipsett]

yeah its that part of science that intrigues me, and i can really get behind and say hey this is real cool!
disregard the jab thrown at jesus.

 

[vancity_cowboy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Jupiter

 

[hornygandalf]

One of the things that boggles my mind, Ms. Erica, is that our bodies are in some respects analogous to outer space, if we consider the distance between atoms in relation to their size... just like planets and other objects in the various galaxies and solar systems. We are a whole lot of nothingness or space between each of the atoms (okay, I suspect there could be a blond joke in here somewhere, but I'll let someone else share that one).

And then there is the question of dark matter...

 

[westwoody]

We only see five percent of what is around us.

Over 95 percent of the universe is dark matter and dark energy.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

One of the things that boggles my mind, Ms. Erica, is that our bodies are in some respects analogous to outer space, if we consider the distance between atoms in relation to their size... just like planets and other objects in the various galaxies and solar systems. We are a whole lot of nothingness or space between each of the atoms (okay, I suspect there could be a blond joke in here somewhere, but I'll let someone else share that one).

And then there is the question of dark matter...

YES! And so many interdependent systems too..

 

[sevenofnine]

you know what I find interesting,

life goes against the nature of things,

I mean the universe is running down like a clock, burning all its energy, becoming more disorganized
its like a fire that slowly burns out to nothing,

but life is the opposite, it creates new life, it takes a disorganized bunch of chemicals and organizes them into complex, no extremely complex entities that grow and reproduce, with a purpose with an intent,,

but science wants us to believe life is simply a chemical reaction. a group of chemical reactions.
it seems so contrary to what is visible in nature.

life is indeed so precious, there in all the universe there is only one of me, and of you,

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Biiiiillions and Biilllllllions of staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaars...

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

...<snerp!> Also, the universe does not "burn" energy. Entropy dissipates energy from a high state in a limited space into a lower state spread over a larger area. Thus so much of the energy of the very early universe (i.e. when it was about the size of the grapefruit and so energy dense that light itself did not exist nor did matter) now persists as the background microwave signal, a form of electromagnetic radiation that has a lower energy state than the frequencies of electromagnetic radiation generally thought of as light./QUOTE]

OK, now you're just toying with me, aren't? Trying to impress me with your big, sexy BRAIN?...

I'll have to read the rest later...I feel a swoon coming on! ;D :nod:

 

[beginner]

What boggles YOUR mind?

PERB's lounge.

 

[vancity_cowboy]

Thus so much of the energy of the very early universe (i.e. when it was about the size of the grapefruit and so energy dense that light itself did not exist nor did matter)...
...
How will that shape their science, their culture, their religions?

speaking of religions, this is possibly one of the more cryptic passages in the new testament - thought to be talking about the origins of the universe:

John 1: King James Version

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

that last line reminds me of the first matter that was able to escape the universe so dense that not even light escaped

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

...
that last line reminds me of the first matter that was able to escape the universe so dense that not even light escaped

The whole passage reminded me that the most important part of the Bible is that it is a BOOK that should provoke thought, not unquestioning blind faith! I am watching "A River Runs Through It" and thinking about my own 'family river'. The Englishman River Estuary is a 38 hectare wildlife reserve 5 minutes away from my former home in Parksville (shout out, Oceanside!) and it's where the C of S spent his puppy days...and a night or two! A long time ago, when I would go to meetings, I would hear people say that 'a religious man goes to church and thinks about fishing; a spiritual man goes fishing and thinks about God.' That's kind of the theme in the movie; it's kind of the theme in my life, and it's sort of the theme of the day. In the movie, Tom Skerritt plays a Scots Presbyterian minister who quite clearly believes in evolution from a scientific standpoint, but also firmly believes that evolution was God's idea!

God is also undoubtedly, a Scots Presbyterian! :nod:




*(And boy, does Brad Pitt ever look young and adorable!)

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

neither matter nor light can escape the universe as the boundary of the universe at any instant in time is the limits at which energy have reached at that instant (matter cannot keep up with energy and thus, except for that which some theories suggest spontaneous forms from vacuum energy fluctuations as matching matter and antimatter particles, there is no matter at the edge of the universe)

mind...BOGGLED!

 

[tarzan]

but life is the opposite, it creates new life, it takes a disorganized bunch of chemicals and organizes them into complex, no extremely complex entities that grow and reproduce, with a purpose with an intent,,

but science wants us to believe life is simply a chemical reaction. a group of chemical reactions.
it seems so contrary to what is visible in nature.

life is indeed so precious, there in all the universe there is only one of me, and of you,

Life is random and is not precious considering the possibility that there could be an infinite number of universes and therefore an infinite number of me and you.
Anything that can possibly happen to anything or anyone will happen in an universe somewhere. That's what infinity is about.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Life is random and is not precious considering the possibility that there could be an infinite number of universes and therefore an infinite number of me and you.
Anything that can possibly happen to anything or anyone will happen in an universe somewhere. That's what infinity is about.

I maintain that in a universe that could potentially contain an infinite number of universes, in one of them I am Dr Sheldon Cooper's favourite television character...though all the talk of coitus leaves him baffled.

 

[Feenix]

What boggles my mind is that when I look into space, especially on a clear night away from city lights, I can see FOREVER. There is no end to what I am looking at.

How does my body compare in size to the total size of all, if there is a finite number, and there must be, the universes out there? I am just a speck.

 

[Feenix]

Ooops. I double posted.

 

[Ms Erica Phoenix]

Life is random and is not precious considering the possibility that there could be an infinite number of universes and therefore an infinite number of me and you.
Anything that can possibly happen to anything or anyone will happen in an universe somewhere. That's what infinity is about.

I maintain that in a universe that could potentially contain an infinite number of universes, in one of them I am Dr Sheldon Cooper's favourite television character...though all the talk of coitus leaves him baffled.

 

[vancity_cowboy]

What boggles my mind is that when I look into space, especially on a clear night away from city lights, I can see FOREVER. There is no end to what I am looking at.

How does my body compare in size to the total size of all, if there is a finite number, and there must be, the universes out there? I am just a speck.

Ooops. I double posted.

two specks