It would be interesting to know how that can be proved. That is the latest theory - until it is disproven and advance science comes up with another theory
It's a mind blowing discovery but they keep discovering new things and believe they prove something, until they discover something else that proves something else. I'm sure more and more fascinating discoveries will be forthcoming over the next thousand years. Even then they can't be convinced there won't be more. Just a thought; who's to say it can't happen again, or that it hadn't happened before? I think this is one mystery that will never be proved beyond doubt. The more research we do, the more intelligent we get and the more advanced technology we can use, the more we will discover which may prove or disprove what has previously been believed. Where will it end?
I'm absolutely fascinated by space, here we are on this massive planet filled with billions of people and an uncountable number of animals and other life forms yet we're are just a spec of dust in one tiny tiny part of our universe. It completely boggles my mind what could be out there and how vast space actually is. If it is infinite and doesn't have an 'end' then thats almost too much to get your head round. There has to be something else out there, if we're here then surely someone or something (and i don't mean little green men) else is out there too somewhere in the abyss. I don't think we'll ever discover anything, well not beyond bacteria or micro organisms (i'm hopeful of that) anyway.
Thanks, floridaspearl, I feel better now. First class product, mine was. What a lot of fuss. Just chunks of rock flying around to infinity. No need to get a headache about it. Of course, I do think about Aliens, Star Trek, and Dr. Who at times, but not often thank goodness. It's bad enough worrying about QPR.
I don't believe in aliens and I don't think there's another planet of people out there but are you telling me you're 100% certain there no bacteria or anything like that on other planets?
I am a fantastic husband, for today I helped the wonderful woman hang out the washing. As we bathed in the warmth of Winter's sun, the tall trees, in their full majesty, stood like silent sentinels in the stillness of the air. And I wondered at the nature of the world in which we live. I couldn't help but smile when I noticed how the wet washing, in it's abject misery, hung limply along the line, as Mother Earth blasted us through the solar system at a hectic 67,000 miles per hour. I love this big blue place.
Oh, very poetic, Cyc. Funny, I'm doing ours right now, earlier the better on this beautiful sunny late-Summer Saturday morning, get it done with. There's only the two of us, so it's just every 7 to 10 days, no sweat. Only hang-out things like bedding, as we are fully mechanized. God, I'm a good husband too. As Ron already mentioned, wish I could rotate and give myself a bloody good pat on the back sometimes................
One of the things I read that struck me, was about what could possibly happen if we had a friendly meeting with aliens. If they came to Earth, and after asking if they could join us, we agreed, would the **** really **** the fan? Even if they settled with the best of intentions, the chances are that we would suffer the same fate the Indian Nations did after the arrival of Columbus. Imagine the debate we'd have about whether we should let them stay. Would our cultures be swept to the side as the North American Indians were? And could they be trusted to take a fearful no from us? I used to think it would be cool to meet an alien ... not any more. Just leave me alone in my own little, blue world, and I'll happily live out my live in ignorance.
Well, the first thing they would say would be similar to that experienced by the late Robin Williams on a visit to Ireland, when he bumped into a Leprechaun for the first time. Seeing his startled face, the little bearded man looked up at him and said "Don't be afraid". please log in to view this image
Theory only, but pretty well accepted. Hawking on time and how we trace it back to the big bang. Time as we know it began with the BB nearly 15 billion years ago. "As we look out at the universe, we are looking back in time, because light had to leave distant objects a long time ago, to reach us at the present time. This means that the events we observe lie on what is called our past light cone. The point of the cone is at our position, at the present time. As one goes back in time on the diagram, the light cone spreads out to greater distances, and its area increases. However, if there is sufficient matter on our past light cone, it will bend the rays of light towards each other. This will mean that, as one goes back into the past, the area of our past light cone will reach a maximum, and then start to decrease. It is this focussing of our past light cone, by the gravitational effect of the matter in the universe, that is the signal that the universe is within its horizon, like the time reverse of a black hole. If one can determine that there is enough matter in the universe, to focus our past light cone, one can then apply the singularity theorems, to show that time must have a beginning."
Well how would ya be? It looks like we might just have aliens just around the corner. Nice discovery, but the usual bullshit headline. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16668...our-proxima-centauri-could-be-home-to-aliens/
A recommended read, Bill brysons history of nearly everything. I know he's a travel writer but stick with it and also the quantum physics, once your past that it gets easier.
