Off Topic Question and answers

I'd say "Slim" is more of an underdog chance. Slight chance.

"Fat" chance is more along the rhetorical line. A boss that hates you giving you a promotion.

 

It was his first published work I think. Used to know it almost by heart once upon a long time ago!

 

That's got to be the biggest mindfuck of a question. Something I come back to regularly because it's fascinating but I don't have a clue what the answer is and probably never will. Probably no human ever will.

 

Hope not, one of my favourite albums and I keep asking

 

There is one concept, (at least), that is best avoided, and this is it.

How can anything be unending and what is there after Space finishes.

Whenever my mind wanders on to this I try to get it wandering to some other place.
Think of it too much and you WILL go MAD,

 

One of the other ones is "can you still think when you're dead?"

It's almost impossible to be ableto think of yourself not thinking

 

Can you open a tin of beans with a banana?

If a cold is so common, why isn't there a cure for it?

 

Aye the closer you get to any kind of comprehension the closer the tentacles of madness encroach. Too much for our little brains to grasp.

 

Is the universe expanding or are we getting smaller?

 

Just consider the TARDIS, sorted!

 

Fecking what

 

Avenue Terrace.
Why?
What next, Road Street!
Lazy basses, think of a proper name, useless paid for nowt, whoevers.
Who picks the names of streets anyway?

 

The good news is that, sooner or later, you will find out the answer to that one.

Or NOT, (depending on the answer)

 

To be honest it's only half of the mindfuck. The other half is what was there before the universe came into being? It can't have spring from nothing, so something had to be there to begin with, and what caused the change that created the universe?

 

If a straight line is a circle of infinite radius then you head out into space in one direction and you come back from the other so space must be finite

 

This is the one that always gets me. The only logical conclusion that the human brain can reach is that someone or something caused the universe to come in to being. This inevitably leads to the suggestion of some kind of supreme being and then you're dealing with theology. You also then have to question, what created the thing that created the universe.

Which leads me to one of two conclusions. 1) we shouldn't dismiss religion out of hand; or, 2) the reality is just too massive for the human mind to adequately comprehend.

 

Some Science Fiction can be interesting.

For example the highly respected Issac Azimov put forward a hghly speculative view on part of this, (what caused the big bang), in his story, The Gods Themselves.

Dr Azimov though had the liveliest of imaginations.
For example, a Biochemist by training,one of his stories showed how a goose could have laid golden eggs.

 

That's about parallel universes colliding isn't it? That's another tough one to get your head around but this article is interesting https://www.space.com/32728-parallel-universes.html
I once read something about a theory in which parallel universes literally exist parallel to one another but occasionally waft around and touch, causing certain unexplained (or unexplainable) phenomena.

 

Are we born with a photographic memory, or does it develop later?

 

Not colliding but interacting each havind different laws of Physics.
A Third Universe is introduced to the tale and this is where the Big Bang gets explained.

The story is too complicated for ME to do a shortened version AND I ain't no Nuclear Physicist anyhow.

But I do revisit the book from time to time and this thread is telling me that another visit is called for.