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In reply to the discussion: The universe is much bigger than big [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)102. I'd be interested to get your take on one of my latest essays (reposted here):
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I like to look up at night and think about all the photons from the Universe falling on my retina.
tridim
Sep 2012
#1
Well yea, our big bang (or whatever it is) is still banging. So it's happening now.
tridim
Sep 2012
#6
Yes. Except there are no infinities, and if there were we could not observe them.
bemildred
Sep 2012
#42
I'd be interested to get your take on one of my latest essays (reposted here):
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#102
Of course it's just a belief. If it wasn't, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
EOTE
Sep 2012
#25
Question number one isn't really a question, it's a statement and a specious one at that.
EOTE
Sep 2012
#32
a) they were answers to your questions. b) "specious" means plausible-looking falsehood.
lumberjack_jeff
Sep 2012
#59
It's a baseline assumption that flies completely in the face of all probability.
eqfan592
Sep 2012
#71
Your belief is that advanced technological civilizations would be using our technology which is in
EOTE
Sep 2012
#92
When I was in high school, I used to stare up at the night sky and ponder...
Speck Tater
Sep 2012
#38
You hated social studies class but yet here you are on DU. There's an irony
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#103
The only plausible reason I can think of why a young person like you would coume to hate
coalition_unwilling
Sep 2012
#112
I am so sorry. That regurgitation of trivia is so NOT what history (as
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#117
In the 1960s, this type of history (known variously as 'Social History') became
coalition_unwilling
Oct 2012
#120
What WE think of as "The Universe" is just a tiny atom in the fingernail of a giant. n/t
cherokeeprogressive
Sep 2012
#55