Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Sunday, November 23, 2008
BANG
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
COMMON SENSE WILL PREVAIL
Francois Marie Arouet "Voltaire", French author and playwright (1694-1778).
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."
RELIGION AS REALITY
Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger," Roman stoic philosopher, writer, and politician (4-65).
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
http://jmarkgilbert.com/atheists.html
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
http://jmarkgilbert.com/atheists.html
Monday, November 17, 2008
EXPLANATION OF BIG BANG
This is incredibly simplistic, but what I want you to take away from this is that at no point was matter spewing forth from anything. Space and time itself was being created first. Ordinary matter (atoms, molecules etc) was created out of tiny imbalances of energy left over from the inflationary period.
It’s a little humbling to think that everything we can experience, everything that makes us who we are, is a cosmic afterthought made possible by infinitesimal imbalances of energy from the greatest of all natural events. No imbalances, no us.
If the number of matter-antimatter particles created by the vacuum energy that pushed the universe outward had been identical, the universe would be completely empty.
If anti-matter particles has outnumbered normal matter, we would be living in a completely different house.
So any universal boundary that exists (an edge to the universe), is between place and time, and nothing. Of existence and non-existence. Of laws of nature and no laws of nature.
It is that boundary which is expanding and has no center. It is the “when” and “where” that things can occur that is getting bigger all the time.
Imagine pulling a large rubber sheet with white dots on it from every direction. All of the dots are spreading apart from each other everywhere, not from some central point. From the perspective of each dot, all the other dots are moving away from it.
Outside of the sheet, nothing can happen, you can’t put stuff in there because there is no ‘in there’ to put it.
If everything in the universe is flying apart from everything else, this begs the question, Why aren’t the galaxies, stars, planets, the atoms in my body, also flying apart? Shouldn’t we all be slowly disintegrating as space and time expands?
After all, there is space and time in between protons and electrons, isn’t that space increasing all the time as well?
The answer is yes, but there are other forces at work at closer distances that fight against the expansion of the cosmos. If those forces didn’t exist (things like gravity and the strong and weak nuclear forces), then nothing could form to begin with. It is those forces that create structure and beauty, and us.
For example, gravity keep atoms in a star together so they can shine, it also keeps stars clumped together in galaxies. On a local level, other forces can counteract the expansion of the universe. Chemical bonding and gravity keeps us alive.
These forces can’t hold out forever though. Eventually the universe will win. But for now, we have the upper hand.
It’s a little humbling to think that everything we can experience, everything that makes us who we are, is a cosmic afterthought made possible by infinitesimal imbalances of energy from the greatest of all natural events. No imbalances, no us.
If the number of matter-antimatter particles created by the vacuum energy that pushed the universe outward had been identical, the universe would be completely empty.
If anti-matter particles has outnumbered normal matter, we would be living in a completely different house.
So any universal boundary that exists (an edge to the universe), is between place and time, and nothing. Of existence and non-existence. Of laws of nature and no laws of nature.
It is that boundary which is expanding and has no center. It is the “when” and “where” that things can occur that is getting bigger all the time.
Imagine pulling a large rubber sheet with white dots on it from every direction. All of the dots are spreading apart from each other everywhere, not from some central point. From the perspective of each dot, all the other dots are moving away from it.
Outside of the sheet, nothing can happen, you can’t put stuff in there because there is no ‘in there’ to put it.
If everything in the universe is flying apart from everything else, this begs the question, Why aren’t the galaxies, stars, planets, the atoms in my body, also flying apart? Shouldn’t we all be slowly disintegrating as space and time expands?
After all, there is space and time in between protons and electrons, isn’t that space increasing all the time as well?
The answer is yes, but there are other forces at work at closer distances that fight against the expansion of the cosmos. If those forces didn’t exist (things like gravity and the strong and weak nuclear forces), then nothing could form to begin with. It is those forces that create structure and beauty, and us.
For example, gravity keep atoms in a star together so they can shine, it also keeps stars clumped together in galaxies. On a local level, other forces can counteract the expansion of the universe. Chemical bonding and gravity keeps us alive.
These forces can’t hold out forever though. Eventually the universe will win. But for now, we have the upper hand.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
ONE A DAY KEEPS
THE DOCTOR AWAY!!
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/106141
http://blip.tv/file/1356143/
THE DOCTOR AWAY!!
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/106141
http://blip.tv/file/1356143/
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Medical
Marijuana
Passes
Hooray!!!
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Nader=Pecora
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Pecora
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Pecora
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-1415334591037307%3Aamyskxw44vs&ie=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%230000FF%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23FF0000%3BVLC%3A333333%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BLBGC%3AFFFFFF%3BALC%3A0000FF%3BLC%3A0000FF%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A333333%3BGIMP%3A333333%3BLH%3A39%3BLW%3A100%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.mercuras.com%2Frefdesk_logo_search_LP_v3.gif%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.refdesk.com%3BLP%3A1%3BFORID%3A1%3B&q=ferdinand+pecora&sa=Search
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