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Article #54323Re: A Growing Earth - Is It Possible?!
From: James Warren
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:35
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:35
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On 05/02/2011 12:40 PM, demibee wrote: > On Feb 2, 6:57 am, James Warren<jwwarren...@gmail.com> wrote: >> We don't know what caused or came before the big bang. There are a few >> ideas but nothing solid. There is considerable evidence that the big >> bang happened though. But even that is not so well established that >> it new data could not displace it. We can do no better than go with >> the evidence. > > Hawking's latest book _The Grand Design_ (with Leonard Mlodinow) has > some pretty interesting ideas. The punchline (in chapter 6) goes more > or less like this: Much as an elementary entity behaves as though > it's a wave until measured/observed, thus becoming particle-like... > the universe behaves as a superposition of all possible histories (a > la Feynman) until observed by *us*! I.e., our observation(s) > select(s) out that history/universe that must be our observation's > complement... Not such a new idea. Who is *us* exactly. Surely we are not the only observers in the universe and what constitutes an observation? This is not a good idea. > > Put another way... if you're drunk downtown one night and you wake up > in the morning in a strange house, look across the harbour, and see > Halifax, then you're in Dartmouth. If you're actually in Dartmouth, > you'll see Halifax. So... we see the universe that gave rise to > atoms, galaxies, water, carbon, and so on up to us... but many > possibilities are inherent within it all. Which ones are realized > depends on whose observing. > > Interesting... Crazy enough, even, to be possible. > > > As for the growing earth, here's a refutation video... > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epwg6Od49e8> > > > db -- jw
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