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Article #1928Re: Why the oceans are salty?
From: Steve
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 23:28
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 23:28
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Professor Vonroach wrote: > > Many a truth is spoken in ignorance and jest. The great river of our > universe at present on a journey from `light' and the many processes > that produce it towards ultimate darkness and disorder - a very cold > place rather than the usual energetic hell pictured in our > imaginations. This is, of course, assuming that current models of the universe are descriptively and predictively accurate. I myself prefer 8-dimensional space in which four dimensions resemble a Klein bottle, allowing a steady-state universe in which (to our observation) entropy appears to increase. The preference is, pending future evidence, purely aesthetic. Interestingly, my favorite depictions of hell have always been ones in which the inhabitants have been condemned to perform the same (not excessively unpleasant) task over and over, perpetually - as opposed to torture through a seemingly inexhaustible variety of themes and devices.
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