Big Ol' Universe

[Nihilus]

Yeah, like if you were to go to the past, it would be in a different dimension, right?

 

[Ser Yorick]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Steel @ Dec 14 2006, 04:26 PM) [snapback]136600[/snapback]</div>

Yeah, like if you were to go to the past, it would be in a different dimension, right?
[/b]

If you really want to get into it that way, then yes in my opinion. As from my thinking there would have to be at least two planes of time in order for time travel to work, lol. Because if you go back in time to change something, when it comes to the point in time where you go back to the past, there's nothing that needs to be changed, so you'd never have gone back into the past, and never have changed anything, so it all reverts itself.
UNLESS, there were two planes of time. Essentially; at least two dimensions.

 

[Nihilus]

More than one dimension is very probable. Why would there only be a dimension in which WE are in? We would there only be a universe WE are in?And one note, there is very high chances of other species in space, no matter what form. Be it single celled, early fish, or some completely other "thing", there are like 125,000 planets that could have life on it.

 

[Kalin Morne]

When you exit the boundaries of a galaxy you rip out of a thin paper wall and have to draw your way back in. Like in Danger Mouse.

 

[Sabre]

I hate this shit, some people are so busy thinking about other worlds and alternate realities that they fucking forget with millions of people dying here on earth because no one in the western world wants to give up their second fucking bathroom or their state of the art blender.

 

[Keanu]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Monk @ Dec 16 2006, 05:03 PM) [snapback]137104[/snapback]</div>

I hate this shit, some people are so busy thinking about other worlds and alternate realities that they fucking forget with millions of people dying here on earth because no one in the western world wants to give up their second fucking bathroom or their state of the art blender.
[/b]

Yea do something about it you asshole.

Give up your second bathroom and blender.

 

[Kalin Morne]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Monk @ Dec 16 2006, 11:03 AM) [snapback]137104[/snapback]</div>

I hate this shit, some people are so busy thinking about other worlds and alternate realities that they fucking forget with millions of people dying here on earth because no one in the western world wants to give up their second fucking bathroom or their state of the art blender.
[/b]

-Western World +America

 

[occultus]

Here's something I came up with on the shape of the universe:

We can all imagine a 3D sphere, right? Now, if you try to draw a straight line on the surface of a sphere, your line will end up being curved into the 3rd dimension. This is what happens when you travel in a straight line on the surface of the earth. Now is it really so much of a stretch to believe that if you travel in space in a straight line, you will eventuallly after uncounted quadrillions of years, end up where you started? We exist on the 3-dimensional surface of a 4D hypersphere that is the universe. So if we travel in a straight line, we are really not traveling straight at all. The shortest distance between two points is indeed a straight line, but not in 3D. That's why if we were to travel through hyperspace, we would end up at our destination much faster than 3D travel.

 

[Kalin Morne]

Except that in the earth you have to travel /over/ something. When you're traveling through the universe you're traveling /through/ something.

 

[Ser Yorick]

Well, why wouldn't we be able to travel in a straight line? A straight line on earth, is indeed a circle while traveling, yes, but that is because of gravity pulling all things to the surface of the planet. Out in space there is zero gravity, meaning it is just a plane of space, making traveling in a straight line, perfectly possible.

 

[Matt]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(APD-P21 @ Dec 16 2006, 10:39 PM) [snapback]137138[/snapback]</div>

Yea do something about it you asshole.

Give up your second bathroom and blender.
[/b]

That was totally uncalled for.

 

[Keanu]

so was his. wasnt really a comment about the universe

 

[Michael Lok]

I saw this one episode of Red Dwarf called Backwards. Well what happens is first there is the big bang, then everything is created, and goes for trillions and trillions of years. Until the great crush, which everything turns to nothing. Or instead everything goes in reverse, so when you come back into existence, first your in your grave, then you have your funeral, then alive again, until you become a baby again, go back into your mother, and so forth, until we all become one and back to the big bang again, then back into forward again. Its like a game of ping pong.

 

[Empress]

discovery sciecne JUST had a show on this very topic

here this is from cambridge:
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/qg_ss.html

 

[Cailst]

I have read that the dark matter is fueling an expansion of the universe that will mean the the universe will continue to expand and gravity won't be able to crunch it back together again.