Recent content by murgatroyd

Eh? Why would the Big Bang theory have anything to say about comets?

Well I could have expressed distance instead in parsecs, kilometers or miles. But expressing distance in terms of the time it would take light to get across was okay. Are you certain that you have understood Einstein's Theories of Relativity, Atlan?

Maybe (if the universe beyond what is observable is not infinite, and if it is not curved so that you end up in the same spot you started). If so, perhaps we would end up at a plexiglass wall with child gods curiously staring at us :)

According to current understanding, we cannot go there, ever. Not even if we had ultra-fast spaceships moving at 99 percent of the speed of light and immortal astronauts immune to feeling boredom. The reason being that "dark energy" is pushing space apart, so that the distance to the farthest...

That is a neat trick for your Uncle Tony to be able to do. In any case, using quantum entanglement for faster-than-light communication is impossible. This is not because technology is not advanced far enough yet, but because it is impossible as a matter of principle. This Wikipedia article...

One argument for why we can never accelerate a spaceship to the speed of light is that it would take infinite energy to accomplish. On the other hand, a black hole is said to contain an infinitely dense region of spacetime with zero volume at the center. Why is the first argument considered an...

I'm kind of slow, need info to be drilled into my head again and again. Remind me please, what is the point you are making. And could you please repeat it a thousand more times ... at minimum, thanks.

I wonder if there is a fork of ChatGPT 3.5 posting to this comments section? How would we be able to tell the difference?

A suggestion, if I may. If you have questions about Einstein's theories or if you believe that you have uncovered a flaw in them, why not ask on a page dedicated to such a purpose. Wikipedia's Reference Desk comes to mind, but obviously there are more specialized websites where experts answer...

Einstein and Hawking were not infallible, they made mistakes and had to change their minds about some things. Einstein, in particular, was not the top mathematician of his generation, not even in the top 100. But his math skill was way, way higher than the average high school math teacher's...

Then where is your perpetuum mobile? You could become a trillionaire overnight! Oh wait, the U.S. Patent Office won't accept any applications for a p.m. Curses! Foiled again!

Did you know the moon landings were make-believe? Yeah, filmed by famous Hollywood director Stanley Kubrick. Who was such a perfectionist, he went to the moon to shoot the footage.

Pentcho. We know that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is incomplete. It does not extend into domains covered by quantum theory. Maybe a future Theory of Everything will unify GTR and quantum. Maybe GTR will be discarded as wrong. In the meantime, every single observation testing the...

Nobody knows the carrying capacity of Planet Earth. Could be it's 50 billion humans ("billions" with a B). Once the upper limit is exceeded, growth will cease and world pop may go down until a sustainable level is reached. * Neo-Malthusians claim to be horrified by this prospect and out of...

Why would you "end up where you started"? Doesn't that presume a "curved" rather than a "flat" universe? Can we ever know how much bigger than the observable universe the universe is ... or find proof that it is infinitely large?