Outer Space

is anyone else on here interested in any of the aspects of it? i don`t come across too many who are. some just think it`s weird to even bother with.

 

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I've read a lot about cosmology. I'm very interested in the creation of the universe. They say that when you get past the age of 40 or so, you start getting more and more interested in "ultimate" questions, and I am.

I'm not saying I understand it all, but cosmology gets you heavily into relativity and quantum mechanics, so I've read about those, too. And there's the whole thing with black holes, alternate universes, time dilation, and all that. I think it's really cool that serious scientists think about stuff like that.

 

there are stray gravitational fluxuations throughout the universe, in which scientists speculate that there atleast 200 parallel universes like our own.

 

Black holes are very fascinating.

 

I find it extremely fascinating.. the fact that there are aspects of the universe that exist or may exist that we will never see or understand.. the concept of the speed of light and how it affects our understanding of objects a great distance away.. There are so many ideas in astronomy and physics that just blow my mind.

 

I don't think it has anything to do with age at all.. People start philosophizing at a very young age.

 

Pfff, space is boring....

Plenty of unexplored shit right here on earth.

It blows my mind to realize we know less about the ocean than we do the surface of the moon! WTF?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3210544.stm

"Some 95% of the ocean is still unexplored biologically. We don't know what that figure will be in 2010, but we hope it will be much smaller," ...








ZW eace:

 

While I to am fascinated with outer space, I don’t think an explanation of black holes, dark matter, or dark energy, can truly help us better understand the cosmos than Billy Preston (with his version of the string theory) to give feeling and meaning to the phenomena through music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RTYXVE42r0

Hotwater

 

Damn! If outer space is as funky as all that, I'm down!



ZW

 

blah blah blah the thing is space

 

Very true. Also plenty of unexplored shit within our own minds.

But Zombie, aren't you interested to know where the universe came from? I'm sure you ask yourself ... "Why is there anything?"

Or a place to put it?

 

nice replies cali. we`re discovering too that inner space has some surprises. & who knows that there may be a link between the two. all this time, as western science has "grown up", many older sciences have known all along things westerns are just now beginning to accept. & there is now almost a kinda blending of the two if you will.

 

A true visionary :cheers2:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=podVGuZS6g8


Hotwater

 

Funny you should mention that. I just finished reading a book called The Self-Aware Universe. It's quite technical (for me) and I barely understood three sentences of it, but the point of it (I think) is trying to show through modern physics that matter results from consciousness and not the other way around.

An intriguing idea, but not a new one. I believe the Hindus have been saying something like that for millenia.

 

Not to concerned about the where and why...

As a Musician and composer, inner space keeps me plenty busy!



ZW

 

your mind is its own plane of thought

 

I have to agree zombiewolf... too much focus about space.

I really hope we don't flush a bunch of money down the toilet on a "Man to Mars" project

there are some who are looking around the ocean... this guy is one

http://www.jcvi.org/

 

In our neck of the woods it’s Robert Ballard and his band of pioneers (or pirates since he did discover the wreck of the titanic) at the marine biological lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute


Hotwater

 

Word.:smash:

 

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute is cool...

Craig Venter is doing some pretty cool research though... I think his main labs are in NE somewhere...Mr. Genome