"Cosmological Natural Selection"???

[Hivetyrant]

You can read the article here.....


An interesting read [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]


But beware, don't be tempted to go there during work.... www.damninteresting.com will suc up many hours of your time

[robertthebard]

That was pretty damn interesting... [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]

[Seraph]

Smolin responds by asking that his peers to seek out any natural law that shows that our universe isn’t adapted to easily create black holes. After all, if there is a basic principle that inhibits the formation of black holes it would be a pretty big hole in the idea.

Well, the report that a magnetospheric eternally collapsing object (MECO) was discoverd would do a pretty good job. Current theory says that you can't have a universe with both eternally collapsing objects and black holes.

[Sever]

Cosmology. Religion for atheists.

Lots of good articles to be found on that site. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

[ 08-22-2006, 12:47 AM: Message edited by: Sever ]

[CerebroDragon]

Funny you should mention Atheists, Sev.

I've had the revelation recently that instead of commerical television stations trying to indoctrinate by bombarding us (Australians) in the early hours of the morning with utterly ridiculous christian propaganda, they should instead have more philosophically inclined programs that are of a more agnostic/atheistic nature. Cosmology would be a swell start.

Admittedly its fun to poke the illogical holes out of the religious programs when either intoxicated or on a break during an insomniac gaming binge, but it does get wearisome after awhile.
Plus, the very concept of a TV show for the potential recruitment of said Atheists would rock. A subversion of the elements shall we say.

Anything to restore a sense of balance would be nice, I think.

[Sever]

[img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] Ya, i like. Anything added to the graveyard shift that does NOT involve religion or Demtel is pretty much sold for me. Semi-informative and interesting cosmological programs would do it nicely.

I think you miss my point about the cosmology thang though. (I hope i'm not busting the "current" religious ban with this.) Without a god or meaning of life to adhere to, some people ponder deeply or place great faith in the workings of the universe. At some stage, what we know becomes what we think we know. Then what we think we know becomes what we'd like to know. Then what we'd like to know becomes what we'd like it to be. Then it becomes... er, yeah.

In cosmology, it seems to me that in what we think we'd like to know it to be (! [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img] ), too much is "known". We'll never know. And yet we who'd like to know are told by people who think they know, who are told by people who'd like it to be. The religion shoe fits.

Still, stars 'n stuff wins it for me at that timeslot.

[Vaskez]

wow, Hive is still here posting articles. Looks like some are IW-lifers

[ 08-24-2006, 08:44 AM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

[Hivetyrant]

Originally posted by Vaskez: wow, Hive is still here posting articles. Looks like some are IW-lifers

Heh, its what keeps me sane at work [img]tongue.gif[/img]

What have you been up to Vask?

[Vaskez]

On the net, I've spent the last year or so doing rapbattles, and got pretty good. Was in the final four on rapbattles.com in the league of the best, but then someone falsely accused me of plagiarism and I kinda lost interest after that (for a while at least). http://www.rapbattles.com/forum/showthread.php?t=301727

[wellard]

Originally posted by Sever: [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] Ya, i like. Anything added to the graveyard shift that does NOT involve religion or Demtel is pretty much sold for me. Semi-informative and interesting cosmological programs would do it nicely.

Votes Sever and CBDragon into government [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Well bugger me sideways! who let Vaskez back in to Ironworks

welcome back