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JimH:
Money makes the world go round. Karma is.
datdude:
--- Quote from: JimH on June 27, 2006, 09:44:21 pm ---Money makes the world go round. Karma is.
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Good thing, becuase it will still be around when money is no longer. What a day that could be.
Yea right!
glynor:
--- Quote from: JimH on June 27, 2006, 09:44:21 pm ---Money makes the world go round. Karma is.
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Actually... Angular Momentum makes the world go round. That, and a really big crash that happened about 4.5 billion years ago and created that lovely silver disc we see in the sky most nights.
jgreen:
It wasn't a crash, it was a singularity. If a singularity occurs in a universe of zero mass and infinite energy, does it make a sound?
glynor:
No, the gravitational singularity was supposedly what existed just prior to the big bang (and what black holes are). Whether the singularity ever actually truely existed, as suggested by classic "big bang" theory has been cast into serious doubt recently by developments in String Theory.
The crash I was referring to was far, far later (remember, the Earth is a bit older than 4.5 Billion years). Soon after the formation of the earth, there was an impact of a large celestial body (estimated to have been roughly the size of Mars) which "broke off" a huge cloud of rock and dust. This collision gave the earth it's current "spin" and also created the moon.
The singularity you referred to, if it ever existed, was sometime prior to 13.7 billion years ago.
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Oh, and...
--- Quote from: jgreen on June 28, 2006, 11:20:19 am ---If a singularity occurs in a universe of zero mass and infinite energy, does it make a sound?
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No, of course not. Nothing emmitted from within the singularity could escape the Event Horizon which would form around it. Even if there was what we would call matter inside the Event Horizon (which is itself unlikely) through which "sound" could be transmitted, it could never escape and radiate (by definition the singularity has infinite gravity, and therefore warps Space-Time infinitely onto itself). Nothing can pass through the Event Horizon, not even light.
Interestingly, the singularity actually doesn't have zero mass in theory. It has zero size (no length, width, or height) but it has infinite mass (and therefore infinite gravitational "pull" as it warps space-time into a spherical event horizon). ;D
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