Maybe, someone is dropping some funny herbs into his feeding tube.
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Stephen Hawkings is a nutter for believing in a fantasy
by Mad Dawg 31 Replies latest social current
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Joey Jo-Jo
According to Dr Hawkings traveling the universe is infinite the same way traveling the globe can be done to infinity... scientists can only go so far.
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FifthOfNovember
1) When the earth was proposed to be round, people thought it was the craziest thing ever.
2) When earth was shown not to be the center of gravity in the solar system people refused believe it.
New discoveries always leave people baffled. Can we automatically assume that this is 100% impossible? No. Is there proof either way? No. Since quantum physics is pretty new stuff, humans don't have a lot of knowledge on the subject. Just because something sounds completely different than what we're used to doesn't mean we should call it crazy. Until more is discovered about Hawking's ideas, we can't say whether it's plausible or not. Science is always discovering things we humans never thought possible, so we will just have to wait.
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cyberjesus
ERic sarcastically that is not sarcasm *sarcasm*
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cyberjesus
Stephen what? and who is that guy? oh the guy on the wheelchair with the funny voice? oh what does he know about the universe. whatever
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designs
Well simultaneous universes certainly explains 7A.M. Traffic Jams on the Freeway..........
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ProdigalSon
Wow, not a SHRED OF EVIDENCE?? And some of you are ridiculing Believing XJW? Good grief! Just because one guy in the field is a borderline zealot we're throwing out the entire studies of quantum physics and string theory? Maybe we should just keep scouring the Bible for answers, because there aren't any coming on THIS thread!
What's REALLY interesting is that all this is exactly what almost every great philosopher and spiritual teacher has been trying to tell us for thousands of years. Even PAUL said we live in the shadow of the reality. Ever read Plato's Allegory of the Cave? (I DOUBT IT!) I'm SOOOOO glad some of you geniuses know it all, maybe YOU can explain to us what a black hole is, or why the hell we're here for that matter!
The Universe as a Hologram
http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html
A Holographic View of Reality, by David S. Walonick, Ph. D.
http://www.survey-software-solutions.com/walonick/reality.htm
In 1982, Alain Aspect and a team of physicists were able to actually carry-out the polarization experiment that Einstein had proposed nearly fifty years before (Talbot, 1991, p.52-53). Photon pairs were created by heating calcium atoms with a laser, and then allowed to travel in opposite directions. Aspect discovered that the polarization of one photon immediately polarized the other--just as quantum theory had predicted. The photons were somehow communicating with each other at speeds exceeding the speed of light, or nonlocal connections existed between the electrons, or the separateness of the particles themselves was an illusion.
Bohm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm (1987) concluded that the implications of nonlocal connections are that objective reality itself is entirely a construct of the human brain. The true nature of reality remains hidden from us. Our brains operate as a holographic frequency analyzer, decoding projections from a more fundamental dimension. Bohm concludes that even space and time are constructs of the human brain, and they may not exist as we perceive them.
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designs
Read: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Dr. Oliver Sacks
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BurnTheShips
There is not a shred of evidence, just speculation, I thought that scientists only believed in what they can see? How would it ever be proven?
Well, to be quite honest, quantum superposition is well established observationally. Hawkings seems to just be saying that maybe the entire universe exists in a superposed state. How we would test that idea, I don't know.
show why quantum theory predicts the multiverse--the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature
Physicist and author Paul Davies has some comments on this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/04/stephen-hawking-big-bang-gap
So is that the end of the story? Can the multiverse provide a complete and closed account of all physical existence? Not quite. The multiverse comes with a lot of baggage, such as an overarching space and time to host all those bangs, a universe-generating mechanism to trigger them, physical fields to populate the universes with material stuff, and a selection of forces to make things happen. Cosmologists embrace these features by envisaging sweeping "meta-laws" that pervade the multiverse and spawn specific bylaws on a universe-by-universe basis. The meta-laws themselves remain unexplained – eternal, immutable transcendent entities that just happen to exist and must simply be accepted as given. In that respect the meta-laws have a similar status to an unexplained transcendent god.
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bohm
Cosmologists embrace these features by envisaging sweeping "meta-laws" that pervade the multiverse and spawn specific bylaws on a universe-by-universe basis. The meta-laws themselves remain unexplained – eternal, immutable transcendent entities that just happen to exist and must simply be accepted as given. In that respect the meta-laws have a similar status to an unexplained transcendent god.
Good writeup. One wonder if Dawg apply the term "nutter" equally to anyone who believe such nonsense!