[Battle_Scarred_Galactico]

I think that the lower gravity might be a problem.


My son, you will not remember me. When you arive on Saturns' moons you will have amazing powers.

[gego]

This idea that we should abandon planet earth rather than learning to live in harmony with her seems to me to be insane, even if it were possible. Where are we to get the energy to fund this escape? Seems like we are just about to run out of energy for supporting life, much less supporting some crazy travel wish.

This guy seems to be seriously out of touch with everyday reality. I would say this is typical egocentric human thinking, like the universe was created for us to mess up and then just hopscotch on to the next habitable place. Maybe that is where the dinosaurs disappeared.

I find this guy offensive.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BlisteredWhippet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', 'H')ow will you "randomly" engineer genetic mutations to avoid genetic defects?

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ingenuity_Gap', '
')A tiny pin prick, you say? How old are you, EU? If you’re older than 12 years, you should consider seeing a doctor. They can help people grow up these days.

[AWPrime]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', 'T')his idea that we should abandon planet earth rather than learning to live in harmony with her seems to me to be insane, even if it were possible.

[Ingenuity_Gap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ingenuity_Gap', '
')A tiny pin prick, you say? How old are you, EU? If you’re older than 12 years, you should consider seeing a doctor. They can help people grow up these days.

[gego]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AWPrime', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', 'T')his idea that we should abandon planet earth rather than learning to live in harmony with her seems to me to be insane, even if it were possible.

[AWPrime]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AWPrime', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gego', 'T')his idea that we should abandon planet earth rather than learning to live in harmony with her seems to me to be insane, even if it were possible.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ingenuity_Gap', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ingenuity_Gap', '
')A tiny pin prick, you say? How old are you, EU? If you’re older than 12 years, you should consider seeing a doctor. They can help people grow up these days.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')hat, they insist, is the only possible conclusion if we are to take quantum physics seriously. "Quantum mechanics forbids a single history," says Hertog.

[dinopello]

You can view a lecture by Feynman on QED that he gave to either layman or undergrads in NZ.

Feynman - QED.

It's a lttle dated, but very interesting, and its Feynman!

[Aaron]

So if our Universe is only a single manifestation of an infinite Multiverse, then don't ideas like Peak Oil, or even death itself become irrelevant?

How can I die if I'm living in an infinity of Multiverses?

Is Jet Li in "The One" correct, & each time I perish in one Universe, all that I was merges with my remaining copies? Until some Omega Point where we all converge into a single individual?

Am I gonna wake up at some point... glance over at my buddy in the next booth, who asks me, "Play again?"

Isn't this what Buddhists believe essentially? That life & the material Universe are solid state... nothing gained nothing lost... forever.

Just a convergence to Omega...

If that's the case, then aren't we just fulfilling our part in the Multiverse?

And where is free will in this equation?

Is it really that our choices have already been made & we are simply seeking to understand them?

Are our ideas of time & causality a metaverse we created as an abstract of reality? (Having no actual existence per se) If we remove the boundary condition of time, then effect can precede cause. We would break the relationship between what happens & why.

String Theory seems to support some of these assertions.

Could modern physics be approaching religion's claim to explain the true nature of reality?

[dinopello]

Could be. As Feynman says: you won;t understand what he is explaining because neither does he, nor anyone else. There is no physical model, as much as people would like there to be. And we can only observe what we can observe.

[Bas]

hmmm...so you can prove that a particle can do two different things at the same time that are really mutually exclusive? or are we just not equipped to really understand? Being of a determinist persuasion, I'd say the latter. Anyway, as one great physicist said once (forgot his name); if you say you understand quantum physics, you don't understand quantum physics.

[Bas]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'A')nd where is free will in this equation?

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Bas', 'A')nyway, as one great physicist said once (forgot his name); if you say you understand quantum physics, you don't understand quantum physics.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '
')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')od was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '
')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')od was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'S')o if our Universe is only a single manifestation of an infinite Multiverse, then don't ideas like Peak Oil, or even death itself become irrelevant?

How can I die if I'm living in an infinity of Multiverses?

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', 'S')ome of the Hindu texts mirror current cosmological theory quite strikingly.