Starship Asterisk*

I like the way you answer questions Ann, you are A-1 As for myself it wasn't 2001 space odyssey or any other movies and while I do enjoy the whole space and time bit, light speed and all the rest my thing is simply the awe inspiring beauty of the heavens, the galaxies, nebulas and ETC. to infinity. ...

I posted this question because of an article that I read (which I'm having problems with trying to find again) That stated that its possible that the speed of light was faster in the beginning of the universe and has been slowing down every since but doing so, so slowly that our instruments are unab...

OK I'll take that as a no, its wasn't.
It just seems to me that if it was to hot to form elementary particles at the very beginning then why couldn't it, there was no mass to anything

Can it be deduced that the universe was expanding faster than the speed of light in the very beginning or is it simply hyper velocities and if it is that what are we calling hyper / what would the normal rate of expansion be. I have always kind of taken it for granted that it was expanding faster th...

Thanks Ann an Chris, so no big rip and black holes will have evaporated long before this hypothetical big rip; if it were even to happen, took place anyway. The bottom line is no information lost within a black hole regardless of what takes place. So I'm / we are left with two possibilities #1 The u...

Hi Ann Do correct me where my thinking is flawed here If the Universe keeps expanding forever and should that lead to what I've heard to be called the big rip where even atoms will be shredded, well if this is so then it fly's in the face; so to speak, of the notion that all information is lost fore...

I don't like it either, like not at all but until you or someone else comes up with a better idea which can be backed up by observation or some other repeatable tests I'm afraid we're all stuck with it. I'm beginning to believe the flying spaghetti monster created the entire universe and I can offer...

Hi all Yes indeed some of these galaxies do seem to have more form than that which had been predicted but nonetheless this is just another instance such as Chris has suggested, some of the physics may need to be tweaked here and there but the song still remains the same; so to speak. The big bang wa...

A few nights ago; so it wasn't actually tonight, we here in San Luis Obispo were treated to another launch from Vandenburg AFB. This last one was a smaller rocket but they are all pretty cool to watch and most especially the large rockets. The base is about a two hour drive from here but once in awh...

Not I but ask the Owl he's much wiser.

OK well no one else seems to want to comment so I'll play your silly game, what are we looking at?

Man, that is just fricking hard to comprehend. Seven trillion billion tonnes in an area that small. OK I can almost get my head around all the event's that took place for any given neutron star to be made however why it would stay that dense after all is said and done is another story all together. ...

Thanks for your reply Chris, I was then going to ask like ok how about a trillion billion tons in an area the size of a teaspoon. Would that become a black hole? Before going ahead and asking that question I figured that this might be a good time to learn from my past mistakes and actually finish re...

Neutron stars are so heavy that a small teaspoon of their material weighs four billion tonnes. If this is true just exactly how much would that teaspoon of material have to weigh before it would become a black hole? A billion tons sounds a bit excessive to me but then that's why I'm here asking. Sto...

Thanks Chris, and Ann for your replies
So let me get this straight, humankind does not rightly know how exactly how magnetars and Neutron stars can be so impossibly.... well, magnetic.

We create Neodymium magnets using a mixture of different elements and or so called exotic materials, ( that seem to be rather scarce on this rock ) but nonetheless their magnetic effect is nothing compared to what a piece of neutron star would have pound for pound so am I to assume that these stars ...

100% cool NEUFER
If there is a God and if there is a heaven and I I were to go there when I die please God let there be a 1970's and 80's section but knowing how things usually go for me reincarnation will be the next E-ticket and knowing my dumb luck I'd probably come back as myself.

It's just not fair, we all know that there had to be something...................Right?
Impossible to know? Well its said that nothing is impossible but I do nothing every day.

OK enough with both the questions and my sad excuse for comedy so getting back to this big bang thing. Obviously the universe couldn't care less what I like or dislike but that doesn't change the fact that I don't like what Chris says in the matter of what caused the big bang (its wrong to assume th...

I like that and there was a time when reading those comic books was the thing to do but now being much older I recognize the folly of at all much like any adult might moreover I now take issue with places like Disneyland, think about it what with Tomorrowland, adventure land, phantasy land and what ...

Seems that, that may very well be true but it doesn't take away from the fact that it sounds just plain crazy and indeed sounds just as crazy as believing there's an invisible man living in the sky and he watches everything you do every minute of the day and he has a list of ten things that he doesn...

Man the lot of you are some smart hombres, OK one last question as I am absolutely certain that all of you have much more important things to do than answering the sixth grade questions that I seem to harbor. What happens to one of those neutrino's that happen to be blocked, do they just cease to ex...

OK, I retreat now to my fall back position where neutrinos drive me crazy, OK well crazier. Shall I start a new thread or would someone here care to delve into the matter has to how in the hell anything can go through a light year of solid lead and not hit anything, I mean what's with these neutrino...

Somewhat similar to the movie War Games only in this instance its more like
Strange Statement, The Winning Move Was Not To Make It

How many ways am I wrong?
Perhaps when the entire universe is nothing except a small dot all gravity ceases to exist as there would be no pace for matter to gravitate to or away from at that point, it would just be. And the second this state existed the repulsive force of all atoms.......... Boom