Shape of Universe

toejam · Post by **toejam** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:46 pm

What is the favourite theory of Cosmologists for the shape of the Universe?
I thought it is now considered to be FLAT, or only slightly curved. If so, does it have two surfaces & therefore boundries? Even if it's saddleshaped or trumpet shaped.
Or am I just too simple-minded?
What about a soccer-ball shaped universe?
I have read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_unive ... t_Universe

& others & am still at a loss, so please keep it simple.

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:10 pm

While I do not know (nor does anyone else for certain) the precise shape of the universe (we only know that we can observe roughly 13.5 billion light years in any and every given direction), I don't think it is flat though. There was a time when the earth was thought to be flat (and according to the flat earth society, still is).

toejam · Post by **toejam** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:52 pm

BMAONE23 wrote:While I do not know (nor does anyone else for certain) the precise shape of the universe (we only know that we can observe roughly 13.5 billion light years in any and every given direction), I don't think it is flat though. There was a time when the earth was thought to be flat (and according to the flat earth society, still is).

What of reality & the Universe as a hologram?

http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:59 pm

Aren't we all just participants in a dream and won't we all simply vanish as so much vapor when God Wakes Up and has his first cup of coffee?

toejam · Post by **toejam** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:03 pm

BMAONE23 wrote:Aren't we all just participants in a dream and won't we all simply vanish as so much vapor when God Wakes Up and has his first cup of coffee?

I think we'll all vanish well before that. I know one hell of a lot of people that have already done that.

And those who gathered up the golden grain
And those who flung it to the winds like rain,
Alike, of no such aureate earth are made
That, buried once, men want dug up again.

Probably misquoted.

hishadow · Post by **hishadow** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:37 pm

toejam wrote:http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html

- "Relative to other WM (cloud seeding) services, TWM is capable of generating a wide range of modified weather events with greater accuracy. This is possible because it operates at a fundamental level of physical manifestation. "
If we live in a hologram, then this man must be god. He can control the weather!

- "Another innovative application that is gradually being refined is that of "multi-tasking". This means that a number of WM projects may be initiated and managed at the same time."
Microsoft has been trying to do this for years. Maybe they should hire this guy.

Ah man. What a funny site.

Sorry for the off-topic.

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 8:44 pm

HOT OFF THE PRESSES
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16480395/

harry · Post by **harry** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 1:45 am

Hello BMAONE23

For some reason I'm unable to open the link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16480395/

What does it say?

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 5:51 am

Here is a brief excerpt of an article in The Seattle Post Intelligencer:

"Google today will announce its partnership with the University of Washington, the University of Arizona and others to create the world's largest database -- a moving picture of the universe. "It will be the greatest movie of all time," said UW astronomer Craig Hogan, one of the leading scientists working on the project. "It will transform how we do science."

Technically, it's called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST, and it's still mostly just a twinkle in the astronomical community's collective eye. Planned to begin operation in 2013 on a mountaintop in Chile, the telescope will take moving digital images -- rather than the typical static snapshots -- of all space, the entire visible sky."

And continues:

"The amount of data involved here is going to be just enormous," said Suzanne Jacoby, project coordinator for the LSST in Tucson. "That's where Google's expertise comes in."

More than 30,000 gigabytes worth of images will be generated every evening, Jacoby said. This daily tsunami of data will have to be analyzed constantly as it accumulates over time, she said, and then efficiently managed to make it publicly accessible."

Imagine entire sky(universe) movies

harry · Post by **harry** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:13 am

Hello All

Wow!!!!!! of info

As John Mcenrow would say

"I like to see that"

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:28 pm

Harry,
See if this link works for you
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/298527_astro05.html

harry · Post by **harry** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 8:18 am

G'day BMAONE23

Thanks for the link

Google joins effort to digitally film the entire universe
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/298527_astro05.html

Technically, it's called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST, and it's still mostly just a twinkle in the astronomical community's collective eye. Planned to begin operation in 2013 on a mountaintop in Chile, the telescope will take moving digital images -- rather than the typical static snapshots -- of all space, the entire visible sky.

oops you have already quoted that.

Soon we will be able to google anything.

I wonder if there is a google for a wife control.

Martin · Post by **Martin** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:30 pm

Yes Harry there is -it's called M-O-N-E-Y !!

harry · Post by **harry** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:28 am

Hello Martin

I'll buy that for a dollar.