Starship Asterisk*

stephen63 wrote:North by Northwest?

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Nice thought - but the answer is an astronomical object!
M
PS I know Cary Grant was a STAR - but not the sort I'm looking for

Beyond wrote:

Just about Polaris.

Now it's your turn to pose a poser, Beyond!
M

Hmm... I'm thinking, I'm thinking. At least i think I'm thinking.

I'm tired of thinking. I'm gonna not-think about it for a while. So if someone has a puzzle to post... have at it. I may come up with something by the turn of the century.

I will hide well and predict that you never ever will be able to find about me muahahaha!


yes, it's still astronomy related

Goodness me, Moonlady, I have no idea!

I suspect that you and I have somewhat different tastes when it comes to movies. The four latest I have seen were Le Gamin au vélo, Wadjda – A Saudi Girl and Her Green Bicycle, Lore and Kauwboy. Well, that's interesting - I just realized that these movies all deal with young people, even children, dealing in their often wide-eyed way with the strange cruelties of the world.

Something tells me, though, that the picture you posted is something out of a horror movie. The only, absolutely only, thing I can think of is that that thing may be a puppet, and there is a constellation called Puppis - but that's so farfetched that I don't believe it has anything to do with your puzzle.

Could there be such a thing as a skull nebula? I need more clues, Moonlady!

Ann

I was forced to watch Saw 5 by friends and it was horrible...as in meaning bad.
Here is the next clue:


See the bigger picture, not the one postet above.
The picture I put, is telling that I just want to play a game!
Hint again, no one can prove what I was like.

A game????

The only game in space that I can possibly think of is a few moonlets of Saturn sort of playing tag with one another... what other games are there in space????

Ann

For me, the only thing that fits your clues so far, is

Since you used past tense to describe it, then that condition must no longer exist.
How about the singularity of the universe at the moment of the big bang?

stephen63 wrote:Since you used past tense to describe it, then that condition must no longer exist.
How about the singularity of the universe at the moment of the big bang?

Yes, indeed Sir! We can not reproduce a singularity and prove it scientifically. Albert and Max left us some valuable calculation and measurment units, but that goes
beyond my capacity to use them wise.
What's also interesting to me is, what and if something was pre singularity.

The scientific magazines I bought recently are full of mind games, speculations, some are so wonderful that I want them to be true,
some are so dull. I think I go back hybernating till someone can invent tools for time travel and see
what was before that event. If no one wants to time travel, I volunteer, just wake me up!

Stephen, it's your turn!

Moonlady wrote: Yes, indeed Sir! We can not reproduce a singularity and prove it scientifically. Albert and Max left us some valuable calculation and measurment units, but that goes
beyond my capacity to use them wise.
What's also interesting to me is, what and if something was pre singularity.

The scientific magazines I bought recently are full of mind games, speculations, some are so wonderful that I want them to be true,
some are so dull. I think I go back hybernating till someone can invent tools for time travel and see
what was before that event. If no one wants to time travel, I volunteer, just wake me up!

The theorists simply sidestep any questions about pre-singularity by stating that time didn't exist before the big bang, therefore there was no pre-big bang. It somehow materialized out of nowhere/nothing

Theory one:

The big bang was only a passage from a former Universe into the next, like an eye of a needle.
Physicist Bojowald and his team try to explain this with calculations.
The former universe collapses and shrink continually to become very small dense and "space time atoms" get extremely powerful till gravity turns to the opposite
creating a bang. But in this case it is called big bounce. Conclusion: There was no absolute beginning. Is called Loop-Quantum-Gravit by physicist Ashtar.

Some go further like cosmologist Penrose, who believes that there is an eternal cyclus of such big bounces.

Theory two:

Before our universe, before singularity, a mirror image universe existed.
Then suddenly (no cause is listed) the universe goes inside out. The universe collapses like a ballon loosing gas, at the singularity point, the universe
expands but from inside to outside, like the flat balloon gets pumped up with gas but this time the surface of the ballon is now inside.

There is no possibility that any detectable particles or waves can be found from a former universe.

Feynman and others had formulated the quantumelectrodynamics, which is used to explain our universe and is used to try to explain what have might
have been before the singularity or big bounce.

String theory is used to explain extra spacedimensions but can't be proved.

Theory three:

Greene speaks about multiple universes existing parallel. Lavenkin says other universes could have other physical and chemical conditions which we dont have it
like in our universe.
Totally speculation but I like the idea amusing.


That's all I can grab.

For better understanding other Astericians can be helpful.

Astericians Do you mean Asterisk*ians

Beyond wrote:Astericians Do you mean Asterisk*ians

Cor! Beyond - I never would ave sussed YOU fer bein' er pedant abaht spellin'
Speshially arfter Moonlady give uz sutch a fentarstic exposishion ov cosmolergy
Mahgereeter

Sussed Not to fret Mahgereeter, no "sussed" involved, just some unsureity. Cor!...guess I'll have to look that one up.

EDIT: according to Bing... Cor! is Portuguese for color. Which makes no sense.

Cor! is short for Cor blimey!, which is an exclamation of surprise. It is "A euphemism (specifically a minced oath) derived from 'God blind me'."

I went to school with a "Limey" immigrant who used Cor! and S'truth and other such expressions, probably more to amuse us colonials than because he ever would have used them "back 'ome."

Rob

rstevenson wrote:Cor! is short for Cor blimey!, which is an exclamation of surprise. It is "A euphemism (specifically a minced oath) derived from 'God blind me'."

I went to school with a "Limey" immigrant who used Cor! and S'truth and other such expressions, probably more to amuse us colonials than because he ever would have used them "back 'ome."

Rob

Well translated, that man! ( said in crisp 'upper-class' tones ) That is exactly the meaning (and usage!) of "Cor!"

And 'sussed' is, originally, short for 'suspect' but the meaning has developed on from that. It is more commonly used in the phrasal form 'to suss out' ("I sussed him out straight away as a dodgy customer") but the simple verbal firm 'to suss' has come into use:

http://m.urbandictionary.com/#define?term=suss%20out

suss
To discover or realize information, usually with a level of intuition playing a role.

Amazingly, the word suss IS in my tablet's on-board UK English dictionary!

Isn't this forum educational?
Margarita

Looks like neufer is a bigger thinker than i. My first thought was a comet.

Moonlady wrote: I am smaller than the universe and bigger than a comet.
I got fever.

Hmmm.... a star? They are hot.

On the other hand, a star may be regarded as smaller than a comet (although there are a few humongous stars that might be described as bigger than a comet, including its tail).

How about a supermassive black hole? The Schwarzchild radius of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is bigger than a comet, or maybe not! But there are accretion disks that are bigger than a comet in other galaxies, I'm sure.

I guess, at a stretch, we might be talking about the very young universe, which was much smaller than its present self and also very much hotter!

A fourth possibility is the Andromeda galaxy. There have been some very nice pictures recently of the Andromeda galaxy "pairing up" with comet PANSTARRS. I don't know if you can say that Andromeda has got fever, but parts of it are certainly hot!

Ann