Quote: The true nerd uses Linux and runs either Firefox or Opera.
Ah linux..the gateway drug of nerddom...fad-tastic!! I disagree...that is great if you are a student with limited resources...but who can deny the distributed networking capability of the Sun Solaris so you can run all your test simulations in developing a better x86 processor in the time it takes you to make a run for a 6-pack of Mountain Dew at 3 in the morning--just for the heck of it!
/me just realized why my college life was so...lonely.
Getting back to Inflation Theory. Chrome, please explain. If the universe was condensed into the size of a marble before the big bang, then expanded to almost full size in less than a second, WTF was the marble "in" to begin with. ???? Where was this marble if we didn't have space??? Me so confused.
Quote: Besides, I think Google does a great job running distributed processing and I believe they do it with a Beowolf cluster of Linux machines.
Hahaha...too true too true. How can I argue with that one
Quote: WTF was the marble "in" to begin with. ???? Where was this marble if we didn't have space???
You don't know, LfL??? Why, it was in a big bowl of lime green jello being slurped down by a talking horse who, as coincidence would have it, was named "Ed".
Quote: WTF was the marble "in" to begin with. ???? Where was this marble if we didn't have space???
It wasn't 'in' anything. "It" was it. Space and matter were created from this 'marble' type thing... at least as my understanding goes...
Hard to hold in one's head, I know. So... if you'd like to look at this from a philosophical standpoint... try this.
Let's say you are God. And as God, YOU are IT. You are the All of Everything. The alpha and the omega. The beginning and the end and everything in between.
So. If you were IT and that's all there was... you knew this... how would you 'experience' ITness? Or 'BEingness?'
The only possible solution to this would be... to become, or to create, that which you are NOT. Divide. In this one simple act... you have created unlimited potential. Now you have perspective. Now you have 'here' and 'there.' AND the space inbetween. Where before there was NOTHING/EVERYTHING, now there is SOMETHING(s).
So. It is my theory... and a very watered-down version of this whole big bang thing... the marble... that marble not only created matter, but the space for matter TO BE.
And really... the theory goes... IT wasn't even a 'marble.'The marble came into being, like, one trillion, trillion, trillionth of a second before the whole thing went kaplewy and expanded to the size of the universe in one trillion, trillionth of a second.
The Big Bang searchs for the point of Singularity. One. IT. And IT being IT and only IT, IT is NOT.
This inflation theory does not answer why it all happened... all it does is give a closer understanding of HOW it all happened... It's best left to Chrome to explain. When the heck is he going to get back anyway?
And, just to add a bit of fun into the mix.... ... there are a group of physicists, some quite renouned in their field, who, in simple terms, have figured that... given the big bang theory... the big bang had to happen EXACTLY as it did in order for 'life' to be. If there was one iota of a variation in how it all occurred... the universe as we know it would not be here... it would have expanded so fast as to blow itself apart... or, had it not expanded as fast as it did, it would have collasped in on itself.
There are fluctuations out there which physicists cannot explain... some parts of the universe expand more quickly than others... and this makes no sense to physicists... it should all expand 'uniformily.' The Inflation Theory, if I understand it all to some degree at least, explains these 'fluctuations.' (Chrome?)
Anyway... this whole "it had to happen EXACTLY this way for us to be here to observe it all" (for really, if no one is here to observe it all, what good is it? Has NO meaning) is called The Anthropic Principle
