Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Scientists finally twist themselves in position to kiss their own bottoms!

From Alan Lightman's article in Harpers Magazine - "the Accidental Universe".   The ideas contained within the  eternal inflation theory,  and the string theory, have led to thinking that there are many different and self-consistent universes with startling different properties.  Imagine measuring the length of a line and coming up with a different, yet correct answer, each time.   Imagine throwing a ball forward and having it travel up and behind.   It's as if the laws of nature as we know them do not work.  If true, we cannot identify a single and unique cosmos.  This is why you could say that we dwell in an "accidental universe".  Scientists cannot calculate anything about our universe that is absolute!  They can't figure out anything that holds true.
Kind of renders my Physics final kind of moot don't you think?

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