The Immensity of The Cosmos

[PHC1]

Originally Posted by Jem666

Yes it can...that is the whole point. On the one hand symmetries translating into conserved quantities...thank you Emily Noether. On the other hand symmetry breaking. That is the beauty of mathematics...creation is not even remotely required. Richard Feynman (QED) and David Politzer, Frank Wilczek, David Gross (QCD) pretty much wrote the books on that one. Too bad it only accounts for the stuff we can perceive.

In my mind the symmetry should persist if that is the design. Yet at the same time the asymmetrical distribution of matter and the antimatter is what is supposedly caused the "creation" of this universe. Technically we should not even be here... I doubt we can ever arrive at an explanation without getting the "creator" involved in this topic.

Another area which perhaps needs some additional explanation is the concept of antimatter, and why our universe consists almost entirely of matter and hardly any antimatter. According to theory, the Big Bang should have produced matter and antimatter in equal quantities. Thus, for every quark produced in the early stages of the Big Bang, there would also have been an antiquark; for every electron, a positron (the antiparticle of the electron); etc. The apparent asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics.

[ariess]

Originally Posted by Jem666

Euh...the meaning of life, the universe and everything....is it really 42?


Sorry...couldn’t help myself :-)

On a serious note...would love to hear your take on the Fermi Paradox.

Thank You

The Fermi Paradox is interesting. If advanced life is common in the Galaxy, why haven't we been visited? I think the standard answer is that the distances are too great and no advanced civilization wants to spend enormous resources and generations of lives for a trip to the boonies.

[ariess]

Originally Posted by PHC1

I have a question. If Black Holes are the light and matter "suckers" or the "Output" from our universe, is the discovery of the theoretical White Hole or the "Input" which may occupy some of the Dark Matter bringing scientists to the idea this universe may be exporting and importing? Is it possible the source of the Dark Energy and Dark Matter could be outside the universe itself?

We could insert the Trade War jokes here but that would be immature!

This is hard to answer because the question's framework is skewed. "White holes" are not seriously considered. Black holes are not "inputs" to the Universe they are just places where matter is so dense that even light is pulled in.

[Masterlu]

Originally Posted by ariess

The Fermi Paradox is interesting. If advanced life is common in the Galaxy, why haven't we been visited? I think the standard answer is that the distances are too great and no advanced civilization wants to spend enormous resources and generations of lives for a trip to the boonies.

But we have Great Sound Systems.

[radio times]

ET would never be able to find us, we are too small. In many ways, in comparison with 'the creator' we are very much like robots; 7 virtues, 7 vices, with only the gifts of intellect, imagination and extension to make us feel 'big'. Sperm wales have far bigger brains, if they had arms and legs we could be their pets. If you have a wooden hi fi rack, well, we can't even make the tree it came from. We think we own and have solely created these 'human qualities', when in truth they are gifts, just like love, providence and inspiration.

[For The Love of Music]

Although amazing, the size is way beyond thought, it truly is - infinity is endless.

[jdandy]

Earth may be nothing more than a single atom on an enormously large creature, and everything we perceive as reality may be nothing more than protons and neutrons. Our imagination is so limited when it comes to conceptualizing and understanding the infinite. Even after millions of years we still have no clue to the true meaning of life as we know it. The most learned among us are merely assuming the existence of fact or truth. Everything is a guess.

[PHC1]

https://youtu.be/GJLeBM6-AaM

[radio times]

Just think how many earth's there must be in yer trillions. And beyond, wherein there is no end.

[GaryProtein]

I have always liked this concept:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKnpPCQyUec