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Peter, I agree. The universe does sound like a hoex, and a fraud. According to quantum physics, light will change from a wave to a particle when it knows it is being wached. Dark matter may act like a wave being everywhere, yet when measured has very litttle hard matter pushing it. The universe looks hard and real. If the universe is a wave function, it may be an optical illusion, and much smaller in reality. Redshifts are real, and push phony distances of preceived reality that are not really real. The wave collapses when redshifts are measured, and pushes dark matter faster, and further apart.

Boerseun - You stated that Von Neumann probes would be "most probably be found in the asteroid belt where they are floating silently, recording, observing, watching." - Do you really believe that advanced alien civilizations would be waiting this late in the game? Our earth is late to develop any type of advanced civilization. If there were type 3 civilizations, they would have had time to visit earth before life developed on earth. Either we are a zoological experiment by a type 3 civilization or we are all alone. I suspect that we are alone, and there are no other advanced civilizations in our universe. Yes, there is the probability that life starts with protoplasmic evolving to its highest levels in the Jurassic worlds, except we are the exception to the rule. In my opinion, we are freaks of nature, with a 1 in a billion change of a comet hitting earth that selected for lower primates to inherit the earth. We look into the universe, and the only reflection we see is ourselves.

If we don't stop global warming, could our earth end up like the planet Venus? Venus has surface temperature of 900 degrees, which would evaporate the oceans, and kill all life on earth.

Hyderogenbond - You stated: "Alien life would probably contain DNA since the laws of physics and chemistry should be the same everywhere." - Yes, and the size of the home planet should dictate the surface gravity and ocean pressures on the planet. - So as you suggested that an alien world that was hotter with the oxygen and ozone lower, may select for humanoids with reptile skin and sleeping in the day. I don't know if this type of world could exist. If it were hotter, the oceans may evaporate on an earth-sized planet such as Venus. If on the other hand the alien planet was larger than earth the surface pressures would be greater, so smaller animals might evolve. Again, these higher pressures would not allow brain expansion on these larger planets, and would be unlikely to develop advanced civilizations. I suspect that if there are any advanced civilizations in our universe, there home planet is similar size to earth, either being a littler larger, or smaller, but not much difference. The oceans would have sharks similar to ours with some of sea sloath evolution similar to human. - It might be a scary thought to think our earth is common to all like in the universe with jurassic worlds being the norm.

It's a good bet that if there were any advanced civilizations in our universe, they would have had to evolve in a similar way as we are doing. I suspect that there may be oceans on these life Bering planets with sharks in the oceans, and Jurassic forms of life. - One reason is that the sharks we have on planet earth are very efficient on body design. - Once a species adapts to its environment, evolution stops. In the case of the sharks, these animals stopped evolving before the dinosaurs walked on the earth. So, it may be a good guess that if there were advance civilizations in our universe, there home planets would have oceans with sharks that look similar to ours. - Beyond that, life must take a similar path as on earth. I often thought that advanced civilizations might be more like a "star wars" space bar where all sorts of animals evolved into higher thinking beings.

Darkness acts like a vacuum, because anywhere there is darkness light is trying to penetrate into it. Darkness is sounded by light, so there is light in the center of darkness. - A type of cold black hole exsist in darkness that draws light from all sides. So there is no such thing as darkness in the universe, - Everywhere one looks there should be light in all directions.

Could it be that an advanced civilization is going to visit earth and find us in the future. If we visited a dead planet on a distant star, by the time we get there, there will be a type 1 or type 2 civilization waiting. The reason we evolved whereby life selected for advanced civilizations is because an advanced civilization is on its way to earth. We are products from the future is a sort of 2nd law of quantum, that is for every action, an equal and opposite action occurs in a quantum universe. - Maybe we are that reaction from a type 3 civilization. "quantum ripples observed by the COBE satellite may have been created from the far future, in a cosmic scale loop in time by an ultra-advanced intelligence, quite possibly evolved from us." As one theorist predicts: "If it works as the equations predict, it would be possible to build a kind of quantum telescope that probes the future just as a classical telescope probes the past. - In which case our future is being viewed by this advanced civilization. This is why we would be important enough to visit by a type 3 civization.

"John Von Neumann hypothesized that sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial civilizations would be capable of constructing artificially intelligent robot probes to scour the universe." "These intelligent Von Neumann probes would also be capable of universal replication. They would be programmed to utilize whatever elements they encountered in their travels to fabricate endless copies of themselves. After a long enough period of time had elapsed, the galaxies would be teeming with them." - If so, then as Fermi famous comment: "where are they?" We should have found evidence on earth the moon, and mars if these Von Neumann probes ever happended. "Lack of evidence does not mean no evidence," However, we may be being visited from other times dimensions be these probes. Which may account for the 5% of unidentified UFO incidents.

Its a calulator.

"super conductivity could be achieved by slightly "warmer" temperatures." - Yes, but how warm? the Universe could be wiped out at astroke. The Universe could warm up to ultra hot if if CERN scientists switch on the super atom collider, and accidentally create vicious particle, a 'killer stranglet' that gobbles up the earth. Our Universe is perched on terrible precipise. Benjamin allanach, a prominent scientist and research associate at CERN, the Geneva based particle laboratory of Europe Martin Rees stated: CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. - According to Rees, "physicists envisage crashing together an atom of gold and an atom of lead that could result in an unprecedented implosion. There are three possible outcomes, routinely discussed by physicists “with a straight face”. First, a black hole could form, into which we would all disappear. Second, quarks might assemble into an “object called a stranglet”, making the oceans solid. Third, a “phase transition” could occur that would rip the “fabric of space itself”, creating a vacuum that would expand like a bubble and destroy all the atoms in our galaxy." “This,” comments Rees with consummate understatement, “would be a cosmic calamity, not just a terrestrial one.” Some scientists might question Rees’s inclusion of eventualities that are “very, very unlikely”. But the greater the consequence, he reasons, the more we should seek to eliminate the risk. If an experiment has a one-in-50m chance of destroying the world, he argues, we are talking not only of the elimination of the six billion people that inhabit the planet, but the destruction of the countless populations that might follow us.

We only know what we can observe. So is it possible that our universe is like a "house of mirrors" where our 2 dimensional universe has curves interwoven into space time, so it appears that we live in a 3 dimension + time universe? http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/universe A "strange string of galaxies 300 million light-year long that defy current theories about the evolution of the universe shortly after the Big Bang." These galazies are about 10 billion light years away. - The point being that there would not be enough time to create these galaxies in this short period of time from the Big Bang. http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/galaxy_string_puzzles_astronomers.html This time problem may indicate that the universe as we observe it may be folded from a 2 dimensional universe, and much smaller then we think.

I suspect that if there is life in the universe, it's only jurasic in nature. - The change of intelligent life is a freak event. - As life on earth, we are the freak, and the universe is our "freak show."

Have you not noticed all the women giving head? Well, in the future, we will be all hermaphrodite's - that is we will be able to reproduce without an opposite sex. - Just like fish, depending on the temperature of the environment. So a green house effect on earth produces more homosexuals, and little to no reproduction occurs. In this way the earth has a self-governing effect of overpopulation and man-made pollution on earth. Sharks are still in the ocean, and only know sex and violence, and have evolved to perfection. What a design model for us all. So next time someone tells you to put your "disney ears on" - You can put your shark ears on instead.

As you stated: "motionless object is actually travelling at the speed of light." - Yes, I would agree with this statement. After visiting Home Depot for a new kitchen, I was convicned that Motionless objects like Kitchen cabinets are travelling at the speed of light, based on their cost. If at the speed of light, everthing becomes energy without exahsisting its energy. This would imply that matter would start on fire if going at the speed of light. - So everthing that is real knows its sub-posistion to maintian its electon makeup, otherwise it would have buned up from travelling faster than the speed of light.

I was wondering how the 2-split theory could be demostrated in class, However, the student would need to bring a machine gun to class. http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/schroedinger/index.html Is it possible to use a common laser with 2 slits to demostrate this quantum experiment in class?