Now most of us have heard of infinity, an awful lot of us might not fully comprehend it, but basically it is an unimaginably large number, volume, or space, depending what you apply the theory to, totally impossible to calculate, and thus we write it off as simply being "infinity"....it sort of neatly draws a line under it for the average brain, not unlike the invention of "zero" did, before other smart cookies came along and introduced "negative" numbers.
Just listened to a broadcast where several top theoretical physicists were debating the concept of "infinity", and have come to the conclusion there is an even bigger entity, call it "infinity plus" if you like.
Which strangely enough is yet another "unimaginably large number, space or volume", just "potentially" even bigger than the previous unimaginable ones!
Theoretical physicists....you have to love them!
I want their job.....all day spent just thinking and musing......"What can I possibly dream up today and write a few clever formulas to support, that is of absolutely no damn use to the general populous at large in any respect whatsoever....but still potentially might get me a Nobel prize?"
Now if their theories are accepted, and infinity isn't after all infinity, there is an even bigger one, surely eventually they will be able to calculate the size of the currently underestimated, "not infinity" old one?
Personally I am perfectly happy that I can still convert pounds and "new" pence, back into Pounds shillings and pence, or metric measurements back into imperial!
To Infinity....and beyond! :)
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It's hard to get your noggin around the fact(oid) that - somewhere - what we call 'empty space' ends, and then 'Nothing' begins.
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Just look in the local shopping mall, plenty of examples moving around there
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Slightly different aspect, but the large hadron collider.
Cost God knows how many unpmteen millions to build, and almost as much again to later update and modify it later, and now they propose building an even bigger one?
What exactly are they looking for....ultimately?
Successes to date?....some rare, (that exist for billionths of second) intermediate rare particles, that can never be captured and stored in a jar for example, they just exist for mind numbingly short periods of time when they smash one atom or particle into another, and there is a transition period.
Also "The God particle" discovery, equally to the real world, just about as useful.
So if you keep splitting particles into ever smaller bits, that in turn exist for ever shorter periods of time in the real World, apart from knowing it is actually possible, what damn use are they to us?
You ain't going to see a power generating station, nor car run on specifically generated for the purpose "Higgs Boson's"!
Cost God knows how many unpmteen millions to build, and almost as much again to later update and modify it later, and now they propose building an even bigger one?
What exactly are they looking for....ultimately?
Successes to date?....some rare, (that exist for billionths of second) intermediate rare particles, that can never be captured and stored in a jar for example, they just exist for mind numbingly short periods of time when they smash one atom or particle into another, and there is a transition period.
Also "The God particle" discovery, equally to the real world, just about as useful.
So if you keep splitting particles into ever smaller bits, that in turn exist for ever shorter periods of time in the real World, apart from knowing it is actually possible, what damn use are they to us?
You ain't going to see a power generating station, nor car run on specifically generated for the purpose "Higgs Boson's"!
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G0BHD wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:33 am Slightly different aspect, but the large hadron collider.
Cost God knows how many unpmteen millions to build, and almost as much again to later update and modify it later, and now they propose building an even bigger one?
What exactly are they looking for....ultimately?
Successes to date?....some rare, (that exist for billionths of second) intermediate rare particles, that can never be captured and stored in a jar for example, they just exist for mind numbingly short periods of time when they smash one atom or particle into another, and there is a transition period.
Also "The God particle" discovery, equally to the real world, just about as useful.
So if you keep splitting particles into ever smaller bits, that in turn exist for ever shorter periods of time in the real World, apart from knowing it is actually possible, what damn use are they to us?
You ain't going to see a power generating station, nor car run on specifically generated for the purpose "Higgs Boson's"!
I guess it make more sense than trying to find out how the dinosaurs lived, and the different stages of man.
Or looking at stars that could have died billions of years ago and we don't know it yet.
Or how big infinity is, when we can't even travel to planets in our solar system.
We are on this earth for such a very short time, but people spend it trying to find out how others spent it thousands of years ago.
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