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If this seems incomprehensible, Alceste, it means you're normal.
Nah, it's comprehensible. That's the problem. It's very easy for me to picture, even with additional dimensions, and to compare what I am picturing to the phenomenon of an explosion (matter bursting from a single point), and to see it doesn't work unless the force of the original "Bang" (the force that propels the galaxies outward) decays in a perfect relationship to the velocity of the galaxies traveling through space and their distance between one another. But I don't know enough about physics to say whether that's plausible. I also don't know how exact the calculations that say everything is traveling away at the same speed are either. There is probably more wiggle room than I'm imagining, since how exact can you get just from looking at the colour of a galaxy?
Anyway, I can see why they've been adding extra dimensions to the picture - 4 is not enough.
Can I still be normal?
Galaxies appear to be moving away from us because the universe itself is expanding, not necessarily because the galaxies themselves are moving away from us through space. In fact, there are many galaxies in our local group which are blue-shifted. They are moving towards us faster than the rate of Hubble expansion. Galaxies which are much further away may also be actually moving toward us, but at a rate slower than that of the universe expanding, so they still appear red-shifted.
The model of the universe "exploding" from a single point is faulty. There is no center of the universe where the big bang took place. The big bang created not only all the matter in the universe, but the space as well, and continues expanding to this day.
That settles it. You are definitely NOT normal.Screw the balloons,
That settles it. You are definitely NOT normal.
Oh no, Dallas, it's right up your alley. You screw the balloons.
The fact everything came from one particle is so childish to me!
Utterly irrelevant to evolutionary theory. Evolutionary theory only begins with the presupposition of an organism existing, which then are effected by mutation and natural selection. At the moment the scientific study of abiogenesis is studying if organic compounds can originate from inorganic matter. In fact, scientific testing has resulted in the formation of ribonucleotides, with conditions that were similar (if not the same) to those that science has hypothesized were utilized to form the first organic life forms. To wit-psssss: Where did the particle come from?
Brandon Keim (Wired Science) said:They mixed the molecules in water, heated the solution, then allowed it to evaporate, leaving behind a residue of hybrid, half-sugar, half-nucleobase molecules. To this residue they again added water, heated it, allowed it evaporate, and then irradiated it.
At each stage of the cycle, the resulting molecules were more complex. At the final stage, Sutherlands team added phosphate. Remarkably, it transformed into the ribonucleotide! said Sutherland.
According to Sutherland, these laboratory conditions resembled those of the life-originating warm little pond hypothesized by Charles Darwin if the pond evaporated, got heated, and then it rained and the sun shone.
Such conditions are plausible, and Szostak imagined the ongoing cycle of evaporation, heating and condensation providing a kind of organic snow which could accumulate as a reservoir of material ready for the next step in RNA synthesis.
Intriguingly, the precursor molecules used by Sutherlands team have been identified in interstellar dust clouds and on meteorites.
Ribonucleotides are simply an expression of the fundamental principles of organic chemistry, said Sutherland. Theyre doing it unwittingly. The instructions for them to do it are inherent in the structure of the precursor materials. And if they can self-assemble so easily, perhaps they shouldnt be viewed as complicated.
Everything has to come from something, but that would be impossible because that would be a never ending cycle until you meet the beggining, so there has to be a God
@OP: haha
I do not know if Evolution is true,
Just to let you know, it is. The theory of evolution is responsible for pretty much all of the advances we've made in biology and medicine in the last 60+ years. It's as much fact as gravity is.
I guess we all have our opinoins lol. I have never been told it's true, I was told it could be.
I know. Even before I came here, I didn't realize it was a fact. I think it's mostly because of the opposition to it that it still hasn't become as much general knowledge as it should be. It's still stigmatized as something "you believe in", rather than a scientific discovery that is fact, but if you get past all of the BS, you can clearly see that it is indeed fact.
I always found the teenager-to-coherent-adult to be the more dramatic.The dinosaur - bird transition is one of my favorite examples of evolution.