The Big Bounce
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According to a new theory of the universe, it's more of a bounce than a Bang....

Brazilian physicist... Juliano Cesar Silva Neves porposes that the universe is cyclic and there was no beginning to it.

Perhaps we can use The Big Bounce Theory as the place where our Hypothetical Shenny exists? Big Grin

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5017045/bi...ig-crunch/

If bounce is how it happens and we are energy, I'm getting a big repeato reincarnation vibe about this science... Shock
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Here's some random science stuff; 1. They've been testing what happens when they give octopuses different drugs(LSD and MDMA). Normally ' During reproduction they are social for three minutes while they mate and then they go back to wanting to kill each other', but the drugs change their behaviour and now they are testing it on people with Autism to reduce social anxiety.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/218...ach-other/
2. We can predict what aliens on other planets might look like using Darwin's theory of Evolution. It's more complicated, and depends on other factors, like events on that planet, but it's got me thinking. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/...ore-reader
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I was on a tech site, and we were discussing alien life. It started with the Mars rover discovering some possibly organic compounds. I started looking into it, and realised that NASA were actually mapping the mineral contents of Mars, and they were willing to sell the info. Any hints at alien life were actually just good PR. I then found out it was the demands of Silicon Valley that was driving this mining the planets idea. That's when I came across the idea(above), that if we know the environment on another planet, we can use Darwin's ideas to work out what aliens on that planet might look like.

Here's an interesting scientist, Dr. Dudley Buck(new to me). He is credited with inventing the Cryotron, ferroelectric memory, content addressed memory, and developments in electron beam lithography. He was a key figure in the development of the computer. What's also interesting is that in 1958 as a goodwill gesture to Russia, some of it's best scientist were invited to study in the US. Of course they all turned out to be KGB agents. After 7 Soviet scientists visited Dr Buck at MIT, both he and Dr. Ridenour, died of a mysterious illness on the same day. Reminds me of the Skripal poisoning.
http://www.dudleybuck.com/
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(11-28-2017, 07:55 PM)Tuesday Pajamas Wrote: According to a new theory of the universe, it's more of a bounce than a Bang....

Brazilian physicist... Juliano Cesar Silva Neves porposes that the universe is cyclic and there was no beginning to it.

Perhaps we can use The Big Bounce Theory as the place where our Hypothetical Shenny exists? Big Grin

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5017045/bi...ig-crunch/

If bounce is how it happens and we are energy, I'm getting a big repeato reincarnation vibe about this science... Shock

So wait, how the heck does the Universe contract on itself? Is this guy saying that after a fixed amount of time or a certain "length" of expansion, the universe contracts and then "re-expands"? If so, how fast is the rate of collapse? Instantaneous or would we all see it coming at "X" speed/rate?

Or is he saying there's /some/ kind of event that happens at some point(It might differ in terms of time from universe to universe) that goes off and everything "restarts"?

Also, that sounds like one of those "arguments" about the universe/our actions being pre-determined and repeated time and time again.

(09-29-2018, 12:30 AM)ricardo shillyshally Wrote: Here's an interesting scientist, Dr. Dudley Buck(new to me). He is credited with inventing the Cryotron, ferroelectric memory, content addressed memory, and developments in electron beam lithography. He was a key figure in the development of the computer. What's also interesting is that in 1958 as a goodwill gesture to Russia, some of it's best scientist were invited to study in the US. Of course they all turned out to be KGB agents. After 7 Soviet scientists visited Dr Buck at MIT, both he and Dr. Ridenour, died of a mysterious illness on the same day. Reminds me of the Skripal poisoning.
http://www.dudleybuck.com/

Man, that sucks. I wonder what else he could've made if he had been alive longer. As an aside, whatever came of the Skripal Poisoning? I haven't kept up on that.
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I think the ideas about the origins of the cosmos are all just theories, and very hard to prove. I'd go with some sort of black hole origin theory, probably, and it keeps on expanding outwards(although of course in the Shenny cosmos, anything is possible!)

When I was lightly looking into some of that stuff, I thought this was interesting.

'Under the set of parameters described in this publication, we find that a minimum crew of 98 people is necessary to ensure a 100% success rate for a 6300-year space travel towards the closest telluric exoplanet known so far'. 

These French scientists calculated, incorporating all the variables, how many people it would take to make the multi generational trip to Proxima Centauri b, without inbreeding.  https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1806/1806.03856.pdf

They've identified the suspects as Russian agents(online investigation searching through photographs). That story about Dr Buck just made me wonder how many important people have been eliminated by Russia if it was happening back then. That series Killing Eve is based on this, and she even uses a poison in a perfume bottle.
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