BBC 2 Horizon - Cosmology and the standard model

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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 2:40 pm

1 quadrillionth of a second into creation and the cosmological standard model does not hold true so some bright spark who has a bent with numbers invents a new theory whereby the universes mass expands by a quadrillion quadrillion within the space of a millionth of a second and the standard model is back on track some 350,000 years later and observations suggest that there may be another problem with the standard model, seems as though theres not enough matter in the universe so here's a good idea we'll invent dark matter nobody can see it or detect it but it must exist so therefore it does and there you go the standard model is back on track and everybody can sleep easy in their beds. What's that about the expansion rate of the universe, something about the standard model predicting it would slow down but whoa hang about the latest data actually shows the expansion rate is accelerating ah of course we fogot to invent dark energy how stupid were we, we who thought nothingness meant nothingness when all the time there was this dark energy which constantly creates itself out of nothingness and fills the void. Move along nothing to see here the standard model is dead long live the standard model.

All the same one brilliant program

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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:04 pm

^^^Hmmm.
That's a long opening sentence you've got there SAS. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:09 pm

Not for 14 billion years

where's that pesky edit button gone

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:27 pm

So where does the giant turtle come into it?

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:38 pm

Right next to the giant sperm whale falling through space.

Oh wait that was a different story from another amazing author

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:41 pm

^

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:54 pm

I got half way. What did I win? Very Happy

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:34 pm

Remember - The Turtle Moves!

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:22 pm

The Universe was sneezed out of the nose of a being called the Great Green Arkleseizure and it will end with "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief."

I thought everyone knew that.

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 8:30 pm

I have dark energy for sale. Very good quality. Send $500 via Western Union.

And I want £200 in royalties SOOI. If you're going to go around quoting from my works, you can pay for it.

Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 9:08 pm

^^^

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:16 am

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 7:27 am

I finally understand it all now, it was all one big metaphor, Steward isnt missing, Steward IS the turtle.

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:25 pm

^^^^ Just as it is written in Stewards Holy GOAT (Gospel of All Teachings). Very Happy

Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:43 pm

There's a million-to-one chance that a world like that exists. Of course, a million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten. Wink

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 2628

Basically galaxies don't know how to behave themselves.
They're not conforming to predicted patterns.
A bit like teenagers
So the universe is going all emo and is really into dark matters.
We'll have to just go with the dark flow.

Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 9:42 pm

I wonder how large is the quantity of CH3-CH2-OH (aka alcohol) in the entire universe?
Tis quite a simple molecule. Found in many mollecular clouds.
Billions of billions of billions tons of pure alcohol...

419Eater is my life Joined: 11 Dec 2009 Posts: 316

^Doe's it mean - if wer'e going on a long space-mission, there is always the chance to get a drink or two, everywhere in this galaxy or the other ?
And have a party ?
Cooool.

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