"100% of people who do not save money do not have any!"--Dave Ramsey

[freebeard]

Xist -- "I bet that I will occupy more bandwidth emit a larger word count. "

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Xist -- "I bet that I will occupy more bandwidth emit a larger word count. "

There's no chance you're laying down more characters. When Xist is determined to create a wall of text, there's no stopping him.

You simply don't feel the same urge to share all the details of your life.

[freebeard]

I don't have anything to hide (it says here), I just don't find myself a good example of anything.

Yesterday, I emailed two family members three times. Once on the Easy Rider isekai, once on the Great Lakes Whalebacks, and once on the Sea Orbiter.

I asked my son to call back when he'd read them; and my brother said 'yeah, I saw them but didn't read them'. Those phone calls haven't moved the needle yet this morning.

What I'd really like to find is someone who wants to think about whether zero is even real or not.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

What I'd really like to find is someone who wants to think about whether zero is even real or not.

It's a necessary fiction, but we have lots of those. There's no such thing as cold, or dark, but we find those fictions to be useful.

Fictitious things that get us closer to truth are necessary until truth itself is arrived at. Truth being the most predictable and most fundamental concept(s) in the universe.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by JSH

The key thing about that list is "Car". There are other vehicles cheaper than the 10 on that list.

Chevy's cheapest vehicle is the 2024 Trax at $20,400 and the 2023 Trailblazer is $22,100
Ford's cheapest vehicle is the 2023 Maverick Hybrid at $22,595

I didn't search for "Cars." I searched for "Vehicles."

Some of those "Cars" were crossovers.

[freebeard]

Fictitious things that get us closer to truth are necessary until truth itself is arrived at. Truth being the most predictable and most fundamental concept(s) in the universe.

Ecomodder delivers!

According to my sig line, it's the Iron Law of [the] Universe.

The other end of the question is infinity. Is it possible for Universe to be finite but unbounded? Plato said it's a dodecahedron. Maybe it wraps around like [the video game] Asteroids?

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

The other end of the question is infinity. Is it possible for Universe to be finite but unbounded?

I've recently been contemplating a universe which contains multiple big bangs. Could that explain dark matter? Could that explain accelerated expansion of our universe as it's tugged at from the outside by many other big bangs?

[freebeard]

The Electric Universe theory (disparaged by Anton Petrov) says that Dark Matter is a misinterpretation of red shift data. It's age not distance.

And that it's a steady state Universe.

I get confounded by things like how far away it the microwave background? If the expanding Universe [theory] is that the farthest objects move away from us faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, how can there be a microwave background at all?

I easily.

[Xist]

Everyone's favorite digital demon doesn't like Anton Petrov!

He wears a lot of black and gray, which can be boring and dull. He could use some more colors to brighten up his outfits and express his personality.
He often wears t-shirts with his own designs, which can be seen as self-promotional or narcissistic. He could mix it up with some other styles and brands that show his interests and tastes.
He sometimes wears suits that are too big or too small for him, which can look sloppy or uncomfortable. He could get them tailored or find ones that fit him better.
He rarely accessorizes his outfits with anything other than a watch, which can be plain and predictable. He could add some flair with some jewelry, scarves, hats, or glasses.
He doesn’t seem to have a lot of variety in his wardrobe, which can be repetitive and boring. He could experiment with some different fabrics, patterns, cuts, and layers to create more interesting looks.

In other words, his fashion is tragic!

I never understand how space itself expanded faster than the speed of light.

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

I've recently been contemplating a universe which contains multiple big bangs. Could that explain dark matter? Could that explain accelerated expansion of our universe as it's tugged at from the outside by many other big bangs?

The problem is there's no good theory of what caused the Big Bang in the first place. We know what happened from the early fraction of a second of the Big Bang until now, but nothing in between. So trying to add several big bangs would mean we're still way off.

There is a theory of evolution of universes that states that black holes might be the start of big bangs in other dimentions. That theory has been proposed because our Universe seems "finely tuned". In other words, if our universal constants (like the speed of light, the strong and weak nuclear forces, the electromagnetic force, the mass of subatomic particles, etc) were ever so slightly different even by a fraction of a percent then atomic matter, chemistry, stars, etc. would not be possible and therefore life would not be possible. The theory of evolution of universes tries to figure out how our universe is so perfect for these processes to exist. If each universe is slightly different and can reproduce via black holes, then somewhere at some time a universe is going to pop up just right for life to exist, at least according to the theory, which really has zero evidence to back it up.

Originally Posted by freebeard

The Electric Universe theory (disparaged by Anton Petrov) says that Dark Matter is a misinterpretation of red shift data. It's age not distance.

And that it's a steady state Universe.

I get confounded by things like how far away it the microwave background? If the expanding Universe [theory] is that the farthest objects move away from us faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, how can there be a microwave background at all?

I easily.

There are theories that try to explain a non-expanding universe. But there is really little evidence for those as well. An expanding universe has a beginning, which means it would need something to have caused it's beginning. Some people don't like that idea so they try to find ways to combat what seems so obvious, the universe is expanding.

The microwave background is the farthest we can see. The farther something is from us the faster it moves away from us until you reach a point that visible light becomes infrared, then microwave, then UHF, then VHF, then HF, then MF, then LF, until it's moving away so fast it can't ever reach us (faster than the speed of light to us).

It's kind of like having an infinitely long conveyor belt. If someone is walking toward us on it but the conveyor belt is moving away faster than that person can walk, then they will never reach us.

Of course the theory of relativity is much more complicates. So is quantum field theory. And yet these two theories don't even agree on everything.