DOOMSDAY The end is Nigh

[shaun]

Simple really.  Irresistible force meets immovable object.  It is much easier to hold one in all the way around (contraction) than to push ones self out.  (expansion)  But I like Jason's definition better. 

Then again with the Doomsday theory it could nothing more than like child, falls down and goes boom and we are all cosmic dust particles spread throughout billions and billions of years of nothingness.   Naaa...  Not really!

Like I said before...  mankind will kill himself off and then the earth will die.

[Willy The Londoner]

I have absolutely no idea what this means...way beyond my capacity to understand.
Maybe we weren't meant to understand it anyway.

I am hoping Maxx or Willy can translate this paragraph for me...

No problem David. My brain  has absorbed it and come up with two words. 'Total Bal----ks' Sorry that the nearest I can get.

My head has never got round the universe. To me everything needs a beginning and an end.  I can not contemplate a universe with no end (in distance that is) No wonder these brainy fellows go stark raving bonkers.

Understanding the universe is almost on par with understanding immigration but probably a little below understanding the Chinese womans mind. Now that could really drive a man round the bend!

Willy.

[Sylvain D]

But the earth will not be here one day is a fact.  One day in the very distant future the sun will change into a different type of star and swallow the whole solar system as it slowly dies.  We all will be a bit of cosmic dust by then so do not worry one bit and enjoy your life every day and most importantly tell your wife you love her everyday.

This is why I should buy myself a good size Telescope and check on those Earth-like Object's they always talking about .. if I see any PROPERTY FOR SALE sign up there ?

To me, most of the things you could see would be some parts of satellites, going away around Earth
oh, by the way, don't use your good sizez telescope too much "down" when looking inside, just because you could see something happening to your neighboorhood

[David E]

See...I knew the Brains Trust here would straighten me out...thanks fellas 

I have to say that I lean a bit towards Jason's explanation to be close to the truth of the matter.......

Have not got into the dog house yet at the 100% level...but got close a couple of times....cost me a lot of grovelling to recover the 70:30 situation

[Arnold]

Now , this had me wondering ! Are we really able to time travel into the Future ?

Let's say , an Object ( Galaxy ) is two million light-years away . We leave Earth ( the light we see is 2 mil. years old ) going to this Object at twice the speed of light , we are now as we get closer .. seeing more and more light from a time not that old .. right ? So , in a way we are going into the Future looking at it that way . Here is where it is all wrong though . Say we get/arrive there and it is NOT even there anymore , all we saw was the light from the past . Now this Object being gone , we are not actually in the Future .. because as we left Earth .. this Galaxy could have been gone already . Thus , we did NOT travel anywhere .. which means .. time itself doesn't even matter or exsist . In other words , time is ONLY a human factor and as soon as you leave Earth .. silch/zero/nada .

[Scottish_Robbie]

Does time travelling exist?  If not, how far do you reacon we are away from it?

[David E]

Actually Arnold, you will be travelling to the PAST.....the light you see (and interact with on your journey) will be coming from that distant object for millions of years, so as you pass through each "light package" you will be meeting light that left the object millions of years ago.

But dont sweat...Einstein suggested that it wont work anyway...because of E=MC2....this formula implies that to travel at the speed of light (the limiting speed in the Universe)...you would need to have an infinite Mass. and as you go faster and faster, time will get slower and slower. Never could anything travel faster than light-speed.

It has been conclusively proved that because of their speed, astronauts in orbit are subjected to this slowing of time, so they age slower than us on Earth whilst in orbit. It is only a few micro-seconds, but measurable and provable.

If your far- away Galaxy had ceased to exist at some point, as you travel towards it, it would simply disappear !!!

Having said that, the latest discovery concerns what they call "particle entanglement"....no, it's not a hair product....it is a phenomena that has been measured whereby something that happens to a Quantum Particle, is measured to happen simultaneously to it's entangled partner...even though they are seperated by light years of distance...suggesting somehow that these particles have disobeyed the limits of the speed of light...

Now I have another headache...time for another massage....

ps..Robbie

I'll just nip to the future to check when time travel to the future is possible.......or maybe nip to the past to check the same...hope I dont run into my parents before they were married...it might put them off...and therefore how could I exist.

Is it possible to go back in time and kill your Father ...thinking about that gives me a BIG headache !!

But I have a personal theory that sometime in the distant future, they will invent time travel, but when you go back for your "Time Travel Vacation" it will be vital that you dont touch anything...because by doing something in your past, you might affect your future so you would'nt exist. So the rules will be strictly enforced...look but dont touch.

So for us here we will never see a time traveller...but maybe we will somehow glimpse something about their presence...its what we call Ghosts....thats my theory !!!

[shaun]

It time travel were possible I would choose to move to the time that Peggy were here with me.  Then once that time has actually past travel back.  Then I could mesmerize her with all of the future knowledge I had.  To solve the problem of the two of me being there at the same time I could prepare her by telling her that I have an evil twin brother who has been know to escape from his mental institution before to be careful because he will insist that he is her husband, avoid him at all cost.

OK OK no wise cracks from ya'll.  I am not him and I am not crazy.  I am not crazy.  I am not crazy.  I am not crazy.   I forget, how many times do politicians say you have to repeat something before people will believe it?

[Willy The Londoner]

I believe time travel may be possible in the future but as we have not been provenly visited by someone from the future then maybe the future did not exist long enough for it to be invented!

Which brings us back full circle to Nostradamus and his predictions for end of the World.

Or life as we know it Captain.

Willy

[Scottish_Robbie]

ok.. so what about Aliens do they exist?

[Vince G]

Robert beat me to it. You want to see Aliens? come on down. All types, shapes and forms right here

badgis? badgis? we dough need no stincin badgis

[shaun]

Robert you need to get with today's terminology.  You have a picture of an undocumented worker or an illegal immigrant not an alien.

Here are 2 examples of aliens;

[Vince G]

Hideous! they look similar? they must come from the same planet or galaxy?

[shaun]

same momma!!!   Ooooo   I got the wrong.  The same father.

[Vince G]

Think about it?