For those of you interested in the cosmological underpinnings of the Spiral Politic, as contained in the Appendix of The Taking of Planet 5 and
expanded in Larry's article as contained in the reissue of Dead Romance... well, what do you know? It's true. Universes do bud off one another.
The cosmology is ALL true
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Posts: 280 7 June, 2008 2:19 AM |
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Posts: 122 7 June, 2008 6:29 AM |
Well, yeah, the theory's been around for a while (SBJ is the hardest SF writer we have in our little corner of the field, IMO, so I'm fairly sure he
was working off that), but it's interesting to see an attempt to look for what the evidence would be. However, the BBC are being rather FAIL in their
science reporting by reporting what's basically a press release from Caltech so excitedly when it's not yet finished the peer review process. And there
have been an awful lot of "look! exciting thing in the CMB!" claims that have then quietly disappeared a few months later since WMAP came along. So
I'm not going to get too excited just yet.
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Posts: 280 7 June, 2008 8:18 AM |
Thank goodness we have fen trained in the hard sciences around here. I'm trained in the social sciences and I tend to forget that these days there's as
much bullshit and PR in the science news as in the "world news".
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Posts: 122 7 June, 2008 8:59 AM |
I saw Ben Goldacre at the Cheltenham Science Festival last night, so I am in a particularly punchy mood in regard to the rubbishness of the media's
handling of science. In fact, I'm off to go and see him again talking about the abuse of statistics in a couple of hours. My life is good.
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Posts: 439 7 June, 2008 2:34 PM |
Along similar lines (sure I already mentioned this) a recent gift of a big pile of New Scientist back issues also contained articles about theories that 1) the
universe is made of EQUATIONS at the absolutely most fundamental level and 2) There are not (as string theory seems to imply) 11 dimensions, there are 12 and
of these, time occupies not 1 but 2 dimensions, therefore meaning time travel is very much a two-way street and 3) the huge galaxy-lite area of the cosmos
termed (I think) the void may have been cleared of much of its matter by the repulsive effect of an adjacent alternative universe (lets hope it's not the
Nazi one eh kids?)...
admittedly I tend to have one eyebrow hoisted permanently at the top of my skull whilst reading New Scientist (due to too many articles on quantum computers which claim said imaginary machines work when switched off and yet don't actually spill the beans about how one would make one - you know, the actual nuts and bolts bit) but it's interesting nevertheless, even if certain theories remain beyond the possibility of demonstration right now... |
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Posts: 65 11 June, 2008 8:34 PM |
It's so theoretical, it's gone beyond the borders of philosophy into the mystic realms of belief and faith.
I'm feeling pragmatic - build me an instrument to measure dimensions and then we'll see 
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Posts: 285 11 June, 2008 11:32 PM |
regular dimensions AND relative dimensions?
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Posts: 122 12 June, 2008 5:20 AM |
build me an instrument to measure dimensions and then we'll see There are various gravity experiments planned/being built/underway that should be capable of at least ruling out certain classes of theories that state that the law of gravity should change on very small scales because of the presence of extra dimensions. |
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Posts: 439 12 June, 2008 3:25 PM |
bthogg wrote: In which case (and some of you youngsters will have to tell me whether or not I am applying this correctly): SQUEEEE!
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