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Cowboy Cosmology
Wayne:
:D :-*
injest:
--- Quote from: wdj on August 05, 2008, 12:09:15 pm ---Sort of funny - the news coverage is focusing on this being "bad" news because perchlorate in the soil means the soil is less likely to currently contain living organisms.
There is to be a press briefing at 2pm today. We'll see if they mention the oxygen thing. ;)
--- End quote ---
but even if all we find is fossils...that is still HUGE, Wayne....it would be proof we are not alone. not the end of God's creation but just a part.
Wayne:
Yeah. :) My guess is panspermia. I suspect life survives in rocks in space that rain down now and again and seed planets at random. Bacteria, a few sea monkeys. Hey, they survive being sent through the US mail. :laugh:
Our current sun and solar system are maybe the 3rd or 4th generation in this region. The same rock, metals, and gases have re-exploded and re-coalesced several times into stars and planets. Maybe life evolved on planets circling suns that have long since gone nova. Doesn't explain how it came to be in the first place, but it does suggest that there may have been a longer history to life than the 4.5 billion years since the Earth came into being.
The universe is not that much older - 14 billion years but there could have been 2 or 3 generations of sun and planets here before the current configuration.
A bit like Jurassic Park 2: Something has survived. ;)
Wayne:
Oooh, that reminds me! I worked out my cosmology last weekend.
Wayne:
I have been wondering what happened before the Big Bang, and I'm guessing that it occurred where two former universes collided.
Each of them had been produced by its own Big Bang, at great distances apart. Each of them expanded from their own Big Bang into vast empty space. But then their outer, more or less spherical edges approached each other and eventually "touched". Of course, a universe is itself mostly empty space between galaxies, which are themselves mostly empty space between stars, so there wasn't a lot of real contact at first.
But a point of intersection became a growing disc of intersection between the two. No big deal for a very very long time.
As matter and energy continued to spread from each of the two big bangs, the intersecting area became denser than the rest of the space occupied by the two universes. With its own gravity, it began to pull in matter and energy from the two universes.
A long time passed.
The disk-shaped intersection probably acquired some spin as a result of the net spin of the two universes, unless they just happened to perfectly cancel each other out.
The growing mass began to pull more and more of the two universes in, and began to collapse on itself from its own gravity.
It became so dense that there was no more space between the galaxies, then no more space between the stars, then no more space between the atoms.
Then electrons began to collapse from the "shells" they normally occupy right down into the atomic nuclei, and matter changed to "plasma" under the great pressure.
That collapse continued until the total amount of matter and energy in the exceedingly dense ball crossed some threshold. And then it exploded, and that was our Big Bang.
And that original spinning disk is reflected in the "hotter" yellow and red spots in the map of the outer shell of the universe above.
At least that's what I think right now. :)
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