What will happen to the universe?

[Lancer]

"monopole, horizon, and flatness problems."

From Odin's link a few posts up. Anyone ever heard of these problems before? I'd guess the flatness problem is because the universe appears flat? What about the monopole and horizon problems?

[Flubber]

Any star trek fan would know that any problem, including the collapse of the universe, can be solved by "reversing the polarity" of something, so no one should worry.

I will confess I often wondered why they didn't just leave the polarity reversed?

[RGBVideo]

It looks confusing if you don't know the background of the phrase, geronimo

Originally posted by Geronimo
implying that what you don't know would not fill several books?

It's an imitation of what chegits guevara said over a year ago. The dialogue went something like this:

Lancer: (something incredibly stupid)
random person: (a long, educating post stating things normal people learn in school)
Lancer: "Wow, I didn't know that"
Chegits: "What you don't know could fill several books"

Since then, at least Jaguar has used it as a way of subtly insulting the intelligence of ignorant ppl.

[Lancer]

I went to public school in New Jersey and joined the army on my seventeeth birthday to serve my country, so cut this dumb ass some slack and answer the stupid questions VJ.

[RGBVideo]

I quit school at the age of 17 to join the US army, too

they didn't take me in

answer the stupid questions VJ.

Where?

[Lancer]

The one's you're *****ing like a thirteen year old fat girl denied thirds on desert about me asking.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Lancer
From Odin's link a few posts up. Anyone ever heard of these problems before?

Yes.

I'd guess the flatness problem is because the universe appears flat? What about the monopole and horizon problems?

The flatness problem is, indeed that the intrinsic curvature of the Universe seems remarkably close to 0

The monopole problem comes from applying certain unified field theories/string theories to standard cosmology. This results in a large density of magnetic monopoles.

The horizon problem comes from the fact that if we project "normal" cosmology backward through time we can see that points well-separated on the sky are causally isolated from each other, yet are in apparent thermal equilibrium.

Dark energy corresponds to a force between the branes, and serves the crucial role of solving the monopole, horizon, and flatness problems.

Whoever wrote this is either an idiot at cosmology or English. Nothing about dark energy solves any of those problems. Inflation solves those problems, so whatever it is about these postulated branes that mimics inflation is what's going to solve them in this theory too.

I really love it when people like Odin post their support of a physical theory which they have no hope of even understanding...

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Lancer
The one's you're *****ing like a thirteen year old fat girl denied thirds on desert about me asking.

Calm down, Lancer. You can take great solice in the fact that, even if VJ grows to be ten times richer than Bill Gates and has his pick of any woman in the universe, your wife will still be prettier than his.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Even though there is significantly more matter than anti-matter?

(a) you're guessing and (b) yep, even with significantly more matter than anti-matter, there'll still be a really big kaboooooooooom.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Cold matter energy density scales as a^-3, implying a constant total "energy" in this form, and dark energy scales as something like a constant, implying that the total energy of the universe in this form increases with expansion

I have always wondered what the heck is dark energy.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Geronimo
excuse me? Humanity still doesn't yet know how evolution works. It's far from a dead area of investigation there is a wealth of insight being gained essentially nonstop on the intricacies of evolution past and present and there is little sign we will be done even decades from now puzzling out how it works and has worked in the past.

We do know how evolution works in general and on various conceptual levels. However, there is still much work to be done to find out specific mechanisms and sequences of events.

Conceptually, evolution is the change in the frequencies of alleles. That's dead simple for the most part. Specific cases are more difficult. For example, how did we humans become intelligent?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Even though there is significantly more matter than anti-matter?

Well, we don't know for sure. Maybe in another part of this universe there is a heck lot more anti-matter.

[Zkribbler]

Zribbler's Hypothesis:

The amount of matter in the universe is exactly equal to the amount of anti-matter in the universe.

...or....

Matter + Anti-Matter = 0

God likes to zero things out.

In other words..."Nothing is sacred."

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


We do know how evolution works in general and on various conceptual levels. However, there is still much work to be done to find out specific mechanisms and sequences of events.

Conceptually, evolution is the change in the frequencies of alleles. That's dead simple for the most part. Specific cases are more difficult. For example, how did we humans become intelligent?

Quantify intelligence and i'll try to give you an answer.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
In other words..."Nothing is sacred."

Except energy