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I have always wondered why people trash The Core for it's outrageous physics - but the same people just accept Star Wars to be a good series with acceptable movie physics
Asmodean
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Originally posted by Asmodean
I have always wondered why people trash The Core for it's outrageous physics - but the same people just accept Star Wars to be a good series with acceptable movie physics
Because the more a movie resembles a live-action cartoon, the less reality will be demanded from it.
This is clear proof that the universe is a gigantic donut
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I have always wondered why people trash The Core for it's outrageous physics - but the same people just accept Star Wars to be a good series with acceptable movie physics
Asmodean
It's in large part because the very premise of the movie is not extremely dumb. The idea of a big space battle is not that bad - it's not "bad physics", you can take some artistic license when "rendering" the big space battle - the latter bad physics being part of artistic license.
But the idea of 20th century humans STOPPING or STARTING the core, is completely absurd! I mean humans can barely move mountains (literally, and the big ones, not figuratively and molehills), let alone move something which is literally 10 billion times bigger (not that laypeople necessarily know that, but they would know it's bloody darn heavy). When you use very bad physics for the very premise of the movie, then the movie deserves some kind of special recognition for bad physics.
It also helps to open a movie with "In a galaxy far far away...". Then you're allowed to have moon sized spaceships flying around.
if there was a big bang wouldn't it leave a void where the bang took place? Nah, that wouldn't make sense if this thing is only 6-10 billion light years away.
Originally posted by Lancer
The physics guys think that the universe was created when two branes came together, like two flat planes with waves in them. Where they touched new physics came into existance that caused the big bang. So, if they came together once...and this vast empty area has to be created by something big, something new, and something out to get us!
Hollywood will explain it, and hopefully throw in a nude scene.
They use the brane model to describe how a 'big bang' could occur over a vast area all at once. These branes exist in one or more of the other dimentions of which there are 12 iirc.
Some of the dimentions are good eatin, others not.
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Originally posted by trev
Another fact that is unexplainable and throws a real spanner in current theories, maybe it is simply easier to believe in a creator.
No, you ignorant creationist fool. This is just an oversized version of intergalactic voids typically found between galaxy superclusters. The Media, like it often does with science news, sexed up the story to make it sound more profound and important then it actually is. Oh, and "God-of-the-Gaps" is never a good argument, EVER.
They use the brane model to describe how a 'big bang' could occur over a vast area all at once. These branes exist in one or more of the other dimentions of which there are 12 iirc.
Some of the dimentions are good eatin, others not.
I've read Paul Steinhardt's (creator of the "Ekpyrotic" brane collision model) new book Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang and Lisa Randall's book Warped Passages, both on the subject on brane cosmology and the stuff is absolutely fascinating. According to Randall the new Large Hadron Collider at CERN by be able to test some braneworld models.
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