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Originally posted by Shadow D
I think some people in here are underestimating the human mind by saying that there are things we are unable to understand,
We (I at least) never said the human mind can't "understand" something. I said "comprehend", as in "imagine". There is a difference there...
We can perfectly understand things (formulas, calculations, explainations, etc), while at the same time we can not "see"/"comprehend"/"imagine" it.... There are thousands of examples that we understand but can't "see"....
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Originally posted by Ningc_Maniac
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Originally posted by unknown2u
I have often wondered that myself. Also why is space always horizontal? What is down? or up? Is there more planets we don't know about sitting only miles in our vertical axis? Are the UFOs really coming from a plant that sits 400,000 miles under us?
Space isn't flat.... who said it was? Of course there are planets under/above us, our own solar system isn't flat (not all planets move in perfect concentric circles.... some go up and down more than others....)
He didn't say it was flat. He said horizontal. There is a difference. Of course space isn't flat, but he is right in saying that wherever you are in space, you're always "horizontal", because there is no fixed reference to call it horizontal.
(btw even on Earth, the word horizontal is a bit strange, think about it
)
Anyways, maybe I'm wrong in assuming he did meant this. And maybe he meant realy "flat". Again, he's partially right. Our solorsystem is partially "flat" (except for a few planets). Furthermore, most common galaxies (swirling-galaxies, like ours) are indeed relative "flat". This is due the swirling motion around the axis that they make....
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Originally posted by sasquatch
i read in pop-sci and in many other places that anti-matter is rare and was mostly destroyed in the big bang (many scientists think that antimatter may have been a catalyst for the bang). perhaps you are refering to the mysterious "dark matter" that plagues the minds of scientist along with "dark energy". note that anitmatter and dark matter are complety different things. perhaps this is all beyond our comprehention, which leads me to the other comment in regard to
true, it's "rare" in the scope of the total mass of matter in the universe, but "rare" is relative...
Many spaceobjects emmit not only radiation, but also anti-matter is believed (and black-matter also) when doing "things" (explotions, implotions, black holes, etc...). What I meant was, when space contracts again, space will be filled again with this kind of matter, so the loop can begin again (and the black-matter can function as a catalyst again)
There is indeed a difference (I thought) between dark-matter and black-matter/anti-matter... Black-matter being the opposite of matter, and dark-matter/energy being something that
"holds" "pushes" things
together appart, something like gravity, but different...
EDIT: in the quick writing I made a fundamental mistake and gave the definition of gravity (was thinking about gravity while writing about dark-matter/energy
), I must be the opposite of course
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