the hubble tele

[z3r07w0]

I dont have a F*%$#@ clue what u guys are talking about. All i know is porn and video games;)

[Yazule]

well porn is much more important that understanding the universe... the universe is there and we cant really effect it much, but porn, now there is something interactive for ya!

[PinkRabi]

ROFL!!!!!

And a quick note from me:

1. Time is not the 4th dimension, the 4th dimension is just another plan that exists that unfortunately due to our minds constrictions we find it nigh on impossible to picture. (You can see a picture of the shadow of a 4th dimensional cube however.. will try and find link). One reason i find logic for the fact that time is not the 4th dimension is that Black Holes in there nature create a 4th dimension, and creating time is a pathetic idea as time is relative and merely a human concept imposed on the world.

2. Currently/when i last looked, 12 dimensions had been theorised as existing in the universe we are in, just at atomic level. This seems very odd, but think about it like this: Imagine your a man with a height and depth but no width. You are walking along a tightrope. To you, all you can do is either jump up and down, or walk forward or back. However, to an atom there is another dimension, as it can do a loop AROUND the tightrope. This is an EXTREMELY basic example of how it works, it is actually completely different to this in real life but that is basically impossible to explain.

3. Space has approx. 1 Hydrogen atom per 10,000m cubed.

4. When people say that it would take 3light years to get to a galaxy, that is the time relative to us on Earth. So in other words, it would actually only seem to the man traveling the distance about 1 year. When working these out, time is shorter for the person moving, not longer for the people observing.

5. If people have meantioned the above before i only say it again as i probably just scimmed over were you said it.

[BadAsh]

hells yah

[This_name_sucks]

I believe the method is also known as trial and error. Only issue is, they don't know what anything is in order to call it an error.

I reckon going back to good old fashioned simplicity might do us all a favour. Pink's idea is simple (assuming you get it) and so it's easier to disprove if it's wrong. Maybe a black hole is under excited, like a reverse plasma (or maybe it's that Low Energy Plasma Badash quoted), so instead of reflecting or emitting light, it absorbs it to acheive stability. Maybe the gravity of a black hole is so strong that the lower mass electrons are pulled into the middle of the black hole, thus creating a magnetic exterior. And then maybe, once the opposing charges of the electrons in the centre become to great for the gravity holding them (remembering that they're all proportional values), they force themselves outwards. BOOM!

[PinkRabi]

Well i understand what you are saying, but in essense, black holes are "objects" that appear black as they absorb light. So if it absorbs all light that is shone at it/travels near it, it is still a black hole just a different type.

[PJ]

NO SHIT TNS!! I just get excited...

and pink maybe it was a mistype...like some poeple make....
but the nearest galaxy is like 4142346422.1 ZILLLION light years way

now the cloestes solar system is like 3 light years away.

[XoR]

The Scientific Method
Scientists are distinguishable from artists, poets, musicians, and others in that they use what is known as "the scientific method". It is not that "inspiration" or "the muse" is not valuable in science, it is - but it is not the starting point of what we call science. In the process called the scientific method a true scientist will:
Observe nature - carefully record what is seen.
Seek patterns in the observed data - put numbers on the data - fit equations to those numbers.
Generalize those equations into a word description of the process - this is a hypothesis.
Carry out experiments and/or gather independent data to see how well the hypothesis predicts future observations and results. This is called "closing the loop" on your hypothesis.
Reject, or modify the hypothesis if the experiments show it falls short of success in these predictions.
Only after the results of several experiments have been successfully predicted by the hypothesis, can it be called a theory.
If two different theories predict a given phenomenon equally well, the simpler theory is probably the best one. This principle is called Occam's Razor.
Theories can never be proven to be correct - some other mechanism entirely may be the cause of the observed data. New data can come in tomorrow. But theories can be disproved if they fail to predict the outcomes of additional experiments. Such theories are termed to be falsified.

This is why I love evolution, and the whole notion of creationism seems like a story from a children's book. Oh wait, it is

I believe the closest galaxy is Andromeda M31, and that's 2.5 million light years away. But, it's moving toward us at 300 km/s so WE'RE DOOOOMED

[BadAsh]

Well, not us directly, buy our children's, children's, children's, children's, cousin's former roomate is totally screwed.

[Geme]

all ya need is a towel and you can go anywhere!!!!!

[z3r07w0]

I need that towel after porn but u can use it to go anywhere u like when im done with it!

[b.p.c.]

...... f!@# this topic.

[This_name_sucks]

Well, just to bring it back to some kind of topic...what are they intending the spend the funding on instead of Hubble?

[PJ]

the war in iraq.

[XoR]

They must feel that with all the advances in technology 15 years later, they can build a much better version of this thing. I doubt that anyone's scrapping the prospect of gazing into deep space anytime soon. I guess it's probably like looking at a steel handsaw on a table. It has been an exceptional tool for so long - cut down trees, building houses on and on. But then the dawn of power tools. Bigger, better things. And on it goes.