Well, thats one good post in the pile of trash i seen on http://www.livejournal.com/stats/latest.bml And yet... i still don't get what exploded in the first place and caused "big bang". Maybe i'm just too stupid to understand that ^^
Apparently it was either an infinitely dense singularity, or the collision of two pre-existing universes. I don't think we can ever know what created either of those though, since the big bang is essentially the beginning of time as we know it, and you can't trace time back to when before time existed. I don't know, nobody does really.
That's such an interesting book, I remember reading it on the camp grounds at Reading Festival a few years ago while covered in mud. I got some funny looks.
"The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. If you remember every word in this book, your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information: the order in your brain will have increased by about two million units. However, while you have been reading this book, you will have converted at least a thousand calories or ordered energy, in the form of food, into disordered energy, in the form of heat that you lose to the air around you by convection and sweat. This will increase the disorder of the universe by about twenty million million million million units - or about ten million million million times the increase in order in your brain - and that's if you remember everything in this book"
I'm not sure why, but that's a very comforting thought.
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I'm not sure why, but that's a very comforting thought.
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