BS: The end of time?

Subject: BS: The end of time?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Oct 10 - 04:34 PM

I'd say BS! but I am not an asstrophysicist.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Oct 10 - 04:45 PM

Old lady, after lecture on this at planetarium:
"Sir, when did you say it was all going to come to an end?"
Astronomer: "Oh, about 3½ billion years."
Old lady,: "Oh, thank goodness! I thought you said 3½ million years!"

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Lox
Date: 16 Oct 10 - 05:42 PM

Bill - you appear to be making assumptions about exactly how old ...

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: kendall
Date: 16 Oct 10 - 07:59 PM

MAY? come to an end? of course it will. Science tells us that the sun will burn itself out in about 4 billion years.
Maybe by then the democrats will be back in power.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Oct 10 - 10:17 PM

Maybe by then we'll have found some honest politicians....

gnu, when I read the title of this thread I thought maybe you'd lost your watch.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 12:38 AM

The Big Rip is coming - one to rival Spaw ...

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:40 AM

The notion that the sun burning out is the end of everything is surely a little bit parochial.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:36 AM

Yes, there are trillions of other suns out there, after all.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:20 AM

I once started a What Went Big Bang? thread which ran&ran [sort of]. What I want to ask re this one is, what noise will it make? When it goes Boom or Pfft or Whimper or whatever, where will it all go? What will come after it? And in what sense is the end of stuff [whatever it may be] the end of time?

As Ben Elton remarks in one of his novels, these are the sort of questions that only stupid people ask. So that's me put in my place, Prof Hawking! Eh?

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:25 AM

Without an observer, where would the Universe be? ;-)

To extrapolate further from that...without you and me and the rest of us sentient beings here to observe it, everything would cease to be!

Now prove me wrong. ;-D (recent advances in physics do suggest that I might just be right)

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 10:35 AM

"What time is it, please?"

Sorry sir, this is not my table.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: GUEST,josep
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 11:33 AM

///Without an observer, where would the Universe be? ;-)

To extrapolate further from that...without you and me and the rest of us sentient beings here to observe it, everything would cease to be!

Now prove me wrong. ;-D (recent advances in physics do suggest that I might just be right)///

Careful! They HATE quantum mechanics in this forum because I was the first to talk about it.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 12:39 PM

Ah, but you overlook Heisenberg's Uncertainly Principle! By observing it, you've already changed it. Werner always has the last word.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Amos
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 01:54 PM

Josep:

You are revealing yourself as an overblown egoist, amigo. There have been multiple discussions about quantum entanglement, wave function, QM. eigenstates and other bizarre aspects of the very tiny (although we had not yet gotten to discussing your prick) in many threads on this forum long before you ever graced us with your august presence.


A

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: GUEST,josep
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:12 PM

///(although we had not yet gotten to discussing your prick)///

??? err...okay...you first.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:27 PM

Soooooooo...the world is coming to an end and Josep is worrying about the length of his prick????? Sounds about right for Mudcat.
Now where's Spaw?

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: GUEST,josep
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:29 PM

Good christ. No, it wasn't me who brought it up, it was Amos. You fucking people...

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: framus
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:42 PM

At least we know Leonard Cohen will still be dancing!

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 03:50 PM

Not all of us are fucking people.

And... no, I don't. Gave it up for lent.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 03:57 PM

Lent, you say. Ever get it back?

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 04:07 PM

I will, in time.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 04:39 PM

Did any Mediaeval theologians actually discuss how many angels could dance (or otherwise accommodate themselves) on a pinhead? Even if they didn't, I've often thought that such a question has about as much relevance to anything useful as this kind of speculation by all sorts of astronomers, physicists, and the like, but it keeps them in research grants just as these mediaeval boys were kept in good boiled capons while the peasantry struggled to survive.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:25 PM

♫Time has made a change in the shape of space.
Time had made a change in the Human race.
And although it's something that none will see,
Time will fade and die, you see.....
♫

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:30 PM

In any case, practically, there's not much time left.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:44 PM

In UK , the end of time is when you are supposed to vacate the bar !

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: GUEST,josep
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 11:24 PM

///Not all of us are fucking people.///

GOOD! There might be a god after all.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 11:57 AM

and not just a "Jesus Effing Christ"?

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: GUEST,Songbob
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 12:23 PM

Bill, nice lyric parody up there!

Bob

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 01:55 PM

I think we have to distinguish between the end of "time" and the end of "duration." The last is defined as eternity plus 1, or the period you wait for someone to pay back the fiver they borrowed.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 02:40 PM

We will know ithat it is the end of time when we hear this:

It's time Gentlemen please
It's time we were no longer here
It's time gentlemen please
I'ts time to drink up your beer
We've had a few stories, some dancing and song
Well hold hands together, as we say so long...
...
Now It's time gentlemen please.

(posted on Mudcat, from memory, by HiHo_Silver, 07 Jul 10 - 08:39 PM)

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 02:55 PM

I'm not concerned about the end of Time. I don't even subscribe.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 03:04 PM

why thank you, Bob... (it..ummm..needs more verses, and I never can do two in a row.)

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 05:10 PM

"Careful! They HATE quantum mechanics in this forum because I was the first to talk about it."

Bull you were. There are threads going back years, Boy-o, and you weren't there. Nice try, though.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: GUEST,josep
Date: 18 Oct 10 - 05:33 PM

///and you weren't there///

Well, actually...
never mind.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 09:41 AM

The end of time? Hmmm...what happens after that?
D

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 19 Oct 10 - 09:47 AM

The energizer bunny will carry on.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 20 Oct 10 - 08:38 AM

Which end are we talking about anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Oct 10 - 05:15 PM

I assume the lower end.

Subject: RE: BS: The end of time?
From: Tangledwood
Date: 20 Oct 10 - 05:38 PM

When time finishes but my watch still has a battery, what will the numbers be counting?