Thursday, March 16, 2006

moonstruck cosmology

the big bang broke when
parallel universes
took up lovemaking.

10 Comments:

Blogger demetri said...

kelli, did you read that article in today's NY Times? my favorite part describes

the speculative but popular cosmic theory known as inflation about the distribution of matter and energy in the Big Bang. The theory holds that during its first moments, the universe, fueled by an antigravitational field, underwent a violent growth spurt, ballooning from submicroscopic to astronomical size in the blink of an eye.

"It amazes me that we can say anything about the universe in the first trillionth of a second," said Charles L. Bennett, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and the leader of the group that reported the results yesterday. "It appears that the infant universe had the kind of growth spurt that would alarm any mom or dad."

12:14  
Blogger greg said...

We can't see 380,000 light years?

12:48  
Blogger Kelli at College Library said...

well, no sir, i didn't read that.
i will have a look.
(man, it would be much easier if i could just believe in god. i wish i could be a lazy brain)

13:40  
Blogger demetri said...

you're cosmically synchronisticalicious

14:00  
Blogger Kelli at College Library said...

i was reading about what this guy is talking about last night (which inspired the haiku). i like this idea better than inflation. it's much more poetic.

"But Paul Steinhardt, a physics professor at Princeton who has lately championed an alternative to inflation in which the universe begins and ends cyclically in a collision between two island universes, pointed out that the new data are also compatible with his theory"

p.s.
i believe in god too.

14:49  
Blogger Kelli at College Library said...

p.s.
that is from the nytimes article too.

14:49  
Blogger Kelli at College Library said...

Superseding string theory is the very recent contender for the theory of everything: M theory. It goes further and postulates that reality is lived on a membrane in eleven dimensions. In some ways the immensity of the universe, let alone parallel universes, is so great that it seems anachronistic to believe that God could or would wish to interfere.

15:31  
Blogger greg said...

See '5 feet fade' from March 9, 2006 at 7:36.

21:13  
Blogger greg said...

ok how about 7:49pm.

21:33  
Blogger greg said...

Nope closer the first time.

21:35  

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