He is up in MI on a spontaneous weekend trip.
These are our socks.
Ask us something interesting.
talked music tonight with mk. Both of us agree, Neil Diamond is the shit.
I enjoy Quentin Tarantino films, but his soundtracks ruined some songs for me. This is one of them. It was played SO MUCH back when the film was released. Great song though
What can I say? I'm a sucker for a good soundtrack. Tarantino, Scorsese and Morricone have great taste.
Off topic but TIL (yesterday actually) that actor Jason Bateman is married to Paul Anka's daughter Amanda.
CB. I love your posts. You display an openness to various musical styles and I absolutely love that.
How can the net amount of entropy in the universe be massively decreased?
There is no known mechanism that I can think of to reduce the overall entropy in our observable universe. You can have a local decrease, like laser-cooling something into a Bose-Einstein condensate, but especially on a cosmological scale, there's no way to significantly delay the system from progressing from low to high entropy, and it's actually believed to be impossible to reverse the flow of universal entropy. Globally, things progress from low to high disorganization. And that's basically the foundation of statistical thermodynamics.
I think what mk is invoking is the "Big Crunch" Theory. That particular fate of the universe isn't yet ruled out, but current projections involving measured universal expansion rates see an acceleration of spacetime on a cosmological scale (a la dark energy), which suggests that we could be headed towards a "Big Rip", but we don't have enough data to really know yet.
And yes, in the event of a "Big Crunch" scenario, the entropy of the universe would be minimized, just as it was at the moment of the Big Bang.
It is more than likely that no one alive today will know what the ultimate fate of the universe will be.
For reference my question was lifted from The Last Question by Isaac Asimov.
Couple of questions. As the rate of expansion increases the size of the observable universe decreases. There appears to be an assumption that this rage will indefinitely increase, thereby causing the size to become smaller than that which applies to forces, is my understanding correct?
At the end of the big rip is the destruction of atoms. Is that a spontaneous conversion of atoms to dark energy, or something else?
- There appears to be an assumption that this rage will indefinitely increase, thereby causing the size to become smaller than that which applies to forces, is my understanding correct?
This is a better response than I could've given. But let's talk about the Big Rip, because it's way more interesting than the Big Freeze. And for fart jokes.
As soon as something vanishes optically from our visible horizon in space-time, we will be free of its gravitational influence. We do know that there is more universe beyond via dark flow observations. So yeah, we'll start to see things "going dark", but we don't even know the exact size of the observable universe. It's believed to be 46-47 billion light-years away, and a billion light-years of margin is a lot. And yes, the universe is only 13.8 billion years old, some people have trouble reconciling an apparent discrepancy there.
What I'm really hazy on is whether or not the sizes of "fundamental" particles scales with universal expansion. Regardless, yeah, unless the physical constants change with time in lock-step with expansion (and they might, we don't know yet), there will eventually be effects on atomic and molecular structures, and then it all goes to hell pretty quickly after that, I imagine. I'm not well-versed enough in quantum mechanics to venture a guess as to how the strong, weak, and Coulomb forces will react, and in what order.
- At the end of the big rip is the destruction of atoms. Is that a spontaneous conversion of atoms to dark energy, or something else?
Protons, neutrons and electrons are first separated from each other far enough to not interact. They might eventually have their mass converted to energy, as the diameters of quarks and electrons become the length at which information can no longer be communicated? This is actually a weird rabbit hole of not-so-well-established ideas, so I'm purely speculating.
Tom Cruise and I are already working on MI:6 (which is Mi6 British-themed, of course) about using the LHC to create a local safe-zone surrounding our solar system when all baryonic matter goes radioactive simultaneously as a result of universal expansion. Yeah, the Big Rip is ripe for Hollywood exploit.
I think if Ω > 1, then it should upon collapse. Otherwise, no dice.
Help me am_Unition.
Who would win an arm-wrestling competition between thenewgreen and Elon Musk?
The first two times Elon won. But most recently, I won....custody
They made a movie about an arm wrestling contest in which the protagonist could win a semi truck and thus custody of his child and this isn't enough for you?
I dare say, you ask too much.
So tell me, thenewgreen, when exactly did you give up on your dreams?
Which dream? I have had so many I've given up on. -Like the time I was going to build a space ship out of a card-board box and an old car battery my dad had in the garage. Or the time I was sure I was going to be a major league baseball pitcher. But the most heartbreaking of the dreams I've given up on was when I lost a race put on by the Sun Star Radio company and thereby realized I wasn't a Pepperpot. You see.... I was sure I was a Radium Baby.
Elon, thenewgreen is on a hiatus from his p90x, but he's on the upswing. Elon has about a month left.
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives
Every wife had seven sacks
Every sack had seven cats
Every cat had seven kittens
Kittens, cats, sacks, wives
How many were going to St. Ives?
I see the young girl too. Funny, this ties in to a conversation mk and I were just having. I was talking about how people used to take such satisfaction from being able to find the image in those old 90's posters. You could be a nobody, standing next to a somebody but if you found the image first... well, it was your moment.
Why is the Upper Peninsula not part of Wisconsin? Or even better yet, Canada. I have wondered that for years and have apparently been far too lazy to simply look it up.
Exception Michiganders conveniently forget about the UP when they claim Michigan looks like a mitten.
The two hand thing works so well, Keweenaw Peninsula and all. Happily Wisconsin can get by with a single hand. It's a pretty accurate stereotype in Wisconsin for someone to use their hand when explaining a rural location. Is it the same in Michigan?
Southwest Ontario looks like a trumpeting elephant. I was told this by an Owen Sound resident which is the asshole on that map.
I will totally show you around if you do. I know that area as well as the back of my hand. Better probably. Might even make you lunch, Although it might not be as good as what randomuser and insomniasexx provided.
Anything over Toledo is a win! JK Never been to Toledo but I have been to Cleveland and it is so nice the Cuyahoga River caught on fire.
The water. Caught on fire.
I had completely forgotten about that song! Damn it is almost 30 years old.
Also: Damn you weren't lying.
When the Michigan Territory was first established in 1805, it included only the Lower Peninsula and the eastern portion of the Upper Peninsula. In 1819, the territory was expanded to include the remainder of the Upper Peninsula, all of Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota (previously included in the Indiana and Illinois Territories). When Michigan was preparing for statehood in the 1830s, the boundaries proposed corresponded to the original territorial boundaries, with some proposals even leaving the Upper Peninsula out entirely. Meanwhile, the territory was involved in a border dispute with the state of Ohio in a conflict known as the Toledo War.
The people of Michigan approved a constitution in May 1835 and elected state officials in late autumn 1835. Although the state government was not yet recognized by the United States Congress, the territorial government effectively ceased to exist. A constitutional convention of the state legislature refused a compromise to accept the full Upper Peninsula in exchange for ceding the Toledo Strip to Ohio. A second convention, hastily convened by Governor Stevens Thomson Mason, consisting primarily of Mason supporters, agreed in December 1836 to accept the U.P. in exchange for the Toledo Strip.
Warren Arnold Rommel hates his last name. He likes to play black although he knows he wins less because of it. He likes a challenge. If only they had sent him the fuel, he could have had Egypt. The flat Centipede table at his local pizza shop still reads: 001 WAR.
I've never considered it a sunflower or even floral by nature. It's funny how things appear to different people. I've always seen it more as a table with people.
for future reference in this thread, I've had several shots of rye and mk is on his second beer in like three hours.....
His reply may be more coherent.
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Banana Republic via my wife. She buys my socks and underwear and much of my clothes to be honest. I think she enjoys dressing me up. Totally fine by me, one less thing.
I do buy my jeans and t-shirts though. Most of my t-shirts are Hubski themed. -She's not a big fan. I need some Hubski socks :)