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250,000 galaxies, 70 sextillion stars

Whenever I hear stats like this I always think of the poor inhabitants of Krikkit. "It'll have to go."

Funnily enough, on the link from my 'Physics! Porn! Hip-hop!' thread, there's a good few people on there who make comments about the LHC being part of the Krikkit Stumps...
 


I'm glad I watched this. It was a good representation of what I whitnessed while tripping on speed in one of my bio classes.


It wasn't a mere recognition of patterns, but more of a realization of the vast infinity and potential behind everything. And everythings ultimate connection between everything else. I think that's the biggest misconception among people, that things have a disconnect.

The universe is an amazing place.
 
Is it called a Large Hardon Collider because it's so fucking big, or because the Hardons it collides are Large ones?
 
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There you go: spooky or what?
 
Not spooky as much a deluded idiotic. What on earth was their argument there? (surprize me, I've seen more of such nonsense than you can imagine)

salaam.
 
I saw a similar juxtoposition in a book about Islam I picked up at the Stirling Mosque. I'll post it when I get home, if you like. It's a picture of a feotus next of a picture of some chewed gum. They look a bit similar. What does it signify?

Nothing, other than human capacity to see patterns.

The fetus thing is supposed to show how scientifically advanced the Quran was. The neuron/supercluster thing is more significant than just "humans can see patterns" surely. It shows that certain patterns repeat over large and small scales, to start with.

A little too dismissive, methinks...
 
Come on dude, that's a tiny snipet of 'the universe', are you seriously suggesting that because it looks like a mess of random squiggles, and a bit of brain cell also looks like a mess of random squiggles...

You don't have much pattern recognition ability if you can only see a mess of random squiggles in that picture.

Edit: on closer exaination I don't think there is that much similarity between the two pictures, but there is definitely very siginificant order in both of them, not random squiggles.
 
You don't have much pattern recognition ability if you can only see a mess of random squiggles in that picture.

Edit: on closer exaination I don't think there is that much similarity between the two pictures, but there is definitely very siginificant order in both of them, not random squiggles.

Yes okay fine. Somehow I doubt that pulses of energy travel along those gravitational 'pathways' though, sending signals to super-clusters that respond with new signals or something.
 
The fetus thing is supposed to show how scientifically advanced the Quran was.
Yes, but they've taken the similarity too far. And the point at which they've taken it too far is comparing the teeth marks to the spine.

The neuron/supercluster thing is more significant than just "humans can see patterns" surely. It shows that certain patterns repeat over large and small scales, to start with.
Signifying what? There are two somewhat similar patterns. You could find that in a Jackson Pollock painting and a distant galaxy, I daresay. There are vastly different scales, and a degree of selection.

Maybe a patch of freckles on somebody's arm resembles the Crabhead Nebula, or maybe the configurations of currants in a bun bring to mind the late Mother Theresa. There are no doubt websites devoted to this stuff. Fascinating those these coincidences are, there is nothing further to be learned from them.

A little too dismissive, methinks...
Not dismissive enough, I counter.
 
Hard to say, really. That the teeth marks are like an embryo spine. Not that this was deliberate, oh no.

Yes, lucky for them they didn't take my sister's teeth marks when she was a teenager and before they were corrected. That poor embryo wouldn't look very viable then :)

salaam.
 
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