Guess whose birthday it is today (7.17.08) ?

[mtmynd]

if you guessed Georges Lemaître, you are exactly right!

Georges Lemaître was born on this date in 1894.

He was an astrophysicist and cosmologist and first proposed the Big Bang theory in 1927, when he was only 33 years old! LeMaître stated that the universe began some 20 billion years ago with the violent explosion of a small mass of matter at extremely high density and temperature.

<center>happy big bang birthday, Georges!

[hester_prynne]

Well gott bang it all, indeed a happy birthday to Georgie the banger.
(Interesting, his last name the Lemaitre, like maitre'd.....)
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[stilltrucking]

I will probably never read the novel but I found the opening paragraphs very thought provoking.

So the theory has it that the universe expanded exponentially from a point, a singular space/time point, a moment/thing, some original particulate event or quantum substantive happenstance, to an extent that the word explosion is inadequate, though the theory is known as the Big Bang. What we are supposed to keep in mind, in our mind, is that the universe didn't burst out into pre-existent available space, it was the space that blew out, taking everything with it in a great expansive flowering, a silent flash into being in a second or two of the entire outrushing universe of gas and matter and darkness-light, a cosmic floop of nothing into the volume and chronology of spacetime. Okay? ...



...the universe did not blast into being through space but that space, itself a property of the universe, is what blasted out along with everything in it? What does it mean to say that space is what expanded, stretched, flowered? Into what? The universe expanding even now its galaxies of burning suns, dying stars, metallic monuments of stone, clouds of cosmic dust, must be filling ... something. If it is expanding it has perimeters, at present far beyond any ability of ours to measure. What do things look like just at the instant's action at the edge of the universe? What is just beyond that rushing, overwhelming parametric edge before it is overwhelmed? What is being overcome, filled, enlivened, lit? Or is there no edge, no border, but an infinite series of universes expanding into one another, all at the same time?
http://www.studioeight.tv/phpbb/viewtop ... t=city+god

I used to find the the Big Bang theory a very satisfying explanation but now I wonder what it really tells us.

Where was the universe before the big bang, there was no empy space for it to blow out into.

I still can't get my head around "nothingness"

Well anyway
Happy birthday Georges

[judih]

bang on, Georges!
and thank you cecil for saluting the master of loud beginnings

[mtmynd]

Whew! What a party... man o man, that Georges knew how to throw a bash... a Big Bash! But here it is getting late, the party winding down, the fireworks are still going off as they have been for some 6 billion years, but I really do have to thank Mr. LeMaître for doing what he did... a real Bang Up job!

If you had stayed alive, Georges, you would have celebrated your 114th year within this earthly realm carved out of the Big Bang. But we're all here and we'll probably pass the Bang on to the next generation as long as another newer and more reasonable theory doesn't come along. Time will tell.

Gotta thank the party goers - Hes', truck, Judih... I'm sure he appreciated you stopping in. Hope you had a Big Bang Boom of a time. Until next year!

[Dave The Dov]

You he really came up with great term for describing the best sex all around........oh wait this is about something completely different right???? Oooooohhhh astrophysics I get it now!!!!
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[mnaz]

Yes... the Big Bang. Much rather be known for that than something like the Big Implosion...

From what we observe from our speck of universe, seems plausible.
But is it cyclical, reversible? How is infinity grasped? Too many questions... Breathe!

[WIREMAN]

wow never been here before....happy birthday to the big bang man.....

[mtmynd]

Dang it! Sorry, DtD.. mnaz.. wired... sorry you missed out on the Big Birthday Bang yesterday. But there's plenty of expansion left out there... help yourself to any leftovers.

True, nazzer... anyone known for the Big Implosion would have to be a really negative individual. Wouldn't want any of those at Georges Big Bash, eh?

(("How is infinity grasped?" Great party question! Endlessly..?))

wired... really? you've never been to "Culture" before? Welcome to the cultural cruise...

[WIREMAN]

cecil as we enter the 3ooo post realm....how the hell are u?????

[mtmynd]

3000- plus a few... we're so close that i can hear your foot tapping the rhythms of aum on a summer's eve.

me. just chilllin', friend... no mas excess in this old man's life. simple as i can make it.

and you..?

[WIREMAN]

hey cecil....i'm still recovering from the blood clots in my leg.....it's been a slow proces and working outside in the heat is a big factor...but ya gots to earn a living and pay dem bills......on the art front everything is dynamite, i'll be showing here in fredROCK (aug 2nd opening) with 3 of the coolest young painters i've ever had the pleasure of knowing.....

[mtmynd]

wired - make damn sure you rate your health as priority #1, bud. since that double angioplasty last October, i've had to tow the line. but it's now a way of life and it's a lot better than the alternative. it took about 6 months to get into the new regimen and accept it. now it's pretty much second nature. plus i'm the cook now... do 98% of the cooking and enjoying the new art... Soo has been a great teacher as she is a super cook, herself, but retired from it when i retired. the new diet has given cause to learn many new way of cooking. cool!

art. i haven't painted a canvas for over a year. i have so much material that i've drawn, painted and matted and framed that it's foolish for me to continue adding to the stock... no room. but have been enjoying photo-taking and now (thx to you) enhancing certain shots. tech sure makes it easy... and fun. gettin a real kick out of it.

[WIREMAN]

yeah the photo edit thang is awesome and rather magical and surprising...i like using the photobooth on my mac laptop and playing with the lighting and that damn ceiling fan does something to the shots that is totally surreal...

[WIREMAN]

yeah the photo edit thang is awesome and rather magical and surprising...i like using the photobooth on my mac laptop and playing with the lighting and that damn ceiling fan does something to the shots that is totally surreal...