Topic: Giant cosmic bubble instead of dark energy?
charles's photo
Tue 09/30/08 10:46 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20080930/sc_space/doweliveinagiantcosmicbubble;_ylt=As19P4ErU6Lc8.9hKGJ38pUbr7sF

I hope you find this short article to be an interesting read. I'm impressed by the creativity that is needed in order to test such hypotheses.

polaritybear's photo
Tue 09/30/08 10:51 PM
Interesting, but as they say in the article it would mean we were a special place in this universe, I feel we are much more random. Time will tell.

Long live Copernicus.

Winx's photo
Tue 09/30/08 10:55 PM
Hmmm...are we special or are we not.

charles's photo
Tue 09/30/08 11:04 PM

Interesting, but as they say in the article it would mean we were a special place in this universe, I feel we are much more random. Time will tell.

Long live Copernicus.

We would definitely not look at the Copernican principle in the same way, if this turns out to be true. I would not have a problem with our position in this new role, though. If there is a relative cosmic void out there (in here?), something has to occupy it.

Thanks for the replies. Good stuff!


AdventureBegins's photo
Wed 10/01/08 08:16 AM

Hmmm...are we special or are we not.


Aye that we are.

However OUR universe exists so that we may exist...

Yet there is allways something greater that is beyond our ability to see with our current understanding.

As we grow so also will our understanding.

What glory we will see in future times!