ahahah! that's the kind of discussion I like, Tigger!
nobody knows what the universe IS. nobody understand life and even less death. noone gets dreams.
So I understand one thing: it is up to us, individuals - not the Great Scientists (and neither the rest of "us" who benefit from 0.03% of those scientists' knowledge by reading 2 books and sometimes American Scientist) - to imagine the bigger picture. I really feel only a creative mind, or intuition can get nearer what's actually there.
Apparently, you dont freeze to death in the vacuum of space. You suffocate. That would take more than millisecond, methinks
It's a moot point, and I've never tried it so can't talk from experience. 😮 You are right in that with no air suffocation would be quick. I really don't know, but thought the temperature might be so cold as to kill one even more quickly. Anyway, let's navigate away from morbidity! 😉 ...
Fadette wrote:
(by the way that would tie in with the Ayurvedic wisdom that the 5th element other than Water Fire Earth and Air, is "space" and is as real as the other ones)
Yes, the Fifth Element, named differently in different traditions, is (from Hinduism etc.) Akasha. Very briefly, Akasha is believed to be the moving and active force above and beyond all other forms of matter-energy. I suspect that Akasha relates to or is synonymous to Dark Matter, but am not certain. Anyway, it's an entirely different kind of science to modern science as practised in the developed world so far today, so the link will take a long time to make. In other words, though I have no doubt that Akasha exists, science per se doesn't yet even know of it.
Venetian
Hello Venetian!!!!
Im happy to see you back on the forum, I personally felt things were getting a bit boring without your knowledge and wit. no offense to all fellow hp members! 😮
Well I watched yet another tv science Documentary the other day and it was way spookier than anything Ive heard before.
It was about the "big bang" (I know, the idea of a big bang is hotly debated these days) and that the snow on a tv when there is no channel IS the big bang in progress if I dare say. It is the energy of the explosion we are witnessing.
Even spookier was the MATTER and ANTI MATTER particles theory. At the very beginning when there wasnt a universe nor time nor space, and when the condensation was at its maximum and something huge exploded (in which we exist right now for it is still in its exploding stage if I understood well), in the first second everything came into place: gravity, energy, matter and anti-matter...
they said physicists have discovered every aspect of the original big bang (thanks to Einsten mostly) but there is one thing that puzzle scientists, it is the anti matter particles. Apparently they were as many matter particles as anti matter ones and they had some kind of "fight" (I really saw that on TV, Im not writing from a mental hospital, I feel like adding 🙂 ) where the matter particles won.
I remember mostly one physicist saying how had the anti matter particles won, the word today (or we should say Big Bang + 1 second = planets including the earth) would basically be the same as the one now with people sitting at cafes and you and me except they wouldnt be matter and solid. ....Jesus.
Like a reflection. or like what artists call "negative space"..? sometimes when I sit in the public transport I wonder if all the space between people and things isnt actually the real world, or the other world.
Also in the US (and I believe in south France) where they have a massive accelerator to smash atoms into completely broken down particles they have for the first time managed to create a mini big bang and found....the anti matter missing - thanks god, didnt fancy mad scientists playing god and creating a black hole or another planet right in south France - and more importantly, the whole mix wasnt what they were sure of getting: GAS, as they thought the beginning of the universe was, but a "soup", with liquid mechanics to it, very fluid.
OK, sorry for going off topic again about space and smell...I guess it d be impossible to breathe and smell space as we need water to have the smell atoms reaching the brain.
Hi Fadette,
Are you talking about the BBC2 documentary, "Is Everything We Knew About The Universe Wrong?" It's still there on BBC2 i-player for anybody interested.
I fell asleep more than once during it - not because it was at all boring, but I was tired. So my recollection is partial and garbled. In short, I picked up that the whole universe of stars and galaxies is not behaving in movement the way all scientific beliefs up to now predicted. Some of our universe is indeed expanding, but other parts are shooting off to gawd knows where as though being sucked.
In one of my waking stages I think I picked up on the main thesis? That there are untold universes, ours being only one, and matter is continually being "sucked" from this one into that one, that one into this one. So I take it the so-called Big Bang may have been "just" matter-energy coming in from another pre-existing universe?
BTW the pretty so-far useless new European accelerator has just been taken out of service again for a whole year, for repairs!
V
If smell depends on particles, then how do we smell in dreams.???
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