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Viewed on sufficiently large distance scales, there are no preferred directions or preferred places in the Universe. Stated simply, this principle means that averaged over large enough distances, one part of the Universe looks approximately like any other part.
Imagine, for instance, that you're at the center of a hollow sphere. The distance between you and every point on the sphere's surface is equal. Now, try moving in a direction that allows you to move away from all points on the sphere's surface while maintaining that equidistance. You can't do it. There's nowhere to go—nowhere that we know anyway.
Originally posted by chr0naut
reply to post by mr10k
How about "Gravity is just another type of electric field" or "Nicola Tesla was one of the world's greatest scientists". I see this over and over again on ATS.
Originally posted by chr0naut
reply to post by mr10k
How about "Gravity is just another type of electric field" or "Nicola Tesla was one of the world's greatest scientists". I see this over and over again on ATS.
There are four forces (potentially 5) but only one of them is the electric field.
... & Mr T really didn't push the scientific boundaries that other contemporaries (James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwick Boltzman, Heinrich Hertz, Hendrik Lorentz, Michael Faraday, Earnest Rutherford, Marie Curie & Hermann von Helmholtz) did.
edit on 11/12/2012 by chr0naut because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SplitInfinity
reply to post by mr10k
Sorry but we do not just exist in 3 Dimensions. Matter must have at the very least 10 or 11 dimensional states for it to exist. The Protons and Neutrons that exist in the nucleus of atoms are completely comprised of Quantum Particle/Wave Forms such as Quarks, Leptons, Mesons, Gluons...etc.
These Quantum Particles that completely make up all matter and that includes you and me...need at the very least 10 or 11 dimensional states and perhaps more.
Split Infinity
Originally posted by BacknTime
reply to post by Spike Spiegle
how do you guys post images?? mine only sais link to image but it does not show the actual image on my post
Yeah it's a lot bigger, but I'm not sure why you didn't just say how big we estimate it to be.
Originally posted by mr10k
Misconception: The universe is 13 billion light-years big and we have the tools to see the center of the universe, but don't know where it is.
Truth is: The universe is only 13 billion (give or take) years old. This means we can only see up to 13 billion light-years away, but does not mean the universe is 13 billion light years wide (or long, whichever you prefer). Anything we see within this range is part of the observable universe, the part of the universe we can see.
If that's true it's cool that we can see 12 billion year old light from something that's now maybe 40 billion light years away.
The diameter of the observable universe is estimated at about 28 billion parsecs (93 billion light-years)
Originally posted by SonOfTheLawOfOne
Originally posted by chr0naut
reply to post by mr10k
How about "Gravity is just another type of electric field" or "Nicola Tesla was one of the world's greatest scientists". I see this over and over again on ATS.
There are four forces (potentially 5) but only one of them is the electric field.
... & Mr T really didn't push the scientific boundaries that other contemporaries (James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwick Boltzman, Heinrich Hertz, Hendrik Lorentz, Michael Faraday, Earnest Rutherford, Marie Curie & Hermann von Helmholtz) did.
edit on 11/12/2012 by chr0naut because: (no reason given)
You know chr0naut, I always love your posts, but I have to disagree with your stance on this one.
Tesla, or Mr. T as you eloquently put it, is who posited and demonstrated wireless electricity capability over 100 years ago, along with many other breakthroughs that were enough for the government to seize his work when he died. I would say that classifies for pushing the boundaries, especially considering that electricity running through wires was an amazing feat that had only been accomplished less than 100 years prior. He was experimenting and using the electrostatic field before the electron had even been discovered in 1897. Without his understanding of alternating current, you wouldn't have most of the technological marvels we have today.
Just recently in 2007, MIT re-invented Tesla's wireless technology with better efficiency, and acknowledged his work as pivotal in their paper, so he must be one of the greatest scientists in the world if he understood the science over 100 years ago?
Tesla was a brilliant man and you are doing him an injustice by knocking his work in comparison to the works of other great scientists. They all have their place in the name of furthering science and our understanding of the physical world, and I was a bit offended that just because people on ATS admire and respect his work, or categorize him as one of the great minds in science, that you'd throw him under the bus so easily.
The others you mentioned.... all brilliant people... but so was Tesla.
I wouldn't have included him as a "misconception" that people have about his abilities. Just sayin...
~Namaste
I think Tesla was a great engineer, not a great scientist.
Originally posted by chr0naut
How about "Gravity is just another type of electric field" or "Nicola Tesla was one of the world's greatest scientists". I see this over and over again on ATS.
... & Mr T really didn't push the scientific boundaries that other contemporaries (James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwick Boltzman, Heinrich Hertz, Hendrik Lorentz, Michael Faraday, Earnest Rutherford, Marie Curie & Hermann von Helmholtz) did.
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
I think Tesla was a great engineer, not a great scientist.
Originally posted by chr0naut
How about "Gravity is just another type of electric field" or "Nicola Tesla was one of the world's greatest scientists". I see this over and over again on ATS.
... & Mr T really didn't push the scientific boundaries that other contemporaries (James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwick Boltzman, Heinrich Hertz, Hendrik Lorentz, Michael Faraday, Earnest Rutherford, Marie Curie & Hermann von Helmholtz) did.