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VariableConstant
reply to post by Mr Mask
I've enjoyed your videos for a long time now. Interesting subject matter on top of gameplay.
Can't tell you how glad I am to see that Campkill can't be killed, after all it took to make it happen (dresses included).
edit on 31-12-2013 by VariableConstant because: (no reason given)
Mon1k3r
I wish we could just throw out the phrase, "...the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate." Simple observation tells us that's not really what's happening.
And does the cosmological constant describe the universe, or does the universe define the cosmological constant? That is, if we lived in a different universe, say an older or a younger one, and our observations of what is going on were different, would not the cosmological constant also be different?
I for one believe that the cosmological constant and relativity theory, and our religious love and devotion to them are screwing us, blinding us, making us slaves to a world that is incorrectly described by mathematics and it's arbitrary nature.
If you like it then you better put a number on it... then you can't get rid of it.
ChaoticOrder
Scientists only speculated that the cosmological constant was zero before they had hard proof that the universe was expanding. Before that most scientists liked to believe that the expansion was slowing down because that seemed like the most logical explanation. Once they were certain that the universe is expanding then they were forced to accept the existence of dark energy / the cosmological constant.
CrikeyMagnet
If I remember correctly, Einstein discarded the cosmological constant (or at least disavowed it) because it was simply a number he made up to fix calculations that didn't work out. It was a fudge factor with no meaning, meant to fill a gap in understanding.
During this video, I don't think there was any mention of a meaning for this constant... just the statement that it was important for some reason. Without that reason, I don't think we can say Einstein made a mistake here. What he was saying is that there is something wrong with this -- and it can be patched with this number. This isn't the solution, but I've gotten it as close as I can.
Until it has a meaning, it's not a solution... just a number that magically makes things work. Much like Dark Energy and Dark Matter. These are things that make the numbers work, but which we haven't and cannot observe right now. We'll get back to you on that.
Most likely, Dark Matter and Dark Energy are vast groups of forces and particles and interactions we have not yet even conceived of or measured, and not any one distinct thing.
I agree that the cosmological constant is interesting, but largely because we can't tell what it means yet. Maybe it's a number meant to represent "...and all that other stuff"
Brotherman
reply to post by Mr Mask
Greetings you tube, ergh ATS, uhh Mr. Mask, Brotherman here bringing you another episode of camper killer commentary suggestions. Can you do a video of the singularity before the big bang rolled up tightly and smoked with some string theory and a twist of some multiverse??? Your videos are entertaining as hell much love bro!
Brotherman
reply to post by Mr Mask
Another good one would be "what could go wrong going back to the future" while playing GTA with the dalorean mod hahaha