Fundamental basis of an Ecomonic boom

[Beestie]

Seems to me that since the galaxies are moving away at an ever increasing rate that they are not being pushed but pulled. By something as yet unknown. Like barrels approaching a waterfall.

I obviously don't understand much about the physics involved but it just seems to me that the universe is less dense at the edge than at the center. So, as one travels further out, I would assume that the density of dark matter is decreasing and not increasing.

If I toss a ball in the air, the closer it gets to earth the faster it accellerates.

If I hold two magnets together such that they repel each other, the repellant force declines as I move the magnets apart.

Of course, the idea that the outer galaxies are rushing towards something is even more difficult since it implies that there was something already here when the universe showed up and the universe is inside of it.

Sure would be nice if somebody could figure all this stuff out so we could move on to something else

[tw]

Originally Posted by Beestie

Sure would be nice if somebody could figure all this stuff out so we could move on to something else

Which was why the Super Collider was so desperately needed in TX a decade ago. A research tool that was eliminated to pay for another science project - ISS. Well, the ISS has already cost 10 times more money, has accomplished no science, and will do little to zero useful science. Its occupants spend almost all time just keeping the thing working.

Charlie Rose went to CA to interview many of this nation's best leaders of technology - those who actually know technology. They noted severe problems such as a shortage of people trained in basic science, the George Jr policies that now drive science students (both future and graduated) out of America, and a shortage of government money on science that really does science. An LHC in Cern demonstrates where science must go. Once most world scientists came to America because the dictator was in Germany. Even stem cell research is now driven from America for a greater glory of god.

BTW, the nation is graduating more students from religious colleges. Have you seen their cirriculum? Business math. They learn no physics, no calculus, no statistics, no chemistry, etc. But they are taught how to run a computer (not how to build one - just run it for a business or church). These are people who also say evolution is wrong because science is too complex.

The Super Collider has long been necessary for mankind's future - quantum physics - to advance. And yet so many are so easily deceived as to even remains quiet as this nation's latest worthwhile advancement in science - Hubble - dies for want of human support.

[Beestie]

If they wanted an "international" space station, they should have taken the UN and shot it up there - would have solved two problems instead of none.

But while we did miss a huge opportunity by passing on the super collider, we did quietly move forward on one of my favorite projects:

Ligo Gravity Wave Detector

BBC article on same

Can't say I really get all of it but it sure is interesting and seems like it might answer some important questions.

[tw]

Only one more year. From the NY Times are pictures of just one section in a 17 mile tunnel. As discussed earlier in this thread, the Large Hadron Collider should start explaining sub atomic physics and the maybe ten dimensions that we live in. From 15 May 2007:

A Giant Takes On Physics' Biggest QuestionsStarting sometime next summer if all goes to plan, subatomic particles will begin shooting around a 17-mile underground ring stretching from the European Center for Nuclear Research, or Cern, near Geneva, into France and back again; luckily without having to submit to customs inspections.

Crashing together in the bowels of Atlas and similar contraptions spaced around the ring, the particles will produce tiny fireballs of primordial energy, recreating conditions that last prevailed when the universe was less than a trillionth of a second old. ...

This is where the shadowy particle known as the Higgs boson, a k a the God particle, comes in. ...

"If the Higgs or something like it doesn’t exist,” Dr. Arkani-Hamed said, “then some very basic things like quantum mechanics are wrong."

Article is interesting. But pictures are better.