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George Smoot: The design of the universe

http://www.ted.com At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with its giant webs of dark matter a...  
 
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doctorjay1976 (6 days ago) Show Hide
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100 billion galaxies, holy shit... just let that sink in
36squared (6 days ago) Show Hide
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.............why are you looking up the design of the universe on youtube? Do you expect the presentation to be by a priest....? Learn calculus and integral you ape, or ask your moronic god for a more developed pre frontal cortex..
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@36squared he is NOT making a persuasive argument!
36squared (6 days ago) Show Hide
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Origin isn't as simple as flipping a switch to turn on a light bulb, thats because it's a bi-product of a finer interaction, electrons... the math required to formulate simulation is built on the foundation of cosmological observation to specify a topological representation. Dark matter and energy is a filler for a finer interaction until observed otherwise.
allschoolreject (6 days ago) Show Hide
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nicely said lol.
36squared (4 days ago) Show Hide
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lol,I peer reviewed a paper describing the strong nuclear force with the conditions met by a schwartzschild black hole and the vacuum density within a proton and found the implications to account for this "elusive" dark matter problem. I'm workin on the "dark energy" problem now>> Holla love!
Blodhosta (6 days ago) Show Hide
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There IS a difference in that one can approve of the general method by which a scientific conclusion is reached, and therefore trust the result without putting much emphasis on the authority of any one individual. In religion it is virtually the opposite - there it is basically a combination of personal experience and taking authoritative words on trust; because the method is not demonstrable. In my experience this is largely the consensus even among theologians.
Just my 2 cents. Love
h2omanz (6 days ago) Show Hide
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love back at ya
God isnt proven thru science, which most nonbelievers use to evaluate HIs existence.

proof is shown a different way,it is revealed just as fact, but few will take the steps to find it
Matthew 7:7
theoriginalKland (5 days ago) Show Hide
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Not true, look up Quantum mechanics.
h2omanz (5 days ago) Show Hide
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i know all about matrix mechanics and wave mechanics
not sure what your response is referring to? proof of the universes' existence?
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