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Politics : Gold and Silver Stocks and Related Commentary
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To: koan who wrote (6788)2/18/2005 12:14:39 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 18308
 
PS oldbird re cosmological constant-lol. Ironically, physicist are now reconsidering the cosmological constant-lol. Recently they found out that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate which it is not supposed to do.

Here is what they think. As the universe expands the vacuum energy also increases because the universe is getting larger ergo more vacuum to derive energy from, so now they think the vacuum energy has become more powerful than the inherent gravity, so Einstein might have been right-lol.

A great book on vacuums is called "Nothingness"by Henning Genz. He is a theoretical physicist in Germany. the entire book is on nothing but vauums and particle physics. I have been reading it for years now as it is way over my head, but just facinating. In fact many believe the big bang may have been nothing mroe than a vacuum fluxuation.

All vacuums have inherent energy and virtual particles. Vacuums can borrow energy from one part to another part, but they have to repay it at some time. The more they borrow the faster it has to be repaid. If virtual particles are dragged through vacuum energy then they become real (that never made any sense to me (like what is a virtual particle-lol? other than one without mass). The virtual particles are the result of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

None of this stuff surprises me anymore after I had to accept that the universe exploded out of a point smaller than a proton and doubled in size a billion times in less than a second - OUT OF NOTHING. Once one swallows that magic everything else is easy-lol.

It all seems nuts to me anyway, but facinating.

Cheers
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