Daecon

I was wondering if there was any connection with Brane cosmology, the Big Bang, and (possibly) the Ekpyrotic model? For example, a collision between two branes with such energy that caused the inflationary epoch and established the crack-style pattern for the layout of matter as it condensed out of that energy. Or is it just my ignorance showing?

I wasn't sure whether this should be in mathematics or physics, but as I'm speculating, it's probably better here. Is there any mathematical association between various crack-based patterns in nature, for example with earthquake fault lines, broken glass, etc? I was curious if the distribution of galaxies throughout the observable Universe follow a similar pattern? I'm sure there must be more accurate terminology to describe it other than "fractal", which seems too broad.

How, exactly, did you make these discoveries? How are you sure that your insight is accurate?

How is what you're proposing any different from Last Thursdayism?

Why would we have any reason to believe time isn't the same everywhere as it is on Earth? Nothing suggests or implies that time is different, so why would we think it is?

So then what's your point? What punchline are all these threads supposed to be leading to?

What position are you supporting? All you're doing is going "nuh-uh" as if that's an argument.

There was a pretence?

Are you actually interested in the science, or did you just want an excuse to proclaim that cosmology is a religion?

The reason, for the third time, is that there's no evidence to suggest anything different. The fact that you keep asking this implies that you obviously believe differently. So why do you believe that time doesn't exist in the "far" Universe?

There's no evidence to suggest that time isn't the same everywhere, so why do you think it wouldn't be the same throughout the Universe? What train of thought inspired you to ask the question in the OP? Surely you must have a reason for thinking that time might not be the same across the Universe, don't you? What's that reason?

Oh... I get it. The Universe is only 6000 years old, right?

There's no evidence to suggest otherwise. Why do you think there would be?

Why on Earth do you think time doesn't exist? Where did you get such a bizarre idea?

There are lots of great apes. Chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, bonobos, humans. They all have a common ancestor. Humans didn't evolve "from" chimpanzees any more than gorillas evolved from orangutans. Just look at dogs, they all have a common ancestor - the wolf.

There have been fossils found of an extinct species of ape called Gigantopithecus, but there's no evidence to suggest any of them are still around.

Hey, I resemble that remark. I was a Mensa member for a year. All I got for my membership fee was a magazine every 3 months. It really didn't seem worth it.

When I was in my early teens I took a Mensa test. From what I remember, it was really only testing me on pattern recognition, not general knowledge or trivia. I was quite good at pattern recognition when I was younger.

But is it nature or nurture?

I believe it's better that when you're looking at a computer monitor for long periods of time, to have the ambient lighting at a similar brightness in order to avoid eye strain.

How long would such a black hole last before it evaporates? Would the power output increase as time goes on?

Why do you think that? Photons are massless, in the sense that they have 0 rest mass. They do, however, have momentum.

That's awesome. Thank you so much.

Thanks for that. I'll admit that most of it went over my head, but at least I understood the abstract. So the Higgs boson having a mass of 127 GeV implies our vacuum is the true vacuum, but if it has a lesser value, that would imply our current vacuum is only a metastable one - and current analysis indicates its mass is about 125 GeV? I don't quite get the significance of the mass values, but I can think about that at a later time. So from what I gather, if a specific particle somehow gained enough energy, that could be enough to "push" it over the ridge and into a lower vacuum state, which would act as a nucleation particle leading to a catastrophic ground state change? (Likewise, it may happen randomly through quantum tunnelling at some point over the next trillion years or so.)

I think I'm following. A symmetry break to a lower zero energy level would cause the gauge bosons to have different physical properties? An example being gravity separating from electroweak and then later, weak separating from electromagnetism? So I'm guessing it's not possible to predict what changes will happen if such an event were to occur? (Although now I realize I should probably read up on spontaneous and explicit symmetry breaking, too.)