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Why must this be done "at all costs"? Why is this effort "laudable"? Perhaps answering those questions can lead to an understanding of exactly what your OP pertains to.

I know. I never said you were an authority. I said you are presenting yourself as one. You can try to spin it any way you like but how you come across is here for all to see.

Except for these you mean... "No, he can't..." "it's not..." "this whole thing is ridiculous." "I'm not going to accept that" "They should know better." "The whole problem is that it's not." None of these statements show a willingness to see the other person's perspective. You are simply making pronouncements on what is right and what is wrong. You are coming across as the absolute authority. I never once heard Krauss say that his definition of "nothing" was the only one possible and must be accepted by everyone. You on the other hand did just that.

Damn. Now I have to clean up the coffee that just shot out my nose. You do realize you've been presenting yourself as just such an authority, don't you?

Calm down friend. Sometimes people are not going to agree with what you decide is the best way of doing things. It's nothing personal

People are part of living processes which are billions of years old. You are playing with words.

You have no theory. You have the musings of someone to whom science is a mystery.

That is not evidence. It's not even bad evidence. It's more like "because I said so".

Wow. Really nice!

Evidence?

None of your misunderstandings of the BBT are evidence your speculation is correct. You are going about this ass-backwards. Incredulity of one theory is not evidence of another.

Sure that's a possibility. On the other hand perhaps the seas and lakes formed eons earlier and therefore life was on full boil. That's why we are not looking for dogs and cats walking around.

It can be used as a pejorative against homophobes.

I need to get my marijuana where you get yours.

Your OP sounds an awful lot like a story based on your personal experiences. I'm not sure it applies generally, and I for one probably don't hear the word 'faggot' in my personal life more than once a year.

I'll start but I'm sure you'll get much better answers from others. It depends on which particle you are talking about. When an electron is viewed as a particle it has no shape at all as it is a 'point' particle and has no dimensions. A proton on the other hand has a definite diameter and its shape is that of a sphere, although it is of course not a solid ball.

Please provide evidence this happens in science or stop your vile insinuations against scientists and many others. You've gone from bad-mouthing scientists to bad-mouthing the entire world. Enough.

On the flip side I visited Vancouver one summer maybe 15 or 20 years ago and everyone there was losing their minds because of how hot and miserable it was. It was in the upper 80s F. In Texas that's often considered sweater weather. I live in the American midwest and we own a few alpacas, which are indigenous to the Andes mountains. For the past few nights we had to keep a coat on one because it was so cold outside.

Wow. That was much more exciting than I expected! And on a side note, it was nice to see a room that was not dominated by white males. 😃

I agree. However, on occasion I notice a disconnect between an OP and the people attempting to help him. Sometimes (maybe not time, don't want to make assumptions about Externet) a person will ask an elementary school type question and get a grad school type answer which doesn't really help them. Analogies are sometimes just the answer a person was looking for.

Don't project your weaknesses onto others.

Basic integrity plays a large part. Do you think everyone is a lying cheat or only scientists?

Don't think of the BB as an explosion from a central location as that is not what is happening. Think instead of a loaf of raisin bread. When the bread first begins baking all the raisins are 1 cm apart. As the bread expands every raisin moves further away from the raisins closest to it. It doesn't matter which raisin you are observing this expansion from, all raisins see all the other raisins moving away from it; that is, they all look as if they are in the center of the expansion.

Gee, that sounds sciencey.

Where do you come up with this nonsense?