Originally Posted by caldirun:
“Now you are getting it!”
“Now you are getting it!”
No, I'm just pointing out the absurdity of the position - unless, of course, you are joking.
Wonders of the Universe - programme info
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Originally Posted by caldirun:
“Where is my confusion?
Professor Cox is a particle physicist and he was talking particle physics (in the beginning there was particle physics, in the end there will be particle physics and everything in between is surely particle physics!)”
“Where is my confusion?
Professor Cox is a particle physicist and he was talking particle physics (in the beginning there was particle physics, in the end there will be particle physics and everything in between is surely particle physics!)”
Yep, everything is connected to eveything else, so the "horribly handsome" Prof Cox - I bet he gets interesting fan mail from women - can talk about whatever he wants .......
"The iron that carries the oxygen in your blood as you read this, was created when a star, in its dying phase, exploded."
http://www.longleaf.net/ggrow/Stars.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosynthesis
It's not the finite life of "this" universe that gets to me or anything else to do with the longevity, it's the simple fact that the universe has created its own observers that freaks me out 
. How cocky is that?
. How cocky is that?
Maybe the announcer got her lines mixed up between the Brian Cox programme and some programme like Panorama or a current events documentary 
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That's the only explanation I can think of.
.That's the only explanation I can think of.
Originally Posted by mart.stokes:
“It's not the finite life of "this" universe that gets to me or anything else to do with the longevity, it's the simple fact that the universe has created its own observers that freaks me out. How cocky is that?”
“It's not the finite life of "this" universe that gets to me or anything else to do with the longevity, it's the simple fact that the universe has created its own observers that freaks me out
. How cocky is that?”
Yeah, if there's one thing I can't stand it's show off cosmological entities - sheesh!
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