What is the Universe expanding into..

Do you think there was anything before the big bang?

  • I don't think there was anything before the Big Bang

    Votes: 56 12.5%
  • I think something existed before the Big Bang

    Votes: 200 44.7%
  • I don't think the big bang happened

    Votes: 54 12.1%
  • I think the universe is part of a mutiverse

    Votes: 201 45.0%

  • Total voters
    447
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I couldn't agree more!

Human society is becoming more and more dependent on the internet for everything from banking to medical care.

It may all be very convenient for consumers and suppliers right now, but if/when the internet massively fails our very survival will be threatened.
And when something totally out of our control happens, ie, a large asteroid coming or the sun running out of fuel, you’re NOT going to be able to Google the solution the way you do when looking for answers on your homework assignment. The internet won’t be if any real help.
 
People tend to thing they will live on in there childrens . We are so retarded . 😔 . That's how our brain works . Unfortunately . We care about humanity . Nobody who are alive now , will be living ,100 years from now . New set of people will take our place . Why not those set of people be hybrid human. 😁
 
As an inveterate googler, I have discovered that 'ein stein' is German for 'one stone' so that 'Einstein' was originally a surname given to stoneworkers!

Albert Einstein's son, Hans Albert Einstein, became an engineer, while his grandson, Bernhard Caesar Einstein, became a physicist.

Albert's great-grandson, Thomas Helmut Einstein, became an anesthesiologist and physician.

It seems that brains run in the Einstein family, whereas only noses run in mine! 😀
But Albert himself was a flunky, no? It's interesting how progeny is influenced by descent. If he became a stone mason instead of a physicist, do you think his offspring would have achieved such credentials and notoriety? I think...maybe,.. quite possibly not. Anything is possible under the right circumstances.
 
A case of nurture rather than nature in terms of Einstein's offspring you think, Pete?

As for Einstein himself, you may be interested in checking out his father's credentials.

Nature was seemingly behind Einstein as he was somewhat of a child prodigy. By the age of 12, he had taught himself algebra and Euclidean geometry and, at age 14, had mastered integral and differential calculus.

After obtaining his teaching diploma in maths and physics, and unable to find a teaching position, Einstein worked as a "flunky" (your word, not mine) in the Swiss Patent Office. His permanent position lasted only a couple of years before he was awarded a PhD from the University of Zurich in 1905 on the strength of the four ground breaking papers he produced that year on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity and mass energy equivalence.

Good going for a mere "flunky"! 😉
 
No, I thought he was an underachiever in school, and as you mention, learned on his own. Did he not have clashes with teachers due to his unorthodox and thereby advanced insights? Anyway, although he may have been an exception to the rule, I do think we're all capable of achieving great heights if given the opportunity.
 
Albert Einstein could be a bit of a comedian! 😛
 

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A E as an underachiever in school, is an urban legend.
Another one, in the same vein: His wife, a very good mathematician was the one who did the general relativity work.
The true story is, he understood he was lacking some higher maths ( tensors, topology ) to establish formally what he had in mind. So it took him a couple of years to study, upgrading in maths.
I am extremely respectful for this attitude.
 
And when something totally out of our control happens, ie, a large asteroid coming or the sun running out of fuel, you’re NOT going to be able to Google the solution the way you do when looking for answers on your homework assignment. The internet won’t be if any real help.
Not too worried about the sun running out of fuel. I won't be alive and before that happens, it swells into a red giant and swallows the earth. If we get nailed by another 10 mile wide asteroid, again, IF I survive, I'll grab by Foxfire books and head for the hills.
 
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