What's Big? Blobs
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- TheBlueOne
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/spa…
None more big.
- pski0
have you seen the logo on the mazda CX-7?
- TheBlueOne0
Blobs with gradients and eflections. That's hot...all blob 2.0 and shit.
- Nairn0
"...that formed about 2 billion years after the universe exploded into existence after the theoretical Big Bang."
The 'theoretical' Big Bang?
No Shit?! Is mainstream American media now expected to preface scientific theory with subtly prefaced provisos to calm the Christian classes?
- TheBlueOne0
Nairn, the Big Bang is still theoretical, although most observational and computational evidence seems to suport it. Everything in science is a theory until proven completely - which is pretty rare, practically nonexistant. There has been some stuff especially coming out of String Theory that cause a wee bit of hesitation about the Big Bang, but that's still a pretty lightwight challenge to the theory without any hard observational evidence behind it. I mean heck, there's even some scientists starting to question whether what we take as universal constants (i.e. the speed of light) have actually changed at various states of the universe's development, which, if true, would really through amonkey wrench into the whole works.
All science is is a bunch of theories that you keep challenging. The minute something stops being a theory it becomes dogma and science doesn't work on dogme.I usually get my dander up when I sense faith based dickering in the scientific method, but calling the Big Bang theoretical isn't really innaccurate..
- Nairn0
My point was more hinged on the prominence of 'theoretical'.
I appreciate the implication of scientific theorisation and have up until recently, I thought, lived in a world where the other media consumers did too.
I just worry for America that these subtle semantic buffers are deemed necessary in your NEWS culture.
As an aside, I'm not a big fan of Big Bang theory - it's always seemed like a blunt anthropic bodge to me.
*moans, witters, rues hangover
- TheBlueOne0
Nairn, i agree with you, but you know alot of those "subtle semantic buffers" I think come out of the lawsuit rich culture, the fundamental idea of "innocent until proven guilty" in regards to legal issues and how that effects how you word public news and other commercial concerns...sad but true. It's not always about offending them christians...
Orwell is alive and well and rolling over in his grave..or somehting like that
- Nairn0
"Orwell is alive and well and rolling over in his grave"?
...are you too hungrily going through Reddit and Digg on this Saturday morning?
;)
