It's a great big universe....

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This is so cool. Everything in the very first view is made of the same material seen in the final view.

wow, you are up early!

[Lucas]

That's pretty cool that it takes you down to quarks. Quarks are actually a hypothesis right now, but each month scientistst get closer to proving their physical existence.

That was a wicked cool thing Maddie, thank you!!

Awesome. Quarks are still theoretical but are very much accepted by the scientific community. They have detected all six types of quarks. I think it was in 1993 that scientists at the Fermi Lab particle accelerator in Chicago first detected the most elusive quark, the Top quark, as it was in existence during the first 10^-43 seconds of the universe (don't quote me on the number but I'm pretty close) and have not existed since then. I am not sure if they have detected it since 1993 but know that they needed to find it many more times to make any scientific conclusion about its existence.

Cheers,
Grok

[Lucas]

Yeah have you ever seen pics of that place? It's amazing what they can do there.

Grok what do you know about the new hypothethic items that travel just slightly faster than light. They are said to be on the leading edge of the lightwave. I can't think of their name right now, but it's pretty interesting stuff. Quasars maybe? It is a star trek term that also exists in real life.

If you think about it...we seem to be smack in the middle of the whole thing. Quarks are to us as we are to galaxies. Self-reflective consciousness seems to be fixated right in the middle of it all. Galaxies and quarks are all an extension of ourselves.

wow, you are up early!

@!#$%@# Jacob's Ladder!!!!

Illuminus, yeah I have read a bit about those things that travel faster than the speed of light. They aren't called quasars, but I can't remember the name. Theoretically, if they are travelling slightly faster than the speed of light then they are actually just traveling backwards in time at a relaltively slow velocity.

To put this more simply, if you view us as traveling forward in time, an arrow going to your right, then these little buggers are traveling along a path equal to an arrow to your left. Interesting, though. Looks like the special and general theories of relativity might need a little editing to account for this.

Cheers,
Grok

Very interesting.

[Lucas]

Yeah I think they are travelling at almost light speed, just a tad faster. They are theoretically on the leading edge of a wave of light. I don't know if is that they are travelling faster, like in numbers, or that they are ahead of the beam , like distance.

Yes Soulkid, this stuff is the best. Start looking up facts about space and you'll be amazed.

We are all made of stars........

^^^Carl Sagan, yeah yeah. So true too. As carbon based being, and given that a star will create elements up to iron, then stars have created the elements that exist within us. Freaky.

On a slight tangent but a really cool fact: there is no known half-life for protons, meaning that the protons that make up our molecular structure have been around for billions and billions of years. Think if we tried really hard we could remember a supernova that happened 7.5 billion years ago?

Cheers,
Grok

awesome...i think ill read some on it