Dies to Removal

srsly

That's me.

When there is an infinite time to wait then anything that can happen, eventually will happen. Worse (or better) than that, it will happen infinitely often.

Quantum fluctuations require time-dependent histories of out-of-equilibrium recording devices, which are absent in stationary states.

The anthropic principle is just a philosopher's way of saying philosophy is meaningless, which it is, but you don't need philosophy to tell you that.

To answer your question though, Blackhound, our best guess is that the universe is just one side of a spontaneous quantum creation. It's similar to how positrons and electrons are being created and destroyed before your eyes right this second, just on a much larger scale. It's already been shown that quantum-like fluctuations can explain the slight differences in intensity of the cosmic microwave background radiation (remnants of the Big Bang), so it's likely on the right track. Many scientists have taken that one step further to say that might explain the fact that our universe is basically 100% matter - a twin universe may have been created at the same time, made entirely of antimatter, just waiting to annihilate like that positron before you.

Like I said.

Energy.

Haha, he said penis.

Why is Canada so good at hockey?

You're much better at
this than with metallurgy.

Please don't tell my boss. I've been successfully passing as a metallurgist for a long time now.

Hello! I just couldn't say no to another round of scientific abuse.

...but the thing is that gravitation is felt instantaneously, even if a body is millions of light years away.

Is that true? I was under the impression that it had never been proved one way or the other, but that most hypothesized gravity travelled at the speed of light (same as the other forces).

Quick google search found some recent work suggesting it does move at the speed of light: http://www.astrowatch.net/2012/12/chine ... e-for.html
I think I have access to Springer. Maybe I'll try to track down the actual paper.