Japanese Scientists Play God

Hah, like the Samurai who apperantly invented integral and differential calculus 300 years before the fact but never told anyone because he didn't want anyone to think he was too superior.

Gimme a break. This is pointless and stupid.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by whinehurst

wtf samurai? and that has what to do with this?

You people need to settle down. Our universe isn't going to end. Not for an incomprehensable amount of time. Considering how these scientists are smart enough to hypothetically do this thing in the first place, then I will take their word for it that the only downside is that it will happen too quickly to even observe. The sky isn't falling.

I bet you all freaked at Y2K, too.

People aren't freaking over fear, their freaking over the uselessness of it all.

The samurai bit comes in in it happening too fast, etc. It's like me saying I am the greatest genius of all time, and that I have invented a source of infinite wealth, but I am not going to tell you about it. Will you call me a genius?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Are you serious?

That crap doesn't strike you as idle speculation?

Think about it: even IF this universe was created, and even IF it is nothing compared to what it resides in, it is still infinite in our scale. Consider the fact that there are billions of years of KNOWN geological history and that it would take us billions of years to reach most stars.

Ok. Don't you think speculating beyond what we can SEE is just fucking wild talk? I mean, it sounds like stoner-talk to me.

Also:

The universe, by definition, is the only one of its kind.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by whinehurst

someone doens't have any imgination.


besides, if you make one thing pointless, then i can make everything pointless. Our existance is pointless. why worry about anything? why speculate on anything? of course it doesn't mean anything. It's just entertainment.

just kill yourself all ready.

Therein lies the problem. It's NOT all pointless. As a matter of fact, most research is admirable and very usefull. In fact, I am majoring in biology, and I hope to become a research scientist.

Playing around with theoretical physics to create something so miniscule it cannot even be MEASURED is pointless. It's not even science. That's why it's pointless.

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It's not pointless to have an entire universe man-created. It creates a lot of significant scientific and philosophical ramifications. How is it worthless proving our own god-like abilities? I mean, it's a whole new universe.

Proving our "god-like" abilities in this case is pointless because it does nothing more than what it sets out to do. That's right. Most scientific research is based upon experimental proof, and empericism. This allows us to discover what is the purpose of things, and how effective these things are compared to other things, based on hard data.

This universe deal is pointless because once achieved, all you get is the ability to say you did it. Read the end of the article: It says this would be done in such a miniscule scale and the "universe" would collapse so quickly we would not be able to measure it properly - if at all.

I was speaking idiomatically.