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Raw Kuts · 09-14-2003, 11:42 AM

No, this has nothing to do with relationships, friends, or anything. This is about space, and the general understanding of what's happening with it.

So I was watching Stephen Hawking's Universe , and it was talking about the ultimate fate of the universe. Weather there was enough matter in the universe to "pull" it back and crunch everything together or if there wasn't it would continue to expand forever. This was made in 1997 and I seemed to remember an article that I read about a year ago that talked about evidence the idea that the universe is just going to expand forever. I didn't hear it on the news, or my local public radio station, I saw it on a forum like this one made possible by viewers like you. Although I would have probably seen it in the news if I had not been 13 in 1998. So when I looked it up just now I was suprised to see that the date of finding was 1998.

So I start to look for more information about it, and there is quite a lot. So I got to thinking that if I got the information 4 years late, how long does it take for everyone to get it? As far as I read, it it pretty much "accepted" in the cosmology community (not that I'm a part of it, but any pages I saw that argued for a Big Crunch doesn't really give the arguments, it just says the arguments are there, so maybe it isn't accepted.

But what about everyone else. What happened to the days of Fred Hoyle coming on the radio and disputing the Big Bang with the public. I don't know about the timelines of these debates, maybe it takes decades and I'm being impatient. But did you know about this before this post? If you knew about it, did it feel like it was pretty conclusive, or just something to add a bit of fuel to the hypothesis? Am I wrong to say that it is generaly accepted (nothing will ever be completely accepted) in the cosmology community, and if it is how does it get spread to the populace? Does it have to get into textbooks and stuff so an entire generation is brought up on it, or will it become "news"?

Do we just not care about the universe and everything anymore? Do people think that we "did" space back in the day and that's it? Is it a waste of time for use to look for answers to these kinds of questions?

EDIT: Added a BBC article I found. It was dated Feb, 2003. That must of been the one I was talking about when I said I read something about a year ago.

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Raw Kuts Insane Location: San Diego, CA	How do I get to be accepted? or Does anyone care about space anymore? No, this has nothing to do with relationships, friends, or anything. This is about space, and the general understanding of what's happening with it. So I was watching Stephen Hawking's Universe , and it was talking about the ultimate fate of the universe. Weather there was enough matter in the universe to "pull" it back and crunch everything together or if there wasn't it would continue to expand forever. This was made in 1997 and I seemed to remember an article that I read about a year ago that talked about evidence the idea that the universe is just going to expand forever. I didn't hear it on the news, or my local public radio station, I saw it on a forum like this one made possible by viewers like you. Although I would have probably seen it in the news if I had not been 13 in 1998. So when I looked it up just now I was suprised to see that the date of finding was 1998. So I start to look for more information about it, and there is quite a lot. So I got to thinking that if I got the information 4 years late, how long does it take for everyone to get it? As far as I read, it it pretty much "accepted" in the cosmology community (not that I'm a part of it, but any pages I saw that argued for a Big Crunch doesn't really give the arguments, it just says the arguments are there, so maybe it isn't accepted. But what about everyone else. What happened to the days of Fred Hoyle coming on the radio and disputing the Big Bang with the public. I don't know about the timelines of these debates, maybe it takes decades and I'm being impatient. But did you know about this before this post? If you knew about it, did it feel like it was pretty conclusive, or just something to add a bit of fuel to the hypothesis? Am I wrong to say that it is generaly accepted (nothing will ever be completely accepted) in the cosmology community, and if it is how does it get spread to the populace? Does it have to get into textbooks and stuff so an entire generation is brought up on it, or will it become "news"? Do we just not care about the universe and everything anymore? Do people think that we "did" space back in the day and that's it? Is it a waste of time for use to look for answers to these kinds of questions? EDIT: Added a BBC article I found. It was dated Feb, 2003. That must of been the one I was talking about when I said I read something about a year ago. __________________ ( o< --!"Take that bass out you're voice, you talk to me in treble." / / \ \/_/_ -->Mos Def Last edited by Raw Kuts; 09-14-2003 at 11:46 AM..