StringJunky

You are going into multiverses for which they are just an idea in some scientists heads.

Science fiction is down the corridor on the left.

If you just look at our OU around Earth then it was small and dense but not the whole universe.

They can infer from reversing the rate of expansion and distances between galaxies how long ago it was that they were all physically connected into a dense mass.

Science seeks to describe and accurately predict the behaviour of the universe through the use of models. If the models work they are considered to be an accurate reflection of the way the universe behaves. Science doesn't do truth because it requires total commitment to an idea and the past shows that ideas change, so the notion of truth is always a moving target.

Right. Thanks. I thought just beyond the hubble was the point the recession velocity due to expansion exceeded light speed.

It will always be the same distance however far you walk.

What's the difference?

Yes, I think so. It's a limit of physics. I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong. The Hubble Limit is the edge.

I should have said: dangling a carrot on a stick. Edit: Phi knows what I meant. This one's without the donkey. Wherever you are, the universe looks the same all around you at a big enough scale.

No. The carrot on the end of the stick will always be the same distance from you.

Strictly speaking, you can't get beyond the OU, no matter how far you travel; it's a carrot-and-stick job.

That eggs are the melting pots of new species. He was being more general.

I never implied that.

AS Moon said: eggs even came before birds

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Yes, in reality. It's not a black-and-white transition.

The contents of the egg holds the potential for the new species, which at the point of being laid is not a chicken yet but will be.

What does a moustache signify in your culture?

Those sort of shanannigans are done here as well. Moving county/electoral boundaries to capture more seats that favour the ruling political party, for example.

I don't know. Perhaps some other more knowledgeable person in this field will answer. Edit: One thing I can think of is: if the stomata density is heavily biased or exclusive to the top surface which would indicate a water plant with floating leaves e.g. a water lily.

Decay is a change of state not movement through space.

Elections are about who can bullshit the most convincingly. Trump won.

Then he'll have people queuing at the door.

You don't what you don't know. I don't know either but I do know when I don't.. Why is it that people wouldn't dream of questioning the diagnostic ability or skill of of a plumber, electrician et al but will happily ride roughshod over scientists with decades of learning?