StringJunky

Everything is an emergent property of something. If the universe was extremely dense and homogenous then everything was causally connected...everything happened 'now'. When the universe expanded, space came into being and so did time. This is my pet idea but the relevance to the OP is that, the Pre-BB mechanism is an open question... as Strange ironically just pointed out. When thinking aboutthis I think it is important to view everything from the frame of 'inside' the universe, as models that view from the 'outside' just complicates things and may well be in error.

Another scenario is that time had not yet emerged before the BB, rendering ideas of before the BB moot.

There's a lot of methane in the ground waiting to come out to get into the atmosphere with the warming climate there, apparently.

French vineyards have been having bumper harvests because of the reduced risk of frosts.

They've both been called worse. It is a while since I saw the arrogance of ignorance in full flight. One can not have certainty on the flimsiest of evidence, Gater.

Irritated stomach as well.

Look mate. Evidence don't mean nuthin'... it's intuition what matters.

That would make you anally retentive. Infection of the bladder or urethritis. Enlarged prostate (in men) pressing on the ureter. Perhaps also, loss of elasticity in the bladder wall.

Cheers. The oscillation rate of the caesium atom, do you set it or control it for consistency, or do you just fire as many photons at it as you can and that's the rate?

How do the hyperfine transitions happen? Are they induced by an external source?

This is maybe a false dichotomy because it looks, to me, the two processes are parallel phenomena.

Thanks. That makes sense... it is a completely random process then.

The probability of each just happens to be that way? i have no problem with the inherent randomness and its exponential decay rate.

I don't understand: if decay is random then all radioelements should decay more or less the same rate? Because they aren't it looks that it is pseudorandom with some obscure deterministic factor governing the rate of each radioelement.

Diarrhoea is due to intestinal inflammation preventing water absorption in the large intestine. I'm not sure if this is OT but related: uniform-ish black stools mean perforation of some type above the large intestine because the blood has had a chance to be mixed and partially digested. by the time you see it but colon-originating stool issues will be blood-streaked and red because no mixing has occurred or enough time for it to turn black.

The surface of the earth has no edges but it is finite. The universe can be finite and unbounded i.e. no edges.

Jeremy Corbyn... oops! Wrong country.

...because they are just different shades of wrong.

Do you think your post (or anyone else's) is 'real' to some animal or insect? Of course, it's an illusion; we see what we want to see.

I think Ike was talking about having a sensible balance.

The idea is well-intentioned but, as you realise, the consequences would probably be largely negative

Or a bit like lacing bullets with penicillin.

I think he's bullshitting for popularity... means to an end. It takes 13 years to be a neurosurgeon and I can't believe he really thinks that.There must be a serious disconnect if he's sincere.

"In the beginning there was nothing... then it exploded."

Where's Doctor Who and his Tardis when you need him?