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Post by Rum » Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:40 pm

That cleaver Arab looking physicist on the options for the end of the Universe tonight at 9 on BBC 4.

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Post by laklak » Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:51 pm

An arab with a cleaver?! RUN!
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Mar 29, 2016 8:12 pm

Rummy on the sauce again? :)
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Post by laklak » Tue Mar 29, 2016 8:21 pm

Rum IS the sauce.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:14 pm

The Rum is the Sauce!
The Sauce is the Rum!
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Post by JimC » Tue Mar 29, 2016 9:58 pm

Leave it to Cleaver...
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Post by mistermack » Tue Mar 29, 2016 10:17 pm

JimC wrote:Leave it to Cleaver...
We got a Jim Acoholili here, ain't we?

Edit :

Horizon, 12:30 am ( on in about an hour, BBC2 )
HorizonPROJECT GREENGLOW: THE QUEST FOR GRAVITY CONTROL

http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/d2zck ... ty-control

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Post by pErvinalia » Wed Mar 30, 2016 2:33 am

Brian Peacock wrote:The Rum is the Sauce!
The Sauce is the Rum!
Redrum!

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Post by Rum » Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:16 am

No - just the source!

The programme was rather good as it happens and explained stuff I didn't unnerstood before.

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Post by mistermack » Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:14 am

Rum wrote:No - just the source!

The programme was rather good as it happens and explained stuff I didn't unnerstood before.
I missed it.
So what are our options, for the end of the Universe?

Is it a bit like leaving the EU, vote for either in or out? I don't want to rush it.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:32 am

I've seen Star Trek. What we need to do is swing round the back of the Sun and go back to 1986. If we do that every 30 years or so we can live for ever!!
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:34 am

mistermack wrote:
Rum wrote:No - just the source!

The programme was rather good as it happens and explained stuff I didn't unnerstood before.
I missed it.
So what are our options, for the end of the Universe?

Is it a bit like leaving the EU, vote for either in or out? I don't want to rush it.
Just as boring.
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Post by Rum » Wed Mar 30, 2016 11:15 am

mistermack wrote:
Rum wrote:No - just the source!

The programme was rather good as it happens and explained stuff I didn't unnerstood before.
I missed it.
So what are our options, for the end of the Universe?

Is it a bit like leaving the EU, vote for either in or out? I don't want to rush it.
Well Kahwhatsit ended up saying he was fucked if he knew and that it was entirely possible that some fundamental aspect of current accepted theory or calculation was radically wrong. Also that as things appear to be at present everything will expand to the point of doing the heat death boogie. The acceleration of expansion in particular left him with a fucked if I know look on his face I must say.

Frustrating times for theoretical physicists!

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Post by mistermack » Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:18 pm

The Horizon thing about controlling gravity was good, but I was dozing off as I tried to watch it.

Little bit I remember is that they are hoping to make some antimatter at CERN, so that they can find out if it is repelled by mass, rather than attracted to it.

If it's repelled, it could be the takeoff fuel for rockets of the future.
You put the energy into making antimatter here on earth, and then load it into the rocket. Unlock the rocket from it's base, and it just shoots off up into the sky, without any exhaust, and without needing to carry it's own fuel.
So on takeoff, you don't need to lift off the weight of the fuel, which is about 95 percent of a rocket's weight.

It might be a runner in 200 years time I suppose. If you need something the size of CERN to make the antimatter, I think it might work out a bit expensive.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:38 pm

Space Elevator, that's what we need.
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