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• A Beautiful Mind? 12-Year-Old Boy Genius Sets Out to Disprove Big Bang

  March 25, 2011 at 11:48am

  In reply to starman70.

  @RATINGSDOWN_ONETHIRD

  The interesting fact is that, conversely, there is also no proof whatsoever that there is no deity which created the cosmos. Your own argument has debunked itself.

  If a lack of proof that something DOES exist discredits an argument, doesn’t a lack of proof that something DOES NOT exist also discredit the same argument? You can’t prove that a God of some sort does not exist, especially given the restraints of posting your opinion on a largely conservative news website to a whole bunch of people who will most likely disagree with you and discard your opinion. Just wondering what your goal here is.

• A Beautiful Mind? 12-Year-Old Boy Genius Sets Out to Disprove Big Bang

  March 25, 2011 at 11:41am

  In reply to GhostOfJefferson.

  First off — I was actually describing what scientists call “dark energy”, but I confused it with “dark matter”, which is the matter that makes up about 95% of the universe, and yet is invisible in any light spectrum… my bad. :) I should also mention that I’m just a musician with an extremely limited knowledge of astrophysics, heh.

  Secondly, the observational evidence of dark energy came about in 1998, and there’s a great recent article at Nasa.gov that talks about an alternative to the theory of dark energy that was recently debunked… it’s a pretty fast and easy read, if you want to check it out: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/cosmic-expansion.html

  “Maybe I’m old fashioned and such, but I’m of the mind that our instruments are highly inferior for taking such long range readings with any amount of accuracy, given what must be a huge amount of “we don’t know” that lay between the point observed and the observer, at this place in history.”

  Well…. I guess I understand your point, but personally I’m pretty confident in not only the methods of calculation, but the scientific equipment that we’re using. It’s true that we could be mistaken in our readings, but science is about making our best guess based on the information we currently have, and then moving forward. I don’t think the possibility that some of our data being incorrect is any reason to discredit all the research. Basically, we have to be willing to make mistakes–trial and error has it’s place… if we weren’t willing to do that, we’d have lost so many advances in medicine, military equipment, etc.

  One thing is true, for sure–we’re a lot less smart than we tend to think we are, and we’ve got a long way to go, and a lot more to learn. When scientists and regular folks like myself acknowledge that, I think we’re all a lot better off.

• A Beautiful Mind? 12-Year-Old Boy Genius Sets Out to Disprove Big Bang

  March 25, 2011 at 9:28am

  In reply to GhostOfJefferson.

  @BLACK3ACTUAL

  Dark matter was first hypothesized to exist in order to explain the acceleration of matter in the universe — scientists figured that, because of the power of gravity, and because every atom and molecule in the universe is pulled on by everything else in the universe which emits gravity, all celestial bodies should eventually coalesce and join up again into one massive speck of matter.

  However, since everything is not only rushing away from each other, but actively picking up speed as they travel, scientists are forced to agree that something must be actively “pushing” them away. The hypothesis of “Dark Matter”, the opposite of gravity, was born. I believe some scientists just recently found proof of DM but I’d have to find the article again to accurately cite it.

• Which Band Did Beck Say Called for ‘Revolution’ at Last Night’s Grammys?

  February 14, 2011 at 1:20pm

  Have to admit, I still love Muse. Awesome music.

• High Schooler Shatters Backboard on Game-Ending Dunk

  February 14, 2011 at 8:47am

  I’m going to take a moment to just say that was awesome.

• Did Herman Cain Give the ‘Don’t Miss’ Speech at CPAC?

  February 12, 2011 at 3:59pm

  I, too, am heartily impressed by Cain. He has my vote for 2012. And of course, somehow, the left will still paint the GOP as being racist. It’s just laughable now. People are seeing the truth, so don’t worry what the “mainstream” media says. Is anyone even listening to MSNBC anymore?

  Herman seems to be a man of honor–I’d me more than willing to give him a shot as our president. God bless him and his family.

• Is Glenn Beck Secretly Peddling Socialism?

  February 4, 2011 at 8:39am

  Beck doesn’t have to sue them. I‘d bet you anything he wouldn’t want to give them more advertising than they really need. This is just brilliant advertising. They know if they put Beck on their poster, it’ll attract attention from the left and the right.

• Taco Bell: ‘Thank You for Suing Us’

  January 28, 2011 at 10:00pm

  In reply to ilovethiscountry.

  tacobell (dot) com/nutrition/allergens

  That should have the info you need.

• Taco Bell: ‘Thank You for Suing Us’

  January 28, 2011 at 9:50pm

  I ate a volcano burrito tonight, and a grilled stuft steak burrito, too. I don’t know if that was real beef in there or not. Alls I knows is that it was tasty.

• ‘Best Show I’ve Ever Seen’: Why Beck Spent Epic Half-Hour on Radio Praising Spider-Man Musical

  January 12, 2011 at 2:08pm

  I’ve been following the production of Spider Man for over a year now… I was really hoping it would be good… glad to know Beck likes it. I’ll definitely try to see it. :)

  Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” was a great show–it bombed only because it had so many previews. Everyone thought that only a bad show would run so many preview shows, and rumors spread faster than fact. Too bad. Hope that doesn’t happen with Spidey!