[PLUG] Brain the size of a planet - algol

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

You know, that reminds me of a story. A few years ago, the scientists
somewhere (Bell Labs, I think) discovered some unusual radio waves
buried in the typical background noise that affects communications. So
they analyzed it and came to the conclusion that it was, in fact, the
echoes of the Big Bang that created the Universe as we know it. IIRC
they got a Nobel prize for this.

They took the waveforms back to the lab and wrote a program to simulate
the equations of the Big Bang to verify their conjecture. When they ran
the simulation, the radio signals they had detected were indeed present.
Then one scientist got the idea, "What if we run the simulation
backwards ... we could find out what happened *before* the Big Bang!"

In eager anticipation, they adjusted a few parameters and re-ran the
simulation. They took the waveforms and piped them into a primitive
speaker and heard

"Oops"



Steve D... wrote:

>On 5/4/05, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
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>>On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jason Van Cleve wrote:
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>>>Akamon Sheesh, are you all posting from the same nursing home, or what?
>>>Start reminiscing about vintage abacuses, and I'll. . . .
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>>   Hey! When I was a kid there was no automation at all. Heck, we didn't even
>>have water unless we spent hours each day smashing together oxygen and
>>hydrogen atoms. That was part of our after-school chores.
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>  Geeze!  You had atoms?  All we had were clouds of cold quarks.  We
>had to heat them up and sort them by color and spin before we could
>build our particles, atoms, and *finally* make water molecules. 
>Sometimes it took all night to make enough H2O to wash our hands and
>faces for school the next day.
>
>Steve D...
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