Proof of string theory/multiple universes ?

ThePrivateer · Mon Jan 10, 2011 12:55 am

Ttech wrote:The thing that actually stopped him from creating the time machine to stop the universe from existing was butting a bit of angel food cake on a tray and magnifying it to the size of the universe. Thus showing now insignificant it all was.

That's from Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy, I think?

I like those books...especially the part about the house getting demolished to make for a bypass..while the planet is getting demolished to make way for galactic bypass.

Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:09 am

Yeah it is. Though the house is hardly the best part of those books. Though I must say they are overall quite humours.

ThePrivateer · Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:22 am

Ttech wrote:Yeah it is. Though the house is hardly the best part of those books. Though I must say they are overall quite humours.

Douglas Adams had a very twisted sense of humour, I think it's an acquired taste. Very dry and ironic. (I personally think the series is aweseome - I've yet to read the Eoin Colfer addition though.)

Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:24 am

Actually much of the Douglas Adams humor was or I think from Monty Python and Doctor Who, which he worked on. Its also where he got the '42' which was the episode he was on in Monty Python.

Eion Colfer has an interesting, though somewhat dry humor, its not bad but nothing like Douglas Adams, and in that respect he said he didn't want to be mimicing but create a new narration.

and thanks for making this my 1000th post.

ThePrivateer · Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:26 am

Ttech wrote:Actually much of the Douglas Adams humor was or I think from Monty Python and Doctor Who, which he worked on. Its also where he got the '42' which was the episode he was on in Monty Python.

Eion Colfer has an interesting, though somewhat dry humor, its not bad but nothing like Douglas Adams, and in that respect he said he didn't want to be mimicing but create a new narration.

and thanks for making this my 1000th post.

Monty Python...classic humour. I love those guys.

Blackadder and Faulty Towers was along the same lines of humour too.

A few years back I read Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer) and that was fairly humourous too, not tremendous, but chuckle-worthy.

And congrats on the 1000th post!

Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:31 am

indeed the humor is quite different these days. Quite a shame really.

ThePrivateer · Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:33 am

Ttech wrote:indeed the humor is quite different these days. Quite a shame really.

(I can't keep up with the flurry of posts!!)

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the American sit-com humour, with the exception perhaps of How I Met Your Mother.

Past that, only the old re-runs of Seinfeld are worth watching these days.... :/

Drako Slyith · Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:44 am

I like Mel Brooks humor. He has made probably the funniest movies in a long, long time.

Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:40 am

well maybe you should be on irc more.

Joking. nah, i know what you mean its too much humor in one spot

Harbringer · Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:32 pm

You're getting a bit... off-topic, guys.

Oh, wait. This discussion IS in the Off-topic section.

BTW, i can already imagine that somewhere, a pilgrim in a wolfen is getting blown to smithereens by an Iocrym Command Ship...
or maybe vice-versa.

Drako Slyith · Fri Mar 04, 2011 10:16 pm

Actually multi-universes would mean that the wolfen would be blasing an ICS and another is being blasted by the ICS, and another is being enslaved by the sung, and another is being used as a pet for the ICS, and another is being eaten by Ptravores, and another is being looted by some Charons, and another is in a prison, and another is an ally of the Ares, and so on until every possible possibility is happening.

Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:30 am

it would also mean the somewhere every single evil bad guy would be a good guy. Which is something to consider.

Drako Slyith · Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:58 am

On the other hand every single good guy is a bad guy somewhere. maybe

there's a universe where everyone is a bad guy

Harbringer · Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:05 am

In Stargate SG-1, it's explained to O'Neill as "when someone or something comes to some form of decision, a new, alternate universe is created."
I don't know... what are your thoughts on this?
If it's true, all the better.

If no, that's definetely not good.

Drako Slyith · Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:12 am

Actually, the official name for that theory is the multiverse. The book Timeline by Michael Crichton explains it very well, and reasonably practical uses for it. It is a very good book actually, worth a read. Anyway, is says that not only choices, but every fluctuation of quantum physics or chaos theory will create a new universe in which every combination of every possible variables are their own universes.