Number of Stars in the Universe

HereticHero

HereticHero

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There are an estimated 300 sextillion stars in the universe. That is 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

And people think aliens don't exist... If we exist, they exist. It's very ignorant to think we are inhabiting the only planet that supports life in the universe.

Just my thoughts.
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
Many many of those stars are more than one entire stellar lifetime away however, and that's assuming a very-near-lightspeed travel capability. cn
 
The Cryptkeeper

The Cryptkeeper

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cannabineer said:
A classic trope of science fiction ... but essentially magic. I doubt a working jump drive can be found, but I wouldn't mind being pleasantly surprised. cn
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Hey, wormholes aren't just a trope of science fiction. ;) Now we've just got to manifest a wormhole generator and stabilizer. :p Easy peasy right? x)
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
The Cryptkeeper said:
Hey, wormholes aren't just a trope of science fiction. ;) Now we've just got to manifest a wormhole generator and stabilizer. :p Easy peasy right? x)
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Afaik wormholes are metaphysics, like multiverse theory. Nobody has demonstrated a wormhole, either made or found in nature. So I do maintain that they are fictional ... in the sense that at least some author andor screenwriter is trying to provide a bit of plausible backstory for a jump drive. cn
 
The Cryptkeeper

The Cryptkeeper

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Eh the Higgs Boson is also only theoretical but it's theory is rock solid just like wormholes. And it will shortly be discovered, viewed, documented, and recorded as another one of the elementary particles. :p
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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Yah, but the Higgs boson is a nearly-mandatory theoretical consequence of some extensively-explored physics. Not so for wormholes. To stabilize a wormhole (to say nothing of a usable one) requires "exotic matter with a negative energy density". That's as magical as Cavorite, dilithium crystals and the spice melange.

So a Higgs is solidly theory, while a wormhole is at best hypothesis, and even that status is arguable imo. cn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole
 
The Cryptkeeper

The Cryptkeeper

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Oh the whole generator and stabilize quip was just that, a joke. I can't see it happening just about all in practice, but the existence, or the theoretical existence of wormholes in nature, seems highly likely as far as I'm considered. Yes, just a hypothesis it is, but the equations supporting their existence are there. JMO. ;)
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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I agree ... the math is there. I do imagine, however, that the energy cost for emplacing even a tiny wormhole between two close points in space[time] might be extreme.
From a sci-fi perspective, subluminal travel is slower than a Korean film plot ... so some fix is needed. Jump drives fit the bill beautifully, giving us none-too-shabby TV like Stargate and Babylon Five. And none-too-good TV like Quantum Jump, Doctor Who, and any number of "time travel" überfails ... cn
 
april

april

Pickle Queen
Only one star matters to me, the one that shines bright pour mon amour :)

I think Aliens watch earth, we are the aliens put here to see what we will do, how we grow, evolve.
 
The Cryptkeeper

The Cryptkeeper

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april said:
Only one star matters to me, the one that shines bright pour mon amour :)

I think Aliens watch earth, we are the aliens put here to see what we will do, how we grow, evolve.
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Does anybody else find her theory dangerously close to Intelligent Design?! :lol:
 
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