Don’t look, the sky is falling!
Destroying the earth? Mere child’s play. “Mankind ’shortening the universe’s life’.”
The eschaton is approaching. (Imminently. If not yet immanently.)
It’s clear that the environmentalist meme has now infected the brains of countless poor victims, even cosmologists! I blame the usual suspects. Al Gore, I’m looking at you.
Forget about the threat that mankind poses to the Earth: our activities may be shortening the life of the universe too.
…New Scientist reports a worrying new variant as the cosmologists claim that astronomers may have accidentally nudged the universe closer to its death by observing dark energy, a mysterious anti gravity force which is thought to be speeding up the expansion of the cosmos. ~telegraph.co.uk
Fortunately this theory makes as little sense as the Anthropogenic Global Warming lies do. But I must say that cosmologists have a much better command of the prerequisite and nonsensical word-salad-like jargon to describe their theories than climatologists do. The following three paragraphs should be banned from the annals of periodic literature forever, sealed in a locked container and held in an underground vault to confound and annoy the future generation unfortunate enough to find and open it:
Like the decay of a radioactive atom, such shifts in energy state happen at random and it is possible that this could trigger a new big bang. The good news is that theory suggests that the universe should remain in its current state. But the bad is that quantum theory says that whenever we observe or measure something, we could stop it decaying due what is what is called the “quantum Zeno effect,” which suggests that if an “observer” makes repeated, quick observations of a microscopic object undergoing change, the object can stop changing – just as a watched kettle never boils.
In this case however, it turns out that quantum mechanics implies that if an unstable system has survived for far longer than the average such system should, then the probability that it will continue to survive decreases more slowly than it otherwise would. By resetting the clock, the survival probability would now once again fall exponentially.
“The intriguing question is this,” Prof Krauss told the Telegraph. “If we attempt to apply quantum mechanics to the universe as a whole, and if our present state is unstable, then what sets the clock that governs decay? Once we determine our current state by observations, have we reset the clock? If so, as incredible as it may seem, our detection of dark energy may have reduced the life expectancy of our universe.” ~telegraph.co.uk
I almost prefer Al Gore’s simplistic explanations of how capitalism is destroying the planet. Almost.
The question is what can we do about this unfortunate immanetizing of the eschaton? Does this new theory have applicable propaganda value for the left like Global Warming? I wouldn’t doubt it. Already, we have people sterilizing themselves in order to reduce their carbon footprint. Because, as we have all been taught by the prophet Al Gore, babies are destroying the planet. (Such are the irresponsible consequences of Global Warming propaganda.)
In this case it may be too late. We’ve already looked at the dark matter of the universe, thereby speeding the destruction of same universe. Assuming, of course, that by so doing we haven’t actually caused said universe to branch off into an alternate universe which itself now speeds to destruction. And does this mean that we have now caused two universes to be hurtling to destruction? Oh, mankind, does your perfidy spread limitless throughout the multiverse? Oh, woe and profound regret is our bipedal mammal of infinite destructiveness.
Somehow I just can’t shake of the feeling that this may all be George Bush’s fault.
“Does this new theory have applicable propaganda value for the left like Global Warming? I wouldn’t doubt it. Already, we have people sterilizing themselves in order to reduce their carbon footprint.”
You couldn’t have said it better. I read that article and laughed hard. I love when I hear the Bull crap of we’re cutting down our forests and trees, along with the rest of the propaganda from the left usually. Last night one of my employees, fresh out of college said to me that the whole country is almost paved over with concrete and it is due to President Bush, of course. I’m talking about a Brown University graduate here! I asked him if he ever took a plane ride or drove outside of NYC, and he said yes once as a kid.
Utterly amazing how these ridiculous thoughts are in the heads of even the supposedly most educated people. I advised him to just go on one of our sites, the earthfrisk one and look at the virtual maps. If these people can’t see that most of this country is nature rather than just repeating the garbage told to them by their teachers and professors, we really needs some sort of education for them after they graduate. It’s my hope that the internet and bosses like myself that like to educate their employees on how the world works will be of help. At times though I feel like we’re all just like a drop of water in an ocean of ignorance. I’m sure you’ve felt that way as well.
On that quantum theory article, do you think if we looked at Gore and other environmental freaks long enough they will get dumber – just by looking at them. lol.
I find it interesting that any scientific article that you 1) don’t understand, and 2) think has “leftist propaganda value”, must be biased and false. I don’t think you or me or anyone else here on this blog has a high enough education in physics to try to decide whether this article is true or not.
“I love when I hear the Bull crap of we’re cutting down our forests and trees, along with the rest of the propaganda from the left usually.”
I wonder what you mean by this. Surely you must know that, before the europeans came to europe or america, most of both were forest. As in, trees. Not grass, not trees every here and there, but a stretch of forest for hundreds of miles in all directions, ending at the Great Plains in America and at the Alps, Ural, and around the current borders of Turkey and Italy in Europe. Now, we have cut down huge amounts, except for extremely small portions saved for recreational purposes.
Also, most of our oxygen comes from rainforests. These are endangered, as I’m sure you know.
Don’t just dismiss this automatically as “eco-crap” or whatever you call it. You don’t have to acknowledge global warming in order to understand that trees=oxygen.
we in the human race have much to learn about the so called world that we live in
loking does not solve any problems it is the finding that is the problem
for it is only the few that can lead the way