Rip Definition and 200 Threads

In the big rip theory, the force of dark energy isn't constant and increases over time. This causes first galaxies to fly apart, then solar systems, then planets, then stars, then atoms, then the atom nuclei. If it keeps increasing, it would start pulling the quarks inside protons and neutrons...

Former Sen. Fred Thompson, had TV and film roles, dead at 73 http://news.yahoo.com/former-sen-fred-thompson-had-tv-film-roles-231012877.html Fred Thompson, a folksy former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who appeared in feature films and television including a role on "Law & Order,"...

Yankees legend Yogi Berra dies at 90 http://nypost.com/2015/09/23/yankees-legend-yogi-berra-dead-at-90/ Yogi Berra, Yankee Who Built His Stardom 90 Percent on Skill and Half on Wit, Dies at 90 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/24/sports/baseball/yogi-berra-dies-at-90-yankees-baseball-catcher.html...

A pioneer. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/in-memorium-jacob-bekenstein-1947-2015-and-black-hole-entropy/

This is not meant to be a joke and if you think so go to the next thread. I need to know if there is any way to keep a rip in space open. I will define two different types of tear. The first is a tear but all that can be seen is a dark matter(no pun intended): this is the one I do not need...

https://www.yahoo.com/music/chris-squire-yes-bassist-and-co-founder-dead-at-122685005051.html Chris Squire (67), co-founder and longtime bassist of iconic progressive rock group Yes, and the only member of the group to feature on every studio album, passed away just over a month after revealing...

SAS Soldier, actor, death metal producer. The man was just impressive all over :( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11666316/christopher-lee-dies-live.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/headless-body-in-topless-bar-headline-writer-dead/

Blues legend B.B. King (89) died late Thursday at his Las Vegas home. https://www.yahoo.com/music/s/musicians-friends-react-blues-legend-bb-kings-death-135603848.html B.B. King: The Man Who Saved the Blues...

Would an accelerating expansion create any time dilation effects? And once the expansion velocity between any two adjacent points reached c would time stop altogether?

Two days ago my desktop PC died. I'm about to perform a little Techromancy in an attempt to bring my desktop back to life. Wish me luck. If anyone wants to help, grab a few resistors from the nearest store, sprinkle them on the ground in an omega symbol, and chant 'Ohhmmm...' for me. Note that...

Hi All. I am working on a problem at work that is basically sheetmetal tearing due to a force being applied. We have a sheetmetal door which we added a gas cylinder to help lift, the problem is the sheetmetal is tearing at the mounting location of the gas cylinder. I know that the stress is...

Mario Cuomo died of heart failure at his home surrounded by family members. http://news.yahoo.com/mario-cuomo--former-new-york-governor--dies-at-age-of-82--reports-010630131.html My condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

I just heard Tom Magliozzi died! You may know him as half of the Car Talk duo. http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77 One of my all-time favorite shows! RIP, Tom:(.

Jack Bruce, the singer and bassist for the legendary band Cream, has passed away, his family confirmed the musician's passing on his Facebook page. He was 71. https://music.yahoo.com/news/cream-bassist-jack-bruce-dead-71-153400112-rolling-stone.html Cream, White Room, Live at Royal Albert Hall...

I have a question regarding LQC that I can't find anywhere, and since most of the relevant answers to similar questions are here I may as well ask, here... For a simple background, when I was introduced to the big rip and combined that with the big bang, I immediately thought the two co-existed...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/05/politics/feist-bruce-morton-note/ Washington (CNN) -- Bruce Morton, a longtime CNN national correspondent, passed away Thursday at his Washington home at the age of 83. I remember Morton from his days at CBS News and his coverage of national politics...

http://www.richardkiel.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhLAWP7jGA

Lauren Bacall has passed away at age 89. “You Know How to Whistle, Don’t You Steve?”: Remembering Lauren Bacall’s Greatest Scene http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/08/12/lauren_bacall_s_whistle_scene_remembering_the_late_actress_performance_in.html

Dang. http://abc7news.com/entertainment/actor-comedian-robin-williams-found-dead/253217/

He was a NASA official whose boyhood interest in science fiction and later friendship with Arthur C. Clarke led to his becoming Stanley Kubrick's chief technical and scientific advisor during the production of "2001: A Space Odyssey." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/us/14ordway.html?_r=0

https://tv.yahoo.com/news/actor-james-garner-86-found-dead-los-angeles-112007904.html He is one of my favorite actors, and some of my favorite movies are "Support Your Local Sheriff!" and "Support Your Local Gunfighter!" He is an archtype antihero. :approve...

Kevlar Inventor Stephanie Kwolek Dead at 90 https://gma.yahoo.com/kevlar-inventor-stephanie-kwolek-dead-90-153315187--abc-news-topstories.html That's quite a legacy. May peace be upon her.

Is there a fundamental incompatibilty between a flat universe and the possibility of a Big Rip-type scenario of the evolution of the universe? Does a Big Rip necessarily imply a hyperbolic universe? What relationship is there -if any- between the shape of the universe and the equation of...

My question is based on two theoretical assumptions. 1) The universe continues with its expansion resulting in an eventual "Big Rip". 2)The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct. In this scenario will all the "branches of reality" in the many-worlds undergo the "Big Rip"...

I sadly say goodbye to one of my favorite actresses of all time, the great one and only Shirley Temple. A prodigy never equalled. I even liked her few acting performances as an adult, but sadly she just didn't get the following she had as a child. She truly was among the greatest child...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html http://music.yahoo.com/news/folk-singer-activist-pete-seeger-dies-ny-065217408.html...

Russell Johnson, the Professor on 'Gilligan's Island,' Died today at 89 http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/russell-johnson--the-professor-on--gilligan-s-island--is-dead-at-89-205226838.html I enjoyed his character on Gilligan's Island. I could relate to him.

Hi, In the "Big Rip" scenario, the expansion of spacetime increases exponentially. As a result, it will torn apart galaxies, later the system solar, then the Earth itself, atoms... If the expansion keeps on increasing, at some point would it be strong enough to separate virtual particles...

RIP Scott http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57606971/scott-carpenter-mercury-astronaut-dies-at-88/

The cosmological "Big Rip" and a shrinking Hubble radius Doesn't an expanding universe forecast such outcomes as a faded and unobservable cmb, galaxies moving away from each other greater than the speed of light, a gravitationally unbound solar system, and eventually an observable universe...

In the late 1960s he invented what he called at first an "x-y position indicator" for computers. Then someone on his team dubbed it the "mouse." http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/03/tech/mouse-inventor-dies/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22441567 One of his best:

http://www.igb.illinois.edu/news/carl-r-woese-1928-%E2%80%93-2012 His greatest discovery was a major revision of the overall tree of life. When he started to get to work on that question in the mid-1970's, he and his colleagues believed that the biggest distinction was between prokaryotes...

A couple of questions about so-called quantum foam A recent article (2013) stated that there was no delay of the sort that quantum foam would imply of photons coming from far galaxies: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/10/quantum-foam-einstein-smooth-space-time_n_2449734.html (which...

http://news.yahoo.com/gerry-anderson-thunderbirds-creator-dies-83-181021889.html I watched the Thunderbirds back during the 60s, and some where I have (or had) a die-cast Thunderbird 2, my favorite vehicle. I also have the entire TV series on DVD. :biggrin: I also watched Fireball XL-5...

Jack Klugman dies in Los Angeles http://tv.yahoo.com/news/jack-klugman-dies-los-angeles-231248929.html One of the Odd Couple with Tony Randall who played Felix Unger.

Lee Dorman died Friday morning. http://news.yahoo.com/iron-butterfly-bassist-lee-dorman-dies-age-70-005219358.html Orange County sheriff's spokeswoman Gail Krause says that Dorman may have been enroute to a doctor when he died. Iron Butterfly's iconic album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was one...

Homework Statement Two bodies with masses m1 and m2 are connected by a massless thread that supports a maximum force |Ft|max . On mass m1 the force F1 = -β t x and on mass m2 the force F2 = 3 β t x (t: time, β: constant) acts. The motion is frictionless. Homework Equations When does...

George McGovern died this morning in hospice surrounded by family. http://www.npr.org/2012/10/21/163342166/mcgoverns-life-leaves-more-than-a-lost-presidency http://www.npr.org/2012/10/21/143117378/mcgoverns-candidacy-inspired-new-wave-of-voters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/25/us-usa-neilarmstrong-idUSBRE87O0B020120825 I remember vividly the small step of a man. Rest in Peace

:frown: http://news.yahoo.com/sally-ride-first-us-woman-space-dead-61-212809122.html

Andy Griffith dies at 86 http://tv.yahoo.com/news/andy-griffith-dies-at-86.html I remember the show (the last two years of original broadcasts) from way back when. It seemed a kinder and gentler time on TV, against the turmoil of the Vietnam War, the anti-war movement, and the Civil Rights...

http://msn.foxsports.com/motor/story/Carroll-Shelby-dies-race-car-designer-cobra-age-89-051112/

Holy crap, PASCO is a rip off! So for those of you who don't know, PASCO is synonymous with physics lab equipment here in the US for undergraduates. Now, I'm teaching a proper physics class this semester where we use PASCO stuff. I noticed a cool electrical generator in our storage room (...

Not all threads need to be constructive. So tell me your worst, most annoying music out there. What tune makes you rip your hair out??

Always entertaining, IMO. http://news.yahoo.com/andy-rooney-wry-60-minutes-commentator-dies-133038061.html

If virtual particles were prevented from annihilating fractions of a second before the Big Rip itself is actually achieved, wouldn't the universe be flooded with real particles creating an incredible amount of mass? 1) This idea is incorrect 2) The idea is correct and it temporarily delays the...

We all know that the Hubble equations tell us that in a vacuum dominated universe, that the scale factor will expand exponentially. H^2 = (da/dt)^2 * 1/a^2 Ha = da/dt a = e^(Ht) Where proper distance is d = aΔx v = Hd v = HaΔx <- The velocity between any two points in space is...

:cry::cry::cry: This afternoon a red-bellied woodpecker that had visiting our suet feeder slammed into one of our windows at high speed and broke her neck. I ran to the window and only to see her take her last few breaths, and half-hearted flaps of wings and tail (she was on her back), then...