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Is the universe symmetrical?

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  • 29-07-2006 11:49pm
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    nobodythere
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    I'm not an astronomer/space geek, but I was thinking about the big bang. If it all began from an infinite amount of energy in an infinitesmall amount of space, then surely it would expand equally in all directions. If it was an infinite amount of energy, it would all have to be packed equally, and therefore expand equally, and hence it would have to be equal on all sides, and therefore symmetrical, yes?

    Or does the notion of an infinite amount of energy make sense at all?


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    jwt
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    Apparently not. When "viewed" at microwave wavelengths it looks like orange peel. Clumpy.

    John

    EDIT

    found this pic which best shows what I mean

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2814947.stm

    As regards infinite amount of energy thats why scientists had to move to describing energy in discrete packets aka quanta hence quanutm physics
    http://library.thinkquest.org/C004707/qm.php3?Java=No
    Quantum Mechanics had aroused from a strange and puzzling problem. Physicists experienced this problem at the end of the nineteenth century, and has its roots in oven radiation! Imagine that you have a perfectly insulated oven, you put some food in the over and set it for 300 degrees Fahrenheit. When the oven is heated up, waves of radiation are generated in its interior. This radiation is caused, of course, by the oven's internal heat, just like the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the surface of the sun. What is the problem, then? Electromagnetic radiation, as you probably already know, carries energy. By the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, physicists had calculated the total energy carried by all electromagnetic energy inside an oven at any chosen temperature. they used a well-known calculation procedure, yet they came up with an inexplicable answer: For any chosen temperature, the total energy in the over is infinite!


    Chaos theory also goes some ways towards explaining what goes on and wht the energy is clumpy, as does string theory. Google chaos string lumpy and universe


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