Life, The Universe And Everything

[mushroom25]

posted in "news" because this item features on BBC's 6 o clock news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27299017

boy is this gonna get the religious zealots frothing at the mouth, postulating "speculation" as new without offering a right of reply.......

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt it. It's just a simulation on a computer.

[mikey4444]

I doubt it will make any difference to goodlife !

[jno]

I'm sure they can simulate the Biblical creation on their own computers. Computers just do what you tell them.

[jomifl]

jno, do you want to sell your computer?

[jim360]

Yeah, what divebuddy sa- no, I can't bring myself to finish that!

Interesting, and potentially a very important development ass the models get better and more useful.

[naomi24]

Fascinating, no doubt, but it doesn't answer the ultimate question for either science or religion. I don't see anyone frothing at the mouth at this.

[anotheoldgit]

/// boy is this gonna get the religious zealots frothing at the mouth,...///

I don't think so, why should it?

[jim360]

I should expect that there will be some cries from "religious zealots" but only from the tiny minority who still hold on to this bizarre idea that the Universe is only a few thousands of years old. Most other people will, I'm sure, be easily able to incorporate this into their faith without much fuss.

[beso]

Don't worry. The simulation only starts at 12 million years after the beginning. That is of course still 11,994,000 years in the future.

[ludwig]

It's not actually a picture of the universe though is it? It's just a bit of computer animation.
I could have drawn them a nice picture of some whispy looking dark matter and saved them a bit of money.

[Gromit]

This is a just presentation tool.

The ideas in physics are very complicated and difficult to understand. A written description of the creation of the Universe has been around for quite a while. Now they have programmed a computer model that can demonstrate what they think the process was, in a visual way.

[Baldric]

Surely, by now, everyone knows The Answer is 42

[jomifl]

ludwig, it isn't just an animation, it is a mathematical model, the 'animation' is a representation of the results of the model being run.