Astronomers See Second Earth in the Making

Damn, that's pretty cool. I wonder if we'll see people traveling to other planets in our lifetime..

I'm pretty confident we'll see a manned Mars landing in our lifetime, travelling beyond the Solar System in our lifetime will not become a possibility without some kind of breakthrough that essentially tells us everything we've learned about Time and Space are either woefully underdeveloped or flat-out wrong.

LOL?


I don't get it .

Read the book and I'm sure you would. It has to do with space travel, which pertains to this thread.

I haven't seen that book, if that's a counterpoint to my statement, mind giving me a brief rundown of the relevant part? I'd love to hear about it.

Quantum mechanics says that, theoretically, anything is possible. You know how we can't simultaneously measure the position and momentum of an electron? Well, that leaves open a lot of room for anything to happen. Theoretically. The statistics are such that quantum fluctuations only occur on the tiniest of scales. But aside from that, quantum theory is still a developing field, and there are some interesting developments, such as the quantum computer they just built (instead of 0s and 1s it uses bytes that are simultaneously 0 and 1). The funny thing is, due to the nature of quantum theory this computer can actually solve problems without ever being turned on -- the hypothetical idea that it could solve a problem is enough to extract the solution.

This is all rudimentary and maybe a little bit inaccurate?.. I kind of have no idea what's going on in my quantum mechanics chemistry class.

Hmm.. what major in college would you take to be an astronaut? I don't think it would be Astronomy.. though i'm sure it would be a required minor or atleast a pre-req.

Quantum mechanics says that, theoretically, anything is possible. You know how we can't simultaneously measure the position and momentum of an electron? Well, that leaves open a lot of room for anything to happen. Theoretically. The statistics are such that quantum fluctuations only occur on the tiniest of scales. But aside from that, quantum theory is still a developing field, and there are some interesting developments, such as the quantum computer they just built (instead of 0s and 1s it uses bytes that are simultaneously 0 and 1). The funny thing is, due to the nature of quantum theory this computer can actually solve problems without ever being turned on -- the hypothetical idea that it could solve a problem is enough to extract the solution. This is all rudimentary and maybe a little bit inaccurate?.. I kind of have no idea what's going on in my quantum mechanics chemistry class.

Now that's some interesting shit.

Now that's some interesting shit.

Very!

It's a popular belief that there are infinite universes.