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At least it is a complicated apocalypse ;) Actually, again, I am a Dickensian - "It was the best of times and the worst of times" (and will be the best of times, and will be the worst of times," "It is the best of times and the worst of times" Interestingly, apo...

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Dave, do you notice the irony of a confirmed atheist preaching an apocalypse of sorts?

Actually, man is not close to the center. If you note, the Planck length is about -35 while the scale of the universe is about 27 in the logarithmic scale. Man is at 0. That means that the actual center is 27 + (-35)/2 = -4 or about 10,000 times smaller than man or about the width of a human hair. ...

shytiger wrote:I just found this one. Interactive in flash!

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120312.html

Isn't it interesting that Homo sapiens is pretty close to the center of the scale? Does this cast new light on the assertion by Protagoras that man is the measure of all things?

Thanks for the link. It will make me even more dangerous.

Narnia51483 wrote:No, I was referring to Laurence Fishbourne in the Matrix... he sits in that big black chair (I believe it has wings) and a child in the movie uses a spoon to illustrate the power of mind over matter to Neo.

Aha. I saw The Matrix once and never bothered with it again.

Narnia51483 wrote:...and nobody got that.

I was too embarrassed to admit I didn't get it. Did Freeman host a science show or something?