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Do you think that the world is coming to a slow but certain end?
Just look at all the events that have happened over the past few months, and to cap it all we had a bloody earthquake on Tuesday!!! I think this is just the preliminary warning. P.S. I do not believe in God or a superior being or anything like that. I only believe in scientific facts.
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If you beleive in scientific facts what natural disasters are you talking about?
It all goes back to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy always increases. FYI entropy is an increase in the number of possibilities any given system can occupy, easy and kinda lame definition for entropy is chaos. So basically everything will always get more chaotic.
know I don’t think it’s coming to an end.
I think we are getting dangerously close to the end
but I do believe we will wake up and do something about it.
We don’t really have any choice. It’s wake up or die.
It’s unfortunate to see people still saying that global warming
is just a warming trend and it will go away. Good luck.
We need to change our lifestyles.
If you walked into a room full of scientists and asked them is there such a thing
as God most of them would say no.
Then if you asked them is there such a thing as “nature” they would all look at you
as though you’re crazy.
Of course there’s nature.
If you then asked them “what is nature?” they would proceed to tell you
it is this great, invisible, all-powerful force, that controls all the
seen and unseen things in the universe.
Sounds like God doesn’t.
Nature and God are simply two names for the same thing.
Nature being the scientific name and God being the religious name.
if you wont respond I would still say that one of the unofficial laws of civilization is that according to chance something or someone is going to destroy/ almost permanently scar the world(if you mean the earth). I don’t know when or how the universe will end.
I swear this guy knows everything so ask him http://youtube.com/watch?v=V7FVjATcqvc
well basically if it is coming to an end what are we gonna do? we have no means of escaping tidal waves, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, volcanos, carniverous animals, mad squirrels, if the world goes pop, so do we i guess
I totally agree and it is SO the fault of us humans. People don’t ever seem to really care until something goes terribly wrong and by that time…too late!
Everything has an ending, and out of an ending there is always a new beginning. I think the world as we know it is comming to a slow and certian end, but there will be a new beginning, hopefully we can make it better then it has been.
Short answer, No! Long answer, Yes!
Earthquakes, floods, storms…ect..happen all the time. Nothing to be worried about. Yet the earth is coming to a slow end…In about 5 billion years. The sun will eventually expand as hydrogen gas is depleted and the sun starts to convert helium to heavier elements. This is unavoidable and will destroy the planet. But thats 5 billion years from now.
And spiratec9, I personally know that a room full of scientists will not call nature anything but the place you take your kids on vacation. Not an all powerful force that controls things.
In the long term, yup. It’s a flat universe (density of the universe is close to the critical density) and everything’s going to decay and decay and decay and decay into the most infinitesimal bits you can imagine, and then decay a bit more. How cheerful is that?
But if you ignore the joy that is Observational Cosmology, I’d say no. The planet is a changable thing, between weather, natural heating/cooling cycles and tectonic movement, it’s completely inconsistent. Remember, the era we’re living in (the Anthropocene) has only existed for about a 100 years, ie, not very long on a geological scale, so we need time to adapt, and so does the planet.
Interesting. I can’t remember who said it, might have been a philosopher or just a friend of mine… Or maybe my history teacher? Anyway, every generation of people has a tendancy to think they will be the ‘last people’… I use the term generation loosely. For example, when it became the year 1000, thousands of people prayed for salvation as they thought it would be the end of the world. Same thing happened year 2000. There are other instances whihc have gone out of my head. Things less extreme than millenia, but all the same, I wonder if humans don’t like to imagine how it will be in thousands of years time and so it is simply easier to believe the ‘end’ is coming soon. Whether soon means tomorrow or in 200 years it doesn’t matter. I wonder if this a fear of losing what we have here now, or a desire to preserve how we are forever? There would be something about being among the last people on earth ever which would you mark us out from the millions of people who lived and died before us.
Please ignore this! Turned into a bit of a babble and I forgot my point…
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