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Re: We now have a planet named Sedna

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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
the laws of physics dont agree with your concept - energy disperses and eventaully all matter will reach absolute zero and the universe will enter a state called 'heat death'
Energy disperses? Since when? Where does it go to? Ever heard of the Law of the Conservation of Energy?

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and since the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, that means it will never collaspe back in on itself
Has that been determined? Or have they just determined that they haven't determined anything? And what would be causing the acceleration? What would be pushing us away from everything else? Anti-gravitons? No. There are two theories for The End Of The Universe. One is the Big Void, where everything gets really far apart from everything else forever and ever, or the Big Crunch, where everything crunches back together. Kind of like this:
You throw a ball up into the air. The act of throwing it up can be compared to the Big Bang. Now, there's very little evidence to show that the ball will continue accelerating up forever. What usually happens (since the last time I checked) is that the ball comes back down and crunches (Big Crunch) onto the ground.

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in otherwords, the universe as we know it had a beginning, and it will have an end -> zero K.
The beginning of the universe didn't have a temperature, because there was nothing to measure. It just wasn't. And when it was, it was billions upon billions upon billions of degrees C, because of all the energy packed into that infinitessimally small point.

I apologize if I appear snide.
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