Rip Definition and 198 Threads

Jane Russell has died. She was 89. RIP, Jane! http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41838758/ns/today-entertainment/

I wonder if someone has ever considered the following scenario: 1. "Standard" Big Rip model (phantom energy-dominated) 2. Close to the Big Rip, Universe becomes crossed with Cosmological horizons 3. Based on semiclassical approach, these horizons emit Hawking radiation 4. As a (slightly...

Jack Lalanne has died! I remember my mom watching him, when I was a kid. RIP! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41225595/ns/us_news-life/

...that's the claim I'm hearing. Anyone ever see that 20/20 segment with John Stossel? I understand that the claim that a college grad makes a million more than a high school grad may be misleading, but the big question that seems to be neglected is what are these unsuccessful grads...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2010/12/18/132147348/don-van-vliet-known-to-rock-fans-as-captain-beefheart-dies" Sun zoom spark faded out Hot head expired

Early reports...

Oh no! Leslie Nielsen died today - http://arts.nationalpost.com/2010/11/28/comedian-leslie-nielsen-dead-at-84/ "Airplane" has to be in my top 5 movies, I laugh like a crazy woman watching it. Thanks for the laughs :cry:!

I envision the Universe to be like a stellar sized star. When it expands, it explodes into a supernova, then collapses/contract into a black hole singularity. Since the Universe rate of expansion is accelerating, would it rip apart, and then contract into a singularity, just like the star?

She passed away last week. In fact, I didn't know who she was until someone sent an obituary note. Here's something about her work. http://www.pats-eduent.net/xpeople_8khurana.pdf Starting a preschool in Orissa, India in 1978 she had been running education, health, nutrition, emergency...

Not sure if others have heard, but Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, passed away this week, as confirmed by the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/us/17mandelbrot.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES-yKOYaXq0 And now the line "Mandelbrot's in heaven, at...

Question about "The Big Rip" With dark energy accelerating the expansion of the Universe, has anyone done calculation on how long it will take for black holes to be ripped apart? I'm assuming here that space is going to be expanding so fast that the acceleration of the material towards itself...

I don't want to "pirate" any movies, but would like to rip DVD's that I bought into my computer so I can put them on my iPod. Are there ways to rip copy protected DVD's with many chapters/episodes etc? Which software allows me to do it? Is it legal?

H. Edward Roberts, PC Pioneer, Dies at 68 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03roberts.html I remember some of the first PCs, like the Altair, and Tandy's version, Commodore-64, and the first IBM PC (based on an 8086 processor). I bought my first PC in 1985 and added an 8087 math...

Can you rip the space time fabric!? if there is a fabric of space, the four dimension you could call it, space time, is it possible to rip it or open it up, for example do black holes do that, if not what, what would happen?

This is just a question that has been bugging me for awhile, but, in a worst-case scenario, if you say had an earthquake where the ground split open, and a nuclear plant was right over the split, could the reactor literally be "ripped open" in such an instance? And if so, would this cause the...

Somewhere, I read about the "Big Rip Theory". Has anyone here heard about the Big Rip Theory? Joe L. Ogan

Does anyone know?

While their electronics stock has been slowly diminishing for years, until recently it was still possible to make a quick run to Radio Shack for an emergency 7805 or 741, but it seems that day is over. I stopped by the local store yesterday and found only two drawers of stock with only the most...

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20090625_Farrah_Fawcett_dies_at_62.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtNeSOGkvI I can remember when her most famous poster was seen EVERYWHERE! For a decade she was America's hearthrob.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/government-inc/2009/04/cyber_intel_threatens_joint_st.html?wprss=government-inc **** you China!

Two days ago, on 16 March 2009, Natasha Richardson was injured in a skiing accident at the Mont Tremblant Resort. She apparently took a spill and received a concussion. It seems that she initially felt fine, but her trainer and others insisted she see a doctor and she eventually went to...

'Jurassic Park' author, 'ER' creator Crichton dies :frown: http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/11/05/obit.crichton/index.html The Andromeda Strain was the first Crichton book I read as a kid.

This is the 2nd Saturday in a row I have spend at Memorial services. :cry: Some of you may even be familiar with the work of Dr. Madsen, he was a world class theoretical Nuclear physicist. He was much more beyond that, a warm, kind man who was much appreciated by all who knew him. He had a...

Congratulations on trading a hall of famer for an average player. Enjoy the two titles you have won. They will help you cope with the frustration and disappointment in the years ahead. Hopefully, you will learn not to trade hall of famers away. Unfortunately, 1918 and 2008 show otherwise so I...

Wow. George Carlin died today at age 71, of heart failure. I remember my brother had a recording of his "Dirty Words" routine - so shocking at the time! Yet it would seem quite mild to today's youth. RIP, George!

So, I've been looking for a flight to the US* towards the end of July. A few weeks ago, most of the airlines had a sale on May/June fares, during, and after which, the cheapest fare I could find for my dates was £650. However, today I have another search and every carrier has massively reduced...

Not just free electrons, ALL electrons. How strong would that be?

I didn't know where to put this notice, but the father of chaos theory died yesterday at his home in Cambridge at the age of 90.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080406/ap_on_en_mo/obit_heston"

... R.I.P... rest in peace? I would be interested to know how many of you accept this theory as the probable fate of our universe. For me, this is probably one of the harder ideas to swallow because even if it is true, the idea of everything ceasing to exist is hard!

The preferred (Big Bang) theory is that the universe started as a super hot, super dense dit that was the size of an atom or less. The end of the universe (Big RIP) theory states that space will expand to the point that eventually every atom -- or maybe even every subatomic particle -- will...

He passed away on September 16, 2007, the day I fell and broke my arm. This is the first I heard of his passing. It was his book "Eye of the World", first in the "Wheel of Time" books that got me hooked on fantasy novels. I would wait anxiously for the next book in the series to come out...

RIP Mr. Wizard...89! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_en_tv/obit_herbert" has passed away at 89. I remember him well. :cry:

Hello, in the eqn of state [density prop. to a^-3(W+1)] if you subbed in W=-2 you get density prop. to a^3. If you then plot a graph of density vs. scale factor it is a straight-forward graph. Good up until then, but then I got the interpretation wrong. This represents the "big rip". But how? I...

I remember reading some time ago that in 2001, they discovered that the speed at which the universe was expanding was accelerating. According to current models, that would mean that the universe may expand forever and maybe even rip itself apart. But then, there is still some debate as to...

The http://navysite.de/cvn/cv67.htm" will be decommissioned on 23 March 07. She was my home from Sept '71 to Sept '73. I spent 15 of those months deployed to the Mediterranean. Our 10 month deployment from Dec '71 to Oct '72 stood as the longest cruise until the Nimitz returned from the...

Hi, I'm curious about one thing. Suppose the universe will end in a Big Rip. Then since the universe will be accelerating at a very fast rate, could it be that the sky will look redder and redder towards the Big Rip?

CBS and 60 Minutes Correspondent Ed Bradley died at age 65 from Leukemia http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2641304&page=1 One of my favorite correspondents, although I have seriously watched 60 Minutes or CBS News in years. Mike Wallace and Dan Rather were a bit too much.

How do you think our universe will end like? I think it would be the Big crunch! One evidence is that the amount of mass in stars divided by the total amount of mass in the universe is nonzero. After some length of time, any given star will convert too much hydrogen into helium (or heavier...

The guy that played the karate kid's teacher passed away this past week. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/25/AR2005112500990.html It is a real shame too, he was quite the actor.

My Ireland trip got off to a bit of a rough start, the hotel I was in did not have consistent hot water and I had some trouble figuring out international calling. Then I realized that the very thin soled shoes I chose to bring were not ideal for all of the walking I was doing on pavement, by the...

So, I've got a very slow computer that as of now only has Windows Media Player on it. I'm looking for a very basic program that can rip my CD's to MP3 files that doesn't take up too much ram and doesn't have lotsa fancy extras. Things like Real Player and Musicmatch are just so full of crap that...

Great physicist who worked in the Manhattan project and won a Nobel Prize for his explanations of stellar fusion. Alas, but he is no more.

Sad day for the metal culture http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/09/nightclub.shooting/index.html

While working to start my business I also worked for the school district as a private tutor. I got kids of all ages who could not attend school for medical [or other] reasons, or who weren't allowed to attend due to behavioral problems. Although most of my kids were in high school, my youngest...

So here's the setup: I'm walking out of taco bell in my college's union which exits through the gameroom. I sit down at a seat and watch some people play DDR and this kid comes up next to me (he was at least 18 but you'll see why I call him a kid in a moment) and thinks it would be fashionable...

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What exactly will happen if the big rip occurs. I understand that all matter will be torn apart. But I still don't think that I fully understand. What will happen to the matter after it is ripped apart. It can't just disappear can it.