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Following this post by Donncha, I was captivated about the stupidity, bravery and sheer awe factor of this “past time”.

So I began to dig around a bit. It seems this whole craze started off in the late 70′s by a rider called the “Black Prince”. He used to ride around Paris with a camera straped to the bike. Well after much digging and broken links, here is the original Black Prince movie. Those of you who know Paris, will know why he choose early in the morning. You will also know that this IS the stupidest scarest thing you will see ever, now you know why you should never ever drive in Paris.

Okay, so now I am obsessed with time. I crave that perfect second. One that is accurate to the smallest measure of time. I don’t know why I have been obsessed with time. I am generally bad at time keeping and don’t really care about time in the carrying out of my mortal life.

However, strangely I have always had this thing about being accurate about time, actually accurate is not enough, percise would be the exact word to use. Anyhow, so I have been browsing Wikipedia again in a late night wik, and came across this very interesting entry on “The Ultimate fate of the Universe“. I have one problem witht the theory of Open Universe.

Now I am no physicist so please, if you are reading this and you think I am ignorant of all, please be kind, I am Joe public afterall. However I can’t see why the Big Freeze or Big Rip would apply to an Open Universe theory.

My logic being;

If the universe is expanding according to the Open Universe Theroy, then at the very point of expansion there is still 10-43 (10 to the par of -43) seconds unaccounted for. What is going on there.

If the universe is constantly expanding, then so too is matter being created, Matter has to come from somewhere, even if it is within those 10-43 seconds. So while the oldest part of the universe is possibly freezing its ass off, there would be enough matter created at the new start pint to compensate for matter that is lost. However this leads to more questions about matter being “shifted” to the “right” thus increasing it denisity, thus leading to a collapse of the “right”

It is quite plausable that the expansion is happening in every direction, but this would mean that all matter would at some point end up in the centre, leading to a collapse of the universe as the rate of collapse could exceed the rate of creation. Although, I reckon, it would equal the rate of creation in which case all of a sudded we find ourselves in a static universe

So if you are a friendly astrophysycist and have a few moments to educated the uneducated, could you help me in getting my head around this?

Also if you can arrange it for me that I see a perfect second, that would be cool.

Nite nite.