Holy Petaflop batman!

[your mother]

ssj12 said:

stof said:
Wow there ssj12, he wasn't saying big bang bad, bible good. He was just pointing out some of the limitations in our understanding of what happened billions of years ago.

He's saying we can't make a computer model of the big bang theory because we don't know nearly enough to make such a model.

lol, i wasnt saying it is a mean/angry tone. And I agreed with him about what he said, it doesnt fully fit together.

But I think theres enough info to start making a current model with the knowledge and work back with what we discover and theories. As we discover things we can exchange out theories with real facts. It would be an ever evolving task just like the protein folding@home.

Actually, I thought the issue behind the difficulty in coming up with a unified theory was the fact that the rules that govern the main forces do not hold up when applied to another force. For example, the laws of gravity completely fall apart when applied to quantum mechanics; likewise, there are things in quantum mechanics that throw our conventional knowledge about gravity right out the window. Therefore, it's really hard, if not downright impossible, to come up with a unified theory that at least holds water at this point.

(Caveat: Last time I studied any theoretical physics was about a decade ago, so there may have been new findings - if that's the case, please disregard my post, but do share the new advances - this is fascinating stuff!)