Who said "numbers make the universe"?
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The statement was made by the Ancient Indian Sage Vyasa\nThe "Sankya Yoga" is based on the old sentence
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Nope - Einstein created his cosmological constant in order to preserve the idea of a "static" universe, he felt that a changing (expanding or contracting) universe was unnatural as supported by his equations of gravity, so he created the constant specifically to maintain gravitational equilibrium through the universe as a whole.\n\nNewton's big "G" is just a constant relating the strength of the (far field) gravitational force to the chosen set of units.\n\nAlso, I'm not quite sure which version of the cosmological constant you are citing, as genrally the constant that comes out of the metric goes as:\n\nCosmological Constant = 8(Pi)*(G)*(energy density)
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It was Einstein!. General relativity predicted a model of the universe that could either collapse due to gravity or expand indefinitely. Einstein wanted a static universe,so he introduced a term (the cosmological constant) corresponding to 'negative' gravity or the energy density of the vacuum which causes empty space to accelerate all by itself! If you shove it on the right side of the equation that is..\nThen along came Hubble and burst his bubble..\nFound that the universe was expanding (Big Bang), so obviously the cosmological constant was not required!\nLatest measurements down at the edge indicate accelerating expansion though, so we may have to bring back the CC after all
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"Only two things are infinite:  The universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the first one." ~ Albert Einstein
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Carl Gauss, the great scientist and mathematician (1777--1855). He invented it, when during a class, his teacher wanted to quiet down the pupils with "busy work", by having them add up all of the numbers between 1--100. Normally, adding it by the method of 1+2+3.... would've taken quite a long time. Gauss did it in his head, by adding the composite numbers from the "outside in" -- 1+100, 2+99, 3+98 etc (101 x 50). He solved the problem in a matter of minutes.
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The Creator And The Cosmos...by Hugh Ross, Ph, D.
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Yeah...one of my college professors said that God started the whole thing...I agree...who said that creation was a "quiet" event...The BIG BANG...and God was the one that fired the shot!
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The answer is 42, the "answer to life, the universe and everything".  This is the question revealed in Douglas Adams' famous Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of novels.\n\nThe answer, as the story goes, was given by the computer "Deep Thought"; when the answer was given (hundreds of generations later) it was determined they needed to know the "real question".  It was inferred that the earth and everything in it was the special 'computer' that was built to determine the nature of that question.
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he could have easily said that because if you work in binary math 1+1 doesn't = 2, 1+1=1.\n\nPS I don't know for a fact if Einstein actually said it or not, but it is possible
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I wrote an article on this. Paste below is a small excerpt:\n\nConsider these next few statements of rational logic. First, there has to be a cause for every effect. The universe had to come from something. There is no natural explanation for how the sun, moon, and stars could come from nothing! Therefore, for every effect, there has to be a cause! This Cause has to come from outside the universe; outside of nature. In other words;...supernatural. When I state "supernatural" I mean; a limitless being outside of time and space. Think about it! The only religion that ever stated otherwise was the biblical concept of Genesis! God always existed, but the universe did not!\n\nSecond, the Cause must be independent of it's effect. It can not be required to depend it's existence upon the universe. For nothing can change from a state of nothingness.\n\nThird, the Cause must be infinitely powerful! If it were limited, it would have to be confined by some other thing. It can not be limited by nothing and if it were limited, it would not be independent any longer. The effect can not be greater than the cause. The Cause has to be greater than the effect! It has to be greater than all the forces of the universe combined!\n\nFourth, the first Cause must be eternal. The creator must exist outside of time. The God of the Bible stated this in Exodus 3:14 and John 8:58. All the other religions honored harvest gods, war gods, moon gods, sun gods, animal-headed gods, fertility gods and goddesses. In fact, most of these gods were restricted to time as well as location. (1)\n\nFifth, the first Cause must be spiritual. Only an entity outside the universe could have created it. It must be beyond the physical elements. John 4:24 states that God is Spirit.\n\nSixth, the first Cause must be all-knowing. The creator created the universe. Albert Einstein wrote, "The harmony of natural law... reveals and intelligence of such superiority that compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an insignificant reflection." (2)\n\nLast, the first Cause must be a Person. There is design in the universe. For it is balanced by the four fundamental nuclear forces. If altered by the slightest one millionth of a degree, all the stars would cease to exist. The Person would have to be a creator with desires, because the creator did not need the creation in order to exist. Rather, the universe was created out of pleasure! It is not unreasonable to suggest that the Bible is the best explanation.
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Hubble discovered expansion...sort of. He proposed it as a theory but it was a colleague who did the math and proved it. I can't remember the colleague's name.
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"Everything is relative"-Albert Einstein
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If you want "the answer to life, the universe, and everything," then the answer is:\n\n42
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It seems that when asked what he meant by this remark, Einstein replied ‘Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse’. Whenever i've seen an Einstein quote refering to god or religion, he appears to be instead refering to the universe. I'd say that by this quote he was voicing his displeasure at quantum mechanics and it's implications that there are certain things that are simply unknowable (such as whether schroedingers cat is dead or alive, as indicated by the poster above).
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hello.obviously the answer from any keyboard would be albert einstein.we hav many instances to name as why he is prodigious in math and physical calclations...
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yes I have heard him speak too his name is Dr. Gerald Schroeder and he has a brilliant mind and is quite knowledgeable on the subject.\n\nhere is a link to his article if you want\n\nhttp://www.aish.com/societywork/sciencenature/Age_of_the_universe.asp
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I do not know since I haven't read the book. But I have come across a web page that explains the numbers as such:\n\nThe first number is Ν (nu), and it is huge. It measures the strength of the electrical forces that hold atoms together, divided by the force of gravity between them.\n\nAnother number is Ε (epsilon), whose value is 0.007. This defines how firmly atomic nuclei bind together and how all the atoms on earth were made.\n\nThe cosmic number Ω (omega) measures the amount of material in our universe. \n\nThe next number is the cosmological constant, Λ (lambda), which measures the cosmic repulsion. Our existence requires that Λ should not have been too large.\n\nHow tightly stars and galaxies are held together can be expressed as a ratio between the force of gravity and the amount of energy needed to disperse them. This ratio is the fifth number, Q (Q, of course).\n\nThe sixth number is the number of spatial dimensions in our world, Δ (delta).\n\nHope this helps.