psychic chess masters

Some serious reservations have been raised about the time and energy requirement for the kind of travel you are positing has in fact occurred here, and your answers have been akin to invoking pixies and fairy dust.

There's no point in continuing to attempt serious discussion with you as long as you insist on living in a fantasy world in which superluminal travel is a trival matter.

Believing in something really hard doesn't make it true.

You mean the physics that require negative mass to exist?

Surprising, given how easy that appears to be.

I'm pretty sure that the finiteness/infiniteness of the universe is still an open question.

@Master V, you are starting to read like a consultation at a mental health clinic.

Consider giving up the ghost.  For your own sake.

Ahh, I think I see the problem here.  You also need to use your brain.

Which is it?  Practically infinite or infinite?

"Practically infinite" is a meaningless concept.

Expanding is not at all the same as infinite.  You really are out of your league here, aren't you?

Let me guess, it was the Martians that taught the persians how to play chess huh?

Surprise, surprise.  Ignorance begets elitism.

I said the universe COULD be finite. If I knew the real answer for sure, I would have a Nobel prize. I backed my reasoning with scientific links, unlike you.

Again, infinite is not synonym of expanding. If it was, then a balloon that you inflate would be "infinite" by this definition, putting aside the explosion thing.

And even with this weird definition, there is no indication that the universe will keep expanding forever, there are theories where the universe cycles from singularity (Big Bang) -> expansion -> maximal expansion -> contracts -> singularity -> etc.

Master_Valek, here is a good start if you don't want others to deem you a troll : read and understand their posts before answering them. Oh, and don't pretend to know when you do not, maybe the lie will sound credible to your ears, but not to the others'.

A little gem. Needs a bit of knowledge in the subject to understand it though :

Apparently, you do not know what it is about. If you had any clue about the universe expansion proofs, you would know about the Doppler effect. You wouldn't even think of it as "terminology", it's a very common way to describe a not-so-simple phenomenon. Never mind, I will explain it for you as you are too lazy to read wikipedia.

The evidence that the universe expands is that (1) distant stars are made of elements that emit light of a very specific wavelength ; (2) the wavelengths that are measured from a telescope are longer than they should be (ie shifted towards the 'red'). The explanation is that those stars are getting away from the Earth (telescope) and this distorts the wavelengths due to the Doppler effect. History link.

Layman version : when an ambulance approaches, the pitch of the siren is higher than when it goes aways, because the wavelength is affected by the relative movement. See picture below, where wavelength = distance between two red lines.

All coming out now isn't it?

We don't do the frat-college superior thing over here master.

You're welcome to try introducing it when you emigrate.

A wikepedia taught self-proclaimed scotsman is wryly amusing.

Wikipedia-taught ? If only...

If he really read wikipedia, he would not have said his crap about the Alcubierre drive. The wiki article clearly states it is speculation, a mere mathematical solution of equations, but that there has never been any evidence of the physical existence of it.

Wryly Amusing - didn't he guest star on the Craig Ferguson show the other day?

Guess not..