Universe

2007-11-27T01:46:29Z

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The [[universe]] is everything there is in regards to material existence.

Many scientists believe that the universe erupted into being from a [[singularity]] approximately 14 billion years ago, and [[Big Bang Theory|has been expanding]] ever since. A recent calculation placed the visible universe at about 156 billion [[light year]]s across creating a dilemma of faster than light speed movement, but it is speculated that the expansion of space itself can exceed the [[speed of light]] even if the objects within it moving on their own can not.<ref>Universe Measured: We're 156 Billion Light-years Wide! <i>Space.com</i> [http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html]</ref>. As an analogy, imagine ants (galaxies), sitting on an elastic rubber cord. that can't walk faster than 20cm/s. So normally two ants moving away from each other could not exceed a speed of 40cm/s relative towards each other (speed of light). However, if the cord itself is pulled while the ants are moving (expansion of space), the ants' speed can be greater.

For any location in space, it appears that that location is at the center of the expansion of the universe.

This concept can best be explained through the "balloon analogy": imagine you are a random spot on a spotted balloon, when someone inflates the balloon you'll see the spots moving away from you, so it would seem you are at the center of the expansion, furthermore the further away the spots are the faster they move away from you, this is also true for the universe: the more distant a galaxy is, the faster it moves away from us.

Currently scientists are only able to account for 4% of the matter in the universe, though new theories of dark matter recently emerged to account for this.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20360059/ Where is the rest of the universe?]</ref>

== Young Earth Creationism View ==
[[Young earth creationism|Young earth creationists]] hold that the [[earth]] and universe are approximately 6,000 years old. Young earth creationist scientists state that there are multiple lines of evidence pointing to a young earth and universe; the old earth and universe [[paradigm]] has numerous [[anomaly|anomalies]] and uses invalid dating methods, and there are multiple citations in the secular science literature that corroborate the implausibility of the old earth and universe paradigm (for details see: [[Young earth creationism|young earth creationism]]).

While there are differences in regard to the age of the universe, there is not necessarily a difference in viewpoint in regard to its size. For most Young earth creationists, the universe is as large as God wanted to make it. If that's calculated at 156 billion light years, then so be it.

== The Forerunners ==
Little is known about the Forerunners, save that they were an extremely advanced civilization that inhabited the galaxy over 100,000 years ago, coming to power after the extinction of another race, known to them as the Precursors.

The Forerunner were highly technologically advanced, evidence of which has been found on various planets. The fact that The Halos were scattered around the galaxy also hints at the possibility that the Forerunner empire covered most, if not all, of the galaxy.

At some point in their history, a Forerunner survey team came into contact with an extra-galactic parasite known as the Flood on the planet G 617 g. After this first contact, the Forerunner realized the danger that the Flood posed to the entire galaxy and attempted to contain them.

The Forerunner were unable, however, to contain the Flood outbreak, and war between the two broke loose. During the 300 year conflict, the Forerunner studied the Flood in labs such as the one located on Threshold, looking for some sort of weakness. Eventually they created the Halo Array, a weapon of last resort designed to starve the Flood to death by killing all sentient life with enough biomass to sustain them.

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Hippies

2007-11-27T01:40:48Z

LucyFur:

{{merge|Hippie}}[[Image:Hippies.jpg|thumb|Hippies in their colorful native costume]]
A slang term describing a sterotyped subculture that originated in the late 1960s, notable for psychedelic music, sexual freedom, and [[drug]]-use.
Many of the elements of hippie counterculture, such as an anti-corporate ideology and the anarchic, experimental, libertarian strands, have grown (as seeds of change planted almost fifty years ago) into 21st century plants. Many aspects of alternative cultures that were shocking in the 1960s have now become acceptable in mainstream society, such as "recreational" use of psychedelic drugs. <ref> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1612717,00.html </ref>

==Famous Hippies==

===Ken Kesey===
Most famous for writing the novel "[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]," [[Ken Kesey]] was also known as one of the most famous hippies of the 1960's. He famously rode around on top of a technicolor school bus called "Furthur." He had a troupe of hippies with whom he lived and traveled, called the [[Merry Pranksters]]. The adventures of Kesey and the Pranksters are documented in "[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]," by [[Tom Wolfe]].

===Timothy Leary===
Dr. Timothy Leary (1920 – 1996) was an American psychologist who advocated the use of and research into psychedelic drugs, including LSD. He is best known for coining the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."

===[[Harry Hay]]===
Harry Hay was founder of the Radical Faeries, a loosely affiliated international group of mostly gay men, hippies, neopagans, environmentalists, and eco-feminists. Hay is a radical who is accreditted as the founder of the modern [[gay rights]] movement in the United States. As an octogenarian Hay was still known to dress as a hippie [http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_01.11.01/columns/pink.php].

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