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Bulldog · 10-13-2009, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by toretorden

^Wow, super! Thanks for the answer

By the way, aside from world championships, in theory - could a team like Manchester United be comprised entirely of foreign players?

At club level, yeah, a team can be made of any number of foreign players. At least I think so anyway. I have a feeling FIFA (the world's football governing body) have put a restriction on teams made entirely of foreign players entering international club competitions like the Champion's League and so on.

Man U are actually quite good when it comes to having a first team made of, at least, British players. It's teams like Arsenal who are the main culprits of having whole squads of players from overseas.

FETCHER. · 10-13-2009, 07:37 AM

wasnt there rumours about having the levels of forign players to a team reduced? i cant remember the maximums & minimums but i heard that somewhere!

Bulldog · 10-13-2009, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by kayleigh.

wasnt there rumours about having the levels of forign players to a team reduced? i cant remember the maximums & minimums but i heard that somewhere!

I think those are the FIFA restrictions I was on about - something like a team has to take at least 5ish 'homegrown' players to international competitions with them. With all the wonga they're bringing to the British leagues, I doubt it's gonna concern the Premier League and so on.

I could be wrong though.

FETCHER. · 10-13-2009, 07:57 AM

sorry i only skimmed your post :$. i doubt it will concern any teams up here, (i dont think). but i can see some clubs being heavily affected, maybe just one, or two

VEGANGELICA · 10-13-2009, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by toretorden

Oh well, seems my thread didn't work out as well as I hoped. I had to go out there and have a look. I quickly came across an article by Michael D. Lemonick from Times magazine.
TIME.com - End of the Universe

There was also a link to the universe's timeline there which was interesting.
>> TIME.com - End of the Universe

These events are undoubtedly disputed, so if some astronomer or phycisist should drop by, some more input would be appreciated.

Hi Toretorden,
While I am not a physicist, my dad is, and based on discussions with him I can say that your cited article's description of the universe's eternal expansion sounds correct. In other words, no "collapse" is predicted, but rather an infinite expansion...resulting in matter becoming farther and farther apart. I recommend you check out this article in Scientific American Magazine, because the article describes the evidence that led scientists to conclude there was a Big Bang, followed by continual and accelerating expansion of the universe:

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From the March 2008 Scientific American Magazine
"The End of Cosmology? An accelerating universe wipes out traces of its own origins"
By Lawrence M. Krauss and Robert J. Scherrer
The End of Cosmology?: Scientific American

A dramatic discovery almost a decade ago motivated our study. Two different groups of astronomers traced the expansion of the universe over the past five billion years and found that it appears to be speeding up. The source of this cosmic antigravity is thought to be some new form of “dark energy” associated with empty space.

Dark energy will have an enormous impact on the future of the universe. With cosmologist Glenn Starkman of Case Western Reserve University, Krauss explored the implications for the fate of life in a universe with a cosmological constant. The prognosis: not good.

The quickening expansion will eventually pull galaxies apart faster than light, causing them to drop out of view. This process eliminates reference points for measuring expansion and dilutes the distinctive products of the big bang to nothingness. In short, it erases all the signs that a big bang ever occurred.

NumberNineDream · 10-13-2009, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bulldog

At club level, yeah, a team can be made of any number of foreign players. At least I think so anyway. I have a feeling FIFA (the world's football governing body) have put a restriction on teams made entirely of foreign players entering international club competitions like the Champion's League and so on.

Man U are actually quite good when it comes to having a first team made of, at least, British players. It's teams like Arsenal who are the main culprits of having whole squads of players from overseas.

There should be some limit I feel, some teams are just feeling drunk on the trades, Real Madrid is just freaking me out these last couple of years. [Yeah I know Madrid isn't in Britain]

Guybrush · 10-14-2009, 03:41 AM

Actually, I knew the crunch hypothesis is quite old and abandoned. It was still the only prediction I really knew about. Thanks again for the answers.

Am I the only one wondering about stuff though?

FETCHER. · 10-14-2009, 08:16 AM

i always wonder how humans actually work. i do know how they work. but i want to know what causes the chemical reactions, and how it all just happens? followin' me? its kind of hard to explain

Guybrush · 10-14-2009, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by kayleigh.

i always wonder how humans actually work. i do know how they work. but i want to know what causes the chemical reactions, and how it all just happens? followin' me? its kind of hard to explain

That's a hard question because it's extremely general and could touch on a wide variety of subjects and if you wanna get into the intricacies of it all, of course then we don't know everything yet and you could devote years of study to something like that. It's still possible to summarize the very basics. You might know them, but I could try and sum them up

Humans are made up of many cells. Each cell came from a splitting parent cell, so cells are made by cells. The inside of the cells are somewhat closed to the outside environment by a membrane and they have a core where you find DNA. Now we've split humans up into three parts, humans - cell - DNA.

DNA are very long molecules made up of 4 repeating parts and you can imagine it almost as a long double strand of letters (A, C, G, T).

AGCTTCGTC
GATCCTACT

These letters are complementary (a C on one side means a T on the other) and can be read like a code. The DNA codes for proteins. The chemical processes in your body are catalyzed by enzymes which are proteins whose blueprints are found in the DNA.

Not all the DNA is used in all cells. Different cells use different genes to produce different proteins that do different jobs, f.ex facilitate different chemical reactions. The reading and translation from DNA to proteins is also done by proteins.

This is pretty inaccurate and simplified, but to summarize : Humans are made from a blueprint in their cells called DNA. The DNA codes for proteins which are large molecules that do jobs like facilitating chemical reactions in your body. Different cells produce different proteins which is why they are different. All the cells together (liver cells, muscle cells, skin cells) make up a human.

The first cell containing your DNA and which first started splitting into the multitude of cells that make up you came from your parents and theirs came from their ancestors and so it goes backwards in time until the start of your lineage thousands of millions of years ago.

I've tried to keep this simple on purpose and while I don't think it answers your question, perhaps it'll help you formulate a new one.

boo boo · 10-14-2009, 08:57 AM

I'm not sure why so many people are worried about what is going to happen to the universe in tens of billions of years.

I don't think anyone here is gonna be around that long, except Urban, his hatred for everything is so powerful that it has made him immortal.

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