• Question: will our universe collide with another one how many carnivourous plants

    Asked by naimah to Akshat, Gemma, Judith on 23 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by crazyfool.
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      Akshat Rathi answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      It is a very interesting question. All I know is that there are theories about parallel universes and they may actually exist but no one knows. So I don’t know how, if at all, can someone prove if they collide or not.

      On googling about this I read people talking about the birth and death of a universe through these collisions, etc. but none of those people cite an academic reference so I am averse to believing in any of that. 🙂

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      Gemma Sharp answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      There are a lot of carnivorous plants, here’s a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_carnivorous_plants They’re pretty cool. Interestingly, although they get most their nutrients from ingesting bugs, their energy still comes from photosynthesis like other plants.

      Some astronomers think there might be lots of universes, and it would be possible for one to collide with another. Some say that our universe might have already crashed into another one!

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      Judith McCann answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      Really there’s a lot of maybes to my answer, so sorry, there maybe loads of universes and we may have already crashed into one and this may be how universes end…. but really, it could happen but is very unlikely, and if it did happen-there isn’t much we could do about it, so I wouldn’t worry about it 🙂

      And woah, i checked out he list Gemma gave, did not realise-not only that there are so many kidns of carniverous plants but at the different ways they trap bugs. The only one i could think of before was venus fly trap (where the plant physicall closes on the bug) but some lure the bugs into digestive fluid or the bugs get caught in sap on the outside of the plants. Plants are sneaky little blighters….Can’t help but wonder what vegetarians think of all this brutality from plants!!

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