Pretending we know makes us feel more comfortable. Why worry about something you'll never actually know the truth about, when you can boast a theory?
Pretending we know makes us feel more comfortable. Why worry about something you'll never actually know the truth about, when you can boast a theory?
The big bang theory is, at the very least, on the right track. The cosmic background radiation is evidence of that. It is, in fact, possible that the entire universe was created from nothing. Particles spring up from nothing in space all the time; it's just that the vast majority of time, they're annihilated immediately by the anti-particle that forms with them. (virtual particles) Sometimes they're able to get an energy boost from some nearby massive object though (say a black hole), enough to throw the particle and anti-particle away. Since they've just taken away energy from the black hole, energy is conserved - they gain the neccessary energy to continue to exist. (Hawking Radiation)
Particle physics and big bang theory aren't something I'm great at, but the gist of it is that there was a quantum fluctuation of sufficient power that it explosively expanded, producing the universe we see today. That doesn't break the second law of thermodynamics, provided that the universe eventually return to nothing, balancing out the equation and making the total energy gain zero.
Granted - we don't know how that quantum fluctuation happened. Since we don't understand quantum gravity, the closest to the beginning of the universe that we can calculate what it was like is 10ˆ-43 seconds after the big bang.
I'm confident in these quantum physicists who work on this know what they're doing. They solve things things mathmatically, and math has predicted almost every major breakthrough in physics this century well before there was any proof. (Black holes, anti-matter, quantum physics, ect.) Even if they are following an incorrect line of reasoning, and the big bang never happened, working on it is a worthwhile endeavor because studying it will eventually lead them to the truth. For example, once people thought the universe revolved around the earth in perfect circles. Studying it eventually led them to the conclusion that they were wrong and that all the planets revolve around the sun in perfect circles. After studying that for a long time, it led them to the conclusion that they were again wrong and that all the planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits, something which has bourne out to be true because we've been able to send probes to almost every major object in the solar system, and many minor ones. Heck, the fact that we're even able to accurately hit these planets with something as small as a probe at distances of millions and billions of miles demonstrates the power of math. There really is nothing that is truly inconceivable. It's just a matter of making the effort to understand it.
As for god, his existance can neither be proved nor disproved. People that believe in god are not idiots. Neither are people that don't.
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Give me a cup of tea and a fairy cake and I'll put it into perspective for youOriginally Posted by Jebus
What... Douglas Adams died? Now we really need to know the size of the universe...
I'm actually going to have to agree with Tulmane, even if I had never thought of it like that before - even if we did know, its one of those things that simply doesn't matter.
How disgusting
Douglas Adams died four years ago.
The universe will end, whichever way you look at ti. If the big bang slows, we will have a big crunch. If it speeds up, everything will drift apart and die eventually. If it carries on at the same speed, or if the "steady state" theory is correct, then it will take a little longer for the same happenance as with the speeding up universe to occur.
We're dooed any way you lok at it. We only need to know how much there is to be doomed.
I'm also optimistic.
And AIM smilies are the own you.
The scientist already said taht the universe it is not infinitive... it wasn't that hard to get that! But I laughed when they said taht it has the form of a baseball...
Oi. Here's some food for thought. or rather, theoretics anyways. =/
Look at it this way. You know what you do know, and that is that you exist in a great big giant universe thing that people consistantley debate over. "How was it started? Does god actually Exist?". Questions like that are silly. If you want to know how it was started, you need to know how it's constructed and formed. If you can answer that, you can figure out for yourself if god actually exists or not. If you feel like listening to my idea on how it's constructed, perhaps you all may have somewhat of an idea.
Right. Let's start from the basics. Stuff is made from matter, and empty space. How is it that that's possible? You speak of the universe as if it's constructed from matter, when empty space is devoid of it. Nope. Matter is the building blocks for atoms, particles, and stuff like that that has mass. Empty space is only defined by how much it takes up ( or rather, doesn't ), but you can say that what the two have in common, is dimension. it takes up length, width, and height. Try not to think of l,w,h as a mere scale by which matter & space are conformed on; but rather a balance.
I'll be abbreviating l,w,h as s1, s2, and s3, ( or s123 if i feel lazy. =/)
Another property of the universe, is that it changes. What is required of these changes?
1. the possibility of what it can change into
2. the time to change
3. energy to perform process
4. matter to have been changed.
I can conclude that s123 has been established, but not time. Time can also be considered as a balance. It is the difference between now, and then, or then and then. Time is another dimension ( abbreviated as t1).
What else is needed, is that possibility of what it can change into ( whatever's being changed), and that can be described to what you all are aware as quantum reality (alternate dimensions for you wookies).
That works sorta like how you would think of alternate dimensions do. You have what you're aware of as reality, and then there's other realities, where the same reality happens differently. This too is also a dimension, because it merely has balance, and a path traveled. I can conclude that this dimension is perpindicular to t1, and so this will be abbreviated as t2.
What's also needed for change, is energy. You all can figure that out easily. Energy is neither created nor destroyed, as such is in balance with itself, and allows change. Energy is also a dimension. denoted as E.
( please keep in mind, that this is for the most part, theory. not fact. )
With all this construct, [ s123, t12, E ] we can mathematically assume that the universe is a whole thing, and thus must all equal out to something, or nothing at all. Well, it's both.
U-(s123 | t12 | E) = [ 0, 1 ]
and as such is binary; and also explains the continual collapse & expansion of the universe. In other words, it's it's own paradox of existance, because it is both nothing, and something.
It's the construct that needs to be figured out, and that's my theory on it. As to whether this is true or not, is up to you all. What is infact a good question to ask, is what created matter and such, or is it also another result of the binary values of some other dimension that i've left out; or is it infact another dimension devoid of balance all except for creation & destruction? All still needed to be researched.
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