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Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: NSFW
Huh?

So there is no beginning but there is no infinity? I've been reading a ton on the Big Bang, the laws of thermodynamics and causuality. Pretty interesting stuff.
Problem is, a lot of thermodynamics and causality, among other things, simply fall to pieces when you're talking about the Big Bang.
A LOT of what we do day-to-day in terms of calculations and simple engineering math is grossly simplified. You want to use Newton's equation for gravity? Guess what, your answers are wrong. You didn't account for relativistic effects.
What about your watch? Its inherent inaccuracy notwithstanding, what happens when you drive to work? Your relative velocity changes, thus time dilation occurs. Your watch is now slow.

The nice thing is, a lot of those errors are incredibly small for what we do every day. x = 0.5at² does a pretty good job here on Earth.

But if you're talking about a time when the entire volume of this Universe comfortably rested in a spot smaller (possibly MUCH smaller) than a marble, the laws we have now, forged through observation of the Universe in its present state, simply don't apply. I don't even know if you could measure things like temperature or gravity in a singularity like that. Matter as we know it couldn't really exist. I don't know if you could even call any of it "energy."

Whatever the case may have been, observations of the present state of the Universe make it look very much like, at some point about 13 billion years ago, the Universe was very very tiny, and very very hot.



Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield

The laws of thermodynamics and causality exists only in this universe, not in whatever was before it.

There is no need for a beginning if there was neither time nor space.

So then the universe is eternal?
"Eternal" is itself a term which requires time to be at all valid.

And as we all know, time is only relevant to humans on earth.

Time is... relative. With an expansion rate of the universe beyond the speed of light, time might actually go backwards, which sets up the case for another theory... hehe...

Don't confuse these hypothesises with actual scientific theories though, because they are not equal what so ever.
 

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If you been to: Abidjan, Africia; Beirut, Lebanon ; or Vegas you would not be asking this question.
 

videogames101

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Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield


Then you thought wrong, the real answer is that we don't know about creation, just that the concept of creationism is wrong as it pretends that the fact of evolution isn't a fact, hell even the Catholic Church has admitted it's a fact.

We don't know about the origin of the first organism, we do know what happened after it.

Ok?

so the Big Bang Theory is wrong?

It might be rigth, it might be wrong, right now we don't know, no one can claim knowledge on that part of creation.

Is it the most plausible explanation, well yeah, to date it actually is but that doesn't mean much considering the lack of evidence.

Reasonable people demand reasonable evidence before they claim knowledge on something.
and you have searched for that evidence?

I've been kinda busy (trying to conduct research in a windshield in the desert is not very rewarding, i assumed, so i didn't even try) so no, i haven't, why would i, i'm confident that people much brighter than me will present it in such a way that the information is easy to learn and understand, like they have with evolution, and when when that happens, i'll study it.

so then you are claiming to have no knowledge of the issue that you have been so vocal about in this thread?

No one has any knowledge of an invisible omnipotent being. Silly.

Also, I'd like to point out that theists definition of "exist" is nothing like the norm. They seem to think things can "exist" outside of spacetime, which is why that informing them space-time didn't exist before the big bang doesn't deter them. It's a losing fight man, you can't beat indoctrination.
 

destrekor

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Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
This is one thing I don't get. How does discrediting a cosmological model of the origins of the universe -- like the Big Bang Theory -- support the view that God exists? Even if you manage to scientifically disprove some commonly-held notions like these, the real explanation would still be absent. You don't just get to plug "God" in there to make it work and call it a day. The same goes for arguments against evolution.

The Big Bang Theory is pretty clear evidence that God does exist IMHO.

Actually, the Big Bang Theory, if you understood it, pretty much does away with god, no spacetime before beginning, no infinity or eternality so that problem is solved, it was always there, thus, no beginning neccessary.

You really don't have a clue what you are talking about, do you?

Huh?

So there is no beginning but there is no infinity? I've been reading a ton on the Big Bang, the laws of thermodynamics and causuality. Pretty interesting stuff.

It's hard to describe without using words such as infinite.

However, that there law of thermodynamics means the energy that existed at the creation of the big bang could not have been created, nor destroyed. That energy now exists in everything we know, just in a different shape than the energy prior to the big bang. The big bang was a result of that energy being there, but it cannot be said for sure that the universe is the only purpose of this energy. Some other style of universe could have existed prior to the big bang that established our universe. Chaos Theory can be applied to literally everything, and it would prove useful in applying at the events that have led to everything we know about the history of the universe. Think of the number of times similar events could have occurred prior to the moments that led to things we knew. There have been over 14 billion years since the big bang, obviously a lot of things have happened. And I could go on and on...
my point, however, is to apply Chaos Theory to the very beginning of the universe. Numerous things could very well have happened differently. We cannot imagine a different outcome because we have no evidence it has occurred, because the way things occurred were potentially specific to the chance of our outcome. So obviously had they occurred differently, we might not exist. We look for reason, which means we apply everything retroactively, which leads to predicted history. But everything may very well have been chance if you take it back far enough. I say that to mean that a theory exists that states the universe will expand, and never end. Eventually that could lead to problems, and cause everything to retract (one theory states it never stops expanding, so a future contraction would be contrary to that specific theory). Once it contracts to a point the energy is essentially "pure" with no specifics such as potentially down to not even electrons or anything else exists, just a pure mass of an incomprehensible "something".

That theory provides for the necessary "spark" to trigger it to expand into something that its not, which in our case means a universe. It could do something different every time it expands, in my approach to a universal theory of everything. :p

But realize in this approach, a God could easily be summed up. A random trigger. What if once it condenses to pureness, that energy might lose the necessary motion to trigger a reaction. Until an initial reaction occurs.
What that initial reaction is, could be random. In our case, it was likely an initial fusion reaction that led to possibly the first electrons, protons, neutrons, and everything else. Other stars would lead the way to creating further elements, with the initial Big Bang creating Hydrogen and Helium prior to being completely without an initial center mass.

But what if the first reaction was different? It could be whatever initial reaction that wants to occur, which begs to question, is there a random spark. We can call this random spark the God Spark, I sure as hell would. It'd be mighty fitting and give an appropriate understanding.

However, this God Spark, included in the rest of the theory of everything, which I'd establish as essentially representing everything as a result of this initial reaction.

Everything that is possible, is from that initial reaction, that Big Bang in our case. Specifically, nothing can be external to the pure energy mass, again as that mass represents everything possible.

So a sentient being, and everything else, can not exist outside of what became the Big Bang. "Deities" can come into play as representing very advanced life which manipulates very primitive beings. This is a possibility, a very minute possibility, that I'd accept as representing Gods to cultures too primitive to understand exactly how advanced these beings truly are. That's something that can be a random chance, not any actual bullet points of this here theory. ;)

Otherwise, this God Spark is just that, a spark that occurs completely randomly in these situations.

- destrekor's 'theory of everything' is soon to be trademarked -
 

Jeff7

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Destrekor - your deity hypothesis was already done. They were called Goa'uld, and the show was called "Stargate: SG1," and it was good. ;)

I recall them only visiting ONE planet with a Christian-themed society. Big surprise there. Ancient religions? Yeah, we can cast them as myth and legend. But Christianity? Judaism? Islam? Hinduism? No, those are totally right. We got this religion thing totally figured out now, 100%. That's why they all agree on which god is the one true god...or gods, whatever. :D


 
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Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: NSFW
Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
This is one thing I don't get. How does discrediting a cosmological model of the origins of the universe -- like the Big Bang Theory -- support the view that God exists? Even if you manage to scientifically disprove some commonly-held notions like these, the real explanation would still be absent. You don't just get to plug "God" in there to make it work and call it a day. The same goes for arguments against evolution.

The Big Bang Theory is pretty clear evidence that God does exist IMHO.

Actually, the Big Bang Theory, if you understood it, pretty much does away with god, no spacetime before beginning, no infinity or eternality so that problem is solved, it was always there, thus, no beginning neccessary.

You really don't have a clue what you are talking about, do you?

Huh?

So there is no beginning but there is no infinity? I've been reading a ton on the Big Bang, the laws of thermodynamics and causuality. Pretty interesting stuff.

It's hard to describe without using words such as infinite.

However, that there law of thermodynamics means the energy that existed at the creation of the big bang could not have been created, nor destroyed. That energy now exists in everything we know, just in a different shape than the energy prior to the big bang. The big bang was a result of that energy being there, but it cannot be said for sure that the universe is the only purpose of this energy. Some other style of universe could have existed prior to the big bang that established our universe. Chaos Theory can be applied to literally everything, and it would prove useful in applying at the events that have led to everything we know about the history of the universe. Think of the number of times similar events could have occurred prior to the moments that led to things we knew. There have been over 14 billion years since the big bang, obviously a lot of things have happened. And I could go on and on...
my point, however, is to apply Chaos Theory to the very beginning of the universe. Numerous things could very well have happened differently. We cannot imagine a different outcome because we have no evidence it has occurred, because the way things occurred were potentially specific to the chance of our outcome. So obviously had they occurred differently, we might not exist. We look for reason, which means we apply everything retroactively, which leads to predicted history. But everything may very well have been chance if you take it back far enough. I say that to mean that a theory exists that states the universe will expand, and never end. Eventually that could lead to problems, and cause everything to retract (one theory states it never stops expanding, so a future contraction would be contrary to that specific theory). Once it contracts to a point the energy is essentially "pure" with no specifics such as potentially down to not even electrons or anything else exists, just a pure mass of an incomprehensible "something".

That theory provides for the necessary "spark" to trigger it to expand into something that its not, which in our case means a universe. It could do something different every time it expands, in my approach to a universal theory of everything. :p

But realize in this approach, a God could easily be summed up. A random trigger. What if once it condenses to pureness, that energy might lose the necessary motion to trigger a reaction. Until an initial reaction occurs.
What that initial reaction is, could be random. In our case, it was likely an initial fusion reaction that led to possibly the first electrons, protons, neutrons, and everything else. Other stars would lead the way to creating further elements, with the initial Big Bang creating Hydrogen and Helium prior to being completely without an initial center mass.

But what if the first reaction was different? It could be whatever initial reaction that wants to occur, which begs to question, is there a random spark. We can call this random spark the God Spark, I sure as hell would. It'd be mighty fitting and give an appropriate understanding.

However, this God Spark, included in the rest of the theory of everything, which I'd establish as essentially representing everything as a result of this initial reaction.

Everything that is possible, is from that initial reaction, that Big Bang in our case. Specifically, nothing can be external to the pure energy mass, again as that mass represents everything possible.

So a sentient being, and everything else, can not exist outside of what became the Big Bang. "Deities" can come into play as representing very advanced life which manipulates very primitive beings. This is a possibility, a very minute possibility, that I'd accept as representing Gods to cultures too primitive to understand exactly how advanced these beings truly are. That's something that can be a random chance, not any actual bullet points of this here theory. ;)

Otherwise, this God Spark is just that, a spark that occurs completely randomly in these situations.

- destrekor's 'theory of everything' is soon to be trademarked -

I'm not going to touch this one with a ten foot nonoxinol-9 coated stick.

All i can say is that you have many parts right and many parts wrong and no, i will not explain it further, since there are people like Jeff7 on this forum who i enjoy reading replies from.

I will say this, you are missing the fact that the laws of this universe only apply to this universe and not what came "before" it, there need not be a first cause or a beginning if there isn't even time-space or even timespace. Things like saying it could have been there for infinity until it sparked assumes our universes laws existed before our universe existed, that seems highly unlikely.

Fuck, i just can't help myself.
 

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Originally posted by: Jeff7
Destrekor - your deity hypothesis was already done. They were called Goa'uld, and the show was called "Stargate: SG1," and it was good. ;)

I recall them only visiting ONE planet with a Christian-themed society. Big surprise there. Ancient religions? Yeah, we can cast them as myth and legend. But Christianity? Judaism? Islam? Hinduism? No, those are totally right. We got this religion thing totally figured out now, 100%. That's why they all agree on which god is the one true god...or gods, whatever. :D

Fat Tuesday all ready? :D:laugh: It's not just the Stargate SG1 reference, but hypothesizing over chaos theory and the big bang theory would require me to smoke about half the Brazilian rain forest.

And destrekor, I read your whole post and it sparked a little interest of my own to go review those theories again.
 

child of wonder

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If God exists and demands we worship him and obey his laws, he is not worthy of worship since he is a vengeful heavenly dictator.
If God exists and does not demand we worship him and obey any laws, then we have no direction but our own moral compass to follow since God provides no guidance.
If God does not exist, then we have no direction but our own moral compass to follow since there is no god to provide guidance.

In any case, it's up to each of us to define what our lives mean and how it should be lived since we have NO CLUE what is going to happen afterwards.

Live life to the fullest, be a good person, and try to come out of it as more than a greedy, talking monkey.
 

PowerEngineer

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Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
This is one thing I don't get. How does discrediting a cosmological model of the origins of the universe -- like the Big Bang Theory -- support the view that God exists? Even if you manage to scientifically disprove some commonly-held notions like these, the real explanation would still be absent. You don't just get to plug "God" in there to make it work and call it a day. The same goes for arguments against evolution.

I suspect that their train of thought goes something like this:

If you can't claim that the explanation provided by scientific methods is 100% correct and not subject to modification based on further discoveries (which you never can claim), then you have to allow for the possibility that the current scientific explanation is at least partially incorrect. The mental leap that follows is to conclude that if the scientific explanation isn't completely right then it must be completely wrong. Continuous attempts to refine scientific explanations (the very hallmark of scientific thinking) are seen as futile "patching" efforts to hide some fundamental fatal flaw undermining the entire explanation (i.e. if the Big Bang theory needs tweaking, then "obviously" all of cosmology pointing to an expanding 14+ billion year old universe can be discounted). If it is fundamentally flawed, then the scientific explanation is perhaps no better than any of the other fanciful explanations -- regardless of how these explanations were arrived at (i.e. maybe the universe was created "as is" in six days about 6000 years ago).

It comes down to this. Since you can't prove that the currently accepted scientific explanation is right (i.e. 100% correct which it never is) and you can't prove that my non-scientific explanation is wrong (and proving the negative is usually futile), then I'm going to claim that my non-scientific explanation is "as good as yours" from the standpoint of available proofs.

Now I don't believe any of this personally. While everyone's obviously free to decide on what basis they choose to accept explanations (scientific and otherwise), it seem disingenuous (and somewhat insecure) for believers to seek out some pseudoscientific justification for their religious beliefs. It would seem just as disingenuous (and insecure) for non-believers to do the same to justify nonbelief.

All IMHO of course... :)
 

DangerAardvark

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Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: DangerAardvark
Originally posted by: FetusCakeMix
A smart atheist identifies as agnostic.

An honest Agnostic identifies as Atheist.

But I identify as both.

Well i identify as an atheist gnostic.

Beat that... bitch!

I've converted to agnostic agnosticism. I believe that there's no way to know whether or not you can know whether or not God exists. Did I just blow your mind?
 

CoinOperatedBoy

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Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
But of course that ties people up in knots just as much, because even if you accept that there was no "before," one naturally might wonder how the whole thing got started from nothing at all. God becomes another explanation for people who otherwise have no idea. Other theories might exist (multiverse theories are pretty interesting), but might be just as unfalsifiable.

It does? I did not know that that annoyed people.

"nothing" is a human construct, this happened hundreds of billions of years ago. It's useless to use such a construct to comprehend it.

It's like, where were you before you were born? That is also something people can't comprehend logically, it doesn't mean that we actually began as thinking adults because we can't comprehend it.

Well, adding god just adds more complexity, obviously god has to be more complex than this univers and obviously he had ... NO BEGINNING...

And there we are back at square one again only this time we have added unneccessary complexity that there is no need to add.

Look up Lawrence Krauss, an excellent physisist who has a very understandable explanation of QM and MV, if you want the most eloquent debate to tie it together, search for Dawkins and Krauss on youtube, they had a "debate" there which i remember i thought should be school material because they entwine the whole business into one in such a way that you can easily understand it.

Obviously i don't know if it's still there, but try it.

We did not exist before we were born, unless you count the genetic material that existed in our parents, and that requires no leap of logic to accept. The concept of time and causality is much trickier to fathom, especially when approaching infinities as with the Big Bang, due to the very lack of "beforeness" that you mention. That doesn't stop people from believing that there must have been some precursor because the notion of origin without cause or even "turtles all the way down" is hard to theorize and accept.

I don't know if the educational suggestions are intended for me, but I feel pretty well-versed on these topics at least, and I haven't disagreed too much with what you've said. I was a physics major in a previous life and have maintained a healthy interest and reading habits on the subject here in my next one. I have seen part of the Dawkins / Krauss discussion and it was interesting.

I still maintain that the Big Bang theory makes no inherent assumptions about God, and insist that you can't use it in such a way.
 

Nik

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Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
Originally posted by: Jeff7
But if you're talking about a time when the entire volume of this Universe comfortably rested in a spot smaller (possibly MUCH smaller) than a marble, the laws we have now, forged through observation of the Universe in its present state, simply don't apply.

Not just much smaller, infinitely smaller.

Hubble has pictures from the Ultra Deep Field of galaxies that are so large that they physically shouldn't exist according to our understanding of universal laws.

We don't know everything.
 
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Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
But of course that ties people up in knots just as much, because even if you accept that there was no "before," one naturally might wonder how the whole thing got started from nothing at all. God becomes another explanation for people who otherwise have no idea. Other theories might exist (multiverse theories are pretty interesting), but might be just as unfalsifiable.

It does? I did not know that that annoyed people.

"nothing" is a human construct, this happened hundreds of billions of years ago. It's useless to use such a construct to comprehend it.

It's like, where were you before you were born? That is also something people can't comprehend logically, it doesn't mean that we actually began as thinking adults because we can't comprehend it.

Well, adding god just adds more complexity, obviously god has to be more complex than this univers and obviously he had ... NO BEGINNING...

And there we are back at square one again only this time we have added unneccessary complexity that there is no need to add.

Look up Lawrence Krauss, an excellent physisist who has a very understandable explanation of QM and MV, if you want the most eloquent debate to tie it together, search for Dawkins and Krauss on youtube, they had a "debate" there which i remember i thought should be school material because they entwine the whole business into one in such a way that you can easily understand it.

Obviously i don't know if it's still there, but try it.

We did not exist before we were born, unless you count the genetic material that existed in our parents, and that requires no leap of logic to accept. The concept of time and causality is much trickier to fathom, especially when approaching infinities as with the Big Bang, due to the very lack of "beforeness" that you mention. That doesn't stop people from believing that there must have been some precursor because the notion of origin without cause or even "turtles all the way down" is hard to theorize and accept.

I don't know if the educational suggestions are intended for me, but I feel pretty well-versed on these topics at least, and I haven't disagreed too much with what you've said. I was a physics major in a previous life and have maintained a healthy interest and reading habits on the subject here in my next one. I have seen part of the Dawkins / Krauss discussion and it was interesting.

I still maintain that the Big Bang theory makes no inherent assumptions about God, and insist that you can't use it in such a way.

Not at all, i thought it should be used as educational material in schools, not for you personally. That would be pretty fucking expensive you know. ;)

Of course you are correct that it makes no inherent assumptions, but it does eliminate the need for a God to create a beginning since there never was any.

I probably should have formulated my response better than i did.

Just a question, do you understand Quantum Theory?
 
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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
Originally posted by: Jeff7
But if you're talking about a time when the entire volume of this Universe comfortably rested in a spot smaller (possibly MUCH smaller) than a marble, the laws we have now, forged through observation of the Universe in its present state, simply don't apply.

Not just much smaller, infinitely smaller.

Hubble has pictures from the Ultra Deep Field of galaxies that are so large that they physically shouldn't exist according to our understanding of universal laws.

We don't know everything.

Well, actually they SHOULD exist the way they are considering that we are not the center of the universe and they may be closer.
 

Nik

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Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
Originally posted by: Jeff7
But if you're talking about a time when the entire volume of this Universe comfortably rested in a spot smaller (possibly MUCH smaller) than a marble, the laws we have now, forged through observation of the Universe in its present state, simply don't apply.

Not just much smaller, infinitely smaller.

Hubble has pictures from the Ultra Deep Field of galaxies that are so large that they physically shouldn't exist according to our understanding of universal laws.

We don't know everything.

Well, actually they SHOULD exist the way they are considering that we are not the center of the universe and they may be closer.

No. Size. Density. Gravity. They should be black holes.
 

Mo0o

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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
Originally posted by: Jeff7
But if you're talking about a time when the entire volume of this Universe comfortably rested in a spot smaller (possibly MUCH smaller) than a marble, the laws we have now, forged through observation of the Universe in its present state, simply don't apply.

Not just much smaller, infinitely smaller.

Hubble has pictures from the Ultra Deep Field of galaxies that are so large that they physically shouldn't exist according to our understanding of universal laws.

We don't know everything.

Well, actually they SHOULD exist the way they are considering that we are not the center of the universe and they may be closer.

No. Size. Density. Gravity. They should be black holes.

I think physics would definitely agree with you that we barely know anything about the universe. We're not even sure what dark matter is and that shit is and they think its the majority of the mass of the universe
 
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Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
Originally posted by: Jeff7
But if you're talking about a time when the entire volume of this Universe comfortably rested in a spot smaller (possibly MUCH smaller) than a marble, the laws we have now, forged through observation of the Universe in its present state, simply don't apply.

Not just much smaller, infinitely smaller.

Hubble has pictures from the Ultra Deep Field of galaxies that are so large that they physically shouldn't exist according to our understanding of universal laws.

We don't know everything.

Well, actually they SHOULD exist the way they are considering that we are not the center of the universe and they may be closer.

No. Size. Density. Gravity. They should be black holes.

Ok, this should be interesting, explain why.
 
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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
Originally posted by: Jeff7
But if you're talking about a time when the entire volume of this Universe comfortably rested in a spot smaller (possibly MUCH smaller) than a marble, the laws we have now, forged through observation of the Universe in its present state, simply don't apply.

Not just much smaller, infinitely smaller.

Hubble has pictures from the Ultra Deep Field of galaxies that are so large that they physically shouldn't exist according to our understanding of universal laws.

We don't know everything.

Well, actually they SHOULD exist the way they are considering that we are not the center of the universe and they may be closer.

No. Size. Density. Gravity. They should be black holes.

I think physics would definitely agree with you that we barely know anything about the universe. We're not even sure what dark matter is and that shit is and they think its the majority of the mass of the universe

That is entirely true, we have a fragment of knowledge to work with and i am no physisist.
 

CoinOperatedBoy

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Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
And as we all know, time is only relevant to humans on earth.

Time is... relative. With an expansion rate of the universe beyond the speed of light, time might actually go backwards, which sets up the case for another theory... hehe...

Sorry, didn't see this. Time is relevant to all observers, everywhere.

And at the very least, you can't have causality, FTL travel, and special relativity. Something has to give.
 
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Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
Just a question, do you understand Quantum Theory?

Does anybody, really? :laugh:

I have some basic understanding, yes.

It was a trick question, really. ;)

Anyone who claims to understand QT doesn't. ;)
 
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Originally posted by: CoinOperatedBoy
Originally posted by: JohnOfSheffield
And as we all know, time is only relevant to humans on earth.

Time is... relative. With an expansion rate of the universe beyond the speed of light, time might actually go backwards, which sets up the case for another theory... hehe...

Sorry, didn't see this. Time is relevant to all observers, everywhere.

And at the very least, you can't have causality, FTL travel, and special relativity. Something has to give.

Sure you can, why not? Is it unreasonable to think of spherical multiverses because of FTL travel or an imploding universe because of causality?

Truth is, you can have all of it at the same time if you put it in the right order. ;)