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Originally posted by dragnik
reply to post by Freedom_is_Slavery
These are still speculations, not complete science theories, yet.
First, can we know what is happening in outer space prior to light coming here and getting informations of?
Light speed is still the informative limit.
Originally posted by luciddream
Originally posted by bigfatfurrytexan
reply to post by luciddream
OK, just to make sure we are clear on this....you don't like God. Well....maybe just the smallest bit. But only about 1%.
Got it.
I would say i believe in god 0% but that would not be scientific of me :/, thus i give the 1%.
Originally posted by swan001
reply to post by Freedom_is_Slavery
I am more and more puzzled by the attempts, by physicists, to absolutely prove Big Bang right, even if they don't make sense and try to patch everything up. Now they are patching things up with cracks... I know that quantum predictions itself collapses the further you go back to the point of singularity which the universe came from, but it still hardly explains why the universe is 40 billion l.y. across but "only" 13.7 billion years old. It would mean that the first billion years of the Universe was undergoing an expansion about double the speed of light - yet this powerfull energy did not influence complex molecular formation? Ridiculous.
Originally posted by pacifier2012
Wow, the Big bang is almost as fantastic and out of it as the Bibles' version of the creation. Both require incredible amounts of faith, but the Big Bang even more so purely from a rational perspective. Of course if the possibility of a being outside our known time and space exists that we are accountable to worries you then the BB would seem more plausible.
However, the start was the being of time as 'we' know it. If nothing exists, nothing can exist.
Except for the parts about magical beings, talking snakes, fortune-telling, soothsaying, necromancy, impossibly large watercraft, a guy spending time inside of a whale's stomach with no ill effect, faith-healing, the telekinetic transubstantiation of matter, immaculate conception, horns with imbued with divine powers capable of leveling fortified stone walls, cursed apples, incendiary law-making shrubbery, humans routinely living until for several hundred years despite a lack of even rudimentary antibiotics, magical levitation, the brief cessation of gravity in the Red Sea, along with about 800 other completely ludicrous claims.
Other than that though...yeah...science once again "confirms" the bible.
But it takes MORE faith to believe the big bang?
Originally posted by CLPrime
reply to post by DARREN1976
The observable universe has a 46.6 billion light-year radius because the particle horizon that we currently see was 13.7 billion years ago and 13.7 billion light-years away. We know how much the universe has expanded since then, so we know that an object that was 13.7 billion light-years away 13.7 billion years ago is 46 billion light-years away now.
edit on 21-8-2012 by CLPrime because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
But it takes MORE faith to believe the big bang?
MORE faith?
Nobody saw it happen either. "It" supposedly happened x billion years ago, right? So, what happened before? And what exists outside the "Known" universe? Put a circle of string on the ground. Thats the Universe, right? Wrong. As soon as you place limits on size of Universe or time its been around, you de-invent "infinity".
You don't need any faith to know that space and time go on and on and on... I don't care how many people say otherwise, religulous or scientific.
Space does not "end".
And time did not "begin".
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by milominderbinder
Except for the parts about magical beings, talking snakes, fortune-telling, soothsaying, necromancy, impossibly large watercraft, a guy spending time inside of a whale's stomach with no ill effect, faith-healing, the telekinetic transubstantiation of matter, immaculate conception, horns with imbued with divine powers capable of leveling fortified stone walls, cursed apples, incendiary law-making shrubbery, humans routinely living until for several hundred years despite a lack of even rudimentary antibiotics, magical levitation, the brief cessation of gravity in the Red Sea, along with about 800 other completely ludicrous claims.
Other than that though...yeah...science once again "confirms" the bible.
So religion got it wrong. Imagine the copy that all religions read from. Its hundreds of years old. The "bible stories" that we have today were translated by men that lived 500 years ago. They though the world was flat and that you would fall off if you sailed to far. Don't let it spoil the truth, that part that is the real science and infinite too.
Originally posted by pacifier2012
Wow, the Big bang is almost as fantastic and out of it as the Bibles' version of the creation. Both require incredible amounts of faith, but the Big Bang even more so purely from a rational perspective. Of course if the possibility of a being outside our known time and space exists that we are accountable to worries you then the BB would seem more plausible.
However, the start was the being of time as 'we' know it. If nothing exists, nothing can exist.
Time is a man made concept, and what your talking abut is the "steady state theory"
(I think) some people believe everything that's happened or will happen has already happened, all at once, we are just moving through "time" as we have come to know it by a snippet at a TIME (pun not intended), piece by piece, and that it's theoreticaly possible to go back or forward and visit these other "snippets"... what do you believe? I would like to know, for curiosity's sake...
As far as the horns levelling walls go, i take it your talking about jericho? a scientific study showed that if the walls where weak anyway, and you had peope walking round the wallls for 3 days and then stopping in the same spot at screaming/shouting at it (like it says in the biblical story), then the noise/air displacement of the shouting might be enough to topple the walls after all!! science is crazy isnt it?
PEACE!!
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by DARREN1976
Time is a man made concept, and what your talking abut is the "steady state theory"
Steady State... um not sure what that implies. If you mean that nothing changes, I don't agree with the steady state. Things change in that they move about. Albeit very slowly as far as we are concerned. We have to extrapolate about where from and where to. And we are really guessing about that ultimately.
But I do know this. Stretch out your arm and reach as far as you can. Now imagine that in an instant you could reach farther than anyone has ever seen with instruments. There is no wall out there where space ends, right?
And you know of the Hubble Deep Feld? So lets put a Hubble on the farthest thing we can see and look even further... all the way... to... more galaxies is my guess.
Like this:
infinity_______________earth______________Hubble Deep Field__________infinity
I think there are many Universes and many a "big bang" out there. Our instruments just can't see that far (yet). The Universe is unbounded, full and forever. It is dynamic and ever changing. You are reading this at thousands of miles per hour.
(I think) some people believe everything that's happened or will happen has already happened, all at once, we are just moving through "time" as we have come to know it by a snippet at a TIME (pun not intended), piece by piece, and that it's theoreticaly possible to go back or forward and visit these other "snippets"... what do you believe? I would like to know, for curiosity's sake...
I am going to answer that one tomorrow. Its late here. Very late.