who hasn't? I decided to come up with a version of the universe just so I stop obsessing about it.

My version of the universe is you're always at the center of it. If you somehow managed to travel in a perfectly straight line, you would end up where you started; it is mind bogglingly vast.

Macro micro, kind of like the surface of the world.

Other dimensions? Just like a TV screen, it has different channels.

No, I don't think there's an outside of the universe.

And I don't care to discuss it further

Originally posted by dgtempe


I'm searching for the meaning of life and that's as good an answer as any, Niteboy.

I want to know the truth.

Why am i here? ( no wise cracks)

The meaning of life is simpe to live life to the fullest and propagate the species, all the while hepling each generation become more enlightened than the generation before. As far as I can tell this is basically it, and I love to propagate.

There must have been some sort of ‘pre-matter’ and from that pre-matter a particle was made and then another particle and another and another until we get the universe that we have today – the universe is growing.

Gravity comes along and pulls hydrogen together and hydrogen turns into a sun and then starts throwing ions out, they are gathered up into meteorites, the meteorites gather on electromagnetic lines on the sun and become planets and moons and start to grow and grow and grow and become solar systems

Matter is made inside of all gravitational bodies like suns moons planets even large comets, so what you have is a constantly growing universe where matter is being made, it’s based on the negative and positive electromagnetic fields that are apart of everything and so if you have sort of like in your body - the cells in your body don’t crush in as you grow and become compacted into a rock, what they do is they make space for each other, negatively and positively you move outward and fill out your adult body. That’s how the universe works we make more solar systems and galaxies, the universe pushes outwards on a regular steady basis like a tree growing.

When the LHC is turned on, I believe we will be one step closer to knowing what is and what isn't.

There really is no meaning to life, most of the members of our species just isn't ready to except that. Man, for some reason or other wants all of this to mean something. To be something so amazingly special. Yet, there is nothing to indicate that there is anything special, or any reason, or any purpose to it all.

It's just all plain old physics plugging away. We will never know where our universe came from, despite all the theories we can think of. None of them can ever be proven because we can never know the variables that existed prior to this universe. We have all these neat theories suggesting that the universe is part of some multiverse, or there is an infinite number of universes. You know what that sounds like? It sounds like a cop out, like saying god did it. Let's pretend there are an infinite number of universes, or that we exist in a larger multiverse, that MIGHT explain where THIS universe came from, but then where did those come from?

Perhaps the most simplest answer here is the correct one. We just exist. That's it, that is the answer. We'll never know why or from where or how, so why waste all our resources and intellect into trying to figure out something we can never figure out? There are more important things to discover. Why not a cure to aging? Or finding a way to travel to the stars? Or making contact with alien life? Why not colonize and terraform mars and venus?

There's only one thing to remember here, man is an ignorant, arrogant, stupid animal who thinks he is special and any attempts to show that man is not is met with anger and ridicule. Such as I expect to get after submitting this.

Originally posted by dgtempe


I'm searching for the meaning of life and that's as good an answer as any, Niteboy.

I want to know the truth.

Why am i here? ( no wise cracks)

If you take everyone else's notions out of the equation for why we are here, subjectively I would think that it has a great deal to do with observing and learning through experiences.

The what happens after, although interesting and something I enjoy thinking about, really just seems to deter us from our experiences in the here and now.

There is one thing we know w/out a doubt and that is that when we say/do/ or think something, there is an effect that follows. To me, that is why we are here.... to note the effect to the causes that we produce, IMO.

[edit on 7-8-2008 by justamomma]