Million doller question...

actually the big bang is very easy to prove. un plug your cable connection from your tv while it is on. what do you get. static. not just static. but static thats billions of years old. the tv dont just make that itself. nor does a radio or any other static you hear. its cosmic bacground radiation. Proof of the big bang

That's not actual proof of the big bang.......

There are many sources of radio waves and such in the universe:

pulsars
quasars
black holes
large stars (remember Sol is considered to be small/medium in size)
galaxy clusters
the 'unknown'

[edit on 16-1-2007 by ferretman2]

Nah, that's too easy. But, you go with that. M'kay?

When you take a breath, air comes in and lungs expand. There are things in that breath that become, live a lifetime and die before you even exhale. To those such things, "You" are the Universe (in essence).

So, as pointed out before by...not sure who, if our Universe is in a constant expansion/contraction existance, doesn't it make sense that perhaps WE are just some tiny, tiny molecule in a process of such proportions and that we matter not at all in ANY conceivable manner?

I mean...we're specks upon iotas in the grand scheme of things, right? Yes, our reality is real, but, who's to say that we are even close to self-aware? With God mixed in, it gives us a "relative size" for our egos to grasp onto. But, I think, if my "Ladder Theory" has ANY merit at all, we COULD be the result of just some "fart" higher up the ladder, just as the molecule in the one breath I mentioned above.

Eeeeek! Getting pretty freakin' deep around here!

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Well if you put it that way.......

our 'universe' may just be a single atom making up a cell in a larger being.

'We' may have millions of other 'universes' in our bodies at this moment.

Good point! but if there was no big bang. then what was it that caused and is still causing our universe to expand outward

Is the universe really expanding?

Maybe the 'expansion' is normal movement on an ageless universe.

Yes it is....

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SkepticGreek74,
First i salute you from Athens. ''Χαιρετίσματα συμπατριώτη''. you are the first Greek person i have seen in this forum.

Secondly, according to your post have you prooved it that everything has end and beginning???
My answer is no, yet i can prooved it using a simply example.
The circle. A circle is a geometrical schema that if you see it in two dimensions it has no end, no beginning!
My opinion:
Now, let's return in three dimensions. The circle becomes a sphere and a shere in association with the space/room has as well no end no begining. It enclosed some space ''yes'' but it has no end no beginning. A line has an end and a beginning.
So with what is the condition we can say that a ''thing'' has an end and a beginning? When it follows a line. Time can follow a line two. Then we have an end and a begining. But if that line connects in the two points then where is the end where is the beginning. Our time repeat itself?

If that is true then we have to wake up from the matrix we live...

I am not here to deny any theories in science, but to express my opinion:

How is possible to say ''universe is expanding'' without having a steady point to see it. For astronomers, their steady point is earth. That's the flaw. Earth moves as well as universe do.

I will give you an example concerning phusics:
A train is leaving the station's platform. The observer is watching the train as it leaves. When we place the observer inside the train, he will watch the station's platform as it leaves!

My answer is this:
What's astronomers stand point in an infinite moving space-room?

Interesting thread, pitty there's always a bunch of bible bashers that think they know it all.

We simply don't know what happened before the big bang and why it happened..

well reading that I guess that I would have to agree. just because we can observe the distance betwteen earth and another planet growing doesnt mean the universe in which this is happening is also growing. but if it were not expanding wouldnt the mass inside cause it to start collapsing? Of course this assumes there is enough mass to do so. I dunno

I would like to state something.

The OP asked for everyones opinions, and as such there are some
individuals that believe that the creation of the universe was of divine
origin, so lets not start calling eachother things or arguing between
religion and science, atleast not in the childish mudflinging manner.


Oh, and by the way, the way we measure the universe expanding is
the red shift, the farther away something is, the light from it is in the
red spectrum.

Atleast that's a basic explanation.

Yeah I posted a link supporting that theory. And I dont doubt it. but dragonike raises a good point. how can scientists be sure that the universe itself is expanding just because they can measure the distance between a and b growing. Maybe thats what they think simply because it supports their theory. I'm gonna have tolook into that more.