Originally posted by thesun
Another way in which science contradicts its self is to say energy can not be created or destroyed, if this is the case the energy in the universe has been around for ever and it only just changes form.

the universe is very large, much larger than its age would indicate. This is due to the early inflationary phase where the universe expanded at a rate much greater than the speed of light.

Originally posted by Teknikal
Although I think a lot of physicists actually share my view but won't risk going against the establishment.

Originally posted by stander

Originally posted by thesun
Another way in which science contradicts its self is to say energy can not be created or destroyed, if this is the case the energy in the universe has been around for ever and it only just changes form.

There is nothing contradictory about the First Law of Thermodynamics when it is applied where it belongs. The Big Bang is not regarded as something-out-of-nothing event, for example. There is the term "Big Crunch" that tend to explain the origin of the singularity that this universe evolved from. As galaxies are the building blocks of a universe, universes may be the building blocks of a region called "space." What is the origin of space? Is the origin of space analogous to the origin of this universe with universes expanding and therefore creating the space?

You can speculate ad infinitum, but science doesn't advance through shaky speculations. That's why these questions are of no interests to the cosmologists, unless all the equations take them safely to the subject.