Originally posted by genius/idoit
reply to post by wx4caster
2: imagine quantities and periods much much longer than most are comfortable accepting as possible, or better yet, probable.
could you please explain what you mean in more detail?I am inclined to think the exact opposite it is more about a single occurrence where
something originated from nothing in a millisecond.
certainly.
Trying to imagine what exactly was on the fringe of the singularity at the point of the initial bang of this bounce. what was there? aether? void?
vacuum?edges of other dimensions? In reference to the big bang it is not the singularity that is so hard to imagine, although a marble sized bit of
matter that weighs the same as all the matter in the universe is certainly a stretch for the imagination, it is more uncomfortable to identify with
the possible vast void of....
the fact is that we dont really know for sure, and as scientists, we must fill the gaps of our equations and theories and ideas with imagined bits of
information that are within certain guidelines called "laws of physics". Unfortunately we cant be certain that our reference laws hold true
universally. For instance we know that laws of conduction and electromagnetism change at super cooled temperatures as described by the late and
wonderful Feynman.
But even more fun to imagine is this... It is possible that our universe is without boundary, and without defined edge, a true representation of
infinite. Thus in infinity, everything that can be imagined, no matter how far out the idea, has exactly 100% chance of existing. perhaps even the
OP's so searched for "nothing"