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originally posted by: odzeandennz
the probability of a species within this 'system' cognitively capable of deciphering the system which created it, is more staggering than the probability of the said species actually being right on whatever theory it can muster about its origin.
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but, you are taking a lot of artistic freedom with your hypothesis.
you wouldnt be calculating volume the way you assume. volume could not be 1 ['one' what for starters].
i would be leaning toward that the volume would have to be inversely proportional to density and mass.
upon reaching some critical mass [whatever this maybe] or density, and imploding, volume can then be conceived, or be calculable. singularity could/should not be volumetric by definition.
but from im no physicist, lets assume this is all in layman terms at this point.
originally posted by: luciferslight
It should be noted. This happened first then God came and planted our DNA into jungle humans.
Our galaxy is one of the youngest out of the big bang. Maybe the first earth became a few thousand or million years ahead of our time and came here after, they ascended.
This is just a thought, sorry to derail your post. Mods delete this is it's not on topic.
We can't be sure of that. If the Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, did the universe exist before that? I don't know, but I don't think we really know and we don't have any reason yet to assume it did.
originally posted by: DeadCat
Well... The universe always is.. and always was.
The universe is flat. It has zero total energy, and it could have begun from nothing.
The Big Bang theory, up until this point, was never able to explain what banged, why it banged, and what was going on, to cause the bang. The theory looked right if you ran the expanding universe in reverse so that all matter was scrunched into a small theoretical point; but try that sometime and see how far you get. The Big Bang looked like the real deal on a theorist chalk board or computer simulation but what were the conditions for the bang and what caused the “BANG” had never been answered.
BRANES:
You could think of Branes as some sort of energy string that has been stretched and flattened into a huge sheet of energy that can have several dimensions connected to its' X-Y-Z (Plus “T” for time) dimensional surface.
No one knows how many Branes there are, only that at least one strong and one weaker Brane has been theorized and now found to exist .
The total extra-dimensional universe, or everything that is, could be like a package of Brane printer paper as far as anyone knows, only the sheets almost never touch. If and when they do touch due to a postulated imbalance of the Dark Matter/Energy gravity wave fields, you get “BOOM” an a new universe is born much like the place we see all around us. In other words this prior hidden dimension where all gravity leaks through into the multiverse has so much energy present on the surface of just one of the Branes it is almost incalculable ; even though there are those who try even to this day on Earth.
“Trust me; when two Branes touch all mathematical hell breaks loose”!
One old earth theory guesstimated the Branes would touch every trillion years or so and are then be repelled back apart to start the whole unending cycle over again.
Gravity is what holds the Branes of the multiverse close together and Dark energy is what keeps them separated and is where our 4 dimension’s weak gravity and space time are joined.
originally posted by: odzeandennz
well, ultimately i dont think any theory make a difference.
the statistical probability of a theory version, we come up with, to be actually correct or is exactly what 'it is', is so infinitesimal that it doesnt matter.
eta: then again, this might be the one small chance and our theories are correct.!
there's no possible way a human can imagine something like the what was before the big bang. it doesnt matter how many degrees you have or how smart you are, its physiologically impossible. thats why i personally stopped believing in these sort of theories. M theory, string theory etc...
originally posted by: odzeandennz
a reply to: DeadCat
no to all .
but I don't want to drift your thread.
it makes sense only to us. we couldnt understand it as anything else. there's no actual way to prove any of it true.
that's a different thread.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
We can't be sure of that. If the Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, did the universe exist before that? I don't know, but I don't think we really know and we don't have any reason yet to assume it did.
originally posted by: DeadCat
Well... The universe always is.. and always was.
One hypothesis is that the total energy content of the universe is zero, we didn't really get something from exactly "nothing", maybe just a "quantum fluctuation" is one idea.
If you're not a physicist and you want to hear a physicist's ideas on this here is Lawrence Krauss talking about this concept. We think we have a decent idea of what happened shortly after the big bang but what caused the big bang is still speculative, but his speculation is more informed than yours, so it has a better chance of being right but it still may not be right:
'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss
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The universe is flat. It has zero total energy, and it could have begun from nothing.
Energy first, then matter (which has mass), or so the model goes, though I don't think we are sure about the earliest stages of the big bang, but the earliest stages of the big bang were thought to be too hot and too dense for matter as we know it to exist. So if it was in the form of photons as we suspect, photons are massless.
The universe began, scientists believe, with every speck of its energy jammed into a very tiny point. This extremely dense point exploded with unimaginable force, creating matter and propelling it outward to make the billions of galaxies of our vast universe. Astrophysicists dubbed this titanic explosion the Big Bang...
For a brief moment after the Big Bang, the immense heat created conditions unlike any conditions astrophysicists see in the universe today. While planets and stars today are composed of atoms of elements like hydrogen and silicon, scientists believe the universe back then was too hot for anything other than the most fundamental particles -- such as quarks and photons.
But as the universe quickly expanded, the energy of the Big Bang became more and more "diluted" in space, causing the universe to cool. Popping open a beer bottle results in a roughly similar cooling, expanding effect: gas, once confined in the bottle, spreads into the air, and the temperature of the beer drops.
Rapid cooling allowed for matter as we know it to form in the universe, although physicists are still trying to figure out exactly how this happened. About one ten-thousandth of a second after the Big Bang, protons and neutrons formed