Posted on 03/17/2006 3:46:30 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
Enough said.
Ping
God's work is truly amazing. Of course one must understand that his "timepiece" is quite different from ours.
Astronomers Find the Earliest Signs Yet of a Violent Baby Universe
Would you want to stand next to the marble-sized universe, if you could be assured of escaping to a safe distance before detonation?
But as for your last question, there's no escaping the birth expansion of a cosmos! If you're anywhere nearby when it starts, you'll be gone in a trillionth of a second or less.
Should've known you were up a little earlier...didn't see your thread. Sorry...
String theory would seem to suggest that our universe can be imagined as one of many, like bubbles in a froth, and as each expands (or contracts) it 'merely' inflates or conflates the froth. In that manner of envisioning the universe, there's nothing 'next' to the universe within our timespace; you cannot travel to the 'edge' of the universe because there is no edge, except as a purely abstract mental construct.
Source please? Thanks.
Ah, found it in the next article.
But I thought the earth and Universe were only 6,000 years old?
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060317/NEWS07/603170441/1009
Most of the other stories I've seen say "less than a trillionth of a second". Some clarity on this is probably desirable.
The Earth and the Universe came into existence last Thursday. They merely had the appearance of age built in.
My feeble understanding of science, is that you can't make something out of nothing. How can you take mass the size of a marble and generate the relative mass of the universe, much less our solar system, or even my back yard, without adding something along the line?
Well could you ask the guy who built it why he made me late on for an important meeting last Wednesday? I don't think that was necessary.
It's not his timepiece that is different, it's his point of view. Our timepiece is the one out of sync when it comes to viewing the past. And it's because there is much we do not and likely cannot ever know. Scientists are like latecomers to the OJ case. When all they have is a picture of Mark Fuhrman and a few facts about the murder, they conclude Fuhrman must have done it - just look at the evidence....
They get scraps of metal shavings and want to make a skyscraper of it - thinking themselves intelligent and wise.
"My feeble understanding of science, is that you can't make something out of nothing. How can you take mass the size of a marble and generate the relative mass of the universe, much less our solar system, or even my back yard, without adding something along the line?"
Ask God.
Someone ping me when we have answers to questions such as: Where did the marble-size universe come from? If the Big Bang happened at time X, what was there before time X? Seems to me any Theory of Everything must explain how space-time started and what existed (if that's the right word) before it started (if that concept means anything).
Well, part of the answer is that spacetime (or timespace) was compressed into the marble, and just 'stretched out' to a universal scale. Now, of course it's rather hard (impossible) to imagine the entire universe compressed to the size of a marble, but that's because all our experience is of the stretched-out universe as it is today, and the hyperextreme conditions in the compressed universe are unvisualizable.
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