The universe before it began

Seed Magazine ^ | 5/22/06 | Maggie Wittlin

[freedumb2003]

"Scientists" study things they claim are trillions of years old...and never come up with an answer, just postulation. As much proof as we can come up with for there being G-D.

Scientists aren't looking for God. They are looking for mechanical explanations for things. God, by definition (and His own words if you are of a Biblical Literary mind), defies proof.

Just because it is complicated and subject to new interpretations doesn't mean it shouldn't be pursued.

[Redcloak]

Since the "current" universe seems to be flying apart and showing no signs of an eventual contraction, what prevented the "prior" iteration from doing the same thing?

[cliff630]

Probably not that many.
About the number of permutations
of a deck of 52 cards. (i.e. 52!)

I don't have handy the formula
that estimates factorials.

Anyway 10 to the 75 is way smaller than a googol.

[BillT]

10 to the 75th is a lot of anything!!!!:-); Just about the same number of insignificant digits needed to statistically prove evolution!

[dr huer]

Einstein's space is curved by the presence of matter, and the volume of the universe is believed finite. Time looks straight, but not necessarily so, and our universe's future could be directly connected with its beginning.

[JohnBovenmyer]

This implies Algore's head is going to explode as it is the densest substance imaginable.

[heights]

Do not question Scientific Dogma.The Inquisition is coming.

[calex59]

Ok, so now tell us where the other universe came from and how did it start? This doesn't answer any questions at all but makes more questions. This is a typical trick of scientists to make you think they have solved a big mystery when in reality they couldn't solve it so they made something up to give the illusion of solving it.

They did the same thing with the origin of life, it is impossible for it to have occured on earth the way they theorized so now "life came to earth on a meteor or some other rock from space" as if this explains it when in reality the same old question looms: How did life start?

[cliff630]

This agrees with my theory:

Each of us has been reborn an infinite
number of times, Unfortunately, there is
no way to leave a trail.

[rbg81]

Personally, I think most of this stuff is mutual you-know-what by physicists. There are some things that just aren't knowable, and the Big Bang is one of 'em. If there even was such a thing. Unless you believe in G-d, the thought of something out of absolutely nothing is just not credible.

[heights]

Cosmic Crumbs.

[cliff630]

UH UH! should be a plex after googol.
a googol is 1 followed by 10 zeroes.
a googol plex is 1 followed by a googol of
of zeroes. Sorry........

[JohnBovenmyer]

Probably not that many.
About the number of permutations
of a deck of 52 cards. (i.e. 52!)

Close enough for a CBO estimate of a new entitlement, 52! is a mere 8x 10^67

[Gordongekko909]

Cue Elton John!

[Reactionary]

"...our universe's future could be directly connected with its beginning."

If that's the case, we've all been here before. And we will be here again, as Nietzsche predicted.

Oh. Nice to see you! Again.

[Gordongekko909]

Yeah, the Big Rip seems to be where we're headed. 'course, I don't claim to know anything about this stuff, I kinda just watch from the bleachers and follow as best I can.

[LibWhacker]

So the universe that "came before" ours was ours?

[Gordongekko909]

Yeah, like, 25 orders of magnitude smaller. ^_^

[mountainlyons]

This is not "the answer" it is just another theory without any proof!

[Gordongekko909]

Hence the word "theory."