How do you think the universe started ?

[Talorgan]

Then I suppose for a speck of dust there must exist a void for it to exist

[jois]

14 minutes ago, Talorgan said:

Then I suppose for a speck of dust there must exist a void for it to exist

They cant both exist simultaneously

Edited September 14, 2022 by jois

[Talorgan]

I wouldn't like to say . nothing and something in same reality 

And then most of the something is empty space with energy 

Edited September 14, 2022 by Talorgan

[jois]

6 minutes ago, Talorgan said:

I wouldn't like to say . nothing and something in same reality 

And then most of the something is empty space with energy 

Sound like the big bang theory to me

[peter]

On 9/14/2022 at 8:00 AM, Campion said:

 

This reminds me of the Steady State Model (alternative to the Big Bang) which was a respectable theory with a minority support until the cosmic background microwave radiation was discovered in 1964 which (for reasons I can't remember) favoured the Big Bang. 

I have always thought the big bang to be bullshit and now early observations from the new James Webb orbiting telescope seem to point to that fact

Edited September 15, 2022 by peter

[Talorgan]

9 hours ago, jois said:

Sound like the big bang theory to me

Yes it's not my theory just what certain kabbalists were portraying I think.

Problems with big bang theory too is where it came from ,as Terrence McKenna once said  paraphrased

"they say give us One free  miracle and we can explain the rest "etc

 

( also said "they" recruited him in their organisation which is besides the point)

 

Or again perhaps we can't perceive beginning because of who we are inside it?

 

 

 

Edited September 15, 2022 by Talorgan

[Campion]

11 hours ago, ManxCat3 said:

 

The fundamental problem is the only two possibilities are unacceptable which is why I think it means that there must be something which is the equivalent of  a God because its the only way out of the unsolvable problem.

 

But doesn't that just shift the problem to: where does God come from? 

[Campion]

1 hour ago, Talorgan said:

Problems with big bang theory too is where it came from ,as Terrence McKenna once said  paraphrased

 

I can agree with this problem but it runs deep, deeper than my imagination. Asking 'where' or 'when' presupposes the existence of space and time, but if the creation of the universe was also the creation of space-time, there was no pre-existing 'where' for anything to come from. The problem is, I can't imagine the nothing from which something emerged. Even using the past tense to describe it is suspect, because time only exists inside the bubble of space-time.

 

It's in this state of mind that I can begin to glimpse spiritual teachers who say that this is the void, the emptiness. 

Edited September 15, 2022 by Campion

[jois]

4 hours ago, Talorgan said:

Yes it's not my theory just what certain kabbalists were portraying I think.

Problems with big bang theory too is where it came from ,as Terrence McKenna once said  paraphrased

"they say give us One free  miracle and we can explain the rest "etc

 

( also said "they" recruited him in their organisation which is besides the point)

 

Or again perhaps we can't perceive beginning because of who we are inside it?

 

 

 

The big bang theory is pretty clear where the big bang came from. It's less clear where the energy that banged came from.

 

But then it doesn't at all try to state what was where before the big bang. Just that it did indeed rapidly exspand.

 

It seems unlikely that we will ever know. At that point it stops being science and becomes speculation

Edited September 15, 2022 by jois

[shabbirss]

[TheConsultant]

2 hours ago, shabbirss said:

Magnetism causes that. :)

Centripetal and centrifugal vortices stem from magnetic fields.

At the centre the blackhole is counterspace, much like in space, a blackhole is merely counterspace whereby light is stopped from escaping due to the magnetic sinkhole towards an infinitely small place called counterspace.

https://phys.org/news/2015-06-magnetism-manifests-universe.html

I will say it again, space-time is an absurdity.

Edited September 15, 2022 by TheConsultant

[ManxCat3]

On 9/15/2022 at 7:55 AM, Campion said:

 

But doesn't that just shift the problem to: where does God come from? 

No because thats why its God because it doesnt have to be created by anything and can also have existed forever

[Campion]

7 hours ago, ManxCat3 said:

No because thats why its God because it doesnt have to be created by anything and can also have existed forever

 

This is a well known line of argument in the philosophy of religion. It goes something like 

 

Believer: everything needs to have a cause, by the law of cause and effect. God is the first cause of the universe. 

 

Skeptic: Well what's the cause of God then? 

 

Believer: God is eternal, "begotten not created", he is the creator and not part of the creation. 

 

Skeptic: But you said earlier that everything needs a creator, now you've made an exception to this rule. Not everything needs a creator, and things can be eternal after all.  If God doesn't need a creator, why should the universe need one? 

 

So it's like asking what's the difference between the physical universe and the spiritual, to explain why they obey different rules? 

Edited September 16, 2022 by Campion

[ManxCat3]

3 hours ago, Campion said:

 

This is a well known line of argument in the philosophy of religion. It goes something like 

 

Believer: everything needs to have a cause, by the law of cause and effect. God is the first cause of the universe. 

 

Skeptic: Well what's the cause of God then? 

 

Believer: God is eternal, "begotten not created", he is the creator and not part of the creation. 

 

Skeptic: But you said earlier that everything needs a creator, now you've made an exception to this rule. Not everything needs a creator, and things can be eternal after all.  If God doesn't need a creator, why should the universe need one? 

 

So it's like asking what's the difference between the physical universe and the spiritual, to explain why they obey different rules? 

In that case the universe may be God then, im defining it as whatever it is that had no creator.

[Campion]

10 hours ago, ManxCat3 said:

In that case the universe may be God then, im defining it as whatever it is that had no creator.

 

Pantheism is the only type of theism my rational mind can accept, and I like the way it goes full circle and collapses the distinction with atheism. 

 

However it doesn't take us any further forward, because we still don't know how it all started in the first place. If I look at myself and ask what created me, what would I say? Just my parents? But that misses out the context they were in; imo it's better to say that the whole universe created me at that point in time. 

[Arnie]

On 9/15/2022 at 1:32 AM, peter said:

I have always thought the big bang to be bullshit and now early observations from the new James Webb orbiting telescope seem to point to that fact

 

Please read this:

The James Webb Space Telescope never disproved the Big Bang | Space

 

There was a big bang, we can see it in the CMB.

Edited September 17, 2022 by Arnie

[ManxCat3]

9 hours ago, Campion said:

 

Pantheism is the only type of theism my rational mind can accept, and I like the way it goes full circle and collapses the distinction with atheism. 

 

However it doesn't take us any further forward, because we still don't know how it all started in the first place. If I look at myself and ask what created me, what would I say? Just my parents? But that misses out the context they were in; imo it's better to say that the whole universe created me at that point in time. 

You could say it didn;t need to start because since the universe is God, it didn't need to have a start or be created by something else.

[Mr H]

 

[Heidi Gillen]

On 9/15/2022 at 1:32 AM, peter said:

I have always thought the big bang to be bullshit and now early observations from the new James Webb orbiting telescope seem to point to that fact

Big Bang is an anagram of 'Bin Bag G' Rubbish in my opinion. Then again, I choose to follow the signs, not their science.

[webtrekker]

What if we're living in a simulation? It may be an endless loop that just repeats when the program reaches the line 'xxxxxxxxxxxx goto 1.'

 

 

 

[EnigmaticWorld]

22 minutes ago, webtrekker said:

What if we're living in a simulation?

 

If we're in a sumulation, then there is probably a programmer (god). Checkmate, Reddit atheists.

[Origin]

There is no universe. It is an incredible advanced product of intelligence. And it does not correspond in any way to what has ever been described by humans. And it is based on an unknown spatial principle. 

[shabbirss]

16 hours ago, Origin said:

There is no universe. It is an incredible advanced product of intelligence. And it does not correspond in any way to what has ever been described by humans. And it is based on an unknown spatial principle. 

in fact, to call it a "uni-verse" would be incorrect.

[Origin]

On 9/15/2022 at 1:40 PM, shabbirss said:

What you see is an endless delayed state. Due to the fragility of human existence and the too slow processing speed, everything is absurdly slow. To give Humans reference points and to have a steady state that is tailored to them. Not only is everything connected, there is much more. There is something hidden in it that takes place on an extraordinary scale. What is beyond current understanding and imagination. It did not let this be incorporated into the sea of thoughts and dreams. Those who know and who can see can do nothing about it.

[The All Eye]

We know that size can decrease or increase infinitely, so I think what we see in this world or universe is only relative to our size. I wonder if, hypothetically speaking, I was able to shrink infinitely, would I emerge at some point in another universe, continue to shrink out of that universe and emerge in another...and so on.