Origins
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FYI The contents of yhe first book I mentioned are:
How Did the Universe Begin?
How Did Life on Earth Get Started?
What Causes Mass Extinctions?
What Is the Inside of the Earth Like?
What Causes Ice Ages?
Were Dinosaurs Warm-blooded?
Is There a Missing Link?
What Caused the "Big Bang" in Human Culture?
How Do We Learn Language?
Are Dolphins As Smart As We Are?
How Do Birds Migrate?
What Is Red?
How Did Mayan Astronomers Know So Much?
What Is Gravity?
What Is Light?
Why Is There So Much Quantum Frustration?
What Are Black Holes Really Like?
How Old Is the Universe?
Are There Multiple Universes?
How Many Dimensions Are There?
How Will the Universe End?
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These questions have always spun me out.
If the universe had a beginning, what was there before?
If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding in to?
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Who built the simulation? And where did their universe come from?
And can they please stop watching me masturbate in the toilet?
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@mariner4life said in Origins:
These questions have always spun me out.
If the universe had a beginning, what was there before?
If the universe is expanding, what is it expanding in to?
Yeah. Define "nothing".
If there was "nothing" before there was not even time.
And in our concept of "nothing" we probably think of vast swathes of space - a void - but even that is a something ...
And the extension is if "in the beginning" there was nothing then "everything" added together adds up to, well, nothing ...
Eeek ...
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@mariner4life be better if you shut the door once in a while, no body wants to watch that shit...ratings drop to an all time low when you forget the door!
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@mariner4life said in Origins:
Who built the simulation? And where did their universe come from?
And can they please stop watching me masturbate in the toilet?
I'm no longer welcome in the bathroom section of Bunnings either...
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Yeah. Define "nothing".
If there was "nothing" before there was not even time.
Thats the bit I always struggle with, the whole idea that to us there is no "before" because time as we understand it is just another thing created by the big bang itself.
So there is no "before" as there was no such thing as time. Einstein got it & rolled it into relativity, personally I just accept its something I'll never really get my head round. I think they are saying there was something before the BB, but as it was impossible to measure in anyway its irrelevant. IE pre BB mass was infinate & time didn't exist. Much smarter people who have devoted their life to physics get it & thats good enough for me.
Yet I'm more than happy to buy that any super massive thing can distort time (eg black hole) which is in the same ball park. Once you buy that you are buying the idea that time is no different to any other dimension we can measure.
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@mariner4life said in Origins:
Who built the simulation? And where did their universe come from?
Future us.