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The Big Bang: How Could Something Come From Nothing?
Sci Tech Daily ^
| 01/19/22
| ALASTAIR WILSON
Posted on 01/20/2022 6:07:24 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
“The last star will slowly cool and fade away. With its passing, the universe will become once more a void, without light or life or meaning.” So warned the physicist Brian Cox in the recent BBC series Universe. The fading of that last star will only be the beginning of an infinitely long, dark epoch. All matter will eventually be consumed by monstrous black holes, which in their turn will evaporate away into the dimmest glimmers of light. Space will expand ever outwards until even that dim light becomes too spread out to interact. Activity will cease.
Or will it? Strangely enough, some cosmologists believe a previous, cold dark empty universe like the one which lies in our far future could have been the source of our very own Big Bang.
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Above my pay grade but very interesting.
To: Kid Shelleen
Anyone who likes this article will love BBC's Universe.
Universe - BBC
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:07:50 AM PST
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
So, in the beginning there was nothing....
Then it exploded?
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:08:52 AM PST
by
joe fonebone
(bush league chamber of commerce worshiping republiCAN'Ts are the enemy)
To: Kid Shelleen
This makes about as much sense as Earth being the center of the universe. The idea that something can start from nothing in and has nothing without a repeating pattern is ludicrous.
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:11:12 AM PST
by
WMarshal
("Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.")
To: joe fonebone
Yes; that is what the experts tell us and it’s settled science (for now).
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:11:57 AM PST
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Kid Shelleen
The spacetime vacuum state is seething with particles constantly being created and destroyed, apparently “out of nothing”. But perhaps all this really tells us is that the quantum vacuum is (despite its name) a something rather than a nothing. If Albert criticized this vacuous assertion, then I'm with him, I think.
But as to the "How Did Something Come Out of Nothing?" query I say: same way rocks can turn into people.
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:16:10 AM PST
by
Migraine
To: Kid Shelleen
At least they admit that modern science cannot describe the physical state of the universe prior to the Planck Density era; a tacit acknowledgement of Creation
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:16:23 AM PST
by
glennaro
(Stop living your precious life in irrational fear. Live unmasked, unvaxxed, unbullied and unafraid.)
To: Kid Shelleen
But “dark matter “ is still undefined…
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:17:37 AM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: Kid Shelleen
The Big Bang happened shortly after the Big Dinner and a couple of drinks.
To: Kid Shelleen
Its worth noting the father of the Big Bang the big bang theory was a Jesuit Priest, and that for many years it was dismissed by some as being a far fetched God centered explanation probably too influenced by religion to be taken seriously. That always seems to be forgotten these days. But if you think about it, it makes sense. The one thing Materialsm/Atheism implies about the nature of the universe above all else was that it was not created but had simply always existed and always would exist and that there was noting beyond it. That the universe was the basis of all reality. The alternative hypothesis was God (or other super natural cause) created the universe. Thus when a Jesuot Preist proposed that Cosmological evidence for expansion pointed to a moment of creation, Athiests of course were inclined to disagree since it contradicted their philosophy. These days some Athiesrs are trying to piece together the shreds of what science had done to their belief system by speculating that beyond the universe itself is just more of the same in a larger invisible system like the multiverse etc.
To: Kid Shelleen
The question I’ve always had is where did God come from.
To: WMarshal; Kid Shelleen
I’m no expert in apologetics but from what little I have studied it’s impossible.
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:26:31 AM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: WMarshal
“This makes about as much sense as Earth being the center of the universe. The idea that something can start from nothing in and has nothing without a repeating pattern is ludicrous.”
Exactly, because there are more universes out there that came before us. We were seeded, spawned.
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:26:47 AM PST
by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: Kid Shelleen
Accretion and accretion and accretion until the energy could no longer be contained and the accreted mass exploded with a force the gravity could not resist
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:28:46 AM PST
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) California needs Zorro to destroy the neoNobility corruption)
To: Kid Shelleen
Then… someone will light a match?
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:29:50 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(“Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you disagree with”. T. Sowell )
To: GreenHornet
>> The Big Bang happened shortly after the Big Dinner and a couple of drinks. <<
And then came the Big Cigarette.
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:31:30 AM PST
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Hot Tabasco
So you see, something is eternal. Can’t think it away.
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:33:40 AM PST
by
aspasia
To: Kid Shelleen
Like when God told that guy, “Get your own dirt.”
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:35:15 AM PST
by
MayflowerMadam
(When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
To: Kid Shelleen
These are distinctively metaphysical ideas which have been explored by philosophers of science extensively, especially in the context of quantum gravity where ordinary cause and effect seem to break down. At the limits of our knowledge, physics and philosophy become hard to disentangle.
This is the payline. The author or physicist is changing the meaning of the equation and adding metaphysical to the explanation. Adding the metaphysical puts creation by intelligent design right back into play. When your equation HAS to have the word metaphysical, you are playing on the same team as the creationists. (And I am a Creationist)
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:39:13 AM PST
by
wbarmy
(I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
To: Openurmind
Exactly, because there are more universes out there that came before us. We were seeded, spawned.But where did the first of these universes come from? And why?
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posted on
01/20/2022 6:39:53 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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