2 Next
Topic: Question.....The universe seems to be endless....
mightymoe's photo
Sun 01/17/16 08:54 AM



Could be ..... I mean - History repeats itself right? :-)


me personally, i think everything in the universe has a fluid like structure, including time...


Time is a measurement, a metric, something created by Humans.


yes, a perception...

JaiGi's photo
Sat 01/23/16 05:39 AM

"Last night as I lay in bed looking at the stars I thought 'Where the hell is the ceiling ?'"

JaiGi's photo
Sat 01/23/16 05:41 AM
Edited by JaiGi on Sat 01/23/16 05:53 AM

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." — Douglas Adams (1952—2001), British writer. Buy at Amazon.comThe Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Introduction.


So if the universe is endless, there was no beginning, no creation, eh?
then i come across..


"We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death." — Buy at Amazon.comJ. D. Bernal.


takes the sting out.

JaiGi's photo
Sat 01/23/16 05:44 AM

"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." — Buy at Amazon.comDouglas Adams (1952—2001).


i think Douglas visited India.

JaiGi's photo
Sat 01/23/16 05:58 AM
closets answer:


"If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America." — Wayne Hayes.


so it can't be endless; just a matter of scaling.

metalwing's photo
Sat 01/23/16 08:33 AM



Could be ..... I mean - History repeats itself right? :-)


me personally, i think everything in the universe has a fluid like structure, including time...


Time is a measurement, a metric, something created by Humans.


You shouldn't keep stating as fact concepts you don't understand. You can have an opinion but it should be expressed as such. Note that a couple of recent posts are Einstein's theories being proven again and again, and he certainly doesn't share your opinion of time and has pretty much proven otherwise.

no photo
Sat 01/23/16 08:44 AM




Could be ..... I mean - History repeats itself right? :-)


me personally, i think everything in the universe has a fluid like structure, including time...


Time is a measurement, a metric, something created by Humans.


You shouldn't keep stating as fact concepts you don't understand. You can have an opinion but it should be expressed as such. Note that a couple of recent posts are Einstein's theories being proven again and again, and he certainly doesn't share your opinion of time and has pretty much proven otherwise.

I once read that Einstein had a theory that there was no big bang. He later retracted it because modern day physics at that time didn't add up.

Apparently even today, some top scientists are saying that it could be Einsteins greatest work, if, as some think, it will one day be proven correct.

It's worth a read if ever you come across it.

fivethirtytwo's photo
Sat 01/23/16 09:19 AM
Scientists believe there was a beginning. Therefore there is and end. Scientists also believe it is expanding. This may signify not an actual end of the universe but an edge that moving into, or pushing along, or absorbing whatever previously occupied the area of our now universe.

"in the beginning there was nothing"
Perhaps it was two nothings that accidentally rubbed together and BANG!!

Here we are

mightymoe's photo
Sat 01/23/16 09:26 AM




Could be ..... I mean - History repeats itself right? :-)


me personally, i think everything in the universe has a fluid like structure, including time...


Time is a measurement, a metric, something created by Humans.


You shouldn't keep stating as fact concepts you don't understand. You can have an opinion but it should be expressed as such. Note that a couple of recent posts are Einstein's theories being proven again and again, and he certainly doesn't share your opinion of time and has pretty much proven otherwise.

the concept of time hasn't been proven either, just accepted because it fits with other theories...

IgorFrankensteen's photo
Sun 01/24/16 06:55 PM

Could be ..... I mean - History repeats itself right? :-)


Absolutely not. Being an Historian, whenever I run across this statement, I like to politely explain that it's bollocks. People have occasionally CLAIMED such things, especially whoever it was who popularized the various versions of "Those who forget/don't understand the past, are doomed to repeat it."

They were self-serving dolts, in my opinion. Or perhaps I should say more charitably, they were "expositionally lazy." That is, they did a rotten job of saying what they had in mind, and because of that, said something that is misleading at best.

In fact, it would be MUCH more accurate to say, that those who think History DOES repeat itself, and who make plans based on that foolishness, are doomed to be repeatedly surprised and defeated by anything and everything which happens in the present.


metalwing's photo
Thu 01/28/16 08:23 PM





Could be ..... I mean - History repeats itself right? :-)


me personally, i think everything in the universe has a fluid like structure, including time...


Time is a measurement, a metric, something created by Humans.


You shouldn't keep stating as fact concepts you don't understand. You can have an opinion but it should be expressed as such. Note that a couple of recent posts are Einstein's theories being proven again and again, and he certainly doesn't share your opinion of time and has pretty much proven otherwise.

I once read that Einstein had a theory that there was no big bang. He later retracted it because modern day physics at that time didn't add up.

Apparently even today, some top scientists are saying that it could be Einsteins greatest work, if, as some think, it will one day be proven correct.

It's worth a read if ever you come across it.


I have. Modern big bang theory is based on the fact that all the evidence is consistent with a "big bang". What we don't know is "What if it is also consistent with something else?"

2 Next