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Old 11-26-2011, 01:02 PM
 
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Whether you consider the universe to be a micropoint, or at its full expansion, you are still left to ponder the evolutionary events which led to the universe being where it is (and not somewhere else), and which led to the universe expanding when it did (and not sooner or later). Both questions imply that a reality preceded what we call the universe, spatially outside what we call the universe.
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Old 11-26-2011, 08:40 PM
 
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But an infinite and eternal universe is more satisfactory to you? How so? And on what basis?
Yes, through deductive reasoning. I've stated my arguments earlier in this thread and will provide further reasoning in this response.

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The vids I posted represent one hypothesis regarding the origin of the universe. It was to help clarify what another poster was trying to say. That said, there are certainly other hypotheses.
I know you were trying to clarify with the videos and I appreciate you posting them, but I believe it was fair of me to challenge the one video. I have yet heard or seen scientific evidence against my claims.

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I have yet to see any validation to assert such a claim of an eternal, or infinite universe is even plausible. Are you saying that quantum fluctuations are not possible? All you suggested was that some kind of unknown energy source regenerates the universe. Would you mind elaborating on any effects of this unknown energy that would give reason to consider it plausible?
Sure it's plausible:
Terrence A. Lynch, naturalist, persecuted because of new theory promoting the infinite nature of the universe

"New findings from the Hubble Space Telescope as relates to the size, age and nature of the universe are making Lynch's theory of an eternal universe seem yet more plausible. "

and

The Myth of the Beginning of Time: Scientific American

"String theory suggests that the big bang was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state"

I'm not saying that quantum fluctuations are not possible.

I'm not saying that some kind of unknown energy source regenerates the universe. Perhaps you are referring to dark energy which at this point in time is speculation and is not believed to be even dense enough to measure.

Dark energy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Since it is not very dense—roughly 10−29 grams per cubic centimeter—it is hard to imagine experiments to detect it in the laboratory."

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I agree with his 'new definition' of the term "nothing", although there's nothing there's new about that. I assume you feel the universe has always existed, that in effect it is an eternal structure. And that's fine. However, the suggestion that the universe as something from nothing cannot be true is utter nonsense.
The suggestion that the universe as something from nothing cannot be true is not nonsense. However, the fact the Big Bang theory is taught in schools and is widely accepted as true is.

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Assuming that the universe had a beginning, then regardless of whatever field of conditions it may have originated from, or how it came to be, there was a point when the universe did not exist (nothing). In other words, we have a valid example of something (the universe) from nothing which is relative to the universe itself, not to any possible preexisting conditions. Frankly, the only thing known for certain is that we are limited to the confines of the universe, whether it's finite or infinite, and as such there isn't any way to know what conditions may have preexisted it. And since you prefer to view an eternal universe scenario, you're still bound and limited by the particle horizon of the observable universe.
An eternal Universe would have no preexisting conditions.

The debate between whether the Universe is infinite or not is ultimately pointless because for our purposes, if we were to travel the speed of light into outer space, we would be long dead before the Milky Way could be fully seen in view. That being the case, I still lean towards an infinite Universe model.


Journey to the Edge of the Universe - YouTube
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Old 11-27-2011, 08:47 AM
 
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After, "The Mind was it's own ignitor..." the rest doesn't make sense in the English language.

He thinks he is using a language translation program. Unfortunately, it is actually a random word generator.
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Old 12-10-2011, 09:10 PM
 
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Schopenhauer wrote that if the universe is infinite in time then everything that could possibly happen in the universe has already happened.
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Old 12-11-2011, 12:36 AM
 
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Schopenhauer wrote that if the universe is infinite in time then everything that could possibly happen in the universe has already happened.
Just because you don't remember being you once before doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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Old 12-11-2011, 02:04 PM
 
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Well it's all just proposed theories no matter side your on of this subject however my thoughts are that the universe ''may'' have always existed however there still could had been a big bang. If the universe was compacted into an sub atomic pinhead then it still was existing just only in that scope of size and so all the big bang did was to expand it out to it's current size and continuing on to an unknown size until either stopping or recontracting possibly back into it's original sub atomic pinhead size at some unknown point of time.

As for ''what'' caused the initial explosion obviously know one knows however we see chain reactions all the time through out the universe and so why not an universal law of chain reaction whether on earth, a supernova or even the so called big bang.
Not a big deal, but it wasn't exactly an explosion, but it was fast, and continues to expand faster.
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Old 12-12-2011, 09:34 AM
 
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Not a big deal, but it wasn't exactly an explosion, but it was fast, and continues to expand faster.
Well it was a quantum explosion or chain reaction.

Do you not believe in the Big Bang Theory and instead ascribe to Hoyle's ''Steady State Theory''?
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Old 12-12-2011, 06:59 PM
 
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Well it was a quantum explosion or chain reaction.

Do you not believe in the Big Bang Theory and instead ascribe to Hoyle's ''Steady State Theory''?
I believe in the Big Bang theory but not the Steady State theory. I suspect dark energy was the culprit for expansion.
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Old 12-14-2011, 07:38 AM
 
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I believe in the Big Bang theory but not the Steady State theory. I suspect dark energy was the culprit for expansion.
I've pondered that thought myself however it's probably most likely that all forms of the laws of quantum physics (e.g. electrostatic force) currently known in our universe didn't apply in the ''pre'' big bang quantum realm.
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Old 12-15-2011, 10:44 PM
 
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I guess it all had to start either at the same time or very close to it.
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