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Title: Another ‘settled science’ topic is not so settled after all – Big Bang theory questioned
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URL Source: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/ ... ll-big-bang-theory-questioned/
Published: Feb 11, 2015
Author: Anthony Watts
Post Date: 2015-02-11 08:10:44 by A K A Stone
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Views: 19933
Comments: 58
We’ve all heard of the claim of “settled science” when it comes to global warming/climate change, and we’ve all heard of the “Big Bang Theory”, and I’m not just talking about the popular TV show. The scientific theory goes all the way back to 1927. This is an artist’s concept of the metric expansion of space, where space (including hypothetical non-observable portions of the universe) is represented at each time by the circular sections. Note on the left the dramatic expansion (not to scale) occurring in the inflationary epoch, and at the center the expansion acceleration. The scheme is decorated with WMAP images on the left and with the representation of stars at the appropriate level of development. Credit: NASA The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the birth of the universe. It states that at some moment all of space was contained in a single point from which the Universe has been expanding ever since. Modern measurements place this moment at approximately 13.8 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe. After the initial expansion, the Universe cooled sufficiently to allow the formation of subatomic particles, and later simple atoms. Giant clouds of these primordial elements later coalesced through gravity to form stars and galaxies. The Big Bang theory does not provide any explanation for the initial conditions of the Universe; rather, it describes and explains the general evolution of the Universe going forward from that point on. (Source: Wikipedia) Now, it seems there’s a challenge to this ‘settled’ science, and a new quantum equation predicts the universe has no beginning. (Phys.org) —The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dark energy, resolving multiple problems at once. The widely accepted age of the universe, as estimated by general relativity, is 13.8 billion years. In the beginning, everything in existence is thought to have occupied a single infinitely dense point, or singularity. Only after this point began to expand in a “Big Bang” did the universe officially begin. Although the Big Bang singularity arises directly and unavoidably from the mathematics of general relativity, some scientists see it as problematic because the math can explain only what happened immediately after—not at or before—the singularity. “The Big Bang singularity is the most serious problem of general relativity because the laws of physics appear to break down there,” Ahmed Farag Ali at Benha University and the Zewail City of Science and Technology, both in Egypt, told Phys.org. Read more at: phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation- universe.html#jCp
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#1. To: sneakypete, rlk, willie green (#0)
You have to change your opinion again. Here is your new one. My position remains the same.
You can't hang that one on me, dude. "Some people march to a different drummer — and some people polka."
Nothing has existed forever because time,by definition,begins at a certain instant,and nothing existed before time began. Time is measurable,so it has to have a starting point. This is more of an observation on how the human mind works than a scientific certainty. Humans love to define and measure things. It's what makes humans different from other sentient animals like welfare creatures that only concern themselves with "now". Having said that,isn't the whole focus of this discussion "inside science",where a bunch of autistic geniuses are arguing over (for lack of a more appropriate term) "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin."? It can neither be proven or shown to be false . Like other "religions" it is a theory that you either accept,reject,or say "who cares?" and move on.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Misleading article - an observation was discredited as having its data compromised - the theory of the big bang would have been confirmed if that observation was deemed valid. We are back to where we were before on the Big Bang being one theory (though widely held as the best one so far) of many.
Once again you are assuming facts not in evidence. Here is your new one. Thanks,but I will pass. I just don't care. I am curious about it's effect on YOUR opinions,though. Are miracles affected by this new theory? What about virgin birth from a married woman?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I thought the "Big Bang" was when God impregnated the virgin wife of a mortal man so he could have a son. Have I been wrong about this?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Some people just can't wrap their minds around the concept of a "theory".
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Yes, and morons think some theories that have been dis proven are science. You believe in evolution and the tooth fairy don't you?
What is the definition of time? Time can be measured? Really? Are we not, rather, measuring some physical phenonmenon, placing a numerical scale alongside of it, and calling the dance of this physical object in from of our arbitrarily drawn scale the "passage" of "time". When a bicycle wheel with a card stuck in it clicks, is that time? Is our heart beating out time? Or is our heart just beating, and call the count sequence "time". The latter. You're right: this is indeed an observation about how the human mind works. We cannot "measure time". Rather, we can arbitrarily define the sequence of a mechanical process as "time". We can SAY we're measuring something other than the cyclical nature of the mechanical process, but that's just us asserting it. The hands of the clock are never pushed along by "time". Time doesn't actually EXIST. It's a description of a relationship of a physical thing to a physical thing, like "pi" or "i" or "e".
Have I been wrong about this? Yes.
And other morons believe superstition is fact. BTW,WHO has EVER claimed any dis-proven theories are science? Other than you,that is. You believe in evolution and the tooth fairy don't you? Half-right. I believe evolution is the best and most likely explanation for how life has evolved (note the word "evolved"),but the tooth fairy is in the realm of miracles,and you are the one that believes in miracles,not me.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Now you are going to get all "hippy-dippy mystical" on me? Even morons understand the concept of time. Time can be measured? Really? Yes,really. There was "then",and then there is "now". Time is the period between the two. We cannot "measure time". HorseHillary. We can,and we do. Maybe you can explain your concept for why you are neither late nor early to your cult leader when you show up at church on Tuesday for Mass? Rather, we can arbitrarily define the sequence of a mechanical process as "time". The mechanical process you are talking about is a tool/measuring stick,not the process.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Gen 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, Job 38:32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasonsd or lead out the Beare with its cubs? Psalm 104:19 19 The moon marks off the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down. Jeremiah 8:7 7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD. Daniel 2:21 21 He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. The Holy Bible: New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1984), Ge 1:14–Ac 14:17.
“Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen, from the grave.” John Chrysostom www.evidenceforJesusChrist.org
To the contrary: I am being very precise. You are not measuring time. You are counting heartbeats, or whatever, between one thing and another. That is sequence. You are labelling sequence "time", and then treating that as a "real thing". It is not "time" driving your heartbeat, or the clock, or any other thing. Time is a mathematical relationship between things, like pi. The relationship between time and a mechanical sequence is the relationship between pi and a pie. A pie is a real thing. Pi doesn't exist in the real world as a thing: it's a relationship. Same thing with time. A force hits you and has an impact. It's a real thing that is there. Same thing with matter. Space, though, is just the empty distance between the two things. It is not, itself, a "thing". It's the absence of a thing. Time is the relationship of things to the sequence of a thing chosen to be the yardstick. It's like space - there's nothing THERE "driving" anything. Entropy and friction are what mechanically wears things out. "Time" doesn't actually DO anything (because it doesn't exist).
Yes, and each of those things is a defined term: a "day" is the period of light. "Night" is the period of darkness. A "month" is a phase of the moon. A "season" is a period of agricultural activity, with the celestial play as the predictable background. In no case is there an abstract time. "Time" is not an entity. It has no essence. And no, the moon doesn't "know" when to go down. The author of the Psalm engaged in an anthropomorphization that treated an inanimate object as though it had a mind that it does not in fact have. If that idea were pressed one inch more, it would be idolatrous. The moon goes down in sequence because God set a physical law that binds it. The moon "knows" nothing at all.
It is very pleasant to change one's opinion and to learn new things.
No, Big Bang will be when you bang your thick skull and you see the light. Just kidding.
Time is tied to mass and energy.
“Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen, from the grave.” John Chrysostom www.evidenceforJesusChrist.org
Theories are made and disproved all the time. This is how science works.
Not everyone is a moron
By our models, yes. Just like pi is tied to a pie. Mass and energy, and the pie, are real things. Time and pi are merely mathematical relationships, not real things.
I guess I must be, because although I understand that the mathematical relationship that we call "time" "exists" - in the sense that we have labeled it - I do not believe that it has real substance or essence. I suspect the same thing of gravity. I suspect that gravity is a surface effect of objects, and is not a real force-over-distance the way electromagnetism is. I suspect that "gravitational lensing" that we think we see is in fact the electromagnetic redirection of polarized light. But as a moron, I suppose I should keep my peace on such things because who cares what an idiot thinks?
Explain that to a Scuba diver running out of air.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
That's happened a few times,and I saw stars,not daylight.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Not everyone is a moron I agree. Now,how does what you wrote refute what I wrote?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
What if something created time?
The scuba diver is not being affected by time. He is being affected by the lack of air.
Of course something created time. Movement.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
His air isn't regulated by the time he spends breathing it?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
The way I see it, distance and time are properties of a physical realm. In a non-physical realm there wouldn't have to be either time or distance (space).
No, because he "spends" nothing. There is no bank of time with a deciining balance sheet that he trades for other things. There is a process - a whole series of processes, sequences and cycles, that are the biological reactions that sustain life. They require oxygen. When they have completed a given process, they require more oxygen. What drives the air depletion is the "fire" of biochemical reactions. "Time" is not driving anything. Time is a meter stick we could draw to divide up the processes into units of sequence, but it's the process of chemistry that gives rise to the need. What is being used up is not time. Air is being used up, and it's being used up by a process, which uses up the available oxygen in the air. There's no "time" pressing anything forward. Time is what you decide to use as the yardstick to measure the depletion of the air. It's a reference, but neither a force nor an entity.
Our timeline is linear. Gods timeline isn't a line but a circle. He is outside of time. That is the way I see it.
You may be right,but I only live and think in a physical realm. Not really into the theoretical side of things.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
No, because he "spends" nothing. There is no bank of time with a deciining balance sheet that he trades for other things. Isn't that just a 3 dollar way of saying "He doesn't need oxygen if he just quits breathing"?
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Yes, outside of time. Able to enter it at any point. Somehow.
Yes, there's plenty to try and figure out in the physical realm.
? And not so much in the religious belief world? What about all those "miracles" by Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Muhammad?
WHAT "miracles" did Buddha or Muhammad perform?
What of the Dream State? Everything there seems real, and physical. People converse, laugh, love, touch, and even cry in their dreams. Once I was so utterly convinced that I was dreaming that in a living room I purposely took the Yellow Pages that was conveniently on top of the end table next to couch, and began reading all the names from it. Sure enough, there were hundreds names. But...but...It was so real! I became bored, left the house (it was empty, had NO idea whose it was), and began walking down a street. BEAUTIFUL sunny morning, (no one outside but me). I was struck by how vivid and colorful all the tall flowers were, how green the grass and plants were, how the scenario were just so free and easy and serene. The details were exact and precise, 3D. It was bliss. A dream. (Hmmm, think I took Vitamin B-12, B-6 and Melatonin before bed.) So were all that appeared in a dream like that, a "reality"? It mimicked the entire physical realm, caressed the senses of touch and sight. Never seen the place before. My point is, that at least one other "physical realm" exists beyond our "awakened state." The moment we pass on, many of us believe in yet another realm of consciousness.
There is something in science known as The Law of Cause and Effect. There is nothing in the Universe that doesn't have a cause behind its existence. As you go back, there can not be an infinite regression. You must eventually reach a very first cause which created the very first effect....OR "movement." (No, God is NOT a giant Timex Watch.)
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#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)
You have to change your opinion again. Here is your new one.
The Big Bang happened long before my time.
Someone else must've done it.
#3. To: A K A Stone (#0)
(Edited)
The universe may have existed forever.....
#4. To: A K A Stone (#1)
(Edited)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#1)
You have to change your opinion again.
#6. To: Willie Green (#2)
The Big Bang happened long before my time.
#7. To: Pericles (#4)
We are back to where we were before on the Big Bang being one theory (though widely held as the best one so far) of many.
#8. To: sneakypete (#7)
Some people just can't wrap their minds around the concept of a "theory".
#9. To: sneakypete (#3)
Nothing has existed forever because time,by definition,begins at a certain instant,and nothing existed before time began. Time is measurable,so it has to have a starting point. This is more of an observation on how the human mind works than a scientific certainty.
#10. To: sneakypete (#6)
I thought the "Big Bang" was when God impregnated the virgin wife of a mortal man so he could have a son.
#11. To: A K A Stone (#8)
Yes, and morons think some theories that have been dis proven are science.
#12. To: Vicomte13 (#9)
What is the definition of time?
#13. To: Vicomte13 (#9)
We cannot "measure time". Rather, we can arbitrarily define the sequence of a mechanical process as "time". We can SAY we're measuring something other than the cyclical nature of the mechanical process, but that's just us asserting it. The hands of the clock are never pushed along by "time". Time doesn't actually EXIST. It's a description of a relationship of a physical thing to a physical thing, like "pi" or "i" or "e".
#14. To: sneakypete (#12)
Now you are going to get all "hippy-dippy mystical" on me? Even morons understand the concept of time.
#15. To: GarySpFC (#13)
(Edited)
#16. To: A K A Stone (#1)
#17. To: sneakypete (#6)
#18. To: Vicomte13 (#15)
In no case is there an abstract time. "Time" is not an entity. It has no essence.
#19. To: A K A Stone (#8)
Yes, and morons think some theories that have been dis proven are science
#20. To: sneakypete (#12)
Even morons understand the concept of time
#21. To: GarySpFC (#18)
Time is tied to mass and energy.
#22. To: A Pole (#20)
(Edited)
Not everyone is a moron
#23. To: Vicomte13 (#14)
"Time" doesn't actually DO anything (because it doesn't exist).
#24. To: A Pole (#17)
No, Big Bang will be when you bang your thick skull and you see the light.
#25. To: A Pole (#20)
Even morons understand the concept of time
#26. To: sneakypete (#3)
Nothing has existed forever because time,by definition,begins at a certain instant,and nothing existed before time began.
#27. To: sneakypete (#23)
Explain that to a Scuba diver running out of air.
#28. To: Biff Tannen (#26)
What if something created time?
#29. To: Vicomte13 (#27)
The scuba diver is not being affected by time. He is being affected by the lack of air.
#30. To: sneakypete (#28)
#31. To: sneakypete (#29)
His air isn't regulated by the time he spends breathing it?
#32. To: Biff Tannen (#30)
The way I see it, distance and time are properties of a physical realm. In a non-physical realm there wouldn't have to be either time or distance (space).
#33. To: Biff Tannen (#30)
In a non-physical realm there wouldn't have to be either time or distance (space).
#34. To: Vicomte13 (#31)
His air isn't regulated by the time he spends breathing it?
#35. To: A K A Stone (#32)
#36. To: sneakypete (#33)
#37. To: Biff Tannen (#36)
Yes, there's plenty to try and figure out in the physical realm.
#38. To: Pridie.Nones (#37)
What about all those "miracles" by Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Muhammad?
#39. To: sneakypete (#33)
I only live and think in a physical realm.
#40. To: sneakypete (#28)
Of course something created time. Movement.
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