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2007-06-13 15:38:31
Barka84
Member
+5|6760|Newcastle UK
wanna know my theory, well don't laugh i'm drunk so if my explanation is'nt great bear with me.

think back to chemistry lessons in school, about atoms, with protons and electrons floating round them... then think to space, the sun and the planets...  floating around the sun, imagine the sun as the nucleaus and the planets as the electrons, don't they just resemble a giant atom.. ?  so if billions of atoms make up say my "computer desk", whats saying we are not part of a giants computer desk as an atom, and we are so small that we will never comprehend this ? lol i know this sounds silly but i did come up with this theory while on drugs..
2007-06-13 15:40:03
notorious
Nay vee, bay bee.
+1,396|7193|The United Center

Kmarion wrote:

We as humans can not comprehend that time is not linear. Time surrounds us in every direction. We (as matter) are just folds in that dimension. Investigate things like Space time, and string theory. I'll leave the rest up to the more ambitious guys like Bertser and topal63 to clean up my butchered explanation . I do understand the concept though.
Actually, Vonnegut explains that somewhat in Slaughterhouse-Five.

...and if you're not interested in space and time, read the book anyway.  It's damn good. 
2007-06-13 15:43:51
Vilham
Say wat!?
+580|7212|UK

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

D6717C wrote:

ThomasMorgan wrote:

I could actually explain most of that, but it's a hell of a lot of typing.

The only thing I can't explain is the big bang itself.  The way I see it...first there was nothing...that nothing exploded.

Without space there can be no time - true.  Although even with space, it's possible that there may also not be time.

Objects can move faster than the speed of light.  It's all perspective.  The object itself may not be moving faster than the speed of light, but by taking "shortcuts" in space, it would appear to an outside observer that it is past the speed of light.

Don't think of the edge of the universe as an edge...think of it more like a bumper.  If there's no space to move into, how could you get there?  There's just nothing there.  As the universe nears the "edge" and thins out, you would be pushed back from whence you came.
Yes, that seems to be the biggest question. What caused it? Besides God farting of course (thanks Cam). I read that the widly accepted theory was that the Universe slowly stops expanding as gravity works it's magic, and finally "implodes" in on itself to possibly start the whole process over. Now however, they say that it is accelerating because of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, which would possibly cause the expansion to increase/never stop.
The universe is expanding and is confirmed to be accelerating, and most theories point to Dark Energy/Matter to the cause of this expansion.

There are different possibilities of the universe depending on the density of the universe as k. If k > 1 then there is enough matter in the universe for the expansion to eventually slow down, end, and then gravity will pull everything back together in a "Big Crunch". If k = 0 then we are in a "flat" universe that essentially will stop expanding but will not contract, staying the same size. Some measurements made have shown the numbers make the universe very attractively close to a flat universe. If k < 1 then there is not enough matter in the universe to stop the expansion, and we will spin outward into oblivion forever.
Better know as "open" "closed" and "flat".
2007-06-13 15:45:31
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|7047|132 and Bush

ThomasMorgan wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

We as humans can not comprehend that time is not linear. Time surrounds us in every direction. We (as matter) are just folds in that dimension. Investigate things like Space time, and string theory. I'll leave the rest up to the more ambitious guys like Bertser and topal63 to clean up my butchered explanation . I do understand the concept though.
Actually, Vonnegut explains that somewhat in Slaughterhouse-Five.

...and if you're not interested in space and time, read the book anyway.  It's damn good. 
A guy by the name of Steven Hawking published something along the lines of "time" also .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time
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2007-06-13 15:47:07
WinterWayfarer
Combat Medic
+21|6698|Spacetime

ThomasMorgan wrote:

I could actually explain most of that, but it's a hell of a lot of typing.

The only thing I can't explain is the big bang itself.  The way I see it...first there was nothing...that nothing exploded.

Without space there can be no time - true.  Although even with space, it's possible that there may also not be time.

Objects can move faster than the speed of light.  It's all perspective.  The object itself may not be moving faster than the speed of light, but by taking "shortcuts" in space, it would appear to an outside observer that it is past the speed of light.

Don't think of the edge of the universe as an edge...think of it more like a bumper.  If there's no space to move into, how could you get there?  There's just nothing there.  As the universe nears the "edge" and thins out, you would be pushed back from whence you came.
Ahh interesting.

 

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