As a young researcher and student in physics and neuroscience, I ask you this: With all your research and your understanding of everything around us, what is this universe we know? Is it just space-time?
Hopefully as I accomplish more in science I will be able to have a possible answer that I truly understand.
I understand this is all opinon, but if you could explain your answer and reasoning with much detail, I would be one step closer to finding out.
2007-06-05 22:10:50 · 4 answers · asked by Jay From Brookhaven 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I would just say one thing, being a hardcore agnostic. There are certain points, in every field of life, say, science, religion, history etc, which human knowledge cannot surpass. We can never prove the existence of any supernatural being, but neither can be prove them to NOT exist. In a similar way, especially in physics, new developments keep happening every now and then, and flaws are found in them, amendments are made, new flaws are discovered (like the failure of string theory etc), and so on. We'll never really reach the "enlightenment" point. There will always be a gap, and by the time we're done stitching it, another one will pop up. The curve of knowledge, basically, is an asymptote to the line of entirety! That's my viewpoint, I hope it helped you.
2007-06-05 22:53:39 · answer #1 · answered by sloth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm I have my doubts you are a student of physics ... because if you were, you would neither ask the question as like as you do nor state that it is all just about an opinion !! However, after my knowledge, one cannot use "space-time" just as like as if there was no other unit ... Einstein was only partially right and we are still at the beginning of possible understanding.
Btw I could deliver arguments and evidense why Einstein made mistakes in his theory, but you may imagine, here is not enough space lft for such things here, besides, I am not payed for writing books here in yahoo ... so why should I.
2007-06-06 07:03:52 · answer #2 · answered by jhstha 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No the Universe is NOT space time. It is an entity which is composed of mass structures locked into a contaiment.It was designed to accommodate the Earth and all Biological life therein.
The confusion about spacetime is that its not real. It is only a mathematical construct of an Imaginary Geometry which was invented by Minkowsky and Eintein used it in his theory of relativity.Einstein incorporated this concept in his field Equation whose solutions map out the curvature of a spacetime manifold.
2007-06-06 05:29:37 · answer #3 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Watch the following videos whenever you have time. they are very informative. I have pasted search result...
http://video.google.com/videosearch?num=10&so=0&q=BBC+Documentary+Space+duration%3Along&start=0
2007-06-06 05:14:59 · answer #4 · answered by psrmail 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋