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also sigularity is before the big bang, does anyone believe that not even singularity can explain something coming from nothing it is hard to belive that existence wasn't engineered it is to accurate not to had been created!

2007-06-13 06:50:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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This is an interesting question. If you think about it, what is time? It is a mental construct. In actuality, it is the measure of distance. We measure time relative to the movement of two (or sometimes more) galaxial bodies with the sun being the reference point. Time is based on the distance the earth travels in one complete orbit around the sun. We call this a year, and then the units of "time" (which is really distance traveled) are divided into smaller units so we humans can wrap our minds around the concept and use these smaller units in our every day life. Here's the corollary: if the earth was farther away from the sun, what we know as a year would become 1.7 years or 2 or 3 years based on distance relative to the central body... the sun. Our units of time would change accordingly. This is why i have hypothesized that time is not a constant, but rather is a variable... because its based on relative distance. Now think about what that does to the theory of relativity! If "time" is a variable, then infinite mass, zero mass, infinite energy, and zero energy become possible. What does that do for the theories of creation and big bang?

2007-06-13 07:10:57 · answer #1 · answered by hstereo 3 · 0 0

We dont use time we use light years. The distance light travels in one year!

"also sigularity is before the big bang, does anyone believe that not even singularity can explain something coming from nothing it is hard to belive that existence wasn't engineered it is to accurate not to had been created!"

SURE it called the anthropic principle. But that question borders on philosophy and religion not physics/astronomy.

2007-06-13 13:55:25 · answer #2 · answered by kennyk 4 · 1 0

"Why do we mesuare the size of the universe with
time as opose to other methods?"

Why not use time to measure the universe?
Age is a parameter that is measurable and
contains important information about the
universe.
We use age as a length of time for nearly
everything. I'm a certain age, you are a
certain age the earth is a certain age a
tree is a certain age.
In the 1950's astronomers were saying the
universe is 15 to 20 billion years old.
In the 1970's they were saying it was 15
billion years old and not 20.
In the last 5 or ten years most astronomers
are using 13.7 billion years as the age of
the universe. At times, some might round
that up to 14 billion years.

How far does light travel in a year?
The speed of light is 186,282.4 miles in
just one second.
186282.4 miles per second,
times 60 seconds per minute,
(note: seconds cancels seconds)
times 60 minutes per hour,
(note: minutes cancels minutes)
times 24 hours per day,
(note: hours cancels hours)
times 365.25 days per year,
(note: days cancels days)
is 5.88 trillion miles per year.
Notice that all the units canceled out
except miles and years, hence, light-year
is not a measure of time but of speed or
distance (miles) over time (year). Speed
is the rate of how fast something is moving.

speed = inches / second, or
speed = feet / second, or
speed = miles / hour, or
speed = miles / second, or
speed = miles / year etc.

So light-year is technically a speed
(distance/time), NOT distance and NOT time.

You can't say the universe is 13.7 billion
light years old, but you can say the universe
is 13.7 billion years old.

IF the big bang or protoclysm (the first and
largest cataclysmic event of all time) was
13.7 billion years ago and IF the universe has
continually been expanding at a rate equal to
the speed of light and IF the universe is
spherical then the diameter of the universe
would be 13.7 billion + 13.7 billion
= 27.4 billion _______ (what unit)?

A. 27.4 billion years.
B. 27.4 billion light years.
C. the distance light travels in 27.4 billion
years.
D. all of the above.
E. none of the above.

The answer can only be C.

Good question, hope this helps. :-)

2007-06-13 15:17:42 · answer #3 · answered by jimschem 4 · 0 0

Light years are not a measure of time. Thye are each the distance that light travels in one year - about 6 trillion miles.

Cosmologists may not have an accurate picture yet of what kind of spatial configuration or what have you existed before the big bang, but it would surprise me if any of them were arguing that it arose from "nothing".

We simply can't make any observations about what's on the other side of a singularity of space and time.

2007-06-13 13:55:31 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 0 0

We don't use time; we use distances like light years. Present thought is that the universe began as the collision of two membranes; there was no singularity.

2007-06-13 13:55:22 · answer #5 · answered by Gene 7 · 1 1

Sheer logic dictates that something coming from nothing is the only way things could have started.

2007-06-17 13:40:18 · answer #6 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0 0

Time is a concept of human arrogance - in fact anything man has comprehended has been comprehended incorrectly and destructively.

2007-06-13 14:00:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

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