2007-11-30 17:00:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Well I'm one of those people who believe that the tree never fell it was just on the ground when you found it... if you found it.
Anyway, my point is that I believe if there is no conscience being observing a place or thing it doesn't exist until that place or thing is observed. This is impossible to disprove as you would have to be observing it to observe what happens when someone stops observing something. I guess I believe that the universe is like a Flash movie, once it leaves the screen it is mostly deleted until it is needed to be seen again.
Following on from this I think that time doesn't exist either, not because we can't SEE it, but because our existence cannot be measured accurately to the rest of the world. Before we were born we didn't exist, which doesn't make sense because if something exists, it will continue to exist forever (sub-atomic particles won't change charges and things like that). I wonder about the meaning of life and so I come across the point of what happens to us when we die. It would be comforting to know that there is another plane of existence after this one. But if I take into account that we came from nothing, so we must eventually end up as nothing.
Now something that makes my opinion topple over is Genetic Modification, but I figure that if we can mess around with genes then does that mean we can make something that will always give the expected outcome? If so, doesn't that mean that we can pretty much predict the future because we will know how we all will react with each other.
I'm sorry that this hasn't answered your question directly, so I will try to do that now:
Taking into account all my beliefs mentioned above, I would say that there wasn't a time before now because that would have to mean you observe before now... right now. Which sort of fits into my idea that our entire life is just a play-back of what really happened within a few seconds like a dream.
Oh and the big bang theory sounds a lot like the Black hole theory... Lots and lots of things all compressed within a tiny spot with an infinite amount of force being applied to it. Think about it...
2007-11-30 17:42:34 · answer #1 · answered by Brodan Victa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A cosmologist has created a mathematical model that he says shows space-time, contrary to common wisdom, did not begin with the Big Bang. Instead, the model suggests a universe pretty much like the one we live in today existed before the event, except it was contracting instead of expanding. If ever proven, the idea could force a complete rethinking of the origins of the cosmos and perhaps even open a doorway to an endless future.
The Big Bang--the sudden and extremely rapid expansion of space-time that began 13.7 billion years ago--is generally accepted among scientists as the beginning of the universe. However, they have long puzzled over a paradox that the event caused in the mathematical calculations of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. At the moment of the Big Bang, everything was thought to be crammed into a singularity--a space with no dimensions--that also contained infinite density.
2007-12-01 03:59:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question has no meaning because of a quirk in the English (and other human) languages. There is a language concept called "completeness" and another called "correctness." Turns out a language can be complete or correct but not both. In a "correct" language you cannot ask that question.
In essence you are implying that time had a starting point and then violating your own implication by asking for something that doesn't exist - a point before the starting point.
I.e. if you are the first in line, who is in front of you? If you are first, NO ONE is in front of you. Similarly, if time has a beginning and you abide by the meaning of the concept of beginning, then there is nothing before the beginning. Because the very word MEANS there was nothing beforehand.
Now there is a subtle difference between this question and "What happened before the Big Bang?" Because the latter question does not imply a beginning, only an event.
As it happens, we believe that we cannot know what happened before the Big Bang - but only because the violence of the event scrambled all possible evidence of what came before.
2007-12-01 01:38:06 · answer #3 · answered by The_Doc_Man 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
More Time.
2007-12-01 01:12:05 · answer #4 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, before the universe began, there was infinate energy, in an infinately small area. Then, it exploded. It may come back together, and when it does, that may re-explode and replay over again. Endless. But there are many universes, so we'll never know for sure.
2007-12-01 01:04:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not unless there were people in it. Time is a Human "Invention". Take Humans out of the "mix"- and there is no Time...-or ever was.
2007-12-01 01:10:35 · answer #6 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to answer this, but it will take some time.
2007-12-01 01:11:05 · answer #7 · answered by Rich 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of your questions will be answered after you die. But, you must go through this lifetime and learn what you are supposed to learn and acquire morals, wisdom, spirituality, faith and love (Jesus) first.
2007-12-01 01:04:41 · answer #8 · answered by Gottaloveher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as Stephan Hawking likes to say, "What is North of the North Pole?"
your question makes my scalp itch.
(no, wait... i forgot my shower this week)
2007-12-01 01:11:01 · answer #9 · answered by Faesson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes , Its happening now . Oh, it just passed their it go again.
2007-12-01 07:37:23 · answer #10 · answered by Mogollon Dude 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋