[Misc] The beginning of the Universe

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Why is there anything at all?

It is what it is
(shrugs shoulders, sucks through teeth)

 

[The Clamp]

There has been a life force or energy everywhere for eternity.

Some choose to call that God or variations on such a theme.

I choose to simply call it what I believe it is; Life energy. I think it’s wonderful and to be celebrated rather than endlessly discussed, dissected, probed and analysed.

Nobody will EVER be able to answer the question of how we got here.

Especially while they are concentrating on creating new life force such as AI and treating the current life on earth like it’s worth nothing.

 

[PTC Gull]

The big bang? That wasn't the beginning because something created the big bang so there was something already before the big bang.
There was never nothing before the big bang because nothing is something.

How did it all begin? It could never have begun.Even emptiness is something so where did emptiness come from?

I think this is a season defining question.

 

[theboybilly]

So why are you asking 'How did it all begin?'

Do you honestly think someone on NSC will have the answer?

I'd love to have read Ben's Grandad's answer though

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I think this is a season defining question.

The next three posts on this thread could be season defining.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Which universe: the real one or the simulated one we are in?

 

[AmexRuislip]

He doesn't know.How on earth can he.No-one knows.Aliens will come to us one day and explain it.I'm not joking.Maybe AI will explain it.If it were explained would we even understand it?

I think Brian Cox has had enough on his plate dealing with his media empire, under the guise of Logan Roy, rather than bother about little green men going bang....

 

[AmexRuislip]

Judging by his posts on other threads, this lad isn't the full ticket. I'm going to put him on ignore and let the moderators sort him out.

Hi girlfriend

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

 

[Rdodge30]

I think Brian Cox said you can actually see it - that’s how we know the Big Bang happened. Powerful telescope sees such great distances measured in light years that you are effectively looking back in time due to the time it has taken the light to reach us….

 

[Blue3]

It started when the stopper was fitted to the snow globe that we call the galaxy

 

[Blue3]

Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.” (Albert Einstein). Einstein had an IQ of 160, Roman Atkinson has an IQ of 178, so best ask him.

While Einstein is credited with the saying it was between 1842 and 1847, Julius Robert von Mayer , James Prescott Joule , and Hermann von Helmholtz discovered and formulated the basics of what we refer to today as the law of conservation of energy: Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another As with all things upon the backs of giants

 

[Blue3]

Our whole universe was in a hot, dense state
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started, wait
The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall (we built the pyramids)
Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries
That all started with the big bang (bang)

The twin pillars of modern physics are Einstein’s General Relativity and quantum theory Sadly there is currently no link between the two theories as if there was it might answer what was here before the hot dense space as currently its nothing but as nothing is something leaves the question what was it and maybe string theory might have the answer by finally describing how the two pillars of modern physics might interact but no one has worked out how yet

 

[Goldstone1976]

I’m wondering what the OP thinks about the club not giving 7-year old children a free shirt when their parent failed to sign them up to the club in time for them to qualify.

 

[seagully]

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That's an epic meme...

 

[raymondo]

The big bang? That wasn't the beginning because something created the big bang so there was something already before the big bang.
There was never nothing before the big bang because nothing is something.

How did it all begin? It could never have begun.Even emptiness is something so where did emptiness come from?

Potter nailed it: "it is what it is..."

 

[raymondo]

Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.” (Albert Einstein). Einstein had an IQ of 160, Roman Atkinson has an IQ of 178, so best ask him.

Ok, but what about all those other Romans...what did they ever do for us?

 

[Eeyore]

Well, it all started in 1901...

1992, according to some.

 

[Eeyore]

I remember asking my Mum where God came from and was never given a full answer. A bit like when I asked her how babies were created and the response was that it happened when a mummy and daddy make love to each other. Like the universe question, I'm still none the wiser.

 

[Blues Guitarist]

Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.” (Albert Einstein). Einstein had an IQ of 160, Roman Atkinson has an IQ of 178, so best ask him.

But how did Einstein know that? We have no idea what happened before the Big Bang, or if the word ‘before’ had any meaning.