Why this universe?
What is everything made of?
How does complexity happen?
Will string theory ever be proved correct?
What is the singularity?
What is reality really?
How far can physics take us?
Yeap, “Why this universe?” or “What are the odds of so many physical properties being just right for life to form?” Makes me think that with infinite time and space, THIS universe cannot be the only one that has ever existed? The finely tuned universe==about as likely as the bank robber on being caught saying its the first law he has ever broken.
Parallel? Bubbles? String Viabrations? If I were 10 times smarter, the question would probably blow my mind. As it is, my stupidity protects me.
#8 – Where do the missing socks go in the dryer?
From what I’ve read, String Theory isn’t really a theory yet, just a hypothesis. There are no testable predictions, it’s all just handwaving. From the String Theory wikipedia page:
“For more than a generation, physicists have been chasing a will-o’-the-wisp called string theory. The beginning of this chase marked the end of what had been three-quarters of a century of progress. Dozens of string-theory conferences have been held, hundreds of new Ph.D.s have been minted, and thousands of papers have been written. Yet, for all this activity, not a single new testable prediction has been made, not a single theoretical puzzle has been solved. In fact, there is no theory so far — just a set of hunches and calculations suggesting that a theory might exist. And, even if it does, this theory will come in such a bewildering number of versions that it will be of no practical use: a Theory of Nothing.” — Jim Holt.[27]
I saw this several days ago and have a half written post for it.. suffice it to say, they dont care.
Proof has been given to them time and again and they still won’t change their dogmatic ways.
When the Vatican is finally taken down, maybe Science will move forward. until then, it will continue to be based on one unproven mathematical model after another with NO evidence based science in sight.
Minor note: they never ask questions they don’t already have the answers to..
-s
#3 Phydeau said, “String Theory isn’t really a theory yet, just a hypothesis.”
I suppose you want to put disclaimers in textbooks saying that. Are you from Kentucky, you anti-science person? 
Easy list.
Why this Universe? It’s the only one we live in.
What is everything made of? Stuff.
How does complexity happen? Shift Happens, live with it.
Will string theory ever be proved correct? Has been. String always gets knotted.
What is the singularity? Don’t know, but I hear it’s near.
What is reality really? Reality, what a concept. Robin Williams solved this years ago.
How far can physics take us? Don’t know, but if you have a gadget and you want the new one and your wife won’t let you buy it until the old one breaks…no matter how many times you drop the old one, it won’t break.
this is like a list from a sixth grader
how about physics instead of philosophy
#8 If our universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? What’s on the other side?
#5 your remark shows that you don’t understand what constitutes science. String theory makes no testable claims. All scientific claims are in principle at least, testable claims. String theory is as scientific as the claim that a 1000 angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Our minds cannot and will never understand this. We don’t even know what we don’t know.
The best thing to do is to make up an answer or let someone else make it up for us and then worship it.
Is it possible to know the universe if you can’t find your way around Chinatown?
#2, TML,
While a very valid question, a better question would be:
How do all those missing socks morph into metal hangers?
#12 Mr ShortFuse – Are these phenomena related? We could approach them as such and develop a unified sock-hanger theory. By observance it has been postulated that a “sock-hole” may exist in dryers temporarily as centrifugal force and temperature reach critical mass inside the dryer. The exact force and temperature are unknown and are left for experimentation. The resultant hangers may be attributed to the sock-hole but proven only coincidentally if the hangers appear during the sock-hole event horizon.
question one answers everything –
why did we get a universe just right in energy time and gravity and an earth just right with an atmoshere and magnetic field to cradle life and just the right …….
if we didnt we wouldnt be here to question it – it might have taken a billion plus times or universes to do this and until one sticks no one can question
# 9 ± said, on October 27th, 2009 at 6:09 am
“#5 your remark shows that you don’t understand what constitutes science.”
#9 Your remark shows that you don’t understand what constitutes a joke. Did you not see the smile face at the end of that post?
String theory is interesting to me. Just because we can’t test the theory now doesn’t mean we cannot test the theory or come up with an entirely new theory based on new experiments. Part of physics has always been cosmology which again cannot be tested. However, it gives us a direction to think about new experiments that we can test. I know scientists can be completely wrong about string theory.
suffice it to say, they dont care.
Proof has been given to them time
and again and they still won’t
change their dogmatic ways.
When the Vatican is finally taken down,
maybe Science will move forward.
until then, it will continue to be based
on one unproven mathematical model after another with NO evidence based science
in sight.
Minor note: they never ask questions they
don’t already have the answers to..
-s,
Who is “they” and what are this “unproven mathematical models”?
I’m reading a great book about this right now… it’s called “13 Things That Don’t Make Sense” and is written by Michael Brooks.
I’ll help you out with the easy ones
Why this universe?
it just is, we had a 50/50 chance is or is not lucky us we got is
What is everything made of?
nothing mostly, matter, antimatter, dark matter and some of those orange peanut-shaped marshmallow candies I think you call them Circus Peanuts
How does complexity happen?
time, given just about infinite time its inevitable. if it bugs you rest easy entropy will take it all away in the long run
Will string theory ever be proved correct?
nope but it will have a good ride
What is the singularity?
y2 = x3 − x2
What is reality really?
the concept used to describe what you think you know
How far can physics take us?
to the ends of the universe, but physics is time’s bitch so don’t hold your breath
now get some sleep
“I worry whether we’ve come to the limits of empirical science,” says Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University.”
And therein lies the answer to all those questions. The answers lie beyond our abilities of manipulating matter to reveal anything definitive.
The double slit experiment implies the unified theory of reality…we exist in a matrix generated, as suggested by holographic principle…which necessarily is being generated by an infinite Mind, i.e. the Mind of God ….
As in a hologram, all exists in all, therefore observation affects reality…the very act of observing, changes a particles behavior…
That we are in a programmed matrix is suggested the noise found in gravity wave detectors.
That we are in a hologram explains why super hot and ultra cold liquids behave similarly.
That we are in a matrix predicts particles will appear and disappear out of nowhere.
That we are in a matrix predicts the
The giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is not being jinxed from the future to save the world…the premise particles have matter exists is false…we are in a hologram.
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The answers are in the Bible, right next to the part that says it’s okay locking up a woman when she has her period up until she stops leaking bloody goo between her legs.
# 8 Confused:
“If our universe is expanding, what is it expanding into? What’s on the other side?”
It’s not that the universe is expanding so much, it’s just that everything is getting farther apart…
Duh. Of course we have limits to knowledge, we’re still learning and growing. That doesn’t imply limits to imagination.
#22 You lie! It doesn’t say that at all…
Liars should be exposed…
Prove you aren’t lying…quote the passage.
#24 Physicists ponder these questions = higgs boson particle cannot be defined…whether it exists, and if so, does it have mass.
The very nature of reality is unknown…
The possibility this is a matrix…essentially a hologram…is not beyond the realm of reality…its very nature being unknown.
#21 I forgot to add:
Quantum Entanglement…
‘Spooky Action At A Distance’ which has been observed…is predicted by a matrix model.
KJV Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Gen 1:1 KJV)
To paraphrase:
In the beginning, God imagined heaven and earth.
Alfred1 > /dev/null
#29 “Improbus” Latin, “inferior.”
I must congratulate you…who would think a brain, which if put on top of a razor, would look like a pea rolling down a four land highway, could so efficiently illustrate in every post, that definition.
Simply incredible, defies the laws of physics.
I’m not a physicist but I’ve always wondered if string theory is a rat hole for modern physics and quantum mechanics since it’s not falsifiable.
#30 Continued…
Its counter intuitive…paradoxical…
A pin head, whose brain is so tiny it can peer through a key hole with both eyes, can so wonderfully illustrate the definition of “inferior,” so perfectly…
Alfie, the issue is that any viable model of the universe has to stand alone without any deity. Otherwise, if that deity is required to hold together the Universe, but is no longer believed in (see Apollo, Baal, YHWH or whatever), the universe won’t collapse.
@Alfred1
It also means bad, morally bad, perverse, wilful, bold, persistent and mischievous. Moran.
Alf why do you think god IS?
no cheating we all know you can copy AND paste
Most of those questions do not ever need to be asked by either applied or theoretical physicists in order to do their work.
That should tell you something.
These questions would be Philosophical Physics. But not invalid questions, just very very hard for people to answer and likely to have multiple interpretations.
Relatively.
Why this universe?
- The others were taken.
What is everything made of?
- Something better than the last universe, but not as good as Universe 3.0
How does complexity happen?
- It starts very quiet and then gets confused…
Will string theory ever be proved correct?
- For a while in the 70’s, It’s called discosound.
What is the singularity?
- Something that happens once.
What is reality really?
- Much better than this, more expensive though…
How far can physics take us?
- Till it runs on empty, or the next Gas station, whichever comes first.
#25 Alfred.
It’s right there, next to the “Go Sox.”
They left off the main question. Why does anything at all exist?
They have some theories about events after a certain point in time but that hardly answers the question does it?
#33 Not scientific at all..a priori…circular…hardly surprising you aren’t a sound thinker.
#34 There is what you want…and there is what your acts reveal the name means…I observed what is…
@Alfred1 A priori and circular? LOL, that made my day.
#35 Elementary deduction…when I view a house…the idea it evolved would be absurd…a builder is required for a building to exist…
Furthermore, while Houses are easy to make…everything in God’s creation is not…for example…a functioning leg of a cockroach…
The technology is beyond man’s ability to duplicate…
Therefore, as man cannot make it on purpose, its absurd t believe mindless chance made it by accident.
As man cannot b
@Alfred1 “when I view a house…the idea it evolved would be absurd”
I’d love to see that house breath, eat, or reproduce.
Seriously dude, you’re really cracking me up tonight.
#40 Life is better when shared with others…hence God created others.
He took six days to create all things…being He is infinite…that must have felt like an eternity to Him…
So I would venture to say, given the length of time, 6 24 hour days, that God took to created…to relish all He did…taking His time…and element of enjoyment exists…
All exists because it pleases God it exist.
You have your answer.
An infinite being bound by time? Stop it, you’re killing me.
$45 A house is infinitely easier to build than you…
By what law of logic is the harder easier to do?
If a house, simple as it is, lacking biological functions, requires a builder…or it would never come to be on its own…
By what law of logic, is the infinitely harder entity, any life form you choose individually, all of them globally, able to arise by accident?
If a house cannot arise by accident, how can a a single cell organism…which is more complex than the entire city of New York.
#47 Now bound…but certainly aware…or then you, who are aware of time, do what God cannot.
Everything exists in God, including time…He is not bound by it, it is bound by Him…
But its clear He took His time to created…it took 6 24hour days…He could have created all things in an instant of time…but clearly chose to “take His Time”…to relish it.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
(Job 38:4-7 KJV)
God is not bound by anything:
27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded? (1Ki 8:27 KJV)
15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, (Isa 57:15 KJV)
Let me get this straight, an infinite being exists inside a finite universe building things?
Or are you saying he’s not in this universe, or existence, in which case he doesn’t exist?
#51 Poor reading comprehension…nothing “contains” God (1 Ki 8:27)…
Our matrix exists in God’s mind…:
17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Col 1:17 KJV)
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; (Act 17:28 KJV)
Of course the matrix is only analogous to a hologram…its infinitely more complex…but the essential nature of it is “like” a thought…
This is why the age of the universe is only apparent…
Inflation, rather than being expansion to the nth degree…was instantneous…the moment God thought our matrix into existence…it became as “infinite” as His mind is infinite, instantly…
The Bible is correct, the age of our universe is only apparent, not actual.
#52 No, I am saying you exist…in His thought…the matrix He generates.
You cannot touch God…just as someone you dream of, cannot touch you…but in your dream, they are a “substantial” as you are…
God is everywhere…yet nothing touches Him, He is “holy” (= separate).
24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD. (Jer 23:24 KJV)
15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. (Isa 57:15 KJV)
“The Bible is correct, the age of our universe is only apparent, not actual.”
Oh, right. Round error.
BTW, joaoPT FTW. Brilliant stuff.
Back to my point…numerous observations (#20-21) suggest holographic principle is correct… we are in a matrix beyond anything we could create, yet still essentially a matrix.
Of course, that requires there be a God imagining it.
KJV Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Gen 1:1 KJV)
To paraphrase:
In the beginning God imagined the heaven and the earth.
#55 There are assumptions undergirding all suggested ages of the universe…if an assumption is incorrect…so is the age…
For example, time may not be constant…which throws everything off.
The supposed length of time for light of distant stars…based upon the speed of light, assumes God didn’t make them visible to us, miraculously…instantly:
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
(Gen 1:16-17 KJV)
cya later…Hannity is on…Not White House Approved News….talking about Obama care…and filibuster…good stuff
@Alfred1, first thing you’ve said that almost makes sense. Hannity is far more feminine than Hillary.
#60 This is DU…you aren’t grabbing your ankles at the local bath house…try to restrain yourself.
“How does complexity happen?” is the key question for me. It shows that they really don’t know how to explain how systems get more complex, rather than less, as time progressed. If the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, really is a law (and not just a half-assed theory-wannabe, like Evolution). Then all observed systems should be running down, and falling apart. Because entropy is a bitch. It increases. And it doesn’t take off for holidays. Or operate in reverse, to satisfy Cosmologists or Evolutionists. As they apparently believe it does.
No amount of Time accounts for this. None! It’s a Law, not a temporary inconvenience. If these “origin” freaks of science, were more grounded in the fundamental laws. They probably wouldn’t even bother applying for grant money. But they do, cause they think their pet hunches are the next best thing to sliced bread. And PhD.s gotta eat.
In order for complex to have increased, up until the time we stated observing it. The universe would have had to be operating by different laws. Which is well beyond the purview of today’s science. So why do they even pretend to be able to know what happened? It’s like, their religion.
Glenn — Complex systems are an extension and continuation of energetic propulsion that never “stopped”. It’s not like the energy that propelled the creation of our sun, and thence the earth and all its production, had “stopped” at any point, and then more complexity emerged from a no-energy state.
What you call complexity, in other words, is part of an energy vector that just happens to have a span of trillions and trillions of years. We’re still on the emergence of that vector.
What’s confusing you is the fact that we see sub-systems that wind down into entropy. But those processes are part of — not separate from — the totality. Hence the death of animals and plants actually feeds (and is necessary to) the further growth of the larger ecosystem.
You’re living through an explosion of energy that began long ago and is not yet resolved.
#61 Confirmed, p0wned.
#44
alf is that all you got
i was hoping for some soul saving enlightenment but instead you are just guy who has no concept of time
if the facts don’t work for you use the made up stuff
brilliant alf you should be in politics
62,
Glenn E,
The Earth is not a closed system, so entropy does not apply. The sun gives us a ridiculous abundance of energy, which powers the fecund engine that is nature.
As for the creation of complex structures in biological systems, natural selection can easily explain over time the development of any complex biological system.
#9 – How far will our budget go?
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