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whackadoodle1 · 04-17-2008

The expansion of the universe, however, will not continue indefinitely. There is more than enough evidence from dopplar scans that the outward movement of all matter is, in fact, slowing down. We also know the initial expansion of the universe was EXTRAORDINARILY FAST! What happens when that expansion stops its momentum? Gravity will inevitably act to pull everything back toward one another, and in an inconceivably vast amount of time from now, everything will crush together and be compacted into a speck of matter no larger than the head of a pin, just as it was in the beginning.

The argument can then be made that perhaps this is how the universe has always acted. Explosion, Expansion, Apex, Retraction, Collapsion, and back around to explosion again. But if this is the way of things? Are we the first universe ever to exist? Or are we just the latest in a long line of hundreds? For that matter, how did this cycle begin in the first place? Where did this matter come from? What is the impetus for causing the big bang in the first place?

These are the REAL questions to ponder. There are still many things science cannot answer. Many things we still have to take on faith, or just not think about at all. Eternity is a concept our finitely structured human minds can never grasp. To us there must always be a beginning and an end, but by definition, eternity doesn't work that way. Eternity is, in effect, a circle. A circle has no beginning or end. It simply IS. So by this theory, we can infer that if the universe is, itself, eternal, then there has to be some kind of eternal force driving its life cycles. The laws of physics didn't just write themselves, nor did we invent them. Where did those laws come from? Who, or what wrote them?

Science will never, never, never, never, never, never, NEVER answer these questions definitively. Which is why science will never truly defeat the notion of a God or some higher power definitively.

And now that I have thrown gasoline on the fire, go ahead and discuss whilst I watch in amusement.

04-17-2008	#45
whackadoodle1 America Runs On DD's Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 379	Re: Black hole swallows earth The expansion of the universe, however, will not continue indefinitely. There is more than enough evidence from dopplar scans that the outward movement of all matter is, in fact, slowing down. We also know the initial expansion of the universe was EXTRAORDINARILY FAST! What happens when that expansion stops its momentum? Gravity will inevitably act to pull everything back toward one another, and in an inconceivably vast amount of time from now, everything will crush together and be compacted into a speck of matter no larger than the head of a pin, just as it was in the beginning. The argument can then be made that perhaps this is how the universe has always acted. Explosion, Expansion, Apex, Retraction, Collapsion, and back around to explosion again. But if this is the way of things? Are we the first universe ever to exist? Or are we just the latest in a long line of hundreds? For that matter, how did this cycle begin in the first place? Where did this matter come from? What is the impetus for causing the big bang in the first place? These are the REAL questions to ponder. There are still many things science cannot answer. Many things we still have to take on faith, or just not think about at all. Eternity is a concept our finitely structured human minds can never grasp. To us there must always be a beginning and an end, but by definition, eternity doesn't work that way. Eternity is, in effect, a circle. A circle has no beginning or end. It simply IS. So by this theory, we can infer that if the universe is, itself, eternal, then there has to be some kind of eternal force driving its life cycles. The laws of physics didn't just write themselves, nor did we invent them. Where did those laws come from? Who, or what wrote them? Science will never, never, never, never, never, never, NEVER answer these questions definitively. Which is why science will never truly defeat the notion of a God or some higher power definitively. And now that I have thrown gasoline on the fire, go ahead and discuss whilst I watch in amusement. __________________ How much is too much? Well, if I say it's too much muscle you can pretty much damn well bank on it being too much.