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Post by Cybermortis on Nov 20, 2014 13:33:27 GMT
The event couldn't be moving at speed, at least not in the way we understand it. Speed requires both time and space, since neither existed prior to the big bang speed becomes meaningless. This is actually one of the major problems for scientists trying to study the formation of the universe; we have no idea how the laws of physics worked beyond (or rather before) a certain point. It is possible, for example, that what we think of as the age of the universe is really just the period in which the universe has been expanding or in which the laws of physics work as we understand them. For all we know the universe was originally so compacted that space-time worked very differently indeed, and from its prospective was around for trillions of years before it 'exploded' outwards.
It is possible that there was or has been more than one 'bang', but if so everything we think of as the universe must have been created first, and any subsequent 'bangs' must have come some 14 billion years apart - otherwise we would have detected them.
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Post by the light works on Nov 20, 2014 15:33:40 GMT
Couple of thought experiments. We presume the event was stationary... What is it wasnt?...what if the event was its self moving at high speed. Again, what if there was more than one "Balloon"...... What if its still happening?.... what if it is all a cunning trick by a supreme being to mess with scientists' heads? (just to further muddy the waters)
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Post by silverdragon on Nov 21, 2014 9:41:49 GMT
In Infinite space, 50 billion light years is but a scratch.
The space we know, or the space in which we now know the universe exists.
Infinity.... how big is it? I have the ability to not answer that question, because it cant be answered. Not because I dont want to, but because I know I cant.
Its enough to say that is we set off a civilisation to explore the limits, at light speed, they would have all passed away by the time they got any significant distance.
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Post by the light works on Nov 21, 2014 15:18:12 GMT
In Infinite space, 50 billion light years is but a scratch. The space we know, or the space in which we now know the universe exists. Infinity.... how big is it? I have the ability to not answer that question, because it cant be answered. Not because I dont want to, but because I know I cant. Its enough to say that is we set off a civilisation to explore the limits, at light speed, they would have all passed away by the time they got any significant distance. and that is with time dilation working in their favor.
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