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Unread 19-07-2005, 09:24
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Re: are we alone in the universe?

Im hoping to get some free time to add more to the us-spark web site. I think the idea that some aspect of the universe is god-like permeates human thinking

and I think infinity is one of those aspects - if we can somehow involk infinity into the equation, making the universe infinitely large or infinitely repeating, then we are saved in a way, because we have this unlimited amount of time or matter or energy

so whether you apply these god-characteristics to a conscious being and call it God, or you apply them to the universe, and say the universe is unlimited in some way, isnt that really like throwing your hands up and saying "I dont have to worry about this because God or the universe will take care of it for me".

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The laws of physics as we have been able to observe them require that space and even time itself did not exist before the big bang - so there was a discontinuity there. The universe cannot collaspe back in on itself and start over, because time and space are already in existance now, they did not exist before the big bang. We can never get back to those initial conditions.

Besides, the universe expansion has been measured, and it is expanding too fast to fall back in on itself.

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