School Praying Ban Backed

[Leicesterbaggie]

What I can’t comprehend about space is that there is no end to it. It gives me a strange feeling when I think about it and has done from a very young age. Everything has to have an end but what’s beyond that? You can’t say it’s endless, as what’s beyond that? Any suggestions?

[mickd1961]

Back to the chicken and the egg, so how was the life that created the life created?

Exactly Dave.

Then you think about Big Bang Theory and at first it seems the most plausible answer but then I find myself asking where did the protons and neurons come from that suddenly got out of perfect balance and exploded (I think that’s right?)

It’s like saying that there was once nothingness……..apart from protons and neurons.

What a frustrating subject.

[kettering_baggie]

By ‘space’, I suppose you mean the Universe? It appears to be expanding at an ever increasing rate but it is not expanding into an empty space, it is expanding into nothing, I guess that means that as the Universe expands it is actually creating space! I believe that we exist in a multi dimensional multiverse and because we are in a three dimensional state, we just cannot comprehend what an existence in more than those three dimensions. So, I suppose that you can argue that the Universe (ours) is not infinite, it has its ‘edge’, in every direction, but that edge is expanding at an ever increasing rate.

Time is something that fascinates me; our concept and measurement of time is based on observers noting how often our planet orbits the Sun and its rotation. That would seem to be quite amazing if that explained the entire nature of time throughout the Universe! Think about it, what is the smallest period of time? How short can that period of time be? Infinitely small? That is quite a concept to wrap your thoughts around!

[Omegstrat6]

What I can’t comprehend about space is that there is no end to it. It gives me a strange feeling when I think about it and has done from a very young age. Everything has to have an end but what’s beyond that? You can’t say it’s endless, as what’s beyond that? Any suggestions?

How long will the universe last? Something to with it's density, shape and the amount of dark energy apparently. If it's flat it probably has less dark energy which means it'll continue to expand and last a few billion years longer before ending in The Big Freeze/ Big Crunch or whatever. What follows after that? Nothingness (probably). Except that our present thinking is that you cannot simply get rid of energy as it just continues in another form?

Just thinking about all this makes me feel like that Terry Gilliam cartoon character from Monty Python with the rolled up sleeves and handkerchief on his head : "my brain hurts!"

(The answer, as any fule kno, to life, the universe and everything is actually deceptively simple: 42. )

[kettering_baggie]

There are an awful lot of eminent scientists who now have changed their opinion and subscribe to a creator of the universe. Calling it fairy stories is a rather narrow minded and arrogant statement, in my opinion. But we will all find out for sure eventually. If your theory is correct you ain't gonna know that you were correct. But if you are wrong as I believe you are then you are in for a shock.

What I don’t believe in is the religious stuff, not the same as believing or otherwise in some form of subsequent consciousness, about which I am agnostic. Religious education is about ‘enlightening’ children about those religions and their history; as far as I know, religion has been used primarily as a means of controlling populations and some unspeakable horrors have been inflicted on people by religious dictats, that applies to all religions. Many religious leaders throughout history have been hypocrites, preaching to the masses while behaving very badly themselves. Should there be any ‘Judgement Day’ for us all, the way that we have behaved towards other people and our planet will be the deciding factors in whether we enjoy eternal bliss or purgatory! None of us are perfect but surely if you treat others as you wish them to treat you, you shouldn’t go far wrong?

Will we find out one day? Who knows? Nobody. I read a quote the other day by Ricky Gervais, ‘When you are dead, you won’t know that you are dead. The same applies to stupid people’! Well, I thought it was funny!