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Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Then we come back to a question I previously asked of from both the relgious & scientific amongst us.... "where did the gases come from", & in your case, "Where did the thin air come from" Personally, I don't think this question will ever be answered, unless after death, it's proven to our "souls" that god does exist, & by then it's too late. |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2430 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Hi, Nick. You may possibly have heard the following: "In the beginning - on the first day, God created the Universe". Assuming that everything was created in seven (or six) days. But general thought of opinion is that the Universe was created in (or by means of) the "Big Bang". The "Big Bang" was inflation at the largest possible scale. The Universe as we know it today blew up from an inifinitesimal small scale (smaller than an atom) to the size we know it is today. It is still expanding - in fact, after an earlier pause of its expansion (you may call it a stand-still or dull period instead) it is thought now to be expanding steadily faster and faster into infinity, leaving no particles (meaning mass) and almost no energy behind in order to feed it further. As this expansion continues, what happens next to the notion of time as we know it? Does time change as well as the Universe expands into infinity? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30640 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Then we come back to a question I previously asked of from both the relgious & scientific amongst us.... Consider the universe sitting as a tiny speck smaller than the Plank length. What is the possible amount of energy (momentum) available to the Heisenberg uncertainty from knowing the position so well? Is it enough for a big bang? |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2430 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Generally speaking - if you happen to know. According to Albert Einstein's theory of Relativity (probably the latter of the two, around 1915 or 1916), the properties of an object can only be indirectly measured from an observer's point of view. Which means that if you try measuring the weight of an elementary particle, the process in which you are trying to measure its weight will be affected by the means of the measuring process itself. So, if we are trying to "imagine" something - in which way do we eventually know for sure that something is definitely correct or incorrect? Even our thinking or imaging process could be supposed to be affecting or influencing the desired result. Is this what is meant with the Werner Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle"? Meaning that there are some things which can not be correctly measured because the measuring process itself is affecting or inflicting on the desired result? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle and http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/uncer.html for more on this. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30640 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Generally speaking - if you happen to know. From wiki: Historically, the uncertainty principle has been confused with a somewhat similar effect in physics, called the observer effect, which notes that measurements of certain systems cannot be made without affecting the systems. Heisenberg himself offered such an observer effect at the quantum level (see below) as a physical "explanation" of quantum uncertainty.[4] However, it has since become clear that quantum uncertainty is inherent in the properties of all wave-like systems, and that it arises in quantum mechanics simply due to the matter wave nature of all quantum objects. Thus, the uncertainty principle actually states a fundamental property of quantum systems, and is not a statement about the observational success of current technology. This is the thing of which I speak. Being that it does not require an observer to disturb the system by measuring it, it becomes possible to consider it at less than the Plank time. The principal is very specific and only talks about the momentum and position or some other pairs of properties of a thing. It does not apply in general and should not be extended outside particle physics. Consider though that if we know the position of the universe to less than the Plank length we know essentially noting about its momentum (mass times velocity) and hence the energy 1/2 mass times velocity squared. Interesting amount of possible energy there for a particle-anti particle pair to suddenly form. Think of Hawking Radiation from a black hole. |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2430 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
You are asking me, Gary? The reason I did not answer earlier was that I thought that if I could somehow conclude that gravity and / or time not necessarily would have any influence regarding the inflation of the Universe as we are seeing it today, I would be considered getting it completely wrong. Anyway, I am not a physicist, by the way, but rather know a little more about astronomy. Your thoughts on this, please. Are there any other factors behind the inflation of the Universe? Again, this inflation appears to be not constant, but rather taking off again, as earlier mentioned. |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
In science, the math tells a story. In my understanding of it the shorter the story the more truthful it is, the more beautiful it is, the more convincing or realistic it is. E = mc2, if the math is an inch long we have in most cases a truth. In Faith, we find a human story. In my understanding of it the shorter the story the more truthful it is, the more beautiful it is, the more convincing or realistic it is. Logos, once we boil down the meaning we have in most cases a truth. The problem as I see it is that some in both fields think that one is not needed for the other. One does not confirm the other. One has nothing to do with the other. When in fact you cannot have one without the other. This in a nutshell is what Intelligent Design is all about. Some here pick out just one part and say that God cannot be real because science tells us that God is not needed for this one small part. To me this is a person who cannot see the forest because of one tree. If this person was to back up from that one tree and look around he/she would see how the forest operates--as a collection of trees and much, much more. I have many times talked about odds. I have stressed this point. Im not to close to the point that I cannot see the forest of math. I have spoken about the odds of the Universe, DNA, the brain, all of this is weighed against the math of odds and found wanting as chance as being the answer to what we see. The story must be short or it is not the truth. |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2430 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
A question for both Intelligent Design as well as guido.man here: First, most of the Bible is not specifically telling about or giving particular references to God, but rather is about other people, including Jesus Christ, of course, as well as their living environment, both historically, culturally and so on. Secondly, when we try exploring something and take something into consideration, we always try referencing something we think or know something about against something else which we also is supposed to know something about. Things on their own does not solve problems most of the time, they need to be put into a context and be compared with something similar or different in order to be understood or verified. Math and the Bible are of course two different subjects, they hardly relate to each one at all. But both subjects are part of a bigger context, one perhaps more important than the other. |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
A question for both Intelligent Design as well as guido.man here: Yes, and no. In the first Book of the Bible all it talks about is God and what He done. The rest of the Book tells us how to live a good life. And to get ready for His return [Christ]. Secondly, when whe try exploring something and take something into consideration, we always try referencing something we think or know something about against something else which we also is supposed to know something about. Yes, this is natural for us. It is built into us. It is our nature. Things on their own does not solve problems most of the time, they need to be put into a context and be compared with something similar or different in order to be understood or verified. Work this backwards. What do we end up with? Math and the Bible are of course two different subjects, they hardly relate to each one at all. But both subjects are part of a bigger context, one perhaps more important than the other. I do not think one is more important then the other. However, as we can see from history one can live without advance science and give into the logic of God. It is my belief that they complement, completes or brings to perfection each other. There are some questions that will never be answered by either math or Faith, the Trinity for example, and why life at all for another... That does not mean we will not have the answer to either, just not in this verse. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Sorry, math is more important. It still hasn't been confirmed that the bible is fact, it's just a set of statements written by men, which over the centuries have become fables, with each passing century being interpretated by other men to achieve power over others. All the bible does is waste people's time when there is more important matters needing resolution. If there really was a god, then why all the billions dead in un-neccessary wars? If there realy is an "omnipotent being" out there, surely he/she would have prevented all that waste of life! |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Math enables mankind to move forward, the bible & other books continuously force man backwards. Which is more important? |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2430 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
Is this supposed to be "Politics"? So it is OK to discuss math with you, but not the Bible? Faithful vs. non-faithful, eh. Who else than me are mentioning something else than the subject of math here? Can everything in science be readily explained by means of math alone? Can God be explained by means of math alone? Or rather physics? Please explain this to me. |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
"Galadriel:" wrote: And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
You've made the most basis of all mistakes with regards to discussing the bible/toran etc etc. You're labelling people! Who said I was faithless? Then again who said I believed in god? Should one be versed in the bible, it can be clearly seen that it is contradictory, so how can it be believed? Can't the faithful discuss what they find wrong with the bible? Can't the faithless search for what could be true of the bible? |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
"Galadriel:" wrote:And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. ROFLMAO! Coming from someone who maintains that the bible is fact, quoting a statement from a work of fiction..... I love it. |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2430 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
So there does now appear to be two different points of view here. One point of view is trying to explain science by means of the belief in God and his existence. The other point of view, is trying to explain science by means of a non-belief in God. Here I get the sense that non-believers are having an upper hand when it comes to this. Why is it so? Is it easy to explain phenomena related to the subject of astronomy, mathematics, physics, E.T. and so on when you are supposed to be a non-believer and if you was thought to possibly be a believer, the same scientific phenomena could not be readily explained in the same way? If you are a non-believer in God, one may be tempted to again mention the word "blasphemy" and its meaning. Or is it possibly the opposite way around? |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
"Galadriel:" wrote:And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. Sirus, that statement makes perfect sense considering who posted it. |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
"Galadriel:" wrote:And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. AND in the context of who wrote that work of fiction... |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
AND in the context of who wrote that work of fiction... Yep, a great classical work. just how sure can we be that the bible is not in the same catergory? |
SciManStev Send message Joined: 20 Jun 99 Posts: 6652 Credit: 121,090,076 RAC: 0 |
Well, as I posted in another thread, the Bible has been changed thousands of times by scribes, both by accident, and for political reasons. Most of the original apostles were illeterate, and their teachings weren't even written down for 70-100 years, and then continued changeing. Later numerous people wrote in the name of the apositles, hence creating forgeries. Eleven of the books in the Bible are known forgeries. The Bible contradicts itself in many places, and many of those are not commonly known. Description of Biblical events does not match observation. I'm not sure where else you can go with it. Steve Warning, addicted to SETI crunching! Crunching as a member of GPU Users Group. GPUUG Website |
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