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Message 1786534 - Posted: 11 May 2016, 1:56:32 UTC
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Perhaps if I was an intelligent creature sharing this earth
with humans, then I might want to hide that fact from humans.



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Shucks, how long can they last?

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Remember, only one man knows who the smartest man in the room is.
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Message 1786559 - Posted: 11 May 2016, 3:51:59 UTC

so what you saying is this could be the 500th iteration ? well the question then is does everything happen the same way it did before like a timeloop just on a bigger scale?
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Message 1786575 - Posted: 11 May 2016, 4:44:04 UTC - in response to Message 1786559.  
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Maybe!


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Message 1786607 - Posted: 11 May 2016, 6:39:31 UTC - in response to Message 1786534.  
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Perhaps if I was an intelligent creature sharing this earth
with humans, then I might want to hide that fact from humans.


+1 Too inquisitive, those humans :D
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Message 1786817 - Posted: 11 May 2016, 20:51:59 UTC - in response to Message 1786518.  

James, I was about to tell Sarge sorry, I don't remember, so thanks from both of us.

Crunchy, my theory is that eventually, the universe will stop expanding and start shrinking again, which will finally result in all the matter slamming back together into one microscopic dot again, the force of which action will cause it to explode out all over again in another Big Bang. It then follows that there is no reason to assume that we are currently in the first iteration of this phenomenon.

Or as Douglas Adams put it, there is a theory that if anyone ever finds out what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced with something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another theory that this has already happened.


That was the belief a few years ago, but according to people who know much more about these things than I do it appears that dark matter and dark energy have screwed up that calculation, and the rate of expansion may actually be increasing. That means we end with a cold dark whimper, not another bang.

Relying on these same bright people, the current thinking is that the big bang could have happened from nothing, based on current interpretations of quantum theory. It also follows that big bangs can be occurring over and over, in other dimensions. So, we are probably not the first or the last, but are not part of any continuing cycle.

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Message 1786943 - Posted: 12 May 2016, 8:17:16 UTC

Or as Douglas Adams put it, there is a theory that if anyone ever finds out what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced with something even more bizarrely inexplicable.


I'd like to call the latter event The Great Cause, myself :D
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