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Re: What is Twistor Theory? | Roger Penrose AND What came before Big Bang? Why he changed his mind. 

By: De_Composed in GRITZ | Recommend this post (1)
Mon, 09 Jun 25 2:12 AM | 14 view(s)
Boardmark this board | Grits Breakfast of Champeens! 		Msg. 09405 of 09425
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Re: “(I'm not going to say God did not do it . . but I can't bring myself to blindly believe he did.) Given my belief that space is infinite . . and time has no beginning or end . . ”Most of us have a belief system. That is, most of us rely on understandings for which there is insufficient - or even oppositionial - evidence. Why do we do this? Just because. We're human and that's what we do.

"God" is one of the best examples of this. There's no solid evidence for or against God, but most people believe in Him anyway. What I think is interesting about your last post is that you said you CAN'T blindly believe God did something (for now, it doesn't matter what) but immediately followed it up with something equally unsupported, that space is infinite and time has no beginning or end. I'm curious why you think that. Have you given those things as much thought as you have God?

An approach I favor is to acknowledge that I don't have the answers to the universe's mysteries and, therefore, to avoid "believing" anything since it'll probably be wrong. But I do think about them and assign probabilities - a probability that God created the universe, a probability that time is infinite, a probability that space is infinite, a probability that there was something before the Big Bang, a probability that there is something beyond the universe's 'edge,' etc., then alter those probabilities as new evidence and understandings reach me. I don't like being locked in by things I know I don't really understand and this approach does a good job of preventing that from happening.





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Re: What is Twistor Theory? | Roger Penrose AND What came before Big Bang? Why he changed his mind.
By: Zimbler0 in GRITZ
Mon, 09 Jun 25 1:16 AM 		Msg. 09402 of 09425

MonkeyTrots > even though the research they are publishing clearly shows the CREATION of matter(and various and sundry particles') where no matter existed 'pre big bang'.


Thank you Professor.
It seems one of my 'problems' with the 'Big Bang' theory does have to do with 'matter apparently appearing from nowhere'.

I believe it also to be safe to say that you and I will disagree as to whether or not 'God did It'. (I'm not going to say God did not do it . . but I can't bring myself to blindly believe he did.)

Given my belief that space is infinite . . and time has no beginning or end . . Infinity, if you will, I find myself with only one theory to believe. That a SUPER massive black hole ate one too many galaxies . . and blew up giving we pathetic humans the illusion that a 'Big Bang' created ALL the Universe.

Zim.

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