w3wilkes wrote: > The Big Bang was actually the formation of a Black hole. That is how our > universe was created and we're (our universe) inside that black hole. > This allows time to go beyond the creation of our universe because the > collapsing star that created our universe existed in it's own universe > that our universe (black hole) now exists in. This also accounts for our > universe's growth/expansion due to matter being sucked into our black > hole and converted from matter to energy as it crosses the event > horizon. I'm just surprised that this hasn't been realized yet!
There are a number of very good theoretical physicists who find themselves unhappy with the concept that space-time & energy suddenly popped into existence from nowhere & a number of interesting hypotheses have been produced. I agree with the concept that the Big Bang appears in many ways to be the reversal of the formation of the "singularity" that is a black hole. Nonetheless, black holes still have mass, deform space-time (albeit dramatically in close proximity to themselves) only over a local area, & of course there are now widely believed to be a large number of them co-existing presently in our universe. We still are unable to postulate with any level of confidence what happened in the very earliest instants after the Big Bang. The problem with singularities is that that are points of discontinuity in the mathematics about which little can be inferred. We do not have any real idea about the nature of dark matter which appears to have a mass around 9 times that of the estimated mass of the matter we can detect either by optical or radio-astronomy. And less understanding yet of the so-called "dark energy" which is causing the expansion of our expanding universe to accelerate. These unexplained phenomena are with us now, so there is at least the hope that future scientific investigation may yield further information. It is difficult to comprehend at present what possible investigation could be applied to events prior to the "singular" Big Bang moment at which point all known "laws" of physics break down and our mathematical toolkit itself becomes of no use. As a consequence it seems unlikely that any of the (admitting fascinating) competing pre-Big Bang hypotheses can ever be disproved using the scientific method which is our only basis of rational enquiry. I'm not claiming to be the sharpest pencil in the box by a long way, but my pencil does have a point. I happen to be in sheds of pain just at the moment, so to cut this short I'm going to make a blunt point right now since there still seems to be a lack of clarity. With regards to the religious issue one can choose to believe that one believes in a deity. Or you can choose to believe that no God exists. Both of these positions can only be justified by claiming special knowledge whether through faith/spirituality/esoterica or whatever, because neither position can be tested and falsified using rational means. Finally you can join me and admit that you have no way of knowing whether God exists or not since neither position can be definitively falsified. You may have a preference or a pet theory in science, but as long as it remains untestable it will remain a guess or matter of opinion. Otherwise you might well be up for a Nobel Prize for your insight that would immediately cause everyone to agree with you (although even then with the prize in your pocket and a world full of adoring acolytes, you could still be wrong). Much less kindness in my wording than usual for which I apologise. I just want to get off this keyboard & SCREAM! Dave (not :) just atm!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
