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OrgoneConclusion
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If the Universe was always here...
#7546815 - 10/22/07 12:56 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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how would it be possible for today to have arrived? Think about it for a minute. If time did not start at the Big Bang or if there have been an infinite number of Big Bangs and Big Crunches, how could there be a now for us? As this seems an impossibility (if you are following my logic here: -infinity + 1 never seems to go anywhere), is this not evidence for a definite Beginning? If not, what is the flaw in my logic?
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Maybe I am missing your logic, but today is a segment of infinity.
Just as numbers are infinite, the number 8 has its place in the number-line too.
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: mushroomplume]
#7546903 - 10/22/07 01:27 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Delusion
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: mkc]
#7546910 - 10/22/07 01:31 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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How is what he said delusional?
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: mushroomplume]
#7546933 - 10/22/07 01:37 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Maybe I am missing your logic...
Perhaps I am not saying it clearly. Let's try the same thought experiment with distance. Imagine there is a star an infinite distance away and you have a spaceship that can go nearly the speed of light that requires no fuel. Your ship will never arrive. Ever.
-Infinity + a trillion, trillion, trillion years (you name the amount of time) still would not bring us to today.
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: Lion]
#7546937 - 10/22/07 01:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Don't you read the bible? Silly person, god made it so.
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: Kinematics]
#7546979 - 10/22/07 01:47 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Same argument, is it not?
If God was always here, how many units of time would have to pass before the creation? An infinte number is the correct response.
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I'll pray to god that he forgives you
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: MushroomTrip]
#7547144 - 10/22/07 02:29 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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e=mc2
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: MushroomTrip]
#7547153 - 10/22/07 02:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said:
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Maybe I am missing your logic...
Perhaps I am not saying it clearly. Let's try the same thought experiment with distance. Imagine there is a star an infinite distance away and you have a spaceship that can go nearly the speed of light that requires no fuel. Your ship will never arrive. Ever.
-Infinity + a trillion, trillion, trillion years (you name the amount of time) still would not bring us to today.
hmm, you could just be smarter than me mister, but I'll try to respond. 
The star is set at infinite, where the the ship is not, the ship is going at a certain rate. As long as you have something at a set rate/speed it will never reach what is infinite.
Just with the timeline, if I take 5 and add 1 to it forever, it will never reach infinite.
Even on an infinite timespan, there is still room to maneuver, even with no beginning, there are sequence's of events that have taken place.
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OrgoneConclusion,
Its not that cyclic Big Bang's and Big Crunches would insinuate infinite, it would just insinuate the absolute beginning is impossible to understand.
Assume for a moment that it is near the end of the Universe's life cycle. What happens to all the energy within the Universe at that stage?
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: psyka]
#7547231 - 10/22/07 02:49 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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it would just insinuate the absolute beginning is impossible to understand.
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Because time is a dimension of this universe, it did not (or does not? I always fail at accurately explaining this...) exist in whatever there was (is?) outside of this universe. The universe can exist over and over again - even infinity times? - and "time" still exists (as a dimension) with an absolute beginning and ending.
So, yes, "time" as a dimension can not be without limits...but it can happen over and over again. I'm not sure, though, about the events that take place in the time-frame of this universe...does repeating a set amount of time an infinite number of times mean each and every set has to be exactly the same?
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: trendal]
#7547292 - 10/22/07 03:04 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Is this a case of adding infinity anywhere in the equation has the effect of the equation not being equal to reality?
You may be on to something here...
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If not, what is the flaw in my logic?
The term infinity, can only be described and understood as a concept. There is no way to measure an infinite time or to measure an infinite anything.
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: trendal]
#7547594 - 10/22/07 04:38 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Replacing 'time' with a 'universe that repeats indefinitely' appears to this poster to pose the same dilemma.
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as the proverb goes, Tomorrow never comes.
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Re: If the Universe was always here... [Re: Cracka_X]
#7547861 - 10/22/07 05:31 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Orgone,
What is that squid looking dinosaur in your sig?
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trendal
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Then we can safely say that if the universe were to repeat itself, it would do so in exactly the same way. Have I typed this before?
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