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Chronic7

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The Big Bang Theory...
#8080471 - 02/28/08 06:42 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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How many here believe in this?
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Chronic7]
#8080474 - 02/28/08 06:45 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Its a useful model, who cares if its correct? My view on evolution vs. creationism too.
I think in science its good to be agnostic about things that aren't really practical considerations.
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: johnm214]
#8080558 - 02/28/08 07:48 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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nah, some dude in heaven made everyone out of dust :P
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Chronic7]
#8080561 - 02/28/08 07:50 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's currently the best theory we have 
It's a wonderful theory, but it's only that: a theory. Waiting to be replaced by the next.
For the record, I think that based on current knowledge of physics the universe began 15 or so billion years ago, in something resembling a "big bang" type event.
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Chronic7]
#8080627 - 02/28/08 08:25 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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All the evidence points to it, so no matter what we 'feel' is correct we should accept it (unless we observe new, differing evidence).
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: trendal]
#8080672 - 02/28/08 08:45 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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trendal said: It's a wonderful theory, but it's only that: a theory. Waiting to be replaced by the next.
Watch this:
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Anno]
#8080689 - 02/28/08 08:53 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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"I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything." - Richard Feynman
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Annom]
#8080946 - 02/28/08 10:42 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I did not mean to downplay the importance of what a "theory" in science is, just trying to point out that while it is "currently accepted" we are only ever one discovery away from a new theory.
I think this sums up what a theory is to science: "We regard all these theories as well supported, testable explanations, that provide natural explanations for natural phenomena."
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: trendal]
#8081103 - 02/28/08 11:22 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I wasn't sure, thus I brought this video up so that the ones who don't know the concept of a scientific theory don't think of it as merely some kind of an "idea" or even a "guess".
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Anno]
#8081130 - 02/28/08 11:28 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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I believe in the Big Bang theory which makes sense more then i do that i have great ancestors who were made out of dust and and a male rib. but that's just my view haha.
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: trendal]
#8082304 - 02/28/08 04:56 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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trendal said: I did not mean to downplay the importance of what a "theory" in science is, just trying to point out that while it is "currently accepted" we are only ever one discovery away from a new theory.
Yea but that new theory will almost certainly be only a slight modification of the current theory. That has been the pattern with new theories so far.
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: DieCommie]
#8082768 - 02/28/08 06:33 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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It will probably only be a small modification, keeping in line with other recent discoveries in science
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Chronic7]
#8084881 - 02/29/08 03:23 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Big Bang is the only convincing way to explain the Cosmic Background Radiation, the Cosmological Red-shift, and other pools of observed evidence.
Until a better explanation for the CBR and CRS shows up, I'll accept Big Bang as the likely correct explanation.
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Diploid]
#8084951 - 02/29/08 04:44 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Until a better explanation for the CBR and CRS shows up, I'll accept Big Bang as the likely correct explanation.
I'm with Diploid on this. Couldn't have said it better, myself.
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Seuss]
#8086815 - 02/29/08 04:10 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Big bang I think is pretty much right on, but this was not the beginning of All-That-Is... only the beginning of THIS universe. And perhaps not the beginning of this universe but maybe a recycling of it? Anyway, i think its right on but by no means marks the start. Maybe just the birth of a blackhole in another universe?
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Chronic7]
#8089678 - 03/01/08 12:38 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Chronic7

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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Learyfan]
#8090546 - 03/01/08 04:35 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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What about the shape of the universe?
Whats the latest on that lol
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Chronic7]
#8090846 - 03/01/08 05:50 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Diploid]
#8090937 - 03/01/08 06:10 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Diploid said: Big Bang is the only convincing way to explain the Cosmic Background Radiation, the Cosmological Red-shift, and other pools of observed evidence.
Until a better explanation for the CBR and CRS shows up, I'll accept Big Bang as the likely correct explanation.
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Re: The Big Bang Theory... [Re: Sage.Phish]
#8092556 - 03/02/08 01:58 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sage.Phish said: nah, some dude in heaven made everyone out of dust :P
I don't view the big bang as incompatible with creationism. I believe in evolution for the most part, but that doesn't mean I think its likely we all evolved from a beaker of dissolved gasses.
On some questions, the simplest solution given all known evidence is that a guy in the clouds did make us.
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