ew0054
Troll Extraordinaire
If you accept the Big Bang theory, as most people do, surely you will be lead to a connundrum. In the beginning, all of the matter in the universe, anything and everything, was compressed into a singularity. Something happened to cause this point/sphere to expand outward into the universe we all know and love today.
Now this brings up two speculations of mine.
First of all, the theory would suggest that NOTHING exists outside of this sphere. If that holds, then what is the universe expanding INTO? Surely one could speculate vacuum, orempty space, but even that would be something. Space has three dimensions in which an object may freely move.
I would think that an object is "something" if it has definable characteristics and properties; size, weight, color, etc. Even if it has only one definable property it is not "nothing." Empty space, or vacuum if you want to name it, still can be divided into areas that comprise three-dimensional space, therefore it is a "something." Even a one-dimensional line is something because it can be defined by any point within its composition.
A "nothing" object could perhaps occupy a zero-dimensional point. But how can a point exist if it has width, height, and length of zero? In actuality it is not there, but a definable location in a higher-dimensional region of space. We draw points to make them visible, but they are not physically there. So that cannot exist.
If the universe started as a singularity, which has zero dimensions, how could it have existed in the first place?
This then this leads me to ponder something else. Even if we accept that there is nothing outside of the marble-sized universe, what started the reaction in the first place? If all of the matter was compacted into the sphere, how long could it sit there before somethign happened? I lend myself to beleive that it was a homogenous object, that is to say, no one part of the sphere was different from any other part.
According to the theory, atoms were created after the big bang had already taken place, so they could not have caused a reaction internally. So what could have caused the big bang? I beleive that some external reaction would have been necessary to begin the reaction. Consider that the theory has been mapped out to the second just after the big bang occurred, so we "know" how old the universe is.
But what happened before that? And how long was this singularity sitting around before something made it explode? Even though time could not be calculated, can time inselt really have a definitive starting point?
The same applies to the expanding matter, and the notion that there is nothing outside the sphere. If nothign existed out of the sphere then how could the sphere be expanding? It must be filling some 3-dimensional void, but then the void would not be pure nothingness.
I find the concept of a finite universe much more difficult to comprehend than an infinite one.
Now this brings up two speculations of mine.
First of all, the theory would suggest that NOTHING exists outside of this sphere. If that holds, then what is the universe expanding INTO? Surely one could speculate vacuum, orempty space, but even that would be something. Space has three dimensions in which an object may freely move.
I would think that an object is "something" if it has definable characteristics and properties; size, weight, color, etc. Even if it has only one definable property it is not "nothing." Empty space, or vacuum if you want to name it, still can be divided into areas that comprise three-dimensional space, therefore it is a "something." Even a one-dimensional line is something because it can be defined by any point within its composition.
A "nothing" object could perhaps occupy a zero-dimensional point. But how can a point exist if it has width, height, and length of zero? In actuality it is not there, but a definable location in a higher-dimensional region of space. We draw points to make them visible, but they are not physically there. So that cannot exist.
If the universe started as a singularity, which has zero dimensions, how could it have existed in the first place?
This then this leads me to ponder something else. Even if we accept that there is nothing outside of the marble-sized universe, what started the reaction in the first place? If all of the matter was compacted into the sphere, how long could it sit there before somethign happened? I lend myself to beleive that it was a homogenous object, that is to say, no one part of the sphere was different from any other part.
According to the theory, atoms were created after the big bang had already taken place, so they could not have caused a reaction internally. So what could have caused the big bang? I beleive that some external reaction would have been necessary to begin the reaction. Consider that the theory has been mapped out to the second just after the big bang occurred, so we "know" how old the universe is.
But what happened before that? And how long was this singularity sitting around before something made it explode? Even though time could not be calculated, can time inselt really have a definitive starting point?
The same applies to the expanding matter, and the notion that there is nothing outside the sphere. If nothign existed out of the sphere then how could the sphere be expanding? It must be filling some 3-dimensional void, but then the void would not be pure nothingness.
I find the concept of a finite universe much more difficult to comprehend than an infinite one.
Sorry, I still don't see how matter corresponds to time, and how matter can all of a sudden just "come into existance", potentially as time "comes into existance".
