What is the Universe?

What is the Universe? That is one immensely loaded question! No matter what angle one took to answer that question, one could spend years answering that question and still barely scratch the surface. In terms of time and space, it is unfathomably large (and possibly even infinite) and incredibly old by human standards. Describing it in detail is therefore a monumental task. But we here at Universe Today are determined to try!

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Thirty-Three Famous Physicists Sign Angry Letter About The Origin Of The Universe

A recent story in Scientific American managed to irk a whole bunch of these thinkers, so much that 33 of them (four of whom have Nobel prizes) signed a letter in response. Signatories included Stephen Hawking, Leonard Susskind, Lisa Randall and others who’ve written books and lectured to the world about how all we got here. At the centre of the controversy is a popular theory that our universe inflated like a balloon right after the Big Bang. One group of scientists essentially said this theory wasn’t science — which is like calling artist’s work “not art”, or a chef’s “not food”.

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What Was Our Universe Like Before The Big Bang?

A Cosmic Controversy. A Scientific American article about the theory of inflation prompted a reply from a group of 33 physicists, along with a response from the article’s authors

Tau.Neutrino said:

What is the Universe?

What is the Universe? That is one immensely loaded question! No matter what angle one took to answer that question, one could spend years answering that question and still barely scratch the surface. In terms of time and space, it is unfathomably large (and possibly even infinite) and incredibly old by human standards. Describing it in detail is therefore a monumental task. But we here at Universe Today are determined to try!

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What is life? “That is one immensely loaded question! No matter what angle one took to answer that question, one could spend years answering that question and still barely scratch the surface.”

What is everything? “That is one immensely loaded question! No matter what angle one took to answer that question, one could spend years answering that question and still barely scratch the surface.”

Hence “Life, the Universe and Everything”. Wasn’t Douglas Adams brave?

Tau.Neutrino said:

A Cosmic Controversy. A Scientific American article about the theory of inflation prompted a reply from a group of 33 physicists, along with a response from the article’s authors

“there is a very simple class of inflationary models (technically, “single-field slow-roll” models) that all give very similar predictions for most observable quantities—predictions that were clearly enunciated decades ago. These “standard” inflationary models form a well-defined class that has been studied extensively. … Numerous experiments have confirmed that these predictions accurately describe our universe.”

So, no “Cosmic Controversy” at all.

god

SCIENCE said:

god

You mean Nature, with a capital N

samething

SCIENCE said:

samething

The trouble is, when you say “god” to most people in the World, they will associate that word with an imaginary entity that is nothing like Nature.

>>The trouble is, when you say “god” to most people in the World, they will associate that word with an imaginary entity that is nothing like Nature”

there are still quite a few of us, pagans you know

When I observe the Universe, that’s all I see.

Crazy Neutrino

Tau.Neutrino said:

When I observe the Universe, that’s all I see.

Crazy Neutrino

doubt anyone’s ever observed the universe, or got near conceptualizing it.

transition said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

When I observe the Universe, that’s all I see.

Crazy Neutrino

doubt anyone’s ever observed the universe, or got near conceptualizing it.

Humans are within it
you see stars at night
stars are within the universe

>stars are within the universe

What I get from the word universe is it means the totality of whatever. A big biggering infinity.

You get a glimpse is all.

All that is, was, and will be.

funny really, to think here, in this universe, but mostly it (the universe) is elsewhere.

a big elsewhere generator really, courtesy expansion

within doesn’t within reach

don’t worry
we can provide education