Date: 1/07/2018 09:23:12
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1246772
Subject: A good question...

If energy cannot be created or destroyed, then how does it exist?

https://www.quora.com/If-energy-cannot-be-created-or-destroyed-then-how-does-it-exist

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have a good answer.

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Date: 1/07/2018 11:00:54
From: captain_spalding
ID: 1246797
Subject: re: A good question...

God made it.

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Date: 1/07/2018 11:43:14
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246807
Subject: re: A good question...

I have a good question.

How is space created?

Another good question.

Can space be created in a lab?

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Date: 1/07/2018 11:48:44
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246808
Subject: re: A good question...

The Rev Dodgson said:


If energy cannot be created or destroyed, then how does it exist?

https://www.quora.com/If-energy-cannot-be-created-or-destroyed-then-how-does-it-exist

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have a good answer.

It exists as particles and particles are either being compressed or expanded depending on the state of matter.

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Date: 1/07/2018 11:52:34
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 1246810
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

If energy cannot be created or destroyed, then how does it exist?

https://www.quora.com/If-energy-cannot-be-created-or-destroyed-then-how-does-it-exist

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have a good answer.

It exists as particles and particles are either being compressed or expanded depending on the state of matter.

nah.

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Date: 1/07/2018 13:19:00
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1246839
Subject: re: A good question...

The Rev Dodgson said:


If energy cannot be created or destroyed, then how does it exist?

https://www.quora.com/If-energy-cannot-be-created-or-destroyed-then-how-does-it-exist

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have a good answer.

The universe began at infinite temperature, that was the first creation of mass/energy.

But there was a second, the inflationary epoch. How can I put this? Consider the quantum vacuum at the current time. There are particles popping into and out space all the time, disappearing within a time given by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. When space is expanding fast enough, these particles pop into existence but space has moved on before they have a way to pop back out of existence, so they stay around. This creates mass-energy.

Also, we can even say there was a third, the vacuum energy proportional to the cosmological constant that gives us dark energy.

Tau.Neutrino said:


I have a good question. How is space created?

Another good question. Can space be created in a lab?

The answer to the second of these is “no”.

The answer to the first of these is the same as that given above for the creation of mass-energy. Some space was created from the original infinite temperature, most (on a logarithmic scale) created during the inflationary epoch. And some created by the cosmological constant.

I haven’t yet seen a simple introduction to slow roll inflation. The following link (one page with 7 mathematical equations) is what Google considers a simple introduction to slow roll inflation. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Liddle/Liddle5_2.html

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Date: 1/07/2018 13:28:18
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1246841
Subject: re: A good question...

mollwollfumble said:

The universe began at infinite temperature, that was the first creation of mass/energy.

We have no evidence for that.

Neither could there be any.

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Date: 1/07/2018 13:37:25
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1246848
Subject: re: A good question...

mollwollfumble said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

If energy cannot be created or destroyed, then how does it exist?

https://www.quora.com/If-energy-cannot-be-created-or-destroyed-then-how-does-it-exist

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have a good answer.

The universe began at infinite temperature, that was the first creation of mass/energy.

But there was a second, the inflationary epoch. How can I put this? Consider the quantum vacuum at the current time. There are particles popping into and out space all the time, disappearing within a time given by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. When space is expanding fast enough, these particles pop into existence but space has moved on before they have a way to pop back out of existence, so they stay around. This creates mass-energy.

Also, we can even say there was a third, the vacuum energy proportional to the cosmological constant that gives us dark energy.

Tau.Neutrino said:


I have a good question. How is space created?

Another good question. Can space be created in a lab?

The answer to the second of these is “no”.

The answer to the first of these is the same as that given above for the creation of mass-energy. Some space was created from the original infinite temperature, most (on a logarithmic scale) created during the inflationary epoch. And some created by the cosmological constant.

I haven’t yet seen a simple introduction to slow roll inflation. The following link (one page with 7 mathematical equations) is what Google considers a simple introduction to slow roll inflation. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Liddle/Liddle5_2.html

This article is long, but good and relatively easy to read. It uses graphs and animations to explain where space and matter came from, rather than equations.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/why-we-think-theres-a-multiverse-not-just-our-universe-23d5ecd33707

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Date: 1/07/2018 13:41:30
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1246852
Subject: re: A good question...

mollwollfumble said:

This article is long, but good and relatively easy to read. It uses graphs and animations to explain where space and matter came from, rather than equations.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/why-we-think-theres-a-multiverse-not-just-our-universe-23d5ecd33707

Have a read of that. It explains things better than I could.

The Rev Dodgson said:


mollwollfumble said:

The universe began at infinite temperature, that was the first creation of mass/energy.

We have no evidence for that.

Neither could there be any.

What, you’ve never heard of the cosmic microwave background. That’s the proof.

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Date: 1/07/2018 13:47:25
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1246858
Subject: re: A good question...

mollwollfumble said:


mollwollfumble said:

This article is long, but good and relatively easy to read. It uses graphs and animations to explain where space and matter came from, rather than equations.

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/why-we-think-theres-a-multiverse-not-just-our-universe-23d5ecd33707

Have a read of that. It explains things better than I could.

The Rev Dodgson said:


mollwollfumble said:

The universe began at infinite temperature, that was the first creation of mass/energy.

We have no evidence for that.

Neither could there be any.

What, you’ve never heard of the cosmic microwave background. That’s the proof.

Of course it bloody well isn’t!

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:25:06
From: transition
ID: 1246881
Subject: re: A good question...

I don’t get the question, the why part.

is there an anomaly?

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:26:22
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246882
Subject: re: A good question...

transition said:


I don’t get the question, the why part.

is there an anomaly?

There has been one big one for 13.7 billion years, and its showing no signs of going away.

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:28:19
From: transition
ID: 1246883
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


transition said:

I don’t get the question, the why part.

is there an anomaly?

There has been one big one for 13.7 billion years, and its showing no signs of going away.

please explain

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:32:10
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246885
Subject: re: A good question...

transition said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

transition said:

I don’t get the question, the why part.

is there an anomaly?

There has been one big one for 13.7 billion years, and its showing no signs of going away.

please explain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution. The model describes how the universe expanded from a very high-density and high-temperature state, and offers a comprehensive explanation for a broad range of phenomena, including the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), large scale structure and Hubble’s law. If the known laws of physics are extrapolated to the highest density regime, the result is a singularity which is typically associated with the Big Bang. Physicists are undecided whether this means the universe began from a singularity, or that current knowledge is insufficient to describe the universe at that time. Detailed measurements of the expansion rate of the universe place the Big Bang at around 13.8 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe. After the initial expansion, the universe cooled sufficiently to allow the formation of subatomic particles, and later simple atoms. Giant clouds of these primordial elements later coalesced through gravity in halos of dark matter, eventually forming the stars and galaxies visible today.

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:32:21
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1246886
Subject: re: A good question...

Since the Big Bank hasn’t work been done and thus using/destroying energy?

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:34:11
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246887
Subject: re: A good question...

Peak Warming Man said:


Since the Big Bank hasn’t work been done and thus using/destroying energy?

Did the big bang create energy?

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:34:28
From: transition
ID: 1246888
Subject: re: A good question...

Aren’t you more sensing an anomaly of the limits of your knowledge?

I bump into it every day

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:39:34
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246889
Subject: re: A good question...

What Is the Big Bang Theory?

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:43:17
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 1246890
Subject: re: A good question...

Peak Warming Man said:


Since the Big Bank hasn’t work been done and thus using/destroying energy?

it is the overall mass/energy of the universe that can’t be changed.

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:44:14
From: transition
ID: 1246891
Subject: re: A good question...

some things, of nature, are answers, they don’t necessarily demand or require a question.

it’s a strange idea perhaps, that it doesn’t yield to the efforts of minds.

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:47:57
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1246892
Subject: re: A good question...

ChrispenEvan said:


Peak Warming Man said:

Since the Big Bank hasn’t work been done and thus using/destroying energy?

it is the overall mass/energy of the universe that can’t be changed.

Take the yoyo theory, the BB happens and then as the matter is scattered it cools ans slows and gravity brings it all back to a singularity that then goes bang again and so on ad infinitum, that would mean perpetual motion if no energy is destroyed each time.

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:49:38
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 1246893
Subject: re: A good question...

Peak Warming Man said:


ChrispenEvan said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Since the Big Bank hasn’t work been done and thus using/destroying energy?

it is the overall mass/energy of the universe that can’t be changed.

Take the yoyo theory, the BB happens and then as the matter is scattered it cools ans slows and gravity brings it all back to a singularity that then goes bang again and so on ad infinitum, that would mean perpetual motion if no energy is destroyed each time.

we surmise that that isn’t the fate of this universe because of dark energy. it will expand forever at an accelerating rate.

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:50:16
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 1246894
Subject: re: A good question...

Peak Warming Man said:


ChrispenEvan said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Since the Big Bank hasn’t work been done and thus using/destroying energy?

it is the overall mass/energy of the universe that can’t be changed.

Take the yoyo theory, the BB happens and then as the matter is scattered it cools ans slows and gravity brings it all back to a singularity that then goes bang again and so on ad infinitum, that would mean perpetual motion if no energy is destroyed each time.

perpetual motion is doable as long as no work is being done.

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Date: 1/07/2018 14:59:13
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1246896
Subject: re: A good question...

transition said:


I don’t get the question, the why part.

is there an anomaly?

Which is the why part?

There was no why in the question?

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:01:59
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1246900
Subject: re: A good question...

ChrispenEvan said:


Peak Warming Man said:

ChrispenEvan said:

it is the overall mass/energy of the universe that can’t be changed.

Take the yoyo theory, the BB happens and then as the matter is scattered it cools ans slows and gravity brings it all back to a singularity that then goes bang again and so on ad infinitum, that would mean perpetual motion if no energy is destroyed each time.

we surmise that that isn’t the fate of this universe because of dark energy. it will expand forever at an accelerating rate.

I’d say some hypothesise, rather than we surmise.

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:02:06
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1246901
Subject: re: A good question...

ChrispenEvan said:


Peak Warming Man said:

ChrispenEvan said:

it is the overall mass/energy of the universe that can’t be changed.

Take the yoyo theory, the BB happens and then as the matter is scattered it cools ans slows and gravity brings it all back to a singularity that then goes bang again and so on ad infinitum, that would mean perpetual motion if no energy is destroyed each time.

we surmise that that isn’t the fate of this universe because of dark energy. it will expand forever at an accelerating rate.

A change in acceleration would require work.

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:02:20
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1246902
Subject: re: A good question...

captain_spalding said:


God made it.

Jesus made loaves and fishes from it.

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:05:47
From: transition
ID: 1246905
Subject: re: A good question...

The Rev Dodgson said:


transition said:

I don’t get the question, the why part.

is there an anomaly?

Which is the why part?

There was no why in the question?

the how part.

which goes to why is it as it is.

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:13:16
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1246907
Subject: re: A good question...

transition said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

transition said:

I don’t get the question, the why part.

is there an anomaly?

Which is the why part?

There was no why in the question?

the how part.

which goes to why is it as it is.

I’m not sure what you mean by an anomaly, but the question seems reasonable to me. We might ask:

If energy exists, why do we say it cannot be created?

I don’t think the destroyed part has anything to do with it.

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:14:02
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1246908
Subject: re: A good question...

There is also a theory around that dark matter possesses a reverse gravity.
The current Standard Model is only 15 years old and is a work in progress as is PWM’s independent Think Tank.

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:16:17
From: transition
ID: 1246909
Subject: re: A good question...

The Rev Dodgson said:


transition said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Which is the why part?

There was no why in the question?

the how part.

which goes to why is it as it is.

I’m not sure what you mean by an anomaly, but the question seems reasonable to me. We might ask:

If energy exists, why do we say it cannot be created?

I don’t think the destroyed part has anything to do with it.

i’d expect the answer, or something hinting toward an answer, is in the question of what happens at zero kelvin

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:17:25
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1246911
Subject: re: A good question...

Peak Warming Man said:


There is also a theory around that dark matter possesses a reverse gravity.
The current Standard Model is only 15 years old and is a work in progress as is PWM’s independent Think Tank.

CERN says it’s about 45years old.

Not that that has anything to do with the answer.

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:18:59
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1246913
Subject: re: A good question...

The Rev Dodgson said:


Peak Warming Man said:

There is also a theory around that dark matter possesses a reverse gravity.
The current Standard Model is only 15 years old and is a work in progress as is PWM’s independent Think Tank.

CERN says it’s about 45years old.

Not that that has anything to do with the answer.

Probably an Asian theory, hard to tell.

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:44:50
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246922
Subject: re: A good question...

The Rev Dodgson said:


transition said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Which is the why part?

There was no why in the question?

the how part.

which goes to why is it as it is.

I’m not sure what you mean by an anomaly, but the question seems reasonable to me. We might ask:

If energy exists, why do we say it cannot be created?

I don’t think the destroyed part has anything to do with it.

Did the the energy created by the singularity already exist, or was it created by the singularity itself?

If the energy already existed then perhaps the singularity was in another state we are un aware of?

If the singularity can create energy perhaps it can destroy it as well ?

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Date: 1/07/2018 15:51:03
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246924
Subject: re: A good question...

opps, They were meant to be separate questions.

Did the the energy created by the singularity already exist, or was it created by the singularity itself?

If the energy already existed then perhaps the singularity was in another state we are un aware of?

If the singularity can create energy perhaps it can destroy it as well ?

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Date: 1/07/2018 16:02:47
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246927
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


opps, They were meant to be separate questions.

Did the the energy created by the singularity already exist, or was it created by the singularity itself?

If the energy already existed then perhaps the singularity was in another state we are un aware of?

If the singularity can create energy perhaps it can destroy it as well ?

If there are many different states of matter, could there be many different states of the universe, in that it is evolving from its early state is is moving onto another state in the future?

Changing its state over time.

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Date: 1/07/2018 16:25:56
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246929
Subject: re: A good question...

Can any observed behaviors of the universe from a distance correlate to behaviors close up?

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Date: 1/07/2018 16:32:20
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246931
Subject: re: A good question...

If there are multiverses do singularities occur in each one?

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:27:34
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1246940
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


If there are multiverses do singularities occur in each one?

Ah, now we’re getting down to good questions.

First of all, forget topological and quantum multiverses here, we’re talking either:

The answer for all four is yes
… but …
in some if not all of these the singularity doesn’t have to have zero space dimensions, any number of space dimensions other than three will suffice, be it 0, 2, 9 or 10.

The “singularity” in each case is uniformity, constancy of properties such as potential energy, temperature, etc across the whole of the “singularity”. Or to put in another way, properties after the singularity are completely disconnected from those before the singularity.

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:35:27
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1246942
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


opps, They were meant to be separate questions.

Did the the energy created by the singularity already exist, or was it created by the singularity itself?

If the energy already existed then perhaps the singularity was in another state we are un aware of?

If the singularity can create energy perhaps it can destroy it as well ?

Q1. Yes or no. Our present universe is metastable, the potential energy of the quantum vacuum is available if any part of it was to go unstable and create a new universe. So in that case the energy existed originally. On the other hand, if time didn’t exist before the big bang then the energy could only have been created by the singularity itself.

Q2. Define “unaware”.

Q3. Yes, sort of. In a black hole, though one has to be really really careful about what constitutes “destroying” in this case.

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:39:18
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1246945
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

transition said:

the how part.

which goes to why is it as it is.

I’m not sure what you mean by an anomaly, but the question seems reasonable to me. We might ask:

If energy exists, why do we say it cannot be created?

I don’t think the destroyed part has anything to do with it.

Did the the energy created by the singularity already exist, or was it created by the singularity itself?

If the energy already existed then perhaps the singularity was in another state we are un aware of?

If the singularity can create energy perhaps it can destroy it as well ?

We don’t know.

We also don’t know if there was a singularity (imo it’s very unlikely).

But for “singularity” I’m happy to substitute “whatever existed at the start of the observable universe”.

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:42:50
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1246947
Subject: re: A good question...

Peak Warming Man said:


There is also a theory around that dark matter possesses a reverse gravity.
The current Standard Model is only 15 years old and is a work in progress as is PWM’s independent Think Tank.

Bloody MOND. Yes. From 1982.
In its current incarnation called the f ( r ) theory of gravity. From 2004.

This has been disproved on multiple occasions in multiple contexts, but then every other theory of dark matter permitted by Occam’s Razor has also been disproved.

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:44:35
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1246948
Subject: re: A good question...

PermeateFree said:


captain_spalding said:

God made it.

Jesus made loaves and fishes from it.

If you look up your Bible, Jesus only made loaves from it. The fishes were red herrings.

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:45:03
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1246950
Subject: re: A good question...

transition said:


Aren’t you more sensing an anomaly of the limits of your knowledge?

I bump into it every day

Yes.

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:46:49
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246952
Subject: re: A good question...

Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:49:30
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1246954
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

By Jonathan Creek.

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:54:07
From: AwesomeO
ID: 1246958
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

The King James is only one of many versions including ordinary language ones.

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:56:11
From: Michael V
ID: 1246959
Subject: re: A good question...

mollwollfumble said:


PermeateFree said:

captain_spalding said:

God made it.

Jesus made loaves and fishes from it.

If you look up your Bible, Jesus only made loaves from it. The fishes were red herrings.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:58:16
From: poikilotherm
ID: 1246960
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

I think it’s been re-written enough…

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Date: 1/07/2018 17:58:49
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246962
Subject: re: A good question...

AwesomeO said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

The King James is only one of many versions including ordinary language ones.

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:00:43
From: AwesomeO
ID: 1246966
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


AwesomeO said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

The King James is only one of many versions including ordinary language ones.

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

Yes and it has been written in todays language, and Klingon, and pidgin etc etc.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:02:07
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246967
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


AwesomeO said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

The King James is only one of many versions including ordinary language ones.

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

Time for a new version to reflect modern law, human rights and modern ideologies ?

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:02:33
From: Michael V
ID: 1246969
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


AwesomeO said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

The King James is only one of many versions including ordinary language ones.

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

What about Today’s English Version? (Etc)

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:04:35
From: AwesomeO
ID: 1246974
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

AwesomeO said:

The King James is only one of many versions including ordinary language ones.

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

Time for a new version to reflect modern law, human rights and modern ideologies ?

Oh Jeeze, walked into that one. It wouldn’t be a translation of the original then would it, you would be talking about something else. Anti religious nutters are as boring and single minded as God nutters.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:07:40
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 1246977
Subject: re: A good question...

AwesomeO said:

Oh Jeeze, walked into that one. It wouldn’t be a translation of the original then would it, you would be talking about something else. Anti religious nutters are as boring and single minded as God nutters.

^this.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:09:33
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246980
Subject: re: A good question...

Michael V said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

AwesomeO said:

The King James is only one of many versions including ordinary language ones.

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

What about Today’s English Version? (Etc)

A really slimmed down version.

A bible free of any unnecessary text.

A bible free of contradictions or any hypocritical ideologies.

A bible that deals with reality and makes no reference to imaginary spaces, monsters, heaven, hell, souls being tortured etc

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:10:46
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 1246982
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


Michael V said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

What about Today’s English Version? (Etc)

A really slimmed down version.

A bible free of any unnecessary text.

A bible free of contradictions or any hypocritical ideologies.

A bible that deals with reality and makes no reference to imaginary spaces, monsters, heaven, hell, souls being tortured etc

fuck off polluting every thread with you religious tripe.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:10:52
From: Michael V
ID: 1246983
Subject: re: A good question...

AwesomeO said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

Time for a new version to reflect modern law, human rights and modern ideologies ?

Oh Jeeze, walked into that one. It wouldn’t be a translation of the original then would it, you would be talking about something else. Anti religious nutters are as boring and single minded as God nutters.

Ha!

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:13:19
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246987
Subject: re: A good question...

AwesomeO said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

Time for a new version to reflect modern law, human rights and modern ideologies ?

Oh Jeeze, walked into that one. It wouldn’t be a translation of the original then would it, you would be talking about something else. Anti religious nutters are as boring and single minded as God nutters.

It would be interesting to see the bible with its ideologies free of imaginary stuff and contradictions.

It would look very different I think.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:15:07
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246990
Subject: re: A good question...

ChrispenEvan said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Michael V said:

What about Today’s English Version? (Etc)

A really slimmed down version.

A bible free of any unnecessary text.

A bible free of contradictions or any hypocritical ideologies.

A bible that deals with reality and makes no reference to imaginary spaces, monsters, heaven, hell, souls being tortured etc

fuck off polluting every thread with you religious tripe.

I don’t pollute every thread

Stop trying to censor people

disgusting

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:15:57
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246991
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


ChrispenEvan said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

A really slimmed down version.

A bible free of any unnecessary text.

A bible free of contradictions or any hypocritical ideologies.

A bible that deals with reality and makes no reference to imaginary spaces, monsters, heaven, hell, souls being tortured etc

fuck off polluting every thread with you religious tripe.

I don’t pollute every thread

Stop trying to censor people

disgusting

and keep your emotional violence to yourself

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:16:42
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 1246992
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


ChrispenEvan said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

A really slimmed down version.

A bible free of any unnecessary text.

A bible free of contradictions or any hypocritical ideologies.

A bible that deals with reality and makes no reference to imaginary spaces, monsters, heaven, hell, souls being tortured etc

fuck off polluting every thread with you religious tripe.

I don’t pollute every thread

Stop trying to censor people

disgusting

it isn’t censorship you idiot. how about you actually have some self-control? or is that a bit much to ask of you?

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:17:05
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 1246993
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

ChrispenEvan said:

fuck off polluting every thread with you religious tripe.

I don’t pollute every thread

Stop trying to censor people

disgusting

and keep your emotional violence to yourself

go fuck yourself.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:17:13
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 1246994
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


Michael V said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

What about Today’s English Version? (Etc)

A really slimmed down version.

A bible free of any unnecessary text.

A bible free of contradictions or any hypocritical ideologies.

A bible that deals with reality and makes no reference to imaginary spaces, monsters, heaven, hell, souls being tortured etc

You’e an idiot…

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:18:32
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246995
Subject: re: A good question...

ChrispenEvan said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

ChrispenEvan said:

fuck off polluting every thread with you religious tripe.

I don’t pollute every thread

Stop trying to censor people

disgusting

it isn’t censorship you idiot. how about you actually have some self-control? or is that a bit much to ask of you?

It is censorship!

Why don’t you show some emotional control.

Keep your emotional violence to yourself

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:19:23
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1246997
Subject: re: A good question...

poikilotherm said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

I think it’s been re-written enough…

Every now and then I toy with the idea of rewriting it from an atheist (or agnostic) perspective.

Completely removing the word “God” for instance and replacing it with “Elohim”, “El Shaddai” and “JHWY” as appropriate.

My version would be based on the three volume “Translators Bible”, which highlights the many differences between different original texts. Updated using the more recent texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Also, why bother telling Matthew, Mark and Luke in separate books. They’re just retelling Mark plus the cryptic text Q. And remove all the duplication of this from John.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:20:22
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1246998
Subject: re: A good question...

Both Witty Rejoinder and ChrispenEvan are terrible debaters.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:20:26
From: ChrispenEvan
ID: 1246999
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


ChrispenEvan said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

I don’t pollute every thread

Stop trying to censor people

disgusting

it isn’t censorship you idiot. how about you actually have some self-control? or is that a bit much to ask of you?

It is censorship!

Why don’t you show some emotional control.

Keep your emotional violence to yourself

like i said before go fuck yourself. you talk tripe. you don’t read anything and actually understand it. you wont get a proper diagnosis of your mental problems because you are too scared they will come back negative. then you wont have an excuse to be like you are.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:22:14
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1247001
Subject: re: A good question...

ChrispenEvan said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

ChrispenEvan said:

it isn’t censorship you idiot. how about you actually have some self-control? or is that a bit much to ask of you?

It is censorship!

Why don’t you show some emotional control.

Keep your emotional violence to yourself

like i said before go fuck yourself. you talk tripe. you don’t read anything and actually understand it. you wont get a proper diagnosis of your mental problems because you are too scared they will come back negative. then you wont have an excuse to be like you are.

You have a choice not to read the thread or post.
.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:22:49
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 1247002
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:

Both Witty Rejoinder and ChrispenEvan are terrible debaters.

I’m surprised you can spell ‘debate’…

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:22:52
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1247003
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


ChrispenEvan said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

It is censorship!

Why don’t you show some emotional control.

Keep your emotional violence to yourself

like i said before go fuck yourself. you talk tripe. you don’t read anything and actually understand it. you wont get a proper diagnosis of your mental problems because you are too scared they will come back negative. then you wont have an excuse to be like you are.

You have a choice not to read the thread or post.
.

and have now reduced yourself to trolling.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:33:54
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1247010
Subject: re: A good question...

mollwollfumble said:


poikilotherm said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

I think it’s been re-written enough…

Every now and then I toy with the idea of rewriting it from an atheist (or agnostic) perspective.

Completely removing the word “God” for instance and replacing it with “Elohim”, “El Shaddai” and “JHWY” as appropriate.

My version would be based on the three volume “Translators Bible”, which highlights the many differences between different original texts. Updated using the more recent texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Also, why bother telling Matthew, Mark and Luke in separate books. They’re just retelling Mark plus the cryptic text Q. And remove all the duplication of this from John.

I would like to see a completely revamped version free of, heaven, hell, imaginary spaces, contradictions and observations in error.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:35:33
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1247013
Subject: re: A good question...

mollwollfumble said:


poikilotherm said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Should the bible be rewritten in today’s language?

I think it’s been re-written enough…

Every now and then I toy with the idea of rewriting it from an atheist (or agnostic) perspective.

Completely removing the word “God” for instance and replacing it with “Elohim”, “El Shaddai” and “JHWY” as appropriate.

My version would be based on the three volume “Translators Bible”, which highlights the many differences between different original texts. Updated using the more recent texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Also, why bother telling Matthew, Mark and Luke in separate books. They’re just retelling Mark plus the cryptic text Q. And remove all the duplication of this from John.


Other changes needed in the translation. So as you see, the Bible really does need to be rewritten in today’s language.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:44:18
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1247022
Subject: re: A good question...

ChrispenEvan said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Michael V said:

What about Today’s English Version? (Etc)

A really slimmed down version.

A bible free of any unnecessary text.

A bible free of contradictions or any hypocritical ideologies.

A bible that deals with reality and makes no reference to imaginary spaces, monsters, heaven, hell, souls being tortured etc

fuck off polluting every thread with you religious tripe.

Yeah, modern language. That should be in the Bible’s introduction.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:47:30
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1247025
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:

Both Witty Rejoinder and ChrispenEvan are terrible debaters.

No they’re not, they’re just arseholes, apparently the same as me.

:)))

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:52:10
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1247031
Subject: re: A good question...

AwesomeO said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

The King James version was completed in 1611 was 507 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version

The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the Authorized Version (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611

A lot has changed over 507 years.

Time for a new version to reflect modern law, human rights and modern ideologies ?

Oh Jeeze, walked into that one. It wouldn’t be a translation of the original then would it, you would be talking about something else. Anti religious nutters are as boring and single minded as God nutters.


It would still be a translation of the original.

Are they really? I’ve never met one. I grew up with an atheist mother, agnostic father, C of E older sister, Baptist younger older sister, non-sectarian Christian first wife, and Church of Christ second wife. I’ve had periods of being christian, agnostic and atheist. I have a soft spot for the Tao, Jain and Buddhism.

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Date: 1/07/2018 18:56:20
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1247038
Subject: re: A good question...

PermeateFree said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

Both Witty Rejoinder and ChrispenEvan are terrible debaters.

No they’re not, they’re just arseholes, apparently the same as me.

:)))

Anyone that reduces themselves to swearing and storming out of the room slamming the door is a terrible debater

What would happen if was on Q&A would he start punching other debaters because he doesn’t like what being said.

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Date: 1/07/2018 19:02:08
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 1247043
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


PermeateFree said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Both Witty Rejoinder and ChrispenEvan are terrible debaters.

No they’re not, they’re just arseholes, apparently the same as me.

:)))

Anyone that reduces themselves to swearing and storming out of the room slamming the door is a terrible debater

What would happen if was on Q&A would he start punching other debaters because he doesn’t like what being said.

No one would notice Boris’ and my replies as the audience was reduced to giggles at your pearls of wisdom…

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Date: 1/07/2018 19:06:30
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1247045
Subject: re: A good question...

Tau.Neutrino said:


PermeateFree said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Both Witty Rejoinder and ChrispenEvan are terrible debaters.

No they’re not, they’re just arseholes, apparently the same as me.

:)))

Anyone that reduces themselves to swearing and storming out of the room slamming the door is a terrible debater

What would happen if was on Q&A would he start punching other debaters because he doesn’t like what being said.

Probably!

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Date: 1/07/2018 19:07:55
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1247047
Subject: re: A good question...

Witty Rejoinder said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

PermeateFree said:

No they’re not, they’re just arseholes, apparently the same as me.

:)))

Anyone that reduces themselves to swearing and storming out of the room slamming the door is a terrible debater

What would happen if was on Q&A would he start punching other debaters because he doesn’t like what being said.

No one would notice Boris’ and my replies as the audience was reduced to giggles at your pearls of wisdom…

You don’t need to try being an arsehole Witty, it comes naturally to you.

:)))

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Date: 1/07/2018 19:13:17
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1247051
Subject: re: A good question...

Witty Rejoinder said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

PermeateFree said:

No they’re not, they’re just arseholes, apparently the same as me.

:)))

Anyone that reduces themselves to swearing and storming out of the room slamming the door is a terrible debater

What would happen if was on Q&A would he start punching other debaters because he doesn’t like what being said.

No one would notice Boris’ and my replies as the audience was reduced to giggles at your pearls of wisdom…

I remain indifferent.

:)

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Date: 1/07/2018 19:57:51
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 1247071
Subject: re: A good question...

PermeateFree said:


Witty Rejoinder said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Anyone that reduces themselves to swearing and storming out of the room slamming the door is a terrible debater

What would happen if was on Q&A would he start punching other debaters because he doesn’t like what being said.

No one would notice Boris’ and my replies as the audience was reduced to giggles at your pearls of wisdom…

You don’t need to try being an arsehole Witty, it comes naturally to you.

:)))

Yeah it’s you and CN against the world… strange bedfellows to be sure.

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Date: 2/07/2018 00:08:48
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1247146
Subject: re: A good question...

The Rev Dodgson said:


Tau.Neutrino said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I’m not sure what you mean by an anomaly, but the question seems reasonable to me. We might ask:

If energy exists, why do we say it cannot be created?

I don’t think the destroyed part has anything to do with it.

Did the the energy created by the singularity already exist, or was it created by the singularity itself?

If the energy already existed then perhaps the singularity was in another state we are un aware of?

If the singularity can create energy perhaps it can destroy it as well ?

We don’t know.

We also don’t know if there was a singularity (imo it’s very unlikely).

But for “singularity” I’m happy to substitute “whatever existed at the start of the observable universe”.

The idea is that during the inflation phase, energy density (instead of quantity) is conserved, meaning that the overall of energy massively inflates as the universe rapidly expands.

I don’t know the current status of this idea and how it fits with today’s physics.

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Date: 2/07/2018 00:10:16
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1247147
Subject: re: A good question...

Bubblecar said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Did the the energy created by the singularity already exist, or was it created by the singularity itself?

If the energy already existed then perhaps the singularity was in another state we are un aware of?

If the singularity can create energy perhaps it can destroy it as well ?

We don’t know.

We also don’t know if there was a singularity (imo it’s very unlikely).

But for “singularity” I’m happy to substitute “whatever existed at the start of the observable universe”.

The idea is that during the inflation phase, energy density (instead of quantity) is conserved, meaning that the overall of energy massively inflates as the universe rapidly expands.

I don’t know the current status of this idea and how it fits with today’s physics.

overall of energy = amount

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Date: 2/07/2018 09:35:23
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1247263
Subject: re: A good question...

Bubblecar said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Did the the energy created by the singularity already exist, or was it created by the singularity itself?

If the energy already existed then perhaps the singularity was in another state we are un aware of?

If the singularity can create energy perhaps it can destroy it as well ?

We don’t know.

We also don’t know if there was a singularity (imo it’s very unlikely).

But for “singularity” I’m happy to substitute “whatever existed at the start of the observable universe”.

The idea is that during the inflation phase, energy density (instead of quantity) is conserved, meaning that the overall of energy massively inflates as the universe rapidly expands.

I don’t know the current status of this idea and how it fits with today’s physics.

I probably should have known about that.

It does seem to me that speculations that are not even consistent with accepted physics are treated (at least at the pop-sci level) as indisputable facts.

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Date: 2/07/2018 10:07:29
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1247272
Subject: re: A good question...

The Rev Dodgson said:


Bubblecar said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

We don’t know.

We also don’t know if there was a singularity (imo it’s very unlikely).

But for “singularity” I’m happy to substitute “whatever existed at the start of the observable universe”.

The idea is that during the inflation phase, energy density (instead of quantity) is conserved, meaning that the overall of energy massively inflates as the universe rapidly expands.

I don’t know the current status of this idea and how it fits with today’s physics.

I probably should have known about that.

It does seem to me that speculations that are not even consistent with accepted physics are treated (at least at the pop-sci level) as indisputable facts.

In inflationary cosmology the net energy content of the universe is nil, since energy is balanced by gravity which counts as “negative energy”.

(There’s plenty of energy available locally at various times as the universe goes about its business, but the net figure remains zero.)

>Astrophysicists Alexei Filippenko at the University of California, Berkeley and Jay Pasachoff at Williams College explain gravity’s negative energy by way of example in their essay, “A Universe From Nothing”: “If you drop a ball from rest (defined to be a state of zero energy), it gains energy of motion (kinetic energy) as it falls. But this gain is exactly balanced by a larger negative gravitational energy as it comes closer to Earth’s center, so the sum of the two energies remains zero.”

In other words, the ball’s positive energy increases, but at the same time, negative energy is added to the Earth’s gravitational field. What was a zero-energy ball at rest in space later becomes a zero-energy ball that is falling through space.

The universe as a whole can be compared to this ball. Initially, before the big bang, the universe-ball was at rest. Now, after the big bang, it is falling: light and matter exist, and they are moving. And yet, because of the negative energy built into the gravity field created by these particles, the total energy of the universe remains zero.<

https://www.livescience.com/33129-total-energy-universe-zero.html

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Date: 2/07/2018 10:16:10
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 1247275
Subject: re: A good question...

Bubblecar said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

Bubblecar said:

The idea is that during the inflation phase, energy density (instead of quantity) is conserved, meaning that the overall of energy massively inflates as the universe rapidly expands.

I don’t know the current status of this idea and how it fits with today’s physics.

I probably should have known about that.

It does seem to me that speculations that are not even consistent with accepted physics are treated (at least at the pop-sci level) as indisputable facts.

In inflationary cosmology the net energy content of the universe is nil, since energy is balanced by gravity which counts as “negative energy”.

(There’s plenty of energy available locally at various times as the universe goes about its business, but the net figure remains zero.)

>Astrophysicists Alexei Filippenko at the University of California, Berkeley and Jay Pasachoff at Williams College explain gravity’s negative energy by way of example in their essay, “A Universe From Nothing”: “If you drop a ball from rest (defined to be a state of zero energy), it gains energy of motion (kinetic energy) as it falls. But this gain is exactly balanced by a larger negative gravitational energy as it comes closer to Earth’s center, so the sum of the two energies remains zero.”

In other words, the ball’s positive energy increases, but at the same time, negative energy is added to the Earth’s gravitational field. What was a zero-energy ball at rest in space later becomes a zero-energy ball that is falling through space.

The universe as a whole can be compared to this ball. Initially, before the big bang, the universe-ball was at rest. Now, after the big bang, it is falling: light and matter exist, and they are moving. And yet, because of the negative energy built into the gravity field created by these particles, the total energy of the universe remains zero.<

https://www.livescience.com/33129-total-energy-universe-zero.html

Interesting.

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Date: 2/07/2018 10:22:40
From: Cymek
ID: 1247279
Subject: re: A good question...

If the universe expands forever and eventually heat death occurs and it’s a cold empty universe could that be proof God doesn’t exist as that’s a poor ending to it all.

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Date: 2/07/2018 10:30:28
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1247284
Subject: re: A good question...

Cymek said:


If the universe expands forever and eventually heat death occurs and it’s a cold empty universe could that be proof God doesn’t exist as that’s a poor ending to it all.

Well it would certainly be proof of “mysterious ways”.

But since there would be no-one around to observe this poor ending, it’s not very useful as a proof.

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Date: 2/07/2018 10:57:28
From: diddly-squat
ID: 1247292
Subject: re: A good question...

The Rev Dodgson said:


If energy cannot be created or destroyed, then how does it exist?

Energy conservation is a bit of furphy. Energy is only conserved under very specific conditions, that is in flat and static spacetime geometries, and since our universe is at the very least dynamic, it’s not entirely useful to even talk about the total energy of the universe.

The best thing we can do it look at the energy density over a fixed volume and see how it changes with a changing spacetime.

This of course doesn’t answer you initial question, the best we can do there is to say that energy is a property of the universe, and always has been.

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Date: 2/07/2018 10:59:49
From: Ian
ID: 1247294
Subject: re: A good question...

Bubblecar said:


The Rev Dodgson said:

Bubblecar said:

The idea is that during the inflation phase, energy density (instead of quantity) is conserved, meaning that the overall of energy massively inflates as the universe rapidly expands.

I don’t know the current status of this idea and how it fits with today’s physics.

I probably should have known about that.

It does seem to me that speculations that are not even consistent with accepted physics are treated (at least at the pop-sci level) as indisputable facts.

In inflationary cosmology the net energy content of the universe is nil, since energy is balanced by gravity which counts as “negative energy”.

(There’s plenty of energy available locally at various times as the universe goes about its business, but the net figure remains zero.)

>Astrophysicists Alexei Filippenko at the University of California, Berkeley and Jay Pasachoff at Williams College explain gravity’s negative energy by way of example in their essay, “A Universe From Nothing”: “If you drop a ball from rest (defined to be a state of zero energy), it gains energy of motion (kinetic energy) as it falls. But this gain is exactly balanced by a larger negative gravitational energy as it comes closer to Earth’s center, so the sum of the two energies remains zero.”

In other words, the ball’s positive energy increases, but at the same time, negative energy is added to the Earth’s gravitational field. What was a zero-energy ball at rest in space later becomes a zero-energy ball that is falling through space.

The universe as a whole can be compared to this ball. Initially, before the big bang, the universe-ball was at rest. Now, after the big bang, it is falling: light and matter exist, and they are moving. And yet, because of the negative energy built into the gravity field created by these particles, the total energy of the universe remains zero.<

https://www.livescience.com/33129-total-energy-universe-zero.html

Hmmm, yes.. strokes beard.. that all sounds very neat.

What is wrong with this statement then, “the universe CAN”T have a net zero mass, because by E =mc^2, if m=0, E =0, which means the universe has no rest energy and so the universe can’t exist and zero net rest energy means no particle at all! and universe without particles or matters is simply not an universe!”?

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Date: 2/07/2018 11:02:00
From: Ian
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Subject: re: A good question...

d-s may have answered my quibble.

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Date: 2/07/2018 11:12:02
From: Bubblecar
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Subject: re: A good question...

I should point out that when inflationary cosmologists talk about a “universe from nothing” it’s just a figure of speech. They’re not talking about literally nothing, they’re talking about the inflation of initially tiny quantum fluctuations, which are not nothing :)

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Date: 2/07/2018 11:22:46
From: transition
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Subject: re: A good question...

>the best we can do there is to say that energy is a property of the universe, and always has been

animates the (giving) structure of/to the universe, and everything in it.

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