Big Bang or Big Dud? A study of Cosmology and Cosmogony - Origins

"are talking about the creation of space-time."
--The questions seemingly are more pertaining to the creation of matter, and energy Matter transforming fluctuations rather than the creation of space-time. The latter is an interesting question indeed.------------------

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Originally posted by TrueCreation:
"are talking about the creation of space-time."
--The questions seemingly are more pertaining to the creation of matter, and energy <--> Matter transforming fluctuations rather than the creation of space-time. The latter is an interesting question indeed.

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There is a small portion of the discussion which concerns the expansion of space. That part has all but vanished in light of other elements of the debate. Still, I think the energymatter transformations are in some way related to the creation of space-time, though I am not yet sure how so I can't really debate it.------------------
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"There is a small portion of the discussion which concerns the expansion of space. That part has all but vanished in light of other elements of the debate. Still, I think the energymatter transformations are in some way related to the creation of space-time, though I am not yet sure how so I can't really debate it."
--Not really, energy <--> matter fluctuations have little to nothing to do with the initial question for BB explanation. This conversion happens either by radiation creating particles and anti-particles or particles and anti-particles annihilating, thusly creating radiation. Of course this still begs the question of where space-time came about. It has in my experience gone unanswered without playing heavily with semantics.------------------

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Originally posted by TrueCreation:
Not really, energy <--> matter fluctuations have little to nothing to do with the initial question for BB explanation. This conversion happens either by radiation creating particles and anti-particles or particles and anti-particles annihilating, thusly creating radiation. Of course this still begs the question of where space-time came about. It has in my experience gone unanswered without playing heavily with semantics.

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Which means that you don't know any more than I, so why are you correcting my admittedly speculative, and undemonstrated suspicion?------------------
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"Which means that you don't know any more than I, so why are you correcting my admittedly speculative, and undemonstrated suspicion?"
--I just had the impression you had a very strong reason for being so anti-theistic, and what a better reason than an answer for the origin of the universe.------------------

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Originally posted by TrueCreation:
"Which means that you don't know any more than I, so why are you correcting my admittedly speculative, and undemonstrated suspicion?"
--I just had the impression you had a very strong reason for being so anti-theistic, and what a better reason than an answer for the origin of the universe.

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It isn't that I have a strong reason for being anti-theistic, it is that I have no reason for being theistic.------------------
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"It isn't that I have a strong reason for being anti-theistic, it is that I have no reason for being theistic."
--Then you are in a perdicament there. I will not fail to remember in the future your rationalization in # 35. You will find by it that you and the majority of the evo's on this board that there is over-criticism.------------------

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Originally posted by TrueCreation:
"It isn't that I have a strong reason for being anti-theistic, it is that I have no reason for being theistic."
--Then you are in a perdicament there. I will not fail to remember in the future your rationalization in # 35. You will find by it that you and the majority of the evo's on this board that there is over-criticism.

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What?I was speculating that the creation of space-time is somehow related to the mass/energy equivalancies and I admitted up front that I don't know how and so can't argue the point. I don't think I've based anything on this suspicion-- it was a side thought as wrote the post.I could understand your ire if I were using this unproven idea to support another idea; but I'm not. It's just a feeling. I need to think about it awhile. Probably will throw it away or cannibalize it latter. But why post to tell me nothing but that you don't know where space-time came from but I am wrong anyway. Read your reply to me. There is a few lines of jargon and then, effectively, but I don't know either. Please, disagree with me, but give me something to bite into when you do.Oh, and what does this have to do with theism?And... glad you're back.------------------
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hmmm...... I rechecked the link I provided. I see a full page of defining and more than a dozen equations.

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Though many formulas were presented on the page to explain how energy relates to different concepts in physics, a definition for energy itself was not provided aside from the statement that energy is an abstract quantity of extreme usefulness in physics. Furthermore, of the formulas presented, all but two included mass within the equation. The two which did not were the formula showing energy’s relation to power (E=Pt) and the formula for measuring electrical potential energy (E=QV), but both of these still depend on the existence of material objects. This further validates my claim that energy cannot exist independently of matter.

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Very interesting question. By Einstein's formula, no. But the formula doesn't work at sub-atomic levels. Quantum mechanics takes over. And no one has yet to reconcile the two. Quantum mechanics limit the size.

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This assumption is also based on an improper application of the uncertainty principle. The uncertainty principle states that man cannot accurately measure both the position and the movement of any quantum particle. This inability prevents us from discovering where that particle will be or even was at any point in time. If the universe existed in a quantum state, we would not be able to make any predictions as to the future of our universe because we would be unable to obtain accurate measurements on which to base those predictions. Einstein’s formula is a method by which we can make predictions regarding future measurements based on current measurements. Therefore if we are unable to obtain accurate measurements, we will be unable to apply this formula and accurately predict future measurements. However, it is not the equation that fails at sub-atomic levels; it is our measurements that fail.

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Well, we can't have infinitesimal amounts. See above. But for one unit of mass you need the speed of light squared worth of energy.

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What is the base unit of mass? In other words, what is the smallest amount of mass we can measure?By the way, infinitesimal simply means immeasurably small. Thus I was referring to units of mass which exists on the smallest scale that we are capable of measuring.

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Mass is a measure of matter, yes? (I'd say mass is matter but forget that for now) How can you have an increase in mass without an increase in matter?

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Simply put, mass is a measurement of the amount of matter within a given volume of space. Thus an increase in mass would also be an increase in the amount of matter within that space. Notice, however, that I said creation of matter not increase in matter. The two statements are not the same. An increase in mass could be the result of an addition of matter to the given volume from an outside source. Thus an increase in mass does not necessitate the creation of matter.

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I am not sure what questions I am supposed to address.

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Please refer to post number twenty-two.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by w_fortenberry:
[B][QUOTE]This further validates my claim that energy cannot exist independently of matter.[/b][/quote]Good grief!!! Then explain how it is that photons are considered mass-less particles. No webpage found at provided URL: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/light_mass.html

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This assumption is also based on an improper application of the uncertainty principle.

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Exactly where did I invoke the uncertainty principle? I thought I was refering to quantized energy states, and the fact that particles break at specific energies not haphazardly along the spectrum.

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Einstein’s formula is a method by which we can make predictions regarding future measurements based on current measurements. Therefore if we are unable to obtain accurate measurements, we will be unable to apply this formula and accurately predict future measurements. However, it is not the equation that fails at sub-atomic levels; it is our measurements that fail.

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Wrong. Einstein's formulas work on the large scale because quantum effects are not noticable at large scales. It is not about poor measurement, nor is it about the uncertainty principle. At very small scales you see the quantification of energy/matter. The models of atoms with electrons orbitting them? These are quantum models. Atoms do not crash into themselves because electrons can only jump from specific energies to other specific energies-- ie, there are no inbetweens! Quantum mechanics is jumpy, relativity is smooth-- there are inbetweens. Hence the two are not compatible. [quote][b]Thus an increase in mass would also be an increase in the amount of matter within that space.[quote][b]Yes indeed.

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An increase in mass could be the result of an addition of matter to the given volume from an outside source.

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Such as?What you are missing is that that extra mass comes from ENERGY. No webpage found at provided URL: http://www-ed.fnal.gov/samplers/hsphys/activities/graphics/collisions_emc2.gif------------------
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I am aware of this postulate, I read a basic model out of David Walkinson's God Time & Stephen Hawking. This sertainly seems plausable, as if an equal amount of anti-matter and matter coming out of nothing, but I think the problem consists of the cause of such a thing happening.

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I wasn't aware that quantum fluctuations obeyed any rules of causality.They are a perfect example of an "uncaused cause", and would make a very nice first cause if there was any evidence indicating such was the case.

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Regarding the lack of singularity problem. "Universes can literally spring into existence as a quantum fluctuation of Nothing. This is because the positive energy found in matter is balanced against the negative energy of gravity, so the total energy of a bubble is zero. Thus, it takes no net energy to create a new universe."

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< !--UB http://www.flash.net/~csmith0/bigbang.htm -->http://www.flash.net/~csmith0/bigbang.htm< !--UE-->

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So, in summary, universe begats universe. Vacuum fluctuation react with scalar fields which may/may not lead to inflation. The mass & energy of a universe being born of a quantum bubble, with a net energy of zero.

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This also postulates a timeless universe.

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this is interesting, i have to read more about it... but tell me, how does it jive with the 'actual infinite vs. potential infinite' problem? iow, without using magical numbers how is it we find ourselves here and now if an infinite sequence of past events can be traversed?

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iow, without using magical numbers how is it we find ourselves here and now if an infinite sequence of past events can be traversed?

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I'm not sure that I fully understand your question (what do you mean by magical nimbers?) - but I'm pretty sure that no-one's talking about traversing an infinite sequence of past events. After all, time (more correctly spacetime) began at the Big Bang. This isn't a boundary you can traverse.PE------------------
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iow, without using magical numbers how is it we find ourselves here and now if an infinite sequence of past events can be traversed?

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I'm not sure that I fully understand your question (what do you mean by magical nimbers?) - but I'm pretty sure that no-one's talking about traversing an infinite sequence of past events. After all, time (more correctly spacetime) began at the Big Bang. This isn't a boundary you can traverse.

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ok, let's assume time began (as you say above) with bb... from that very moment, time began... each subsequent moment resulted in an event... using just our history, for example, we know the gettysburg address was written in a certain time, magna carta an earlier time, etc, etcnow we can see a sequence of past events, correct? and theoretically, given your statement that time 'began to exist', we should be able to traverse these past events (after all, if you can cross them coming forward you can do the same going backwards)*but*.. if the universe (which includes this very time of which we speak) is infinite, it's impossible to traverse the series of past events unless we use make believe numbers... and if we can't traverse a series of events going backwards, they can't be traversed coming forward... that means we'd never have reached this present event, the one we're obviously atso my comment was meant to show that an infinite universe can't exist (without those imaginary numbers)

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Originally posted by forgiven:
unless we use make believe numbers...

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Make-believe numbers? You mean imaginary numbers. It is a valid number system, not a child's game of pretend.------------------
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