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Still trying! 
posted by
BrightIrish
on May 10, 2012 at 7:35 PM
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It can be mind boggling when one tries to comprehend it all! sam 
posted by
sam444
on May 10, 2012 at 6:27 PM
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In reading this I learned a lot about the Big Bang.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 9, 2012 at 10:00 AM
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I'm sorry, I got called away. Anyway as I was saying, it amuses me when scientist try to explain Gods work, not that I am calling you a scientist, though you very well may be. This bb thing, as I understand it there was nothing, but then suddenly there was something. There was neutrons and positive and negative energy which seems like a lot of something to me. (As a true believer I just cannot understand how nothing can make the universe, Am I to suppose if I had a pile of nothing in my yard it couldn't make me a watch, or a sponge cake). So where is it that all these neutrons and positive and negative energy come from in all of this nothing that was out there? That my friend, is the 64 thousand dollar question?
posted by
UtahJay
on May 8, 2012 at 11:05 PM
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Nautikos
{ Some people reconcile scientific theories of creation with God. Personally I believe in theistic creation. Normally it doesn’t come up in everyday life. Today I saw a sign that said love evolved Naut. Bill’s R{{st
posted by
BC-A
on May 8, 2012 at 10:35 PM
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"String Theory For Dummies" is a bit helpful, but even that hangs high above my thought process and understanding.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 8, 2012 at 10:11 PM
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It amuses me when scientists try to explain God's work.
posted by
UtahJay
on May 8, 2012 at 9:19 PM
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Sorry, Naut, I just couldn't resist. I'm enjoying your series but confess I get lost in the discussion. At the very least, I wanted you to know I'm reading........ and perhaps even learning a thing or two.
posted by
Troosha
on May 8, 2012 at 8:17 PM
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Now, I completely understand not having a answer! 
posted by
BrightIrish
on May 8, 2012 at 4:30 PM
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Re: Utah
I hope this kid went on to learn something in the meantime and not waste his time! Nobody claims that the BB was an 'explosion'!
The popular name for this event is apt but misleading if one takes it literally. There was no 'bang'; the four forces of nature (electromagnetism, gravity, the weak nuclear force and the strong nuclear force) were still unified! There wasn't even any light - photons could not travel freely until about 300,000 years after the BB...
But we do have an echo of the event - the microwave background radiation...
As I said, we have a pretty good idea what happened after the initial moment, but we don't know the cause...
And your firecrackers make little bangs, but they are not little Big Bangs, LOL...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 8, 2012 at 12:03 PM
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is that String thing the answer to "how long is a piece of String." I
Bought "Time"magazine yesterday thinking it might help me to stay in this discussion. But No!!! It has a very interesting article on the Presidents Club but nothing on the BB or such discussable tidbits.
posted by
Kabu
on May 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM
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Interesting Naut but, I cannot join in because it is like politics. I like reading your views
though.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 8, 2012 at 10:40 AM
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Of course, like most things scientific, like man caused global warming, which the leaked emails showed how the facts were trimmed, fashioned, and rearranged to make their points fit their outcome, this is all way over the head of someone like me who does not believe in time. I wrote a post last year about a young Einstein type who is working on his masters at sixteen over at MIT. He is working on his theory that the theory of the "big bang" is wrong. He says in order to have an explosion, a "big bang" so to speak, that there first must be carbon present. So in the middle of all this nothing, where did all the carbon necessary for a "big bang" come from?. And as long as we are talking about "big bangs", and keeping in mind that all things are relevant. When we were kids lighting firecrackers, were we not then creating little universes of our own with each little bang us little gods set off? And as long as I am in a thinking mood, we know, because Einstein told us so, that for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction, so is this equal and opposite reaction our universe, or is it our parallel universe?
Just a few more fun thoughts for you to think about Naut. I am sure your answers will be extremely entertaining. Thanks for answering my "who did it question", and for bringing us these timely posts...They are great fun.
posted by
UtahJay
on May 8, 2012 at 10:35 AM
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I love your short answer about the big bang and how it all started...
Nobody knows. Which means anyone who has a well-considered theory could be right.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 8, 2012 at 10:30 AM
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