just wanted to drop in and say wassup?

[Leander256]

Originally posted by Davis

Originally posted by cmhitman
what the hell do these scientists base there ideas on?
the big bang...lol
shit just exploded and here we are, makes no sense, I think the big bang and string theory is just some stuff  real smart people with nothing constructive to do thought up to keep themselves busy.

You just don\'t understand it. String theory does make sense (it just isn\'t very helpful). The big bang, however, is stupid. Modern science doesn\'t even confirm that the big bang is possible, what with quantum theory etc. We can\'t base our predictions on that.

String theory could be very helpful to unify the 4 fondamental forces of the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear strong and nuclear weak. You should give a look at this site: http://superstringtheory.com/.

You think the big bang is stupid, but at least it provides an explanation about the beginning of the universe. And as I don\'t know any other theory, I\'ll stick with it until someone (way smarter than me) finds out something else.

[kbilik]

Here\'s another site with about two dozen free streamable videos about string theory. I think it explains the theory pretty well:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html

As for time and what came before time, it is mostly a realm of philosophy and religion. Human logic cannot always give us the answer to everything. How can the finite (us) truly *understand* the infinite? Can a fish living in the ocean understand the concept of outer space?

I mean, we use it a lot but can you actually imagine what infinite time and space is...

What about something that surpasses infinity as much as infinity surpasses the finite...

[Jessyn]

here\'s the scary thing.  i can visualise that.  my brain hurts, and no one wants to play 8 dimensional tic tac toe, now i\'m sad.

Jessyn

[cmhitman]

its funny, i love talking about this, but when math comes into play, it totaly turns me off.

its like i could do it...with a calculator and the instructions,its just it feels so ucky

[kbilik]

Yeah, I\'m not a fan of math either. It really gets nasty once you bump into high level calculus and wavelet theory/transforms, fourier transforms, etc.

More a philosophy person myself.