On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 15:58:36 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:49:16 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:


Big Bang just a bunch of bunk?

Universe has no beginning?

Maybe it's back to thinking it's made up of ether. Invisible,
just like modern day descriptions of black holes.

http://www.space.com/28681-theory-no-big-bang.html

This is really an unknowable but the understanding of the things we
can know is advancing science. At this point "god did it" is as
provable as the big bang. What was there before the predicted event
13.8 billion years ago? I do tend to lean towards the closed universe
theory and after expanding for a while the whole thing will collapse
back on itself again. That is reconciled with the "bounce" theory. It
also leaves open the likelihood that there are other systems beyond
what we call our universe, doing the same thing.

One thing is certain, the more we find out, the more questions we
bring up and it becomes clearer that there is still more out there
than we ever suspected before.

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One thing we know for su The universe(s) is/are a very strange
thing. It sometimes seems that the more we know, the more we don't
know. Our very existence is something of a miracle and the various
religions and scientists of the world will be arguing creation
scenarios for a long time to come.