Stephen Hawking's Universe - EP2: The Big Bang (5/ 5)

[fajangel]

The bubble is the big bang and the universe is all that is outside of the bubble, because as you see in this episode the big bang was the creation of all the matter that exist product of the singularity that was before of the big bang, I recommend you to see episodes of black holes to undestarnd more.

[GotZest]

Press 7 for jazzhands

[mtlhcdom]

if that blue and red bubble is the universe ,then what do you call the stuff around it?

[3877michael]

OMG ! ! They have just announced that dark matter is Jissem !

[00Quetzalcotal00]

@utubephobe

Turtles all the way down indeed 8D

[thejackwakefield]

Well said Cypsation! I myself am Christian, but I LOVE theoretical physics and how it is slowly explaining the physical way our universe came about. People of all religions shouldn't be so quick to jump on the band-wagon and poo-poo the new theories.

They've done that too many times, perhaps we should accept that the Bible's creation stories aren't scientifically accurate!!

Belief in a God and science can go hand in hand. If God created the world, surely there'd be quite a big bang?!

[EGMAG]

@thejackwakefield Science actually studies nature and in nature all things have cause and effect, there is no difference in the BB as it mus have been an effect of a previous cause and so on.

[cypsation]

@thejackwakefield Well said! I myself am not religious but i recognize that there is value to be discerned in scriptures whether it be taken literally or not. Consequently i feel that excessive zeolotry has more to do with a persons proclivity towards logic and reason or rather lack there of. The irony i feel is that if there is a "god" these people are doing a terrible diservice by remaining ignorant and not using there dare I say god given ability to reason.

[lexmark136]

I bet the pope molested poor, defenceless hawkings during his trip, the medal was just a ploy to get hawkings in the same room as that evil evil man.

[plutone220696]

if there was really a big bang, where did all the matter and energy come from? mass and energy cannot be created nor destroyed, so the singularity must be a point of which all matter and energy is compressed into. so then the dimensions of space and time must also be compressed in this singularity. so what decides when does the singularity expand to form the universe as we know it? what was there before the dimensions came into existence?

[gaynorglowellxsingh]

when i see pictures of the big bang, it's always shown as a cone of ejected matter in one direction. Are they saying that's what happend. As apposed to a centralized explosion that expands in all directions? (see vid)

[hismadjesty]

Stars rotate, and when they collapse the energy of that rotation is transferred to a smaller surface area, making it rotate faster. 5000Km/s going from being 1 degree per minute to 360 degrees per second (I dare you to nitpick those arbitrary numbers). Since a black hole would be spinning very fast, it would have a flattened spheroid shape, but since it has mostly the same mass as the star that produced it, that distortion would be equivalently scaled.

[hismadjesty]

The disc that surrounds the black hole rotates in the direction, and along the equator, of the singularity. This matter, added to the mass of the singularity, makes the black hole's gravity well a more definite flattened spheroid shape. Inside the singularity, matter is colliding at tremendous speeds, which we know releases a great deal of energy, this mass is full of explosions great and small, held back from the rest of the universe only by the power of its own gravity.

[hismadjesty]

The weakest points of the gravity of a black hole are the two ends at the axis of rotation; the top and bottom of the singularity. This is where the jets of radiation are emitted, surging whenever new matter falls in. This radiation is made of the same stuff as light, radio waves, matter, it is subatomic particles. Radiation is, however minutely, affected by gravity. A cloud of it surrounds the universe, penetrates everything.

[hismadjesty]

When radiation cools to move slowly enough it can, concievably, turn into other forms of matter. Hydrogen? Perhaps. We should find that out. Because at the end of this universe, when there is no more matter than in a single black hole, and the disc has long faded, the singularity will become something very close to a perfect sphere. At this point, when the weakest point of gravity determines the direction of the radiation jet, that direction will be "all of them"

[razko]

let me just clarify the use of the word god... god obviously being omnipotent, etc, etc, it would be right to assume a true believer in the faith and that's what it is, faith, that allows someone to believe that a god need not be created, where as science, the big bang, physics, etc, were created by man and because of the lack of an omnipotent, etc, etc, characteristic quality that only a god would hold could obviously not have started by itself

[billdt85]

Easy on the offensive remarks people. That includes antjam666, amazingme2008,

sinnerHUN and many others. You won't get anywhere in life without the capacity to participate in CIVIL DISCOURSE. That means no barking, name calling, or just plain 'hateful' remarks. You can openly disagree but write honestly and be decent or don't write at all.

[lidahrasmi]

"WHO CREATED GOD?" is a question that proves the limit of human thinking process. We cannot comprehend if there were thing or being that existed from and until infinitely.

God is not being created.If He is also being created then who created the creator.This attribute of God simply cannot being justified by logical thinking in a way because of the limitation of a creation ie. us.

This superior concept of God can be found in the 99 attributes of God in Islam.Look it up and it will make sense.

[FreeThought10]

Make sense? Lol! By the way, Islam is the worst religion, next to Christianity. At least some Christians helped science, like Galileo, though the credit is toward reason and not the religion. Anyways, this is a scientific video, take your religious fallacies elsewhere.

[billdt85]

Not True. You should look up Islam and science on You tube.

[FreeThought10]

In 1100, a Muslim said that math was the word of the devil. Its true they helped before, but now...

[billdt85]

But now....what? Please finish your thought.

[FreeThought10]

Fundamentalism has taken over Islam, making many of them radical muslims that wants to impose their religion.

[britdemo]

@FreeThought10 whats that got to do with the big bang........its people like you that couse half the problems in this world

[jacksawild]

@FreeThought10 You are ignorant. Please stop interacting with people.

[Mankepanke]

Just cut out the middleman. If you say it's valid to say that "God has always existed", it is equally valid to say "The universe has always existed".

The funny thing is, "always" is defined in time, and time was created in the big bang. Talking about stuff before that is like freezing below 0K, moving north of the north pole, touching the outside of a Möbius strip and dividing by zero. It just doesn't make any sense at all and the concept is invalid.

[crazykong2]

Stephen Hawking is full of crap! MEGA CRAP!

[locologan187]

good stuff.

[NotWhollySane]

Some of the comments on this video from atheists are juvenile. Learn to spell, and understand that asking "What created God?" is a category error. Instead say that conservation of mass/energy shows that matter cannot be created. And the big bang was not the creation of the universe but rather an expansion. Seriously, some of you guys need to read a book or pay attention to what a few decent theists are saying.

[Mafiaaffe]

The question what created god is only an error in theistic head. If you belive god came to beeing just like that or he existed for all eternity then god is the ultimative form of a boeing 747 created from tornado on a waste disposal. Which is simply impossible. So the question what created god is absolutly valid. And the only think that is infantine here is the assumption that it takes an invisble magic man to give your life point and meaning.

[Mafiaaffe]

"And the big bang was not the creation"

Wrong the big bang was the begining of the

universe and of time asking what was before

the universe is like asking what is south

of the southpole.

It is true that we dont know its origin yet

but i dont see any reason to blame it on magic.

[NotWhollySane]

So everything just poofed out of nothing? That's impossible. I think it's easier to say that we live in an infinite universe, and within that infinite universe a massive black hole formed. The big bang was probably the result of the massive black hole going critical and blowing up. If we could go out far enough I bet we would find matter that was not a part of the big bang. Finding that matter would prove that the big bang was a localized explosion in an infinite universe.

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

@Mafiaaffe its magic

[NotWhollySane]

If something existed forver then it would never need to be created in the first place. So asking what created it is wrong. It's easier to just say that mass/energy has always existed, and then use Occam's Razor to cut out God.

[NoxieDC]

The one thing the movie didn't touch on much, though it would be incredibly difficult to, is the nature of that first atom.

Scary how we know so much about the Universe yet we still have enough to learn about our own world, and ourselves.

[utubephobe]

it's turtles. the world sits on an elephant. then a turtle. then it's turtles all the way down. then it's the flying spaghetti monster. this can be the only answer, b/c some1 told me so.

[R3DxWarri0r]

/buckits

[CarlosMarti123]

@utubephobe And where is the flying spaghetti monster on, idiot?

[mtlhcdom]

@utubephobe u r funny +i love your username

[landin048]

ZeroHumans, what the hell is your problem? Your best bet is to quit watching Stephen Hawking since you hate him so much, and sign up for anger management classes by proxy.

[Zao125]

he's just a gay troll

[jrdudedj]

I loved that whole thing. I'm going to go watch EP3 now, even though it's 3:55 am and i need sleep, lol this is better than sleep.

[rnstuffy]

The Big Bang Yes,.. "Let there be light"

[UvaFlys]

Some questions are meant to never be answered, yet our little race unaware of other things much more important, like exploring other planets, world poverty, world hunger... we fight each other to entertain our dorment brains. Shouldn't we instead of fighting do something that actually counts? as i said above some questions are meant to not be answered like: the north of north pole, and how big the universe is, and its origin, maybe the universe is just another "planet"...Maybe...just maybe......

[ZeroHumans]

Einstein's theories are like Newton's; they have holes in them and flaws. Quantum theory and Relativity both have uses, but they are mutually exclusive and don't agree. Einstein was trying to resolve that with a unified theory until he died. Math is not science. So how can you dream up a "big bang" with some math equations and few flawed radiation measurements from earth and say it's the "truth"?

[darksyde3000]

"Quantum theory and Relativity both have uses, but they are mutually exclusive and don't agree."

Please look into Hawking's No Boundaries theory, and you'll see that they combined the two to work together. The Origin of the Universe lecture explains it fairly well, on a simplistic level.

I think you vastly underestimate the degree of testing, experimenting and measuring that goes into ANY scientific discovery, especially one as important as the Big Bang.

[ZeroHumans]

First of all hawking's "no boundaries" is just a wild stab in the dark, not a theory. It's hawking's way to get publicity for his "big bang" disney cartoon. Hawkings did not go beyond Einstein and discover a unifying theory, sorry. actual quote from hawkings: "relativity breaks down at the singularity".. he can't even analyze what the "big bang" is himself! It's an assumption and a religion, like quoting bible passages or declaring that the earth was flat.

[billdt85]

I'm sorry but I would take Hawkings word over yours any time of the day. I mean, who are you... What have YOU DONE to contribute to science???? Why should I believe you instead of Hawkings who has dedicated his whole life to this subject and globally recognize for his work? Sorry if it sound kinda harsh but do you understand what I mean?

[ZeroHumans]

By the way Hawkins is not some science god or a reincarnated Einstein.. he's more of a media celebrity than a scientist.

[nickomay30]

9Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. 11Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.

2JOHN 1:7,9-11

[wolf2673]

Ok.. wanted to start with "God" or "Jesus Christ" with an explanation point... with is SCIENCE! Physics WORKS!

[DeusMerdaeEst]

It's funny how creationist godjunkies accept science for absolutely everything in their life, except when it contradicts their delusions.

[ZeroHumans]

Hey, I'm no creationist. But I sure don't buy that the universe started suddenly from a random subatomic pea in nothingness which vomited out space and time and galaxies only 13.7 billion years ago, hahahaha. They're having problems with all that missing mass to sell this as well, they keep trying to invent "dark matter" which they can't measure. About all they know is the universe expands and contracts. When are gullible people going to stop accepting junk science as the new religion?

[DeusMerdaeEst]

When Darwin came up with his evolotion theory, there were also still some gaps in them, yet I would not call Darwin a junk scientist.

Those gaps were later filled by other scientists. If they had had the same reasoning as you have, we would never have had the proof for evolution we have now.

Great ideas start as rough diamonds. You have to be able to see doors instead of walls.

[KU106]

"Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were joined together as one united piece, then We parted them? And We have made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?" [Al Quran 21:30]

How could some 1400 years ago, make a point which would be proven centuries later, predict that it will be witnessed by ahteists(unbelievers) and ask them a question, "will they not believe?"

this cannot be human handy work. Think about it!

[grecuromulus]

Different religions can describe God and his action in many different ways, but actually, God has only one face and no religion can describe it.

There will be a time when science will be the universal religion.

Anyway, this documentary is a great way to realize that life is more then job, mortgage, marriage, common things or even serious things like war, death, nations, religions

It gives you a sentiment of superiority.

[Aersis32]

the day without yesterday is the best way to describe before the bigbang. time itself had a beginning, before the big bang, there was nothing, not even empty vacuum space, coz if time had a beginning, then an empty space would still be space, and space cannot exist without duration or time

[CYBORG36767]

ok look here i believe in god and dont give a F wat u think so no point replying to this cause i wont read it, HOW DOES A EXPLOSION CREATE SOMTHING!?!?!?!? cause then i think of explode/explosion i think of destroying stuff not greating stuff???? and every creation comes a CREATER!!!! aka GOD so please tell me how does a big bang create somthing???

[SajukkTheEternal]

i will reply to you.

If all the matter is densely concentrated and with a big explosion it is spread out, thus allowing matter to form different things, then, there you go, you have an explosion that spread around the materials that made the buildstuff of everything. Thus an explosion that created everything

[feonjun]

What a moron, what you think is Christianity is really a copy of the Egyptian religion.

[falotnek]

The Universe did not explode. It expanded. And who cares if you believe in god?

[ZeroHumans]

Hey, some dumb scientist made up this big bang rubbish to get famous, are you going to believe it? If you do, you also believe we we were all dreamed up by Bugs Bunny who farted the universe out and here we are. Makes as much sense as this "big bang" joke.

[DeusMerdaeEst]

Those dumb scientists have proof for the big bang. Meanwhile, ignorant shrimp-brained creationists are still struggling to understand what scientific proof actually means.

[prestonite]

Who made God? Do you have an answer?

[tonyzmglm]

the big bang!!!!!!!!! who mad ethe big bang ??? GOD then i think its like the chicken and the egg....

[dlb1980]

The chicken and egg situation is not a logical impossibility. Define chicken, and you will be able to find the first defined chicken in an mutated egg, hatched from a bird that is an evolutionary pre-cursor to your definition of chicken."

[tonyzmglm]

heheh i guess u may be right, but what i meant is what was first to be created from evolution, was it the chicken or the shelled egg, hehehe but then as u say the chicken came out of a mutated egg ..... well lets leave this asides, i only meant the inside meaning of the saying ....u know i hope u understand me cause sometimes i dont understand myself.

[dlb1980]

yeah, i know what you mean, i was only messing with you lol.

[tonyzmglm]

heheheh you got me1!!! heheh

[cypsation]

by your logic, who/what created god? There had to be something before god to create god.

[tonyzmglm]

yeah if you look at the logic of it something must have created the nown known force we call god... but then the same logic backfires and bites us again .. and who created the thing that created god ...and then again..and again... but its possible to deduce that god had always been there and he's the one that set the universe on its current track!!!! .... and he was always here!!1

[cypsation]

So god can be eternal and the universe can't? Where is the logic in that?

[tonyzmglm]

well according to physics matter cannot be created from nothingness!!! so the existance of god contradicts science!! but if you look at it from a believer's point of view god is all mighty he can do whatever you can and cannot immagine so.... i'll leave he conclusion of that scentence for ur imaginataion.

[cypsation]

I feel our small minds can't possibly comprehend the extent of the universe and the notion of an intelligent designer in the treditional sence is an attempt to justify the boundaries of our own perception of reality. That is not to say that there isnt a creater, that would be ignorant for me to both deny and maintain. Regardless there are always more fundamental questions to ask. stopping at one abolute assumption such as god exists and he/she/it created the universe is ignorant.

[cypsation]

We are not doing the universe or our existence any justice, by assuming we know all the answers and it is as simple as a single being creating everything. this is ignorant because it is the easiest answer to accept. Even if a "god" created us I beleive we would be insulting god by shutting off our brains and just assuming that there is a god and that god is watching over us. That is a terrible waste of our intelligence would it not?

[tonyzmglm]

well me myself I'm not a religious guy, I'm more of a scientist i believe in what i can see, and what i can mathematically prove, i think you misunderstood me for a religious guy. if i was religious i wouldn't waste my time watching Stephen hawking's videos instead of watching "4 things god wants you to know", etc... I'm a scientific freak and I'm proud of it, maybe you misunderstood me; what i was trying to imply is what people may answer when asked " DO YOU THINK GOD CREATED THE UNIVERSE??".

[EGMAG]

@cypsation The truth is when considering God then the BB is nothing and anything that created the big bang through cause and effect is nothing for the powerful hand of God to create.

[cypsation]

@EGMAG I'm not denying the existence of an omnipotent entity creating the universe as a possibility to explain existence. However if this is the case who or what created god? If god is to be considered infinite than why is it so hard for people to consider the univers as infinite? Through your reference of cause and effect then something must have caused "god" to come into existence. It is this paradox which is so intuitive, that makes the very concept of god abstract.

[EGMAG]

@cypsation caused "god <<

that's just the point. After all the Newtonian and Darwinian concepts using cause and effect the very last / or first would have no cause which we term

G O D. and is the cause of all effects,

[cypsation]

@EGMAG No offence but your statement is completely and utterly illogical. You can't use the concept of cause and effect and say that it ends at god. That defeats your entire argument. Your argument is essentially that god is the cause of all effects, but your ignoring the cause of god. If your ingore that then the enitre concept becomes irrelevant.

[EGMAG]

@cypsation No offence <<

You come up with a better and simpler "concept" and I would be glad to understand it.

You cannot explain God at all. You cannot explain any scientific concept of everything, at all. You cannot explain the cause of the big bang. You cannot explain, where, how and what the universe is displacing in its expansion. You cannot explain much of anything can you?

PS : NO offense!

[cypsation]

@EGMAG Hey man I just pointed out the flaws in your logic. It's funny you're suggesting now after i pointed out your contradiction that nobody knows anything and you can't explain anything when that is clearly what you tried to do.

[EGMAG]

@cypsation You cannot explain the cause of the big bang. You cannot explain, where, how and what the universe is displacing in its expansion.

[malkipoop]

if we could come up with an equation where 0 can equal 1 then maybe we could except no gods existence. but seriously how does nothing become something? i dont think we can explain it better than a supreme being creating our universe. of course another question would arise... where did the supreme being come from? and who created that supreme being and so on. Because there is a beginning to everything right? so infinity must be the answer and time is a revolving door. who knows. its freakish

[malkipoop]

if we could come up with an equation where 0 can equal 1 then maybe we could except no gods existence. but seriously how does nothing become something? i dont think we can explain it better than a supreme being creating our universe. of course another question would arise... where did the supreme being come from? and who created that supreme being and so on. Because there is a beginning to everything right? so infinity must be the answer and time is a revolving door. who knows. its freakish

[ssjblind]

@malkipoop the same way people 3000 years ago thought it was god who made it rain? this is called the argument from ignorance. not knowing and applying god as the answer. doesnt work, and scientifically it is a very bad practice.

[malkipoop]

@ssjblind ask any real scientist if they think there is a god or not. science is definantly a real thing. but believing thats all their is, than that has no happy ending. and whats wrong with a happy ending.

[malkipoop]

@ssjblind yo give me a better explanation. you really cant. and to not believe something is out there is ignorant. most people that hate themselves believe no god

[CarlosMarti123]

@cypsation Why are you so keen to make a debate about God in every video about science? Seriously, focus on the subject of the video, not religion. I'm tired of these pointless and irrelevant debates.

[DoctorExplosion]

@CarlosMarti123

Well, religion is partially the subject of the video.

[sinnerHUN]

RELIGIONS ONLY CREAT HATE! sad to see how ppl can be brainwashed.. u born into a religion and u just bla bla the same u were told. how can u mix religion and science? religion is pointless with science u can actually find things out. EVERY TIME SOME1 ANSWERS TO A QUESTION WITH GOD.. IT MEANS I DON'T KNOW! so why add another myth with god? AND WHICH GOD?ALLAH?BUDHA?ZEUS?lol OR HINDU some wants to believe so much but even they question god all the time..dont lie! FOOLISH..

[hankgriesbach]

Antijam666 to me your just as bad as those f.ucking relgious nuts out there... Yes, i agree with you on some points but to some up religion by saying its an imaginary tale is far from truth... Religion on a whole gives hope, wouldn't it be nice to "KNOW" that you were going to heaven... Although I "KNOW" heaven doenst exist I would love to believe it did... Science and Religion are just two languages telling the same story, there are plenty of questions out there, some may never be anwsered

[amazingme2008]

you're at least stupid... you don't know what science is and you don't know what faith is, not religion but FAITH. Science is just a method for humans to find out simple answers about how things in the universe are working. I said simple answers because our mind is just too small to fully understand how Universe was created (if it exists it MUST be created...by someone or by something). Even if the SS theory will be proven it won't matter..we still won't be able to find out how Univ was created.

[WOWFPS]

Idiot, yes we will.. and anyway, faith and religion is all bull shit

[Etimespace]

No space expands or arches. Energy changes all the time less for the dense energy in the space which does not expand or arches. It can describe and it can understand. Just try to tell how space presumably expands? No, you can't. Nor you can, because space does not expand or arches.Forgets foolish initial explosion theory, dark material and dark energy. Not attractive power exist. Is or pressure power. And like this it now just is!

[WOWFPS]

so you know more about that than hawkins, instein and huble?

[Etimespace]

It is easy to say, that dark energy it is energy what expanding photons emit. Thats why you can see old light who is redshifting! So, there is no some magic dark energy. All energy it is one and same energy! If you say, that space expanding, it is empty argument! you cant see space. You can see energy. You can see how star emit energy, so after that, star it is not so thiny!

[matereymate]

what does he mean at the end? i don't get it....

[kiber420]

God spoke, and BANG, it happened! What is with this heretic conspiracy about "science" and "experiments"? It's all governemnt conspiracy!!! Only God and the Lord, Jesus Christ, can answer on Creation! So much heresy!!! PRAISE THE LORD!!!

[DrZenith]

Why drag god into it? And which god? There are so many of them. And what created this god in any case? The concept of god is a fairy tale for children and primitive tribes. Science is the way to truth, not stories made up by men 2,000 years ago who knew nothing about the universe.

[hankgriesbach]

Hahaha i love watching people on the internet respond to comments that display BLATENT mocary, f.uck you DrZenith for responding to this comment as if it were serious...

[kiber420]

You're going to Hell young man. You'll be a demon's bitch, burning forever!

[WOWFPS]

I hope when the time comes and humans must move onto another planet we leave you religious nuts behind.

[enemyoficce]

what the buck man they did these with out my permission :)

[ryan1111111555555555]

well if the big bang is like every other explosion we know about then eventually it will suck back in to the point of explosion, maybe when galaxies reach their maximum blast point, cool, then eventually start collonising with each other due to gravity eventually into a singularity.

[wearedefiant]

Dark Energy basically means that at this rate it could never happen. The universe will continue to expand unhindered until the universe is completely empty, it seems that even neutrons can't exist forever.

[ryan1111111555555555]

unless we all just swllow our pride and admit we really dont know whats going on :D, well we think we do but i guarantee there will be more suprises contradicitng what we 'know'

[wearedefiant]

Well actually, we don't "know" anything, it's all theory because you can never completely prove that say "1+1=2" in every circumstance. It's all theory and theories can be disproven, but when they are, a new one is developed that agrees with observation, and that sir, is science. We may or may not have a universal theory of quantum gravity and thus the universe one day, we'll just have to see.

[ryan1111111555555555]

well i ment, what we assume to be 'right' ha im 17 too isn't youtube great, people actually listen to you as if your adult, anyways send me your msn over email we can hav a better chat about it.

[abc123jan]

I think I just heared Hawking say it couldnt do that because it would violate the theory of relativity, or did I hear wrong?

[redvision350]

Well, the big freeze is a little different, but you have the right idea. The Big Freeze is the apparent outcome of this universe because it is constantly expanding with no signs of slowing down. Eventually, like you said, it cools down to absolute zero. The Big Crunch is when the expansion slows to stop and reverses, and then the universe becomes a singularity once again.

[aesrp]

sournaair: neither, since nothing can arrive from nothing, the expansion of our universe in the theory of the big bang is thought to have started from an infintesimally small ammount of matter smaller, in fact, than the smallest subatomic particles,

[RexNunc]

The Universe ROCKS!

[sourenaair]

I open a question for whoever wants to reason it. I'm agonistic and hav e read some books of cosmologoy. I heard a creationist once argued when the bigbamgs states universe had been infintismaly small or no volum it means it was created from nothing or by god? what s the answer?

[aleceth]

Current theory postulates that the universe before the big bang was a singularity. When you ask "what created it?", the question itself is wrong; nothing created it. That's simply the form it had at the time, although there would have been reasons it had that form of which we can only speculate. Matter is never created, everything has simply always existed - that is the law of conservation of mass, the most basic law of science.

[Jim1905]

Actually matter is created all the time. This law is not really the basic law of science, it's the 2nd law of thermodynamics which must hold, which is the law of conservation of energy. Of course energy and mass are the same thing, but even energy can be created from nothing via quantum mechanically. But the total energy of the system remains constant.

[aleceth]

That's pretty much what i meant. By "matter" i meant all forms of it.

[zeldarooles]

I'm pretty certain that his helium balloons were mistaken for UFOs at several points.

[mjdoyza]

Danoman, its the hokey cokey... thats what it's all about

[danomanno747]

Regardless what science or religion will come up with, people will be still left with the same basic question - why??

Why does anything exist at all? Don't know if anyone will answer this any time soon.

[aleceth]

the problem is that 'why' is a stupid question. It supposes that there was a reason for the universe thought out before the universe came to exist. You choose what you want out of life and existance, it's not chosen for you. Even if some otherworldly being was able to create the universe for their own reasons, it doesn't mean that has to be the purpose of your life any more than your parent's reason for having a kid needs to be your life goal.

[danomanno747]

well, by your own logic, 'why' is only a stupid question if you choose it to be. Asking "why" isn't better/worse than asking any other question.

[aleceth]

no, it's a stupid question because it has not tangible objective answer in regards to the world itself; the question exists only because of a misunderstanding of what life is. Asking why we are here implies that we were created for a specific reason, and there's no reason to believe that.

[LindyHopparinn]

I think I have to advocate danomanno747 here. This question was asked by many of the prominent philosophers like Hegel, Sartre, Leibniz or David Hume etc. (I don't know whether you consider them stupid also) And probably you seem to understand the question that danomanno747 puts forward in a wrong way. He doesn't ask why life exists or what's the purpose of life but rather as he says "why does anything exist at all?".

[aleceth]

You're right, i may have just taken it the wrong way. But the preceeding context of putting science and religion on the same footing implies a different meaning than the purely materialistic view of "why does anything exist at all?". If the question is asked philosophically, then it is stupid. If you're looking for a scientific cause, it's interesting. And i never meant to imply that asking a stupid question demonstrates a stupid questioneer.

[WoundedEgo]

The Big Bang - doesn't that sound like John-the-wad-Holmes should have been involved?

[Coporeality]

dam this is some quantum shit right here,

i would think that the steady state theory would be

proven wrong when it states that the universe has and always will be in existence. Seriously though

isn't common sense that nothing can last forever?

[pandaboy1010]

Interesting but these ideas are kind of old.

[sbug51]

but not many know of it, if people did, religion wouldn't exist like it does today

[FusionFelicity]

quite the opposite. when theists look at videos like this, they see creation. their faith in God becomes stronger.

[kurtilein3]

ive been visiting a lecture in munich, about 6 years ago, topic was the detailed map of the background radiation and its implications. 17 years old -.- didnt understand much.

i think i was pretty close to top-level science at that day..

[wearedefiant]

I'm 17 years old and I can grasp the implications the CMB has. I advise you read "A Brief History Of Time" by Stephen Hawking. Great book especially if you've had a life long interest and thus, understanding of cosmology and astronomy like I have.

[kurtilein3]

thanks for your recommendation, but i already know the book ;)

[wearedefiant]

No problem, it's a popular book.