What Is Out There? - The Story of Science s01e01. Part 2 of 6

Medical journalist Michael Mosley introduces the fundamental questions and the great forces of history that have shaped the story of science. What is out there? What is the world made of? What is the secret of life?

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[CutieBabe25]

@2eelShmeal How do you know when there isn't evidence to the contrary? You say that with certainty but maybe it is something scientist have right. We are talking about something science doesn't know all the details about right now, but that doesn't automatically mean it will be shown to be wrong in the future.

[2eelShmeal]

@gezkah And that's exactly my point. We must be humble. We've literally just dipped our pinky toe into a vast expanse. Compared to even the short amount of time humans have been on earth, we've spent a ridiculously small amount of time analyzing space. Surely, just like in all sciences in the past, our initial ideas turn out to be wrong. We do need to start somewhere and I'm blown away by our progress, but let's not get too full of ourselves. I'd bet good money the BB will be ridiculed in 500yrs

[2eelShmeal]

(CONT) #3 The BB theory requires starting material. The universe didn't begin at expansion. Even the latest inflation theory tweakings have shown there must be an infinite amount of fluctuations and BB's. The BB was NO BEGINNING. It was one more event in most likely, an eternal chain of events. Yet the scientists continue to chide us when we ask what happened before the BB. They condescend down to intelligent questions with shit like "That's like asking what's N of the N pole" FUCK YOU ITS VALID

[2eelShmeal]

(CONT) Scientists' calculations when run in the reverse all go to infinity at the singularity yet they refuse to accept that answer. They say infinity is a "mathematical disaster"... WHY? Maybe it's the right answer. If there was a singularity floating in the dark prior to expansion, did time not exist for it? Was it not the universe? How can they say time and space began when even a singularity requires space no matter how minute. Surely a singularity MUST exist in TIME AND SPACE. (CONT)

[2eelShmeal]

@CutieBabe25 Because I'm a science man. Science, unfortunately, has become religion, especially around the BB. In religion, God pre-exists everything. In science, it's the singularity. They say the universe and time "began" at the point of expansion out of a quantum fluctuation. Then inflation took over (Guth) and went FASTER than the speed of light, SLOWED back down, and is now speeding BACK up due to "dark energy". Every time the theory hits a wall, they INVENT something else. (will continue)

[gezkah]

@2eelShmeal It's silly to to mock ancient beliefs...it's completely understandable why people in the past came to conclusions...if they did'nt we would'nt know any better.

[2eelShmeal]

@CutieBabe25 Fair enough, and good point. I have no evidence by any means only an intuition. I just feel that if it is right, it certainly was no "beginning" ; only 1 event in an unending chain of causes and effects. I just love how astronomers and theoretical physicists force the equations to fit a pre-existing notion they have. How Guth came up with inflation just when he was in a bind. Expansion at faster than the speed of light? Says who? Guth? That was the only way to make it work.

[2eelShmeal]

One day future generations will look at the "big bang" and scoff about how anyone ever believed such nonsense.

[RJL738]

Even thought that was the basic desighn, it was probably quite a bit more complicated than that. I am glad we know this explianation is wrong.