Elegant Universe - Welcome to the 11th Dimension - Part Six

Part 6: Riddle of the Big Bang

The origin of the universe has always been a mysterious event in which the laws of physics appear to break down. Could it be that the big bang was caused by the collision of two parallel universes?

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Science & Technology

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• Universe
• Dimension

[Schaffanj]

that guy is in bread!!!

[kam1ck]

Kill me someone! Damn it. What is between these 2 colliding branes?

[truthiseverall]

Lets oxygenize the ocean while we harvest from it with the teeter tooter of a ship. We could heal the black airless hole within the body of it, without killing fish ! Plastic is durable in the seas and oceans too, I hear !

[johnnymits]

"I told ya to never call during the Simpsons!!" LMFAO I cried!!

[sargksf]

black holes could be gravitational vents to another universe.

[fromthestars36]

Wake up and look at what is going on around you peeps

[I0wn3ey0u]

The big bang theory is nothing but a cheap unfunny comedy sitcom.

[sbergman27]

Your "possibilities that nobody would consider" are simply obvious enough that few care to dwell on them. Given the numbers, the existence of "stupid" life, like amoebas, is pretty much a certainty. Certainly we've spent 99.9% of our existence as hunter gatherers without radio. But alien hunter-gatherer tribes are uninteresting because communication would not be possible. Re:SETI, only about 700 stars out of 200 billion in the galaxy have been very incompletely searched. That's 0.00000035%.

[yinyangcali]

@sbergman27 so? where are they? why don't we think about the possibilities that nobody would consider? couldn't they have simply been so self-absorbed to care that there could be creatures somewhere else in this universe? can you be so sure that they positively HAVE technology? are their thinking capabilities like that of people, or apes, or dogs, or chameleons, or insects, or amoeba, or viruses, or plants? just what do you know about biodiversity, let alone probability?

[sbergman27]

@yinyangcali If they exist and have radio, they would almost *certainly* be far more advanced. We've spent 99.9% of our species existence without radio transmitters. The only scenario in which other civilizations would not be more expected to be more advanced is the one in which *always* and *without fail* the civilizations destroy themselves at about the same level of development which we have reached today.

[yinyangcali]

@sbergman27 i'm not dismissing the idea that they COULD be more "advanced." i am merely comparing the odds of a civilization to recur somewhere else to the ratio of homo sapiens sapiens to the total number of species on this planet. what are the odds of life forms, let alone intelligent ones, to exist somewhere else? SETI hasn't even gotten that far to confirm the existence of life forms in some other planet.

[nusaik]

As Toby Turner would say: INTRO of NOTHINGNESS then BANGNESS then SOMETHINGNESS.