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What did the 'big bang'
bang into?
- - - Certainly, thinking outside the box can and has led to many fascinating perspectives on what, exactly, the nature of 'all' is. The 'big bang', assumptions are that it banged into a void, yet in the past 10 years, scientists have discovered that bang isn't slowing down. Instead, it's speeding up. They refer to it as a force, the cause of the speeding up, yet you rarely hear the question, "What did the 'big bang' bang into?" The standard presumption is that there was nothing, a bang, and then everything. More recently, scientists have theorized about a before the big bang realm, and of many dimensions possibly existing beyond the -4- we're familiar with. Multiple universes, also part of the possible realm of the 'all'. Cyclic universes, also part of the possible realm of the all. Infinite universes, infinite time, also part of the possible realm of the all. As for what the totality of 'all' that is natural is, exactly, actualized human knowledge is profoundly sparse, thus far, even though theories abound. Being that the investigation remains at a point of unknowns and theory, along with occasional enlightening discoveries like the accelerating expansion of the particular universe we hap- pen to reside in, it's no wonder that it's taken so long to turn away from myths and religions and to embark on a course in which science is actively investigating the matter. - - - On another front ... Humans, the only intelligent sentient cogni- zant beings anywhere, anywhen, -or- one of many? Unknown, yet. How, exactly, did chemistry result in replicat- ing matter and complex beings like us, being here? Certainly, a lot more is known than what our ancestors of the 18th century knew. Even so, much remains to be discovered, and it's science, not religion, that offers the most estimable and provable path to the answer. - - - Endless Universe http://www.endlessuniverse.net/ Excerpt: The Big Bang theory is widely regarded as the leading explanation for the origin of the universe. Yet, over the last three decades, the theory has been revised repeatedly to address such issues as how galaxies and stars first formed and why the expansion of the universe is speeding up today. Furthermore, no explanation has been found for what caused the Big Bang in the first place. In Endless Universe, Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok, both distinguished theoretical physicists, critique the Big Bang theory and recount the remarkable developments in astronomy, particle physics, and superstring theory that form the basis for a groundbreaking alternative, the “Cyclic Universe” theory. According to this theory, the Big Bang was not the beginning of time but the bridge to a past filled with endlessly repeating cycles of evolution, each accompanied by the creation of new matter and the formation of new galaxies, stars, and planets. The authors explain why the ensuing debate be- tween these two, radically different theories will profoundly affect the future of cosmology and perhaps science, in general. - - - end excerpt - - - - - - Universe(s) Origin(s) Preface http://prohuman.net/universes_origins_preface.htm Universe(s) Origin(s) - 1 of 7 }}} String Theory / Infinities / Singularities {{{ http://prohuman.net/universes_origins_1_of_7.htm Universe(s) Origin(s) - 2 of 7 }}} No Origin of the Universe? {{{ http://prohuman.net/universes_origins_2_of_7.htm Universe(s) Origin(s) - 3 of 7 }}} Multiverse? {{{ http://prohuman.net/universes_origins_3_of_7.htm Universe(s) Origin(s) - 4 of 7 }}} Universes from Black Holes? {{{ http://prohuman.net/universes_origins_4_of_7.htm Universe(s) Origin(s) - 5 of 7 }}} Cyclic Universe? {{{ http://prohuman.net/universes_origins_5_of_7.htm Universe(s) Origin(s) - 6 of 7 }}} Einstein / Big Bang / Superstrings {{{ http://prohuman.net/universes_origins_6_of_7.htm Universe(s) Origin(s) - 7 of 7 }}} Nothing / Everything {{{ http://prohuman.net/universes_origins_7_of_7.htm - - - 11 July 2007 Massive Research Project Nearing Completion http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-07-11-voa28.cfm - - - Excerpts: The world's largest particle physics laboratory is under construction on the border between Switzerland and France. At the heart is the Large Hadron Collider Particle Accelerator being built by the European Organi- zation for Nuclear Research (CERN). Its members hope it will reveal secrets of the universe and its formation. ... The goal of the project is to discover the origin of matter by replicating conditions just after "the big bang." ... The particle accelerator and collider is a 27 kilo- meter tunnel, about 100 meters underground. ... "This is a discovery machine. It's built to make discoveries and is going to tell us lots of new things about the universe." If all goes as planned, subatomic particles will be accelerated around the tunnel next year, eventually approach light speed, and smash into one another. ... "To me the most exciting thing is that we know an awful lot about a small amount of the universe. We understand the stars, the galaxies, the stuff which makes up you and me, but we also know from cosmology that is about four percent of what must be out there, and this machine might help us take steps in understanding the remain- ing 96 percent of the universe." ... - - - end excerpts - - -
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