Ok. The quest is to find a theory of everthing so we can explain how the universe began, how it will end, and all that lies inbetween, right? Well what next? In whatever theoretical senario explaining the beginning there will always be a before. Well what was there before that, what put it there, then what put that there, and how did it get there? The answers are as infinite as the question. IT BLOWS MY MIND! Infinity slides off the tougue as easily as it slides out of my grip on reality. Well I'd love to type more but it's 2:00AM and I'm exausted. So chew on this and give me your opinions.
MY FIRST POST
Nothing is affirmative to an infinite question. That's my point. Every answer we come up with is just as much a step forward as it is backward. That's infinity. Easy to know, near impossible to fully understand. I've come to accept that space is infinte; with that in mind the notion that the universe began at some time and will end some day does't mix right with infinity. Infinity does't begin or end, it just is, was, and will be. Lets substitute the universe with numbers for a moment. 'I theororize that the numbers started with some sort of big bang at 0!' Oh, ok the numbers started at 0. But what came before that, -1, right? So that must be the beginning! But wait, does anything come before -1? Why yes, there is -2! Oh, wait, what about -3 and -4. And -5 and -6 and -7 and -8 all the way down the negatives, forever, NOT ending anywhere in the beginning. Same goes for the end of the numbers (still universe in this senerio), going in a positive direction. Toward a never ending end. My point is, as i stated in the beginning, a T.O.E. would be as much a step forward as it is backward in infinitely explaining the eternal question...What is the universe, how did it get here, when will it end, and why?
P.S. I know it reads Telsa but it's supposed to be Tesla. Thanks!
Last edited by dleviwing; 11-12-2006 at 04:50 PM.
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