Hi, all!
It's been some time since I started a new thread. Because of my stubborn logical analytical approach to clearing up some old issues that were never quite resolved I am going to propose that we start a renewed discussion on the origins of the Universe.
Some premises:
1. general consensus has it that there was a "Big Bang", ergo - a beginning. (Big Bang, what have you, I think it was a little more subtle, but being humans as we are we appear to have a propensity for liking to blow things up, in this case - real good)
2. the age of the Universe is generally accepted as being about 14 billion years old, give or take, and this contributes to the idea of a beginning of course.
3. the Universe is expanding, and according to Hubble and his constant, this expansion is uniform, which I take to mean linear and constant, a point which I have illustrated with my famous
elastic band demonstration. Ask for it if you are not familiar with it (so much for the accelerating expanding Universe theory, it turns out that that is just an illusion).
Now I will present a conundrum. Believe it or not, it is just a big puzzle to me. Apparently,
there is no center to this expanding Universe and it all just kind of started expanding all over the place all at once! Hah! Likely story. But I am just being an ignorant agnostic at this point.
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Thank you for your contributions. I will leave the thread open to all members because I want to read what you have to say, but kindly do not digress from the main theme.
yours respectfully,
baudrunner