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Originally Posted by subversion Good observation. So you're saying we would be at the mercy of he who created the TOE? |
Thank you, however, the TOE will
not be created it will be Discovered and we will not nessesarily be at the mercy of whoever discovers it, merely whoever controls the knowledge and/or makes first use of it. The two, however, are not mutually exclusive.
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Originally Posted by subversion The TOE will not tell us every single little thing there is to know. |
You're right, human foibles are human foibles. It will not tell us how so & so will react to such & so or even which horse will win, on the other hand, if you're a member of the 10% or less of the population who know about and understand the TOE, you can probably calculate how to make sure that it's this here hoss that wins th' race w/o anybody else the wiser.
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Originally Posted by subversion This is really the most central question to the TOE which most people tend to dodge, "how and why did the universe begin?" |
An interesting thought, quite often I have problems with the word "begin" in this context as I have the feeling that knowledge of the ultimate beginning
MAY be unattainable (but that don' keep us from tryin'). I tend to lean towards the "Pulsating Universe" theory That I read about in (believe it or not) 5th grade. At the time, there were three:
Steady State -- Eveready, it just keeps going & going -- Too many holes.
Big Bang -- What was there before? What happens after X number of years, does it just peter out and stall?
Pulsating -- Series of Big Bangs -- continuity, you've got a decent idea of what went before (yer livin' in it). When it stalls, it all falls back in, reaches critical, goes BANG, and here we go again folks.
That last provides the starting point for my TOE, which is a bit more complex and still in concept phase.
At this point it boils down to -- Define: "Beginning"
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