Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America..
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That's because you don't have any faith. That's the key difference.Dilbert_X wrote:
Correct, but if there is a pile of evidence backing one argument, and none at all backing the other I'll go with the one which has something more than faith behind it.FEOS wrote:
None of which eliminates the existence of one, either.
singularity + vacuum + explosion = rapidly expanding sphere of matter.PureFodder wrote:
Go read up on the physics of the universe, there really is no 'edge' of the universe. Don't try to claim things are 'according to physics' if you haven't done the research first.FEOS wrote:
a) If the universe is expanding (according to physics), there MUST be an edge. How can something be contrary and in line with something simultaneously?PureFodder wrote:
Look at the guy's theory (assuming it's the Dr. Russell Humphreys stuff) It requires:
a) there is an edge of the universe, contrary to physics
b) there is a centre of the universe, contrary to physics
c) the Earth is near the centre of the universe, violating the mediocrity principle.
Total fail.
b) If the universe is expanding from a central explosive singularity (again...according to physics), there MUST be a center. How can something be contrary and in line with something simultaneously?
c) It absolutely DOES NOT require the earth to be anywhere in particular in the universe. The whole concept is the earth's known/suspected position RELATIVE to the known/suspected origin point (the center), which obviates your position that it REQUIRES the earth to be somewhere near the center. All according to physics, mind you.
not so fail...if you bother to think about it for half a second.
I see you don't make the distinction between an edge and an edge that is y'know, reachable.FEOS wrote:
singularity + vacuum + explosion = rapidly expanding sphere of matter.PureFodder wrote:
Go read up on the physics of the universe, there really is no 'edge' of the universe. Don't try to claim things are 'according to physics' if you haven't done the research first.FEOS wrote:
a) If the universe is expanding (according to physics), there MUST be an edge. How can something be contrary and in line with something simultaneously?
b) If the universe is expanding from a central explosive singularity (again...according to physics), there MUST be a center. How can something be contrary and in line with something simultaneously?
c) It absolutely DOES NOT require the earth to be anywhere in particular in the universe. The whole concept is the earth's known/suspected position RELATIVE to the known/suspected origin point (the center), which obviates your position that it REQUIRES the earth to be somewhere near the center. All according to physics, mind you.
not so fail...if you bother to think about it for half a second.
Explain how there isn't an "edge" to that.
In a quick perusal of all the theories of the various possible shapes for local and global geometries of the universe, not one of them implies that there isn't an edge to any of them.
But ur reel smaht n stuf so ah gess yull figger it out.
I have plenty of faith -just not in religion.FEOS wrote:
]That's because you don't have any faith.
Thats closer - You're trying to solve a 4d problem with 3d modelling.singularity + vacuum + explosion = rapidly expanding sphere of matter.
Just because you don't get it doesn't mean other people are stupid.But ur reel smaht n stuf so ah gess yull figger it out.
If you have faith in anything, then you shouldn't mock those who have faith in something else. Otherwise, you are mocking yourself.Dilbert_X wrote:
I have plenty of faith -just not in religion.FEOS wrote:
]That's because you don't have any faith.
A vacuum is an absence of anything, therefore, anything that is not the singularity is, by definition, a vacuum. In fact, that vacuum was likely the only perfect vacuum that ever existed.Dilbert_X wrote:
Thats closer - You're trying to solve a 4d problem with 3d modelling.singularity + vacuum + explosion = rapidly expanding sphere of matter.
Imagine your universe is 2d and is the surface of a soap bubble.
Your universe can expand - but there is no edge.
Your presumption that I don't get it...orFodder's presumption that I haven't researched this stuff....or taken higher-level physics courses in college...is remarkably arrogant.Dilbert_X wrote:
Just because you don't get it doesn't mean other people are stupid.But ur reel smaht n stuf so ah gess yull figger it out.
The only distinction I make is whether or not it exists.Spark wrote:
I see you don't make the distinction between an edge and an edge that is y'know, reachable.
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Anybody else remember the outrage when that nobel prize winning geneticist admitted to believing in eugenics?Ty wrote:
I don't want to shit all over the movie but from reading the synopsis in the OP - Darwin never lost his faith in God, in fact in Origin as well as Decent he argued that God and evolution weren't mutually exclusive; that God instead of creating everything exactly as they are instead created them and then created a rule in order to turn them into what they are today. Darwin wasn't a religious man but then he was brought up in the period after the enlightenment when people were trying to explain the world around them instead of simply falling back on "God made it that way".
Darwin wasn't the father of Eugenics either, he was a naturalist, it was others who took Origin and applied to humanity. Darwin's follow-up Decent addressed humanity and although some argue this work suggested the theory that would become eugenics Darwin never was clear on whether he believed in it - certainly not on a practical scale. It was other men, most notably Sir Frances Galton a half-cousin of Darwin's, who would define and propagate the theory.
Anyway eugenics was an accepted science, people like Winston Churchill, Ted Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson believed in it. Since it did turn out so tragically, (Mr. Hitler also subscribed to eugenics,) and looking back on it it can be seen how racist, cruel an wrong it was Christianity likes to use it as an example of what happens when you leave the "all people created equal under God", (HAH!) model and instead rely on rational thought and logic to explain the world.
Something about this isn't clicking for me. Sorry but I don't like it. Doesn't a vacuum carry with it notion of space?A vacuum is an absence of anything, therefore, anything that is not the singularity is, by definition, a vacuum. In fact, that vacuum was likely the only perfect vacuum that ever existed.Dilbert_X wrote:
Thats closer - You're trying to solve a 4d problem with 3d modelling.singularity + vacuum + explosion = rapidly expanding sphere of matter.
Imagine your universe is 2d and is the surface of a soap bubble.
Your universe can expand - but there is no edge.
We have not the slightest idea of what was before 10^-43 seconds after "whatever happened there". There could be nothing, it could have been a 5D brane collision, it could have been a big Bounce or it could have been a "quantum" fluctuation in some higher entity. We don't know.The best guess of the behavior of the explosion, absent any internal or external force (and how could there be an external force, since there is nothing else?), is a sphere, until matter starts to form, causing gravity (even micro-gravity), thus affecting the shape of the explosion immediately following. Shape implies an edge of some sort.
Otherwise, you're saying it went from essentially nothing to everything. Which would be more along the lines of creationism. And I KNOW you're not saying that.
If you cannot reach it or observe it, then how can it exist? An edge - or boundary - by definition, is a restrictive thing, but this kind of edge places no restrictions on anything.Your presumption that I don't get it...orFodder's presumption that I haven't researched this stuff....or taken higher-level physics courses in college...is remarkably arrogant.Dilbert_X wrote:
Just because you don't get it doesn't mean other people are stupid.But ur reel smaht n stuf so ah gess yull figger it out.
Or more accurately...predictable, considering the source.The only distinction I make is whether or not it exists.Spark wrote:
I see you don't make the distinction between an edge and an edge that is y'know, reachable.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum#Qua … definitionSpark wrote:
Something about this isn't clicking for me. Sorry but I don't like it. Doesn't a vacuum carry with it notion of space?A vacuum is an absence of anything, therefore, anything that is not the singularity is, by definition, a vacuum. In fact, that vacuum was likely the only perfect vacuum that ever existed.Dilbert_X wrote:
Thats closer - You're trying to solve a 4d problem with 3d modelling.singularity + vacuum + explosion = rapidly expanding sphere of matter.
Imagine your universe is 2d and is the surface of a soap bubble.
Your universe can expand - but there is no edge.
The point being that we don't know what the shape was instantaneously after the BB (or any time thereafter). Thus, it could just as easily be spherical or triangular or ovoid or any shape you want. The point being that it has/had a shape of some sort, even if it is/was a shape we cannot conceive of in our own terms.Spark wrote:
We have not the slightest idea of what was before 10^-43 seconds after "whatever happened there". There could be nothing, it could have been a 5D brane collision, it could have been a big Bounce or it could have been a "quantum" fluctuation in some higher entity. We don't know.The best guess of the behavior of the explosion, absent any internal or external force (and how could there be an external force, since there is nothing else?), is a sphere, until matter starts to form, causing gravity (even micro-gravity), thus affecting the shape of the explosion immediately following. Shape implies an edge of some sort.
Otherwise, you're saying it went from essentially nothing to everything. Which would be more along the lines of creationism. And I KNOW you're not saying that.
Plus... I'm having a little trouble getting myself to the point where I can agree that the early universe was truly spherical. That implies a sort of delineated you-may-never-cross-here line in the universe which sounds odd. It could exist of course but it doesn't seem right.
Many things exist that we cannot reach or directly observe. We don't know what this edge or boundary does or doesn't do, as the operations of the universe at the boundary are not known to us at this point. We have a fair understanding looking backward, toward the source, but not outward to the edges.Spark wrote:
If you cannot reach it or observe it, then how can it exist? An edge - or boundary - by definition, is a restrictive thing, but this kind of edge places no restrictions on anything.Your presumption that I don't get it...orFodder's presumption that I haven't researched this stuff....or taken higher-level physics courses in college...is remarkably arrogant.Dilbert_X wrote:
Just because you don't get it doesn't mean other people are stupid.
Or more accurately...predictable, considering the source.The only distinction I make is whether or not it exists.Spark wrote:
I see you don't make the distinction between an edge and an edge that is y'know, reachable.
Uhm, still not working. Maybe I should have been clearer - the equations of quantum mechanics require things like position and time or at least some reference point within the dimensions of the universe. How can it exist in an epoch "before time", if that's what it was?FEOS wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum#Qua … definitionSpark wrote:
Something about this isn't clicking for me. Sorry but I don't like it. Doesn't a vacuum carry with it notion of space?A vacuum is an absence of anything, therefore, anything that is not the singularity is, by definition, a vacuum. In fact, that vacuum was likely the only perfect vacuum that ever existed.Dilbert_X wrote:
Thats closer - You're trying to solve a 4d problem with 3d modelling.singularity + vacuum + explosion = rapidly expanding sphere of matter.
Imagine your universe is 2d and is the surface of a soap bubble.
Your universe can expand - but there is no edge.
Fair enough, probably makes more sense if you thing about it in terms of a Spacetime... space (I forget the technical mathematical term, starts with an M), or even a 11D space (because then your 'edges' aren't really tangible things which makes everyone happy - the only problem with that is that you have to define such a space, somehow, inside some unbound infinite space, (unless my learning of topology is all messed up which is likely, teaching yourself this stuff can lead to hilarious fail))The point being that we don't know what the shape was instantaneously after the BB (or any time thereafter). Thus, it could just as easily be spherical or triangular or ovoid or any shape you want. The point being that it has/had a shape of some sort, even if it is/was a shape we cannot conceive of in our own terms.Spark wrote:
We have not the slightest idea of what was before 10^-43 seconds after "whatever happened there". There could be nothing, it could have been a 5D brane collision, it could have been a big Bounce or it could have been a "quantum" fluctuation in some higher entity. We don't know.The best guess of the behavior of the explosion, absent any internal or external force (and how could there be an external force, since there is nothing else?), is a sphere, until matter starts to form, causing gravity (even micro-gravity), thus affecting the shape of the explosion immediately following. Shape implies an edge of some sort.
Otherwise, you're saying it went from essentially nothing to everything. Which would be more along the lines of creationism. And I KNOW you're not saying that.
Plus... I'm having a little trouble getting myself to the point where I can agree that the early universe was truly spherical. That implies a sort of delineated you-may-never-cross-here line in the universe which sounds odd. It could exist of course but it doesn't seem right.
There was a proposal a while back that struck my attention, called the "no-boundary" theorem. If I remember right, what it did was it complexified time, and in doing so it removed any need for the universe to have a clearly delineated edge (which I think was problematic for a lot of people).Many things exist that we cannot reach or directly observe. We don't know what this edge or boundary does or doesn't do, as the operations of the universe at the boundary are not known to us at this point. We have a fair understanding looking backward, toward the source, but not outward to the edges.Spark wrote:
If you cannot reach it or observe it, then how can it exist? An edge - or boundary - by definition, is a restrictive thing, but this kind of edge places no restrictions on anything.
Your presumption that I don't get it...orFodder's presumption that I haven't researched this stuff....or taken higher-level physics courses in college...is remarkably arrogant.
Or more accurately...predictable, considering the source.
The only distinction I make is whether or not it exists.
You were ridiculing someone elses understanding remember?FEOS wrote:
Your presumption that I don't get it...orFodder's presumption that I haven't researched this stuff....or taken higher-level physics courses in college...is remarkably arrogant.
FEOS wrote:
But ur reel smaht n stuf so ah gess yull figger it out.
I have faith that when I open the fridge there will be a beer there. Doesn't mean I can't mock you.If you have faith in anything, then you shouldn't mock those who have faith in something else. Otherwise, you are mocking yourself.
Correct - Vacuum and nothing are two different things. Vacuum exists, nothing does not.Spark wrote:
Something about this isn't clicking for me. Sorry but I don't like it. Doesn't a vacuum carry with it notion of space?
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The whole discussion revolves around the BB theory and the Creation theory aligning, so you kind of have to bring a singularity into the works.Spark wrote:
Uhm, still not working. Maybe I should have been clearer - the equations of quantum mechanics require things like position and time or at least some reference point within the dimensions of the universe. How can it exist in an epoch "before time", if that's what it was?FEOS wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum#Qua … definitionSpark wrote:
Something about this isn't clicking for me. Sorry but I don't like it. Doesn't a vacuum carry with it notion of space?
As you can see I'll come up with anything I can to not have to bring a singularity into the works. Mixing quantum mechanics and general relativity - which a singularity cannot avoid doing - is a bit dodgy IMO.
Actually, the more I thought about this, the more I realized that edges or boundaries are irrelevant to the man's theory, as they play no real role. The only things that are important are the distance between the Earth and the Origin Point and the rate of expansion and the relativistic effects on perspective between the two points.Spark wrote:
Fair enough, probably makes more sense if you thing about it in terms of a Spacetime... space (I forget the technical mathematical term, starts with an M), or even a 11D space (because then your 'edges' aren't really tangible things which makes everyone happy - the only problem with that is that you have to define such a space, somehow, inside some unbound infinite space, (unless my learning of topology is all messed up which is likely, teaching yourself this stuff can lead to hilarious fail))The point being that we don't know what the shape was instantaneously after the BB (or any time thereafter). Thus, it could just as easily be spherical or triangular or ovoid or any shape you want. The point being that it has/had a shape of some sort, even if it is/was a shape we cannot conceive of in our own terms.Spark wrote:
We have not the slightest idea of what was before 10^-43 seconds after "whatever happened there". There could be nothing, it could have been a 5D brane collision, it could have been a big Bounce or it could have been a "quantum" fluctuation in some higher entity. We don't know.
Plus... I'm having a little trouble getting myself to the point where I can agree that the early universe was truly spherical. That implies a sort of delineated you-may-never-cross-here line in the universe which sounds odd. It could exist of course but it doesn't seem right.
Fair enough, but the sooner we get rid of it the better IMO. It's a big "lol we still fail" sign.FEOS wrote:
The whole discussion revolves around the BB theory and the Creation theory aligning, so you kind of have to bring a singularity into the works.Spark wrote:
Uhm, still not working. Maybe I should have been clearer - the equations of quantum mechanics require things like position and time or at least some reference point within the dimensions of the universe. How can it exist in an epoch "before time", if that's what it was?FEOS wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum#Qua … definitionSpark wrote:
Something about this isn't clicking for me. Sorry but I don't like it. Doesn't a vacuum carry with it notion of space?
As you can see I'll come up with anything I can to not have to bring a singularity into the works. Mixing quantum mechanics and general relativity - which a singularity cannot avoid doing - is a bit dodgy IMO.
Lemme finish studying the maths then I'll get back to you on that oneActually, the more I thought about this, the more I realized that edges or boundaries are irrelevant to the man's theory, as they play no real role. The only things that are important are the distance between the Earth and the Origin Point and the rate of expansion and the relativistic effects on perspective between the two points.Spark wrote:
Fair enough, probably makes more sense if you thing about it in terms of a Spacetime... space (I forget the technical mathematical term, starts with an M), or even a 11D space (because then your 'edges' aren't really tangible things which makes everyone happy - the only problem with that is that you have to define such a space, somehow, inside some unbound infinite space, (unless my learning of topology is all messed up which is likely, teaching yourself this stuff can lead to hilarious fail))
The point being that we don't know what the shape was instantaneously after the BB (or any time thereafter). Thus, it could just as easily be spherical or triangular or ovoid or any shape you want. The point being that it has/had a shape of some sort, even if it is/was a shape we cannot conceive of in our own terms.
Further, as I thought about "boundaries" and "edges" to the universe, I couldn't help but remember the battle that went on between Hawking and some of his colleagues regarding phenomena at the boundaries of black holes. In certain areas of thought, black holes are holes that are punched through our own spacetime (universe) into another spacetime (universe)...thus being holes in a boundary/edge of our own into another. Crazy the things you think about while mowing the lawn.
No, I wasn't.Dilbert_X wrote:
You were ridiculing someone elses understanding remember?FEOS wrote:
Your presumption that I don't get it...orFodder's presumption that I haven't researched this stuff....or taken higher-level physics courses in college...is remarkably arrogant.
That wasn't mocking his understanding...it was mocking his down-the-nose, presumptive approach to my understanding of the topic.FEOS wrote:
But ur reel smaht n stuf so ah gess yull figger it out.
But you can't mock me for having faith there will be soda in my fridge without mocking yourself in the process.Dilbert_X wrote:
I have faith that when I open the fridge there will be a beer there. Doesn't mean I can't mock you.If you have faith in anything, then you shouldn't mock those who have faith in something else. Otherwise, you are mocking yourself.
That is not something you can prove, nor does it mean that it didn't exist at some point immediately prior to the BB, which is a basic requirement for the BB theory to work.Dilbert_X wrote:
Correct - Vacuum and nothing are two different things. Vacuum exists, nothing does not.Spark wrote:
Something about this isn't clicking for me. Sorry but I don't like it. Doesn't a vacuum carry with it notion of space?
The fact that it can't be observed doesn't mean it doesn't exist.Dilbert_X wrote:
The universe may not have an edge, it may fade out into nothing, or space-time may be distorted so there may be an edge but it can never be observed.
After a few beers it doesn't matter TBHFEOS wrote:
But you can't mock me for having faith there will be soda in my fridge without mocking yourself in the process.
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Someone else thought it was absolutely critical to the discussion for some reason when it really is irrelevant.Spark wrote:
True. Why did we start talking about one anyway?
The problem is that your understanding of your quantum space-time mumbo-jumbo is about as in-depth as your understanding of another's translated mumbo-jumbo. The point I was making was that there is a researcher who has theorized that the creation theories of the two may actually not be as mutually exclusive as once thought...and he came to that conclusion using the ruleset established by the ones who reject the translated mumbo-jumbo.Dilbert_X wrote:
After a few beers it doesn't matter TBHFEOS wrote:
But you can't mock me for having faith there will be soda in my fridge without mocking yourself in the process.
I'll continue with whatever quantum space-time thing I've half understood.
You continue with your mumbo-jumbo translated into english from latin from aramaic and sub-edited by the frigging catholics.
Just don't start any wars on the basis of the above and we'll keep the LHC at a power level below which the universe won't fold in on itself.
Deal?