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What caused the big bang
How many ways am I wrong?
Perhaps when the entire universe is nothing except a small dot all gravity ceases to exist as there would be no pace for matter to gravitate to or away from at that point, it would just be. And the second this state existed the repulsive force of all atoms.......... Boom
Perhaps when the entire universe is nothing except a small dot all gravity ceases to exist as there would be no pace for matter to gravitate to or away from at that point, it would just be. And the second this state existed the repulsive force of all atoms.......... Boom
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When I was in my teens, I remember a smart-alecky boy in my class saying something like this:THX1138 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:46 pm How many ways am I wrong?
Perhaps when the entire universe is nothing except a small dot all gravity ceases to exist as there would be no pace for matter to gravitate to or away from at that point, it would just be. And the second this state existed the repulsive force of all atoms.......... Boom
What if the entire Universe is... a bicycle. Maybe it's just one wheel of a bicycle. The front wheel. And maybe we are in the tire... no, we are in the inner tube... and we are just along for the ride. And we don't know where we are going.
I've always liked the idea that the Universe might be a bicycle. I guess there are bicycle paths all the way down.
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P.S. I guess it might have been my old classmate Sven who said it, the co-creator of Bluetooth.
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Schven AeroCycleAnn wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 7:12 pm
When I was in my teens, I remember a smart-alecky boy in my class saying something like this:
What if the entire Universe is... a bicycle. Maybe it's just one wheel of a bicycle. The front wheel. And maybe we are in the tire... no, we are in the inner tube... and we are just along for the ride. And we don't know where we are going.
I've always liked the idea that the Universe might be a bicycle. I guess there are bicycle paths all the way down. P.S. I guess it might have been my old classmate Sven who said it, the co-creator of Bluetooth.
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It is a fallacy to assume it required a cause. Even within our universe it appears that we can have effects without causes. Before the laws that dictate our universe appeared, we can make no assumptions about anything.THX1138 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:46 pm How many ways am I wrong?
Perhaps when the entire universe is nothing except a small dot all gravity ceases to exist as there would be no pace for matter to gravitate to or away from at that point, it would just be. And the second this state existed the repulsive force of all atoms.......... Boom
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Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 9:00 pmIt is a fallacy to assume it required a cause. Even within our universe it appears that we can have effects without causes. Before the laws that dictate our universe appeared, we can make no assumptions about anything.THX1138 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 5:46 pm
Perhaps when the entire universe is nothing except a small dot all gravity ceases to exist as there would be no pace for matter to gravitate to or away from at that point, it would just be. And the second this state existed the repulsive force of all atoms.......... Boom
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You are talking gravitational waves ofFred the Cat wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 2:01 am
Is there an upper limit for black holes? What if two of these merged?
Now that would be a big bang!
- 1) wavelengths ~2,500 AU
2) and periods of two weeks (~10-6 Hz)
In space, no one can hear two 1010 solar mass black holes scream.
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<<LISA will be able to detect the gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of (super)massive black holes with a chirp mass between 103 and 107 solar masses all the way back to their earliest formation at redshift around z ≈ 15. The most conservative population models expect at least a few such events to happen each year. For mergers closer by (z < 3), it will be able to determine the spins of the components, which carry information about the past evolution of the components (e.g. whether they have grown primarily through accretion or mergers). For mergers around the peak of star formation (z ≈ 2) LISA will be able to locate mergers within 100 square degrees on the night sky at least 24 hours before the actual merger, allowing electromagnetic telescopes to search for counterparts, with the potential of witnessing the formation of a quasar after a merger.>>
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<<The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) is a European collaboration to combine five 100-m class radio-telescopes to observe an array of pulsars with the specific goal of detecting gravitational waves. It is one of three pulsar timing array projects in operation, the others being the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array and the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves.
Gravitational waves (GW) are small disturbances in space-time, caused by the motion of masses, if the third time derivative of the mass quadrupole moment is non-zero. These waves are very weak, such that only the strongest waves, caused by the rapid motion of dense stars or black-holes, have a chance of being detected. A pulsar timing array (PTA) uses an array of MSPs as the endpoints of a Galaxy-scale GW detector. It is sensitive to GWs with a frequency in the nanohertz regime, which corresponds to the regime where the stochastic GW background, caused by the coalescence of super-massive black holes in the early Universe, is predicted to exist.[citation needed] This makes PTAs complementary to other GW detectors such as LIGO, VIRGO and LISA.
The EPTA is one component of a worldwide collaboration for detecting and measuring gravitational waves, the International Pulsar Timing Array, which also includes the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) and the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA).>>
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Re: What caused the big bang
neufer wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 8:40 pmClick to play embedded YouTube video.Schven AeroCycleAnn wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 7:12 pm
When I was in my teens, I remember a smart-alecky boy in my class saying something like this:
What if the entire Universe is... a bicycle. Maybe it's just one wheel of a bicycle. The front wheel. And maybe we are in the tire... no, we are in the inner tube... and we are just along for the ride. And we don't know where we are going.
I've always liked the idea that the Universe might be a bicycle. I guess there are bicycle paths all the way down. P.S. I guess it might have been my old classmate Sven who said it, the co-creator of Bluetooth.
Wow, Art, that was some "just along for the ride and not knowing where you are going" bicycle ride!!!
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Re: What caused the big bang
Somewhat similar to the movie War Games only in this instance its more like
Strange Statement, The Winning Move Was Not To Make It
Strange Statement, The Winning Move Was Not To Make It
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OK, I retreat now to my fall back position where neutrinos drive me crazy, OK well crazier.
Shall I start a new thread or would someone here care to delve into the matter has to how in the hell anything can go through a light year of solid lead and not hit anything, I mean what's with these neutrino dudes, how about a neutron star do they zip through those without hitting anything too?
Or perhaps the bigger question might be what's the use of being a neutrino if nothing can stop you, I should think that any self respecting neutrino would slow down or stop once in awhile, no?
Shall I start a new thread or would someone here care to delve into the matter has to how in the hell anything can go through a light year of solid lead and not hit anything, I mean what's with these neutrino dudes, how about a neutron star do they zip through those without hitting anything too?
Or perhaps the bigger question might be what's the use of being a neutrino if nothing can stop you, I should think that any self respecting neutrino would slow down or stop once in awhile, no?
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What you have to keep in mind is that an atom of lead is overwhelmingly empty space. And a light year of lead is the same. Like a few dust motes floating in a stadium. The chance of another dust mote moving through actually hitting something is very, very small. With any particles, collisions are rare. What we perceive as collisions is actually an interaction of the fields around the particles, like the electromagnetic field or the weak force. Imagine playing pool on a huge table with tiny balls. You'd hardly ever hit any thing. But if each ball had a powerful magnet in it, there'd be lots of action. That's how the particle world works, with field interactions. But neutrinos are like pool balls that don't have magnets in them. They don't interact, so they are only detected or interfered with if they actually hit another particle. It happens, but it's rare.THX1138 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 7:28 am OK, I retreat now to my fall back position where neutrinos drive me crazy, OK well crazier.
Shall I start a new thread or would someone here care to delve into the matter has to how in the hell anything can go through a light year of solid lead and not hit anything, I mean what's with these neutrino dudes, how about a neutron star do they zip through those without hitting anything too?
Or perhaps the bigger question might be what's the use of being a neutrino if nothing can stop you, I should think that any self respecting neutrino would slow down or stop once in awhile, no?
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Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 1:52 pmWhat you have to keep in mind is that an atom of lead is overwhelmingly empty space. And a light year of lead is the same. Like a few dust motes floating in a stadium. The chance of another dust mote moving through actually hitting something is very, very small. With any particles, collisions are rare. What we perceive as collisions is actually an interaction of the fields around the particles, like the electromagnetic field or the weak force. Imagine playing pool on a huge table with tiny balls. You'd hardly ever hit any thing. But if each ball had a powerful magnet in it, there'd be lots of action. That's how the particle world works, with field interactions. But neutrinos are like pool balls that don't have magnets in them. They don't interact, so they are only detected or interfered with if they actually hit another particle. It happens, but it's rare.THX1138 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 7:28 am
Shall I start a new thread or would someone here care to delve into the matter has to how in the hell anything can go through a light year of solid lead and not hit anything, I mean what's with these neutrino dudes, how about a neutron star do they zip through those without hitting anything too?
Diameter of lead atom: D ~ 2 X 10-8 cm;
diameter of lead nucleus: d ~ 11 X 10-13 cm.
It would take approximately 6.6 cm [= D3/d2] of lead
to physical block half the neutrinos in a beam of neutrinos.
diameter of lead nucleus: d ~ 11 X 10-13 cm.
It would take approximately 6.6 cm [= D3/d2] of lead
to physical block half the neutrinos in a beam of neutrinos.
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For typical neutrinos produced in the sun (with energies of a few MeV),
it would take approximately one light year of lead to block half of them.
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Man the lot of you are some smart hombres, OK one last question as I am absolutely certain that all of you have much more important things to do than answering the sixth grade questions that I seem to harbor. What happens to one of those neutrino's that happen to be blocked, do they just cease to exist or are they stuck there next to whatever happened to stop them. All the rest I assume just keep traveling until the end of time itself or they hit something that stops them. Note: I'm not so sure that equating time into this matter is even relevant.
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I’m not one of those but I find the field of small things fascinating. Seems there should be three choices. Zip right through, a glancing blow, and a full on collision.THX1138 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 7:57 pm Man the lot of you are some smart hombres, OK one last question as I am absolutely certain that all of you have much more important things to do than answering the sixth grade questions that I seem to harbor. What happens to one of those neutrino's that happen to be blocked, do they just cease to exist or are they stuck there next to whatever happened to stop them. All the rest I assume just keep traveling until the end of time itself or they hit something that stops them. Note: I'm not so sure that equating time into this matter is even relevant.
Personally, I might imagine a full on collision creating dark matter but that would be a wild-assed guess.
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Obviously time caused the big bang. Before t=0 space-time and all the energy (matter) it contained didn't exist, and then ,
at the first stroke of time, space-time and all it contains was there, expanding and cooling into the universe as we know it.
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Obviously time caused the big bang. Before t=0 space-time and all the energy (matter) it contained didn't exist, and then ,
at the first stroke of time, space-time and all it contains was there, expanding and cooling into the universe as we know it.
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Seems that, that may very well be true but it doesn't take away from the fact that it sounds just plain crazy and indeed sounds just as crazy as believing there's an invisible man living in the sky and he watches everything you do every minute of the day and he has a list of ten things that he doesn't want you to do and if you do any of those things he will send you to a place where you will burn and scream forever till the end of time, But he loves you.
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Seems that, that may very well be true but it doesn't take away from the fact that it sounds just plain crazy and indeed sounds just as crazy as believing there's an invisible man living in the sky and he watches everything you do every minute of the day and he has a list of ten things that he doesn't want you to do and if you do any of those things he will send you to a place where you will burn and scream forever till the end of time, But he loves you.
- It's an invisible woman actually.
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I like that and there was a time when reading those comic books was the thing to do but now being much older I recognize the folly of at all much like any adult might moreover I now take issue with places like Disneyland, think about it what with Tomorrowland, adventure land, phantasy land and what have you, How's any of that non-sense going to get any child ready for the real world? I say there should be someplace more realistic to take children to, like say ( Suckworld ) You be in line with your son and he would be like / this sucks dad we've been in this line for hours now and its hardly moved at all / your reply might be, This is the DMV ride son and everyone goes on it, next we're going on the Friday bank ride. Yep Suckworld and the name kind of says it all no?
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OK enough with both the questions and my sad excuse for comedy so getting back to this big bang thing.
Obviously the universe couldn't care less what I like or dislike but that doesn't change the fact that I don't like what Chris says in the matter of what caused the big bang (its wrong to assume that anything was needed to cause it) I want there to be a reason and I want to know how it happened moreover More likely than not wanting to know the how's and why's is the main reason why I've always loved learning stuff about space so much.
Yes I know I'm supposed to post a question about the universe here and yes I know this is not a place for sharing philosophical idea. but I'm still stuck on wanting to know how it all began, how can it exist, why does it exist. Where did it all come from. The age old questions you know, I want to know the answers more than anything I want to know why
Obviously the universe couldn't care less what I like or dislike but that doesn't change the fact that I don't like what Chris says in the matter of what caused the big bang (its wrong to assume that anything was needed to cause it) I want there to be a reason and I want to know how it happened moreover More likely than not wanting to know the how's and why's is the main reason why I've always loved learning stuff about space so much.
Yes I know I'm supposed to post a question about the universe here and yes I know this is not a place for sharing philosophical idea. but I'm still stuck on wanting to know how it all began, how can it exist, why does it exist. Where did it all come from. The age old questions you know, I want to know the answers more than anything I want to know why
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THX1138 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 10, 2021 9:08 am
I want there to be a reason and I want to know how it happened moreover More likely than not wanting to know the how's and why's is the main reason why I've always loved learning stuff about space so much. Yes I know I'm supposed to post a question about the universe here and yes I know this is not a place for sharing philosophical idea. but I'm still stuck on wanting to know how it all began, how can it exist, why does it exist. Where did it all come from. The age old questions you know, I want to know the answers more than anything I want to know why
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THX1138 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 10, 2021 9:08 am OK enough with both the questions and my sad excuse for comedy so getting back to this big bang thing.
Obviously the universe couldn't care less what I like or dislike but that doesn't change the fact that I don't like what Chris says in the matter of what caused the big bang (its wrong to assume that anything was needed to cause it) I want there to be a reason and I want to know how it happened moreover More likely than not wanting to know the how's and why's is the main reason why I've always loved learning stuff about space so much.
Yes I know I'm supposed to post a question about the universe here and yes I know this is not a place for sharing philosophical idea. but I'm still stuck on wanting to know how it all began, how can it exist, why does it exist. Where did it all come from. The age old questions you know, I want to know the answers more than anything I want to know why
As space-time and everything in it began at t=0, the instance of the "big bang", it is impossible to know what existed before. Essentially, there is no before.
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It's just not fair, we all know that there had to be something...................Right?
Impossible to know? Well its said that nothing is impossible but I do nothing every day.
Impossible to know? Well its said that nothing is impossible but I do nothing every day.
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Well, no. There didn't.
So it is said. But that's wrong. Beyond reasonable doubt, some things are impossible.Impossible to know? Well its said that nothing is impossible but I do nothing every day. :ssmile:
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