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Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
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#12Asimov already covered this in The Last Question: https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html
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#14"Nothing" implies that something exists, this duality creates the universe.
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#15"Nothing" implies that something exists, this duality creates the universe.
There is no proof of "nothing " existing. Every observation we take, we see "something".
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#16Isn't time a human invention useful to model the nature? It's literally just a defined interaction as a reference, i.e. the sun rising up and going down which is the rotation of the earth.
So IRL there's no time, there's no need to have a beginning or an end. Whatever happened when all the matter was close together isn't the beginning of anything, just a phase.
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#18Beginning is an illusion created by our way of perception. Time is neither linear nor real so how can there be a "beginning"?
"Your honor, I could not have possibly shot that person, because yesterday might not have been before today, or at least, there is reasonable doubt that yesterday was before today, according to some physicists on crack. I treat those physicists with high regard personally though, and they have degrees that you don't have, so the court must reasonably conclude their opinions should be entertained."
I guess that's a joke, but it's actually kind of serious that causality, personhood, identity, free will, etc. are all social constructs.
They are useful to us, but every now and then it's helpful and humbling to remember it's a fiction we assign, rather than fundamental.
Criminal justice or the concept of culpability is one of these areas. I know I've seen material by Robert Sapolsky, a neuroscientist who does not believe in free will, talking about how off the mark criminal justice and punishment for crimes can be.
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#19This has been one of my pet theories for a while.
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#20There are countless versions of this theory out there. Basically, a universe existed, then collapsed down to a single point, and then expanded again (the big bang). Rinse and repeat.