- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Wow! Much has happened while I wasn't looking... or became having happened when I looked back, or whatever...
Posted by: zobe
according to stephen hawkings book a brief history of time it states that there are 24 dimensions and when the big bang occured it created 3 physical dimensions and one time dimension. now the other dimensions are so tightly packed that nothing can physically detect them, we only know they are real through the theory of quantum meachanics and string theory. matter existed before the big bang but it was a colosal sphere of matter and time, matter so hugh we could not imagine, but smaller than the size of a atom, due to gravity, much like a black hole. This thing existed in nothing. and i mean nothing. you might thing there is nothing in space because it is a vacum but you would be wrong. weve now found that anti-particleas and dark matter exist which allows the universe to expand in to nothing. if you are religous this would make sence, if god created life as we know it, there must of been nothing before(like painting a picture, the canvas is blank, devoid of anything) and now that he/she/it has created life we are living and expandeing into nothing. scientists are now researching weather the universe will keep on expanding or will stop and retract causing a big crunch? its very very complicated and i only know the basics, i suggest you reads stephen hawkings books- a brief history of time..........the universe in a nutshell. a lenghty but fasinating read.It is indeed. I don't like the use of the word "created", though, because of the connotations it has for most of us. It implies a particular causal relationship. I got the impression that the Big Bang is a state of what our spacetime developed from in relation to the system of what it is(was) not. I think of spacetime frames in terms of what I call "reality barriers" for lack of a better term. The Big Bang was in a spacetime... uh... space frame that had less volume than what we sit in now. Our current space is connected to the smaller space of the Big Bang by the intervening states of our space in time- "the"(our; on our side of whatever reality barrier bounds it) spacetime continuum. Put shortly, space just has less volume at the time of the Big Bang. Our spacetime has much less space at that time than at this time.