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Originally Posted by Armistead
There is no such thing as nothing, nothing is something and scientist agree what they refer to as "nothing" still contains unseen particles and energy.
The problem will always be, when they do figure out an energy source, they're always left with another energy source to figure out.
The issue for me still remains cause and effect, yet for cause and effect to work, a first cause must exist, which will never be found within physical laws, which does open up the possibility for a cause outside our physical understanding.
Course, if God exist, I'm still not sure how we would define him or that religion should define him. Seems if God wanted to express
himself, he would've made himself clear, instead of numerous religions that have caused nothing but harm.
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Im afraid that truly thinking about the universe will result in severe mind-imploding effects.
I watched an episode of "through the wormhole" with Morgan Freeman and it confirmed something id been thinking about lately. Quantum theory and mechanics hasp proven (or at least explained) not only that one thing can be in two places at once, but that things can appear from nothing, or at least what we understand to be nothing. The number of these ghost particles flashing in and out of existence number beyond true comprehension and the speed at which they appear and vanish boggles the mind too. So does the Big Bang and the mind stretching forces behind it. It really is very hard to comprehend absolute nothingness. Its hard to understand theoretical physics, too. And because we cant hope to explain everything about the universe, god still lives on. I believe that you dont need some Divine being to create anything. If anything the divine being is the universe itself. The belief in God complicates things immensely. it has held back scientific theory for thousands of years, and still does so today with the creationist theories attempting to be taught in schools.
Reality tends to be a hundred times weirder than science fiction, and its hopeless to explain everything. In fact, The Universe is so vast, So powerful, so odd, that we can barely comprehend its scale. but we come up with these numbers, like septillions, google, a googleplex, infinity, but we dont comprehend it because its so enormous. Try to comprehend even a googleplex. A google is a 1 followed by a million zeroes. That number represents something, a quantity. A trillion is a 1 followed by only 15 zeroes. now imagine a googleplex, a googleplex is a one followed by a GOOGLE zeroes. a 1 followed by a trillino zeroes is almost impossible to understand, but a 1 followed by a GOOGLE zeroes, no way. my mind died out at imagining anything that could represent a google, and now theyre trying to make me imagine a googleplex, a number that i cant possibly comprehend the scale of. Simply writing it down would take gargantuan amounts of space. Infinity is easy to understand because it cant be represented by anything real. a googleplex could. it can be written down, assuming we could fit it some where, probably in a computer.
Even just 3,972,789 zeroes on MS word in 12 font (i used copy and paste so it only took me a minute to do this) is 1201 pages. 1201 pages of zeroes (excluding a single 1). were not even remotely close to a fraction of a percent of a googleplex and its already 1201 pages.
So to comprehend what scientists discover is quite a mind trip. But that doesnt necessarily mean it had to be because of an all powerful being.