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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Unfortunately the opposite is also true: just because you believe it doesn't make it so.
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What if I told you that I don't "believe", I know for certain... Now, you may think, anyhting in reply to that. But I digress...
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That's the point of science: it's about finding out what can be explained, not worrying about what can't. Science doesn't pretend to have all the answers. That's religion's job.
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I find that remark to be a slap in the face of my contributions to the discussion here, at the very least rather condescending. Religion has not got all the answers either, in fact there are lots of it that could be ruled out as bogus... and I'm no Bible basher either.
the truth of the matter is that this machine could be dangerous. "Experts" say no. But experts can get it wrong. Suppose the pursuit of knowledge ends up killing us all? I for one don't want my life, which I am fortunate to have, gambled with by some four-eyed egghead in a white lab coat who wants to find something out he cannot ever know the true answers to.
My point is, there is always cause and effect. That is one constant of the universe and if you don't believe me watch the Matrix Reloaded.
A better question science could turn its attention to is what is the universe expanding into, and what happens when it can expand no more?
Physicists don't know about what caused the universe or what was there before, and they never will. They will have theories, and hell one of them may be right, but no human will have the answer to the question they are asking.