Recent content by Eric333

Everywhere? In basic terms, it was a central node that exploded right? Then the elements of that explosion expanded outward (and is still doing so). What is 1 inch beyond the boundary of that ever expanding explosion?

Please allow me to make a clarification, I realize my wording sounds like nonsense but when I said "space" I meant "anything created by the big bang" and the farthest known element from that bang would demarc "space" and the "void" but I realize the word space is confusing :-)

there's probably some element of "space" that is expanding from the Big Bang, but the void which that space resides in (i.e., which it is expanding into) must be infinite. Eric

Just to clarify, are you saying "galaxy" or Universe? I think you make a good argument either way mind you.

If it was a ghost I guess its good that they couldn't figure out a way to get the knife out and do anything sinister with it, so you shouldn't worry, it's still probably only a category 1 free floating repeater, and worst it will do is slime you... Ok seriously, no idea but thank's for the...

Thanks for the quick reply Antiphon

Sure, I don't know why this thread is full of such naysayers! It's VERY POSSIBLE to get them there indefinitely by 2023...you never added the caveat that we need to get them there ALIVE did you... :-)

With all the scientific and technological capabilities we have, why can't scientists make Gold? If all elements came from just a few elements early on in the big bang, why can't we simulate it somehow? Is it that we can, but its just not cost effective to mass market it and drive down the...

You can study Philosophy til you're blue in the face...and you won't get that answer :-)

Is life a "threat"? ANd when you say "life" do you mean sentient or any life at all? Take an apple tree for instance, all its apples would fall right beside it if it weren't for animals eating them and excreting the seeds elsewhere to make more trees...

there could be millions or billions of variations because so much of our laws are based on the reality we're in (i.e., our bodies perfectly handle the gravity...) but if things were different a lifeform could evolve different.

philosophically big bang is the most likely, as everything would have to start somewhere...how it happened is of course the question being investigated.

It's quite possible that alternate universes, possibly with differeing levels of "dark matter" mean that light may still be the limiting factor, but it may move much faster than light in our galaxy

This is a very intersting thread. Just the size and scale of the universe makes it very hard to imagine that we could be alone.