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My humble opinion is that time was invented by us so our farmers knew when it was safe to plant crops without danger of frost. Calendars and so forth. If we had not invented time then how could we have measured the speed of light?(I'm trying to inject some humor here, folks. Don't take me too...

Very true. What's so amazing about our minds is that we can envision something that we cannot prove exists, yet thinking about something that might exist can lead us to figuring out a way to come up with a test to see if it can be proven or disproven scientifically. I love this forum. So many...

You would think so. And confirming the observation would be great. It's a puzzler!

This article appeared March 2nd on Science Daily. Quite interesting. Any comments? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120302101413.htm

Thanks! It's really a challenge trying to wrap my mind around a concept such as "as to what it is expanding "into", there is no such thing. The thing that is expanding is everything." It only natural, for me, to try to understand such descriptions based on how I perceive everything around me...

Thank you all. I was curious as to what kind of comments I might get on my not-very-specific question. The comments in themselves are welcome. I envy those of you who do understand the math associated with physics, the equations and all. My talents lie elsewhere. I will be more direct now...

Just watched Stephen Hawking "The Story of Everything". Maybe it's outdated by now, maybe not. Still beautiful to watch. Anyway...Isn't Nothing still considered to be Something?

I checked out the link marcus provided and read "The Self-Organizing Quatum Universe" and that is one of the most interesting papers I've ever read. Now I really understand that there will always be questions to ask and answers to seek.

No, no joke. None at all, marcus. I see that science is trying to figure out how everything works. I visualized a time in the future where we succeed and know all the answers, and after reaching such a point we then ask ourselves what to do next. Perhaps I have too much hope for mankind to...

A question, please. When mankind, through science, has answered all the questions about our universe and we fully understand everything about our universe and answers no longer create more questions, then where do we go from there? What's next? Also, what new technologies might also arise...

Okay. I'm starting to grasp the profoundness of what our universe is. I just got hung up on a visualization in my mind of what emptiness there might have been existing everywhere in every direction prior to the Big Bang. An emptiness, a pure vacumn with not even one hydrogen atom or anything...

I am confused, I see. I'm trying to understand. I see that I am just curious about the possibility that there could be other parts/portions of THE universe that might have universes each which may have began with a Big Bang as our observable universe began with a Big Bang. Universes each...

I see I made an error asking my question. Sorry for the confusion. If our observable universe lies within an unobservable universe, and the unobservable universe is truly infinite, then is it possible other universes which began with Big Bangs as it is thought ours did also exist somewhere in...

Thanks. You answered my question.

Another question, please. If the unobservable universe is actually infinite, and our observable universe is within an infinite universe we canna perceive, yet, then is it possible that other universes similar or perhaps not similar to our own observable universe could lie within but distant to...