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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (537)	8/25/2000 4:15:47 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

But what is the Universe displacing as it is expanding? I don't think it's displacing anything. To go back to the ripple description, the universe is like the energy wave carried on the water, but not water itself. The water does not move out, but only up &down in another dimension. The universe is an expanding energy wave traveling over a medium that is not time nor space (i don't know what it is, it's something that doesn't exist within our universe). Maybe it is nothingness, but it is a different compartmentalized nothingness from any vaccumm in our universe. To torture the analogy, the up and down movement of whatever medium is out there provides the "space" for our universe. TP

To: Solon who wrote (537)	8/25/2000 4:54:18 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Hi there you all! I dropped by because the topic and thread looked interesting. If you don't mind a bit of armchair cosmology from an interloper, I sure don't. I'm an amateur astronomer and when I get back from one of my trips to the 8000 ft plateau in the Bodie mountains, I find I can't think in anything less than 3-d for weeks. What a truly amazing universe it is. And we are so small... There is an interesting theory about the hyperdimensionality of space. So, according to this view, space is like a folded blanket with various parts just fractionally away from every other part. You could be millimeters away from the center of a star in some distant corner of the galaxy. Small scale folding of space-time prevents you from noticing. Turns out the equations go all funny if there is only one more dimension, but three or more works nicely. So while we 3-D creatures are all happy to know what we know, it is like knowing a grain of sand on a beach by walking all around it. It is small, but bounded, yet appears to have no edge and be infinite. Since you can't hop to the next grain, the rest of the beach is right there, but invisible to you. So this leads me to wonder, does God have a God? Does God have to play by the rules of physics? Not our physics, but the physics of that God's dimensionality?