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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (23616)	5/16/2006 11:56:31 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Well, you know Tiger Paw--all of modern theory is difficult to grasp. Some liken spacetime to a blanket or balloon and so forth in order to analogise--but I don't think they know what space is and I don't think they know what time is. We have watched stars and planets being born in the Great Nebulae. We have watched the universe accelerating away from the Big Bang into Space. Is Space being created in the expansion or is it already there? If it is being created, then what is it displacing? If it is already there, then why isn't there already something else in it that would block expansion? "IMHO the mass of the universe seems to be repelled by something causing it to be accelerating away from something at the site of the big bang, and not attracted to something way out beyond the edge of the universe" I get your point, but in a way both alternatives are awesome. What if someone is trying to find a new element by putting our universe into an accelerator and speeding it up and smashing us into another one?! :-)