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To: Alex MG who wrote (252939)	6/16/2014 1:48:52 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 540839

Kant's antinomies: en.wikipedia.org

To: Alex MG who wrote (252939)

6/16/2014 2:06:34 PM

From: koan

Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 540839

Here is what I think.

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this is the most mind blowing thing to think about, time and space

where did time begin? but there had to be something before that... there couldn't just be nothingness and all of a sudden somethingness popped up>.

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle says that is exactly what can happen. Something out of nothing. we are just humans, so it is no wonder we cannot understand that.

Our universe is only a very tiny part of the whole of everything, I think. Universes probably explode all the time. The physics is beyond everyone. And some sort of infinity is also probably at play.

I am a believer in the multiverse which means every time one little thing changes another universe pers se pops up.

Our universe is only 13.7 billion years old. A number I can understand. Why not 20 zillion years old given the probability of infinity?

<<how can space have an ending point, there has to be something beyond that but how can it possibly go on forever but how can it not>>

I can do better on this one. Here is how, IMO, to think of our universes outer edge. Beyond that is nothing. Just nothing. As the universe expands it creates more space. It pushed out into nothingness. The pushing creates somethingness. Nothing to stop it as there is nothing there.

<it has to be a circular thing as opposed to linear >>

I think all of it just gets larger and has been doing that maybe forever.