RE: Options for origin of universe
July 31, 2015 at 5:50 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2015 at 5:54 am by Alex K.)
(July 31, 2015 at 4:00 am)robvalue Wrote: CoolI'm glad you have more confidence than me, and I'll trust your judgement over mine! Sorry for misrepresenting you.
I was thinking more in terms of us being stuck right in the middle of what we are supposedly observing, so we can't view it externally/objectively. We are instead creating our own realities inside our head... our consciousness appears to already be a possible example of 2:1 on my list.
I could have been a philosopher and a scientist you know, I just lack the beard and the brain. So I play video games and kill stuff instead.
You are very right ™, more so than my answer admits - even if we have a decent understanding of space and time on intermediate scales as seen from within, this description can be arbitrarily useless if an external description concerning the origin of space itself is needed - Our theories, which are built upon observations and experiments carried out within our universe, might not capture the aspects at all which are relevant for this question, if it even is a sensible one. For example, the combination of words "the creation of time", is quite meaningless by default, so one has to be careful not to write an invalid question.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
