God is in semantics.

[Natachan]

To explain would be difficult. I only got enough into modern physics to say "nope, not for me." I passed the class and moved on.

Space and time are two manifestations of the same thing. As space gets compacted time slows down. This phenomena is evident around black holes, and indeed around any massive body. As such it makes sense to me that as you go further back towards the big bang that time would start to slow down. When you get to the point where the universe was infinitely dense and compact you would also have time running infinitely slowly. Think of an asymptote (sp?) from math. As you approach a limiting value the line will approach infinity. It will never reach that limiting value but it is clear that it is converging towards that value.

Right but thats too mathematical! More specifically, why math is true. I'm talking about why the rules of the black hole are true! why is gravity true? What, because it "just is"! No way, something made the rules. Something set it up, how gravity works, how space and time works, everything. It's not from anything remotely in this solar system, lest the galaxy, I don't know, but something, whatever "it" is made the rules and we'll never know what. That "it" gives me some solace, and I just don't see that as delusional like most of the earthly religions.

If it gives you some solace, that's fine. I still don't buy a supernatural cause.

When I was in physics we were forced to derive most of the equations ourselves before we were given them. In this way I learned how interconnected the universe and the laws that govern it are. Most of our physical laws seem to be fixed, relying on something else. Each law or equation relies on others, and they all feed back into each other.

This is why I describe our current model of the universe as a puzzle with missing pieces. It seems likely that the things that "make the laws of physics what they are" will be some natural cause (or causes) that will interconnect with the others. We are so close that at times it seems we can almost make out the shapes of those missing pieces, but each time we get close we find still more to learn.

Edit: I just noticed the "why math is true" line. Math is true by definition. It is a set of axioms and rules. It is completely arbitrary. If you follow those rules then you are doing math. If not, not.