(July 15, 2011 at 4:07 am)xonage Wrote: You are missing the point. I dont consider the big bang the beginning.
That doesn't fucking matter - most reputable physicists do. As the big bang is the beginning of OUR universe.
(July 15, 2011 at 4:07 am)xonage Wrote: There have probably been an infinite number of contractions and expansions, as that is the pattern everywhere.Quite ignorant on your physics, aren't you?
a) we don't have evidence for such.
b) you don't have evidence for such.
c) the expansion-contraction model has failed in it's predictions.
d) the universe is accelerating in it's expansion, which by the expansion-contraction model should not happen .
(July 15, 2011 at 4:07 am)xonage Wrote: I am talking about what set this whole thing into motion in the very beginning, if there ever was one.Ah, the fabled first cause.