(July 26, 2017 at 11:36 pm)Alex K Wrote: The size of the entire universe is currently unknown, but there doesn't have to be a relationship with the size of the visible universe which is just a result of age+expansion it could be infinite for all we know. Or at least orders of magnitude larger than what we see.The problem I'm having with that is the idea that the universe started out roughly the size of a basketball then there occurred Einstein's singularity and it started expanding. If nothing travels faster than light then the expension of the universe would be subject to that limitation, just like if I drive at 70 miles an hour, I can't reach 120 miles from my starting point in half an hour.
It doesn't have to be problematic if we abandon the idea that what we perceive as THE universe is the result of one singularity, but consider the possibility of a multiverse or several Big Bangs. then ours could have happened 13 or so billion years ago while others occurred at various times, accounting for a visible universe that's much larger than what it should be in just the time it's had to expand. Hell, maybe it's these other universes that are moving away from us.
The fact that our universe hasn't had time to reach the size that it has, should make us look for other explanations.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
