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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 8:55 am
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 9:29 am
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(March 13, 2014 at 4:37 am)tor Wrote: This is what I want to know.
Many years ago i came up with a theory, which i got from watching star trek next generation. The theory is we are not real just simulated people. If you think about it, it's not so crazy. Since then Nick Bostrom in 2001 Living in a simulation (read it it you have the time) Then Sylvester James gates Jr. a theoretical physicist working on super string theory found computer code concealed in super string theory. He himself asked "Am I living in the matrix" doesn't mean he is correct but people like this are very smart, so who knows. Think about it, what's at the end of the universe? Common sense says there must be an end but can there be an end? Virtual space has no end because it is not real. Something to think about Hope this answers your question.
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 9:40 am
So... this is where everybody's been hiding! 
Ok, nothing... nothing is the absence of energy.
Everything and anything have energy, even a neutrino has energy.
Nothing has zero energy.
According to a few astrophysicists, the overall net energy of the Universe is zero, hence our universe is nothing.
But, locally, there's something.
Let me know when you can wrap your heads around that conundrum!
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 9:44 am
(March 13, 2014 at 5:31 am)tor Wrote: Yeah but there are in fact laws there to begin which which spawn something. Why are there laws instead of nothing? Anyway I get it nobody knows. Never mind.
Conservation laws, like the conservation of angular momentum, exist because of symmetries. Google "Noether's Theorem" if you want to learn more.
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 9:45 am
Gates found computer code in superstring theory? That sounds pretty out there - How did he tell it was computer code?
(March 13, 2014 at 9:29 am)Manowar Wrote: (March 13, 2014 at 4:37 am)tor Wrote: This is what I want to know.
Many years ago i came up with a theory, which i got from watching star trek next generation. The theory is we are not real just simulated people. If you think about it, it's not so crazy. Since then Nick Bostrom in 2001 Living in a simulation (read it it you have the time) Then Sylvester James gates Jr. a theoretical physicist working on super string theory found computer code concealed in super string theory. He himself asked "Am I living in the matrix" doesn't mean he is correct but people like this are very smart, so who knows. Think about it, what's at the end of the universe? Common sense says there must be an end but can there be an end? Virtual space has no end because it is not real. Something to think about Hope this answers your question.
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 10:48 am
(March 13, 2014 at 9:45 am)Alex K Wrote: Gates found computer code in superstring theory? That sounds pretty out there - How did he tell it was computer code? Was it Cobol? I always said that old Cobol crap would come back to haunt me.
That's MISTER Godless Vegetarian Tree Hugging Hippie Liberal to you.
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 10:59 am
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(March 13, 2014 at 9:45 am)Alex K Wrote: Gates found computer code in superstring theory? That sounds pretty out there - How did he tell it was computer code?
(March 13, 2014 at 9:29 am)Manowar Wrote: Many years ago i came up with a theory, which i got from watching star trek next generation. The theory is we are not real just simulated people. If you think about it, it's not so crazy. Since then Nick Bostrom in 2001 Living in a simulation (read it it you have the time) Then Sylvester James gates Jr. a theoretical physicist working on super string theory found computer code concealed in super string theory. He himself asked "Am I living in the matrix" doesn't mean he is correct but people like this are very smart, so who knows. Think about it, what's at the end of the universe? Common sense says there must be an end but can there be an end? Virtual space has no end because it is not real. Something to think about Hope this answers your question.
manowar
There was link but i can't seem to find it now it showed images and how he came to those conclusions but you can always hear him explain it on youtube and if i find that link again i will post it, you might be able to find it yourself i just don't have much time now. It is interesting though to think he might be right. It would sure explain a lot of my questions. BTW the computer code he found was like you we use in a browser
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 11:07 am
(March 13, 2014 at 5:13 am)Alex K Wrote: (March 13, 2014 at 4:54 am)tor Wrote: Then I could ask why does quantum physics exist instead of nothing. That's true.
"Why" questions trick you into believing that they are valid questions, just because you can form them in the English language.
What exactly are you asking for when you ask "why"? Are you looking for a cause? Then you are out of luck, since cause and effect are only applicable in the macroscopic realm within our universe. A logical necessity of some sort? There may not be one, see why ontological arguments fail - they might fail for the universe as a whole just as they fail for god figures. Logical conclusions need premises or axioms, and you will be begging the question at some point.
Why questions seem to make the most sense when applied to other people's motives. When they're applied to the physical world, "why" can be replaced with "how". When a why question is applied to everything, there is simply no vantage point from which the question can be answered. The answer isn't the problem, the question is.
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 11:09 am
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(March 13, 2014 at 11:07 am)whateverist Wrote: (March 13, 2014 at 5:13 am)Alex K Wrote: That's true.
"Why" questions trick you into believing that they are valid questions, just because you can form them in the English language.
What exactly are you asking for when you ask "why"? Are you looking for a cause? Then you are out of luck, since cause and effect are only applicable in the macroscopic realm within our universe. A logical necessity of some sort? There may not be one, see why ontological arguments fail - they might fail for the universe as a whole just as they fail for god figures. Logical conclusions need premises or axioms, and you will be begging the question at some point.
Why questions seem to make the most sense when applied to other people's motives. When they're applied to the physical world, "why" can be replaced with "how". When a why question is applied to everything, there is simply no vantage point from which the question can be answered. The answer isn't the problem, the question is.
My point exactly! Although you said it more succinctly
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RE: Why does anything at all exist?
March 13, 2014 at 12:08 pm
Un-fucking-believeable.
I just opened my email and there was an update from Youtube on the latest videos I should watch. What was the first recommendation?
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