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Originally Posted by Interpreter  Personally, I believe in a modified version of the 'Big Bang' theory. I believe that there have been many 'Smaller Big Bangs' which is why everything is not expanding in the same direction. |
A reasonable picture if you look at space in terms of classical mechanics. One could have multiple explosions within space but that doesn't answer the question of where the space and time within which those explosions occur originated.
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Originally Posted by Interpreter There is no difference between energy and matter: it is just a different form of the same thing. You cannot destroy matter, only change it's form. Therefor matter/energy is forever. |
Broadly true but there was a general separation of the two after the big bang. Energy and matter "decoupled" about 300000 years after the big bang up until that point the energy density was so high that there literally was no difference between the two. It isn't quite true that it is forever as there are various tricks at the quantum level and phenomena such as radiation from black holes (again not intuitive but can happen) which allow those rules to be broken to some extent.(NB those numbers could be wrong - it's been a few years since I read astrophysics)[/quote]
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Originally Posted by Interpreter Space expands and then contracts until it is converted back into pure energy at the maximum concentration possible. Then the capture of a single electron would push it over the edge and start the 'Big Bang' again. |
Ah but if 'space' has contracted then from where does it capture that single electron. There is no outside from which to capture it.
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Originally Posted by Interpreter Dodgy subject, but how can this be explaned without a creator? Nothing is ever formed spontaniously from nothing. Where did the original energy come from? |
Which of course just begs the question of where did the "creator" come from?
(NB I think we may have deviated somewhat from the forum topic of 'wild about Britain'
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