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   Lucifer Morningstar to c.lee@fairpoint.net   
   Re: Does the Multiverse do Away With the   
   17 Nov 16 08:40:48   
   
   XPost: alt.talk.creationism, alt.atheism   
   From: Barry@saymyname.com   
      
   On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:18:18 -0600, Christopher A. Lee   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 08:07:16 +1100, Lucifer Morningstar   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 05:57:00 -0600, Christopher A. Lee   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:05:11 +1100, Lucifer Morningstar   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 07:42:45 +0100, Melzzzzz  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 16:52:11 +1100   
   >>>>>Lucifer Morningstar  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 22:31:22 -0500, "R. Dean" <"R. Dean"@gmail.com>   
   >>>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> >On 15/11/2016 8:01 PM, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:   
   >>>>>> >> On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:02:19 -0600, Christopher A. Lee   
   >>>>>> >>  wrote:   
   >>>>>> >>   
   >>>>>> >>> On Wed, 16 Nov 2016 09:34:36 +1100, Lucifer Morningstar   
   >>>>>> >>>  wrote:   
   >>>>>> >>>   
   >>>>>> >>>> On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:18:04 -0500, "R. Dean" <"R.   
   >>>>>> >>>> Dean"@gmail.com> wrote:   
   >>>>>> >>>>   
   >>>>>> >>>>> There is some theatrical basis for the multiverse found   
   >>>>>> >>>>> in the expansion of the  universe.   
   >>>>>> >>>>> Also in the interpretation of quantium  mechanics. But   
   >>>>>> >>>>> there is no direct empirical evidence for other universes.   
   >>>>>> >>>>   
   >>>>>> >>>> That's true. The multiverse idea was made up by someone   
   >>>>>> >>>> who wants an explanation and who has no concept of science.   
   >>>>>> >>>   
   >>>>>> >>> Bollocks.   
   >>>>>> >>   
   >>>>>> >> That's what the multiverse is. Pure made up nonsense.   
   >>>>>> >>   
   >>>>>> >Okay, but who or what group made up the multiverse nonsense?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I don't know but it should be recorded somewhere.   
   >>>>>> The multiverse idea was made up by someone desperate for   
   >>>>>> an answer. It has no scientific basis.   
   >>   
   >>From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse .   
   >>   
   >>Some physicists say the multiverse is not a legitimate topic of   
   >>scientific inquiry. Concerns have been raised about whether attempts   
   >>to exempt the multiverse from experimental verification could erode   
   >>public confidence in science and ultimately damage the study of   
   >>fundamental physics. Some have argued that the multiverse is a   
   >>philosophical rather than a scientific hypothesis because it cannot be   
   >>falsified.   
   >>   
   >>Arguments against multiverse theories   
   >>   
   >>In his 2003 New York Times opinion piece, A Brief History of the   
   >>Multiverse, the author and cosmologist Paul Davies offered a variety   
   >>of arguments that multiverse theories are non-scientific :   
   >>   
   >>    For a start, how is the existence of the other universes to be   
   >>tested? To be sure, all cosmologists accept that there are some   
   >>regions of the universe that lie beyond the reach of our telescopes,   
   >>but somewhere on the slippery slope between that and the idea that   
   >>there are an infinite number of universes, credibility reaches a   
   >>limit. As one slips down that slope, more and more must be accepted on   
   >>faith, and less and less is open to scientific verification. Extreme   
   >>multiverse explanations are therefore reminiscent of theological   
   >>discussions. Indeed, invoking an infinity of unseen universes to   
   >>explain the unusual features of the one we do see is just as ad hoc as   
   >>invoking an unseen Creator. The multiverse theory may be dressed up in   
   >>scientific language, but in essence it requires the same leap of   
   >>faith.   
   >   
   >What part of "nobody insists it is anything more than theoretical" are   
   >you pretending not to understand?   
   >   
   >It is just one of many scenarios suggested, for watever or wherever   
   >the big bang occured "in".   
      
   I don't understand how it does that. Please explain.   
      
   >That's all.   
   >   
   >Nobody insists that any one of them is the correct one.   
   >   
   >Given that spacetime itself expanded from the big bang, and that we   
   >are inside the big bang's event horizon, it is reasonable to suggest   
   >that it happened "in" a somewhere with a different frame of reference.   
   >However, we have no idea what this "somewhere" is and can only   
   >speculate.   
   >   
   >And the multiverse is one of these speculations.   
      
   I hope you will explain your theory.   
      
   >>>>>> Black holes went from being a crazy idea to being 'fact'   
   >>>>>> without any being discovered.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>What about supposed pictures of black holes? Science is sure they are   
   >>>>>there...   
   >>>>   
   >>>>That's my point. Some scientists believe black holes exist even   
   >>>>though none have been detected.   
   >>>   
   >>>Of course they have, imbecile.   
   >>>   
   >>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse   
   >>   
   >>Nothing in there supporting the existence of black holes.   
   >   
   >That link should have been pasted a paragraph or so earlier.   
   >   
   >A link to the Wikipedia bage on black holes should have been pasted   
   >here.   
   >   
   >>>>>> The Big Bang theory seems   
   >>>>>> to have been accepted as fact without being proven.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>Big Bang theory is based on observation.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>BB is based on interpretation. Nobody observed BB.   
   >>>   
   >>>Sigh.   
   >>>   
   >>>But the predicted effects have been observed. First by Penzias and   
   >>>Wilson who won a Nobel Prize, and subsequently the Berkeley/NASA COBE   
   >>>project and even the Hubble space  telescope, which has observed the   
   >>>early state of the universe going back to less than half a billion   
   >>>years after it - and confirmed the predictions of our model as far   
   >>>back as them   
   >>   
   >>The assumption is that nothing changes as we go back in time.   
   >   
   >Whose assumption? Yours?   
      
   The BB theorists.   
      
   >>>>>Also flat standing still Earth   
   >>>>>from Bible is based on observation. What you see is what you think it   
   >>>>>is. But be prepared for radical changes as instruments of observation   
   >>>>>get more advanced ;)   
   >>>>   
   >>>>BB theory makes assumptions that are not valid.   
   >>>   
   >>>Such as?   
   >>   
   >>That nothing changed as we go back in time.   
   >   
   >Bollocks.   
   >   
   >Troll much?   
      
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