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   Bobbie Sellers to Paul S Person   
   Re: xkcd: Chemical Formula   
   14 Feb 26 11:09:36   
   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 2/14/26 08:36, Paul S Person wrote:   
   > On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:21:19 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> Paul S Person  writes:   
   >>> On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:28:31 -0800, Bobbie Sellers   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On 2/12/26 09:27, Stefan Ram wrote:   
   >>>>> Ignatios Souvatzis  wrote or quoted:   
   >>>>>> At least from the Middle-eastern monotheistic ones, easily: an =   
   >>> all-knowing,   
   >>>>>> all-observing God isn't possible with a finite speed of light.   
   >>>>> =20   
   >>>>>     Well, once one starts to assume something for which there are   
   >>>>>     no observations ("god"), one then can as well assume that he   
   >>>>>     is all-knowing by some kind of magic that does not need light.   
   >>>>> =20   
   >>>>> =20   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 	Well part of God is in this Universe and part in the place/time/region   
   >>> >from which the materials for the Big Bang emerged. God is everywhere in   
   >>>> this universe and in everything to keep it in existence.  If you want to=   
   >>> =20   
   >>>> believe   
   >>>> in a God which is sort of not needed in most science aside from =   
   >>> Theology.   
   >>>   
   >>> That is probably the most cogent statement of transendent and   
   >>> imminanent I have seen in a long time. Also the Ground of Being   
   >>> concept. But the usual doctrine is creation /ex nihilo/, "out of   
   >>> nothing", so no materials required.   
   >>   
   >> It does, however, raise the question of where and how that   
   >> 'place/time/region' itself was created und so weiter ad infinitum.   
   >   
   > What I said doesn't; there is no "place/time/region from which the   
   > materials for the Big Bang emerged" when creation is from -- nothing.   
   >   
   > Don't need a place to store nothing.   
   >   
   > But don't let me interrupt your ranting.   
   >   
      
   	Why do you assume that "nothing" ever existed?   
      
   	When the Universe expanded it followed vectors.   
   	Where did those lines of matter collection come from?   
   		I really have no idea but if there were multiple   
      Universes maybe their intrustion of gravitic or other forces   
      created those vectors.  But that is merest speculation.   
   	I doubt though that "nothing" ever existed except   
      possibly in the unimaginably distant past. Even then   
      the forces outside our 3 or 4 dimensional space may   
      have been filled with something that in our space   
      could differentiate into positive and negative matter/energy   
      to provide the explosive situation for the Big Bang   
      assuming it happened as envisioned by competent   
      cosmologists.   
   	Now the assumption is that there was a slight   
      amount of positive matter left over from the mutual   
      destruction but suppose there was also some negative   
      matter which survived but by the force of the   
      blast it went off in another dimension where it under   
      went the same sort of material evolution as we see   
      in the positive matter universe.   
   	Suppose....   
      
   	bliss   
   	   
   	bliss   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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