Existential Angst and questions you want answers for

bilbot79 · 17-07-2016 11:41PM

kneemos wrote: »

There's never one of anything,why would universes be different.
Whatever created this universe surely created others.

Unless there is a creator.

No! No creator!

This is such a human bias to 'need' to be able to explain everything regardless of how far fetched that explanation may be.

It is sweet and fitting to say 'I don't know'

bilbot79 · 17-07-2016 11:46PM

fussyonion wrote: »

Does space end?

Like, where would you end up if somehow you could travel through space and kept going? Is there an end to space?

What does the other side of the moon look like and have we ever been able to see pictures of it?

Is death like sleep? As in, you go to bed and fall asleep, then you wake in the morning but that whole sleep period...you have no awareness of it. It's a complete blank to you.

One minute you were awake, the next thing you're awake again.
Is that what death is like (apart from the waking up bit)?
People say death is just like what life was like before you were born; i.e nothingness, but I find it hard to believe that something can just end and you have no awareness of it.

Is time travel possible?

Apparently. Through folding space. I can't get my head around it though. To me it's the present, everywhere, all of the time, end of. Past and future are human inventions much like clocks and the concept of seconds and hours ticking by.
The description is incredibly useful but ultimately false.

kneemos · 17-07-2016 11:49PM

bilbot79 wrote: »

No! No creator!

This is such a human bias to 'need' to be able to explain everything regardless of how far fetched that explanation may be.

It is sweet and fitting to say 'I don't know'

Depends how you look at it.It may be just as far fetched and arrogant to say there isn't a creator.

The existence of the universe and its origin strikes me as just as fantastical as a creator.

bilbot79 · 17-07-2016 11:55PM

kneemos wrote: »

Depends how you look at it.It may be just as far fetched and arrogant to say there isn't a creator.

The existence of the universe and its origin strikes me as just as fantastical as a creator.

Only because you refuse to fail to understand.

Fr_Dougal · 18-07-2016 12:00AM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

yes. But only forward. And only in real time. Unless you sleep which is a jump into the future.

Wormhole, folding space, not theoretically possible?

kneemos · 18-07-2016 12:09AM

bilbot79 wrote: »

Only because you refuse to fail to understand.

So we have a universe that somehow popped into existence and expanded to possibly infinite size and into a space we'll just call nothing.
No explanation to where it came from or where its expanding to.
I'd call that well weird .

Lavinia · 18-07-2016 12:09AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12DeNdF0KPA

resembles the op's opening post :d))

18-07-2016 01:03AM

Space obviously has to end somewhere. Then again, space obviously can't end anywhere. It's the most f*cked up thing to try wrap your head around, both are just as likely as each other.

If indeed it does go on forever and in all directions, which of the following is more unsettling ; We are all alone in this vast,vast universe...or we are not.

endacl · 18-07-2016 01:13AM

Why do grownups post threads about Jet the ex-Gladiator and Neighbours? In not-the-telly forum?

mansize · 18-07-2016 01:19AM

endacl wrote: »

Why do grownups post threads about Jet the ex-Gladiator and Neighbours? In not-the-telly forum?

They'd be locked/ignored there.

Answer: To get a reaction.

bilbot79 · 18-07-2016 01:21AM

kneemos wrote: »

So we have a universe that somehow popped into existence and expanded to possibly infinite size and into a space we'll just call nothing.
No explanation to where it came from or where its expanding to.
I'd call that well weird .

There is a perfectly reasonable explanation that we are not aware of and that's ok. No need to fill in the blanks with evolutionarily advantageous morality systems such as religion. Just leave the blanks blank for a change.

StewartGriffin · 18-07-2016 02:49AM

I just can't get my head around it.

Then again, I can't get my head around most things.

It's not a flexible head.

Your Face · 18-07-2016 02:51AM

Who shot JR?

Padster90s · 18-07-2016 03:10AM

In a few billion years the Earth won't exist. That one gets me. There'll be no trace that humans, all other life and our planet ever existed. I suppose the chance that any remains or fossils of our bodies being vapourised and blasted back off into space makes it seem a bit less gloomy! What existed before the big bang would be another one. Did a past universe collapse and reform the present one from it? If it did, is the present universe repeating the exact same sequence of events as the universe before? Was there nothing there before the big bang, no space, nothing? Annoying thing is we'll never get a right answer!

EL_Loco · 18-07-2016 03:26AM

Why my OCD in spotting something messy is over ruled by my laziness, but yet I'll look on the same scene repeatedly, mentally work out what needs doing, then just walk past it. Only to do it again next time I see it. Why universe, whhhhhyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!

kneemos · 18-07-2016 08:27AM

bilbot79 wrote: »

There is a perfectly reasonable explanation that we are not aware of and that's ok. No need to fill in the blanks with evolutionarily advantageous morality systems such as religion. Just leave the blanks blank for a change.

Didn't fill in any blanks.Merely observing that one option sounds as weird as the other.

maudgonner · 18-07-2016 10:57AM

Your Face wrote: »

Who shot JR?

I know the answer to this one. I use it all the time in pub quizzes.

It was Pat Shortt.

Lavinia · 18-07-2016 11:30AM

Omackeral wrote: »

Space obviously has to end somewhere. Then again, space obviously can't end anywhere. It's the most f*cked up thing to try wrap your head around, both are just as likely as each other.

If indeed it does go on forever and in all directions, which of the following is more unsettling ; We are all alone in this vast,vast universe...or we are not.

for me it's that we are alone...

Gwynplaine · 18-07-2016 11:37AM

There is no spoon

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