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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Heroic Game Launcher... BRAVO!
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:35:53 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-06-29, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
> RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> On 2024-06-28, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>>> RonB wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>
>>>> On 2024-06-27, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>>>>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:33:43 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then the "Big Bang" didn't create the universe? (It's hard to keep track
>>>>>>> of the latest dogma in these cultish religions.)
>>>>>
>>>>>:-D  Physics = cultish religion. How fscking ridiculous!
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah, it's hard to tell which direction Francis will head in next.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess it's a lot easier to believe that God had a Big Bang than
>>>>> that an eternal universe eventually became a singularity and then
>>>>> exploded to start the next cycle of universe generation.
>>>>
>>>> Try visualizing eternity.
>>>
>>> I just did!
>>
>> And what did you see?
>
> An endless sequence of expanding strings.  ;->
>
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Three_Minutes
>
>     Early in the book, Weinberg explores the origins and implications of the
>     Hubble constant, that the red shift of galaxies is proportional to their
>     distance, and how this is evidence for the expansion of the Universe. He
>     introduces the Cosmological Principle, that the universe is isotropic and
>     homogeneous. He then tells the story behind the discovery of the cosmic
>     microwave background by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1965.[3] After
>     giving the reader a basis of understanding of astrophysics and particle
>     physics, in chapter 5, Weinberg lays out the makeup of the Universe after
>     its origin in a series of frozen frames. Weinberg shows how the Big Bang
>     can account for the relative abundance of Hydrogen and Helium in the
>     universe. 

So, in other words, you're visualizing short, expanding strings and 
"assuming" they go on forever. You're not actually "seeing" eternity, you're 
limiting it to the breadth, width and length of finite "strings." Humans are 
limited in time and space so we can't "see" (visualize) eternity or 
infinity, we have to believe in it by faith. 

But in response to Weinberg, if the universe (or "Universe" as Weinberg 
capitalizes it?) is constantly expanding, what is it expanding into?

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine