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randome

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4. If the Universe collapses and re-starts, perhaps everything in it plays out in the exact...

Reply to salinen (Original post)

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 05:02 PM

Jan 2013

...same manner as before.

After all, everything will be the same once it collapses to whatever quantum non-existence it began as. So if conditions are the same at the moment of the Big Bang, it may follow that everything plays out exactly the same.

This could be the 'eternal life' the religionists want. Although it would suck if you have a bad life endlessly repeated.

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Can I share my theory of Everything? [View all] salinen Jan 2013 OP

that is close to the Steady State theory quinnox Jan 2013 #1

Who knows? CoffeeCat Jan 2013 #2

I prefer to believe that the Spirit moved across the waters... kentuck Jan 2013 #3

I can live with that. dixiegrrrrl Jan 2013 #5

Me, too. gateley Jan 2013 #9

I can believe in a cosmic consciousness but... kentuck Jan 2013 #13

If the Universe collapses and re-starts, perhaps everything in it plays out in the exact... randome Jan 2013 #4

Not just the Jehovahs... longship Jan 2013 #6

Looks like physics beat you to it. :) Romulus Quirinus Jan 2013 #7

The further you go, the more philosophy and religion merge... it's all why, why, why? reformist2 Jan 2013 #8

The answer is 43 legaleagle_45 Jan 2013 #10

I think you overstepped it by one. randome Jan 2013 #11

No wonder the mystery of life has eluded me. legaleagle_45 Jan 2013 #20

How could the universe HAVE a beginning? mindwalker_i Jan 2013 #12

Interestingly, there's a physics argument that the universe doesn't exist Recursion Jan 2013 #16

There seems to be a bit of evidence that the universe does exist mindwalker_i Jan 2013 #43

I think you are close. kentuck Jan 2013 #17

My answer is cheese. JaneyVee Jan 2013 #24

The power of Cheese. MissMarple Jan 2013 #31

The universe might be like cheese mindwalker_i Jan 2013 #44

Kant presents that as one arm of the Transcendental Amphiboly Recursion Jan 2013 #14

Given the physics of the universe I'd have to guess that could be true but liberal_at_heart Jan 2013 #15

The universe has always been and always will be. JaneyVee Jan 2013 #18

But that leaves no room for debate... kentuck Jan 2013 #19

question everything liberal_at_heart Jan 2013 #21

Perhaps as you look nearer to the beginning and the end, time curves like an asymtote Electric Monk Jan 2013 #22

We're inside a black hole in another universe NoOneMan Jan 2013 #23

Don't even get me started on multi-verses! JaneyVee Jan 2013 #25

The entire universe is only a single atom which makes up something even larger. Bandit Jan 2013 #26

Alternatively Bosonic Jan 2013 #27

Time and space are an illusion Cary Jan 2013 #28

Carl Sagan believed the same dtotire Jan 2013 #29

Everything is relative. kentuck Jan 2013 #30

The Universe is orgasmic in nature. randome Jan 2013 #32

But but but everything is rushing apart faster and faster! Warpy Jan 2013 #33

Why do we accept that time goes forward?? kentuck Jan 2013 #34

That's recently been proven Warpy Jan 2013 #35

Yesterday is not tomorrow? kentuck Jan 2013 #37

This universe did have a beginning... Kalidurga Jan 2013 #36

Psssh, don't kid yourself, we're a bunch of holograms. Neoma Jan 2013 #38

This Universe is just a cell which is part of an organ which is part of an organism darkangel218 Jan 2013 #39

And if we are so minute...? kentuck Jan 2013 #40

Huge ideas on our scale. We are far from being huge within the Universe(s) :) darkangel218 Jan 2013 #41

Definitely. kentuck Jan 2013 #42