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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Further, the speck that caused the BB still had to come from somewhere. Unless matter and energy are simply allowed to spring out of nowhere, which is not something that I have seen supported by any science.
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Now you're asking
where was the Big Bang. Same answer as with "what was before it". There was no
where, and there was no
before.
Sadly, this goes outside the scope of modern science. And I doubt we will ever reach a point when we can say "Yeah, we get the Big Bang". It is very fertile ground for any religion, and honestly, anything they can come up with is just as likely to be true as anything we can (with regards to the Big Bang, not in general, of course).
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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
There are very few concepts that are intrinsically difficult for me to grasp. But then that's probably because I've got a number of theoretical physicists in the family.
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I wasn't talking about you personally. Didn't mean any offense.
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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
Oh, and PS .... stated with all due respect if you happen to be a theoretically physicist. If so, what is your main sub-branch of interest? I've got one first cousin who works on the cutting edge of string theory; another who is working on chaos theory. My brother is technically a physicist, but he has gone in house and is working on practical application.
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I'm in Computer Science, but I have a few physicists in the family, too. A nuclear (uncle), theoretical (cousin #1) and an astrophysicist (cousin #2). Interesting people.