• nevemsenki@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Where did the matter/energy for Big Bang come from? On that note, what is outside the border of the universe?

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      3 months ago

      And then where did they matter and energy come from for that universe. It’s turtles all the way down…

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      3 months ago

      This question actually doesn’t make sense, it’s kind of a paradox in the same way the question of what happened before the Big bang is also strange in the sense that the universe and reality didn’t exist in a form with causality in effect.

      So asking a “before” question in reference to “before” time even started is paradoxical in and of itself. Since “before” wasn’t even a concept in existence.

      Which is why scientists don’t really worry about anything “before” the Big bang.

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      3 months ago

      Outside: there is a theory of other universes outside . Which would explain the increasing rate of expansion in place of dark energy

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      3 months ago

      The Universe is expanding, rapidly from the big bang still. At some point, it will slow down, and then stop. Then begins a catastrophic cycle of collapse with massive black holes coalescing into one universe eating black hole that compresses every bit of matter into a single point of almost infinite density. At this point the black hole destabilizes, and all of the stored energy is released in one colossal explosion. A Big Bang of sorts.

      The Universe is an Ouroboros.

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        3 months ago

        At some point, it will slow down, and then stop

        All of the current scientific evidence disagrees with this. 1) There is a velocity such that you can go faster than gravity will be able to slow you down: escape velocity. So, it’s possible even without any new, weird physics. 2) The hubble constant shows that the universe isn’t slowing down, but the opposite: it’s accelerating. Physics doesn’t know why (see Dark Energy). It’s physically measurable that things farther away are accelerating even faster scaling with distance.

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      3 months ago

      I’m a big bang denier. I have zero evidence. I believe everything has always been, will always be, and goes on forever in every direction. I think anything we do to try to explain is just to protect our brains from being incapable of fathoming that everything is infinite.