We live in a infinite universe

[baron]

What could be more boring than living in a universe where everything goes entirely your way, all the time, forever? Every time you hit the ball, it's a home run; every woman you meet wants to have sex with you; every shot is a basket. Forever.

You learn to live with it.

 

[Craig4]

I'm a believer. It feels good to believe the universe is infinite. That there is a God who cares. That this isn't the only life you get. I mean, how awesome is it to live in a infinite universe. It feels awesome just knowing you live in a infinite universe. It means I can be born as something other than male or female. There are actually an infinite number of genders you can be born as. Like it would be cool to be born on a planet where it requires 3 people to make a baby. The possibilities are endless.

Then if you are an atheist you just believe you have this one life. That's boring.

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So it doesn't have to be true as long as it's comforting.

Lots of people make up little stories to deal with their fear of death. I suppose this isn't the worst one I've seen.

 

[Beady]

So it doesn't have to be true as long as it's comforting.

Lots of people make up little stories to deal with their fear of death. I suppose this isn't the worst one I've seen.

No, it's not.

OTOH, it can be very troubling. If things are so much better when you're dead, why bother with life? If you get to choose the heaven you like best, why hang around in this life? Why not hurry up and just plain go to heaven? It seems logical.

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[Belz...]

I did answer. I said, "I very much doubt there can be a description other than a mathematical one, and I'm not a quantum mathematician. That's why I rely on the likes of Hawking and Krauss to summarise these things."

Yeah but that's an answer that tells me you won't answer. Why do you expect me to answer all your questions if you answer none of mine? You say you rely on physicists to do the summaries; so provide one of their summaries, then.

I can't see how something could be said to exist outside space and time. What would it exist in?

Without space and time it would have no dimension. It wouldn't be "in" anything. From your comment above it seems like an argument from incredulity, but as you know, QM isn't exactly intuitive.

 

[slipknot0129]

So it doesn't have to be true as long as it's comforting.

Lots of people make up little stories to deal with their fear of death. I suppose this isn't the worst one I've seen.

I don't make up stories, I know death is nothing to fear because it continues on.

 

[Nay_Sayer]

I don't make up stories, I know death is nothing to fear because it continues on.

Only you do and then based on those stories make unsubstantiated claims.

 

[slipknot0129]

Only you do and then based on those stories make unsubstantiated claims.

I don't make claims. I just know the truth. Life continues on. We live in a infinite universe.

 

[Beady]

I don't make claims. I just know the truth. Life continues on. We live in a infinite universe.

How do you know the truth?

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[Craig4]

I don't make up stories, I know death is nothing to fear because it continues on.

That must be a warm security blanket you have there.

 

[baron]

Yeah but that's an answer that tells me you won't answer. Why do you expect me to answer all your questions if you answer none of mine? You say you rely on physicists to do the summaries; so provide one of their summaries, then.

I just did. Twice, in fact, because as well as Hawking's quote on de Sitter universes appearing from 'literally nothing', I said, "Krauss talks of there being a net balance of negative and positive energy in the universe, or more precisely of the universe, which would suggest there are no physical laws being broken in the creation of everything from nothing, or its eventual return."

So I'll try again one last time: Do you or do you not have any cosmologist or physicist who states that something cannot come from nothing, or indeed any evidence whatsoever that something cannot come from nothing.

Without space and time it would have no dimension. It wouldn't be "in" anything. From your comment above it seems like an argument from incredulity, but as you know, QM isn't exactly intuitive.

It may not be intuitive but it doesn't mean anything goes. How can something exist in zero dimensions? Zero dimensions is nothing.

 

[slipknot0129]

Since the universe is infinite, it means fiction doesn't exist.

 

[Craig4]

Since the universe is infinite, it means fiction doesn't exist.

That's just a story you tell yourself. It's how you deal with the fear of death.

 

[slipknot0129]

That's just a story you tell yourself. It's how you deal with the fear of death.

I have no fear of death. Life continues on after death. We go on to better things.

 

[Myriad]

Since the set of real numbers is infinite, the cube root of negative banana must be a real number.

 

[slipknot0129]

Since the set of real numbers is infinite, the cube root of negative banana must be a real number.

Yes all things are possible.

 

[The Greater Fool]

Yes all things are possible.

Can you tell us of your previous incarnations?

 

[slipknot0129]

Can you tell us of your previous incarnations?

I had one dream of a previous incarnation. I was a slightly unevolved being. It was a cool experience.

 

[Thor 2]

I had one dream of a previous incarnation. I was a slightly unevolved being. It was a cool experience.

Wow! A slightly unevolved being no less how cool that must have been.

Oh, what exactly is a slightly unevolved being?

 

[stargazer0519]

Oh, look what I found in perusing this poster's previous missives:




You're an atheist who believes in god. Righto, chap. Let me see if I can help you:

-the indefinite article preceding a vowel is "an", not "a".

Lot's of really clever people have come here over the years thinking they can take the piss out of us. They were wrong. If they couldn't succeed, you may want to have a closer look at your chances.

Those last three lines have some power behind them. Right on, dude.

 

[Craig4]

I have no fear of death. Life continues on after death. We go on to better things.

Thanks for proving my point.