Totally OT: Quantum Mechanics proof for the existence of a Supreme
Daniel Lewis
murpsoft at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 14 18:39:08 PST 2008
Yigal Chripun Wrote:
> Jb wrote:
> > "Craig Black" <cblack at ara.com> wrote in message
> > news:fp2cu3$hcc$1 at digitalmars.com...
> >
> >> Yep. That's generally a good approach to science. However, considering
> >> how much ground has been covered by science in recent times, I have the
> >> hope that ultimately science will be able to answer philosophical
> >> questions too. Being a curious person, it would be nice to have a
> >> definitive answer to the big questions.
> >>
> >
> > As soon as science provides an answer it stops being a philosophical
> > question. ;-)
> >
> > But tbh, you just have to accept that some stuff is and always will be
> > beyond our understanding.
> >
> > Is the universe infinate or finite?
> >
> > Either answer is utterly perplexing and uncomprehendable. Anyone who claims
> > otherwise doesnt understand the question.
> >
> > Why does anything exist at all? Why is there not just nothing?
> >
> > Again what possible answer could there be that makes any sense to a human?
> >
> >
> >
> well, actually the universe is finite. there is a lot of evidence that
> our universe is expanding (big bang and all) and thus it must be finite
> (according to math).
> you can think of it this way: say we all are 2D living on the surface of
> a balloon that keeps expanding. in such a surface the geometry tells us
> that although there is no edge/border to the surface the area of it is
> finite.
> our universe behaves exactly the same, only the "surface" of it is 3D.
>
> -- Yigal
>
Any infinite form can expand too. Add a few digits to the end of Pi.
Did nobody understand Limits Theorum?
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