What is the Universe expanding into..

Do you think there was anything before the big bang?

  • I don't think there was anything before the Big Bang

    Votes: 56 12.5%
  • I think something existed before the Big Bang

    Votes: 200 44.7%
  • I don't think the big bang happened

    Votes: 54 12.1%
  • I think the universe is part of a mutiverse

    Votes: 201 45.0%

  • Total voters
    447
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Im with the 43% who voted multiverse. Based on the theory that black holes puke out new expanding universes on the other side. Every black hole is created after a "big bang". At least thats one theory that seems to make a certain amount of sense.

If something isn't observed how can it not exist?*Don't bother explaining, I never got it the first time, or the second...😱
 
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Why is it that a point in space that happen to have a concentration of mass with extreme density (aka black hole) need to "lead" somewhere. Could it not just hang there? If you approach it yes you would be sucked in - as in becoming a part of it - but you would still be in that point of space.

Occam's Razor!

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Thats true. Like when a bear craps in the woods how can anyone prove it doesn't make a sound if no ones there to observe lol.

I enjoy watching how the universe works. But as soon as they start on about quantum mechanics I get lost.

The sound is in your head..ie sound pressure waves are not a sound. ie what does 50 Hz sound like?
A bit like where is the picture you see in your head? is it upside down on the retina?

Have you tried reading the thread slowly and watching the links?

One more to twist your brain when you turn your head and don't move your eyes on their own why do you get the dizzy feeling with everything wizzing past but when you move your eyes you don't? Could it be that you stop seeing when they move can't be can it or your brain deliberately blocks the moving image? But they work all the time when you just turn your head..😀

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M. Gregg
 
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I have a question for all the radio hams,

Sound doesn't travel through space because of a vacuum,
so what do radio waves travel through in space? (how do they propagate)

Daft question.. 😕 OK a magnetic field is made of photons and light can travel through space..but?

Regards
M. Gregg
 
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Thats true. Like when a bear craps in the woods how can anyone prove it doesn't make a sound if no ones there to observe lol.

I enjoy watching how the universe works. But as soon as they start on about quantum mechanics I get lost.
I recall the movie "What The Bleep Do We Know" (written/produced/put together by this woman who ran her own religion/cult - she is prominent among the interviewees in the movie) which featured (among other things) interviews with rather famous scientists who were outraged that the things they said were presented out of context in order to promote various pseudoscientific ideas.

But one part was animated and featured five or six "aspects of Quantum Mechanics" - I recall that one of these was "spooky action at a distance." Anyway, it seemed to me that part was the most accurate, or perhaps the ONLY accurate part of the movie. It doesn't really say how these things work, only that these are the "characteristics" of quantum mechanics/quantum physics. But overall, it's better for entertainment than for information.
Just a thought. If nothing can travel faster than the speed of light how can gravity escape a black hole?
I think this is evidence that gravity is something other than "something that travels" but that mass indeed causes a curvature in space, like an object sitting on a rubber sheet causes the sheet under it to sink down.
 
I have a question for all the radio hams,

Sound doesn't travel through space because of a vacuum,
so what do radio waves travel through in space? (how do they propagate)

Daft question.. 😕 OK a magnetic field is made of photons and light can travel through space..but?

Regards
M. Gregg
I'm reminded of this experiment that looked for the "ether" that light travelled in, analogous to the air that sound travels in, but failed to find it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_experiment

Here's the Wikipedia entry on one of the guys who did the experiment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_A._Michelson

I mention him because it's surprising this device isn't mentioned - it has little or nothing to do with "the universe" but it's a fascinating machine (that does Fourier analysis and synthesis mechanically!), and has been apparently little or completely unknown until the author dredged it out of a corner of an old university building and studied it.

This is well worth watching the videos:
Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer (book details))
 
I have a question for all the radio hams,

Sound doesn't travel through space because of a vacuum,
so what do radio waves travel through in space? (how do they propagate)

Daft question.. 😕 OK a magnetic field is made of photons and light can travel through space..but?

Regards
M. Gregg

When radio travels a coaxial cable, it propagates due to collapse of E and
H fields. Neither field can move without action (change) of the other. For
both to propagate, each take turn holding the energy and releasing it.

The E field is a radial capacitance between the center conductor and the
shield. H field is a circular flux that orbits between the center and the
shield. Two fields are at right angles to each other. They trade strength
in a ratio that can be described by ohms law: as-if Volts and Amps now
imply the existence of an impedance. In coax, that might be 50 or 75
ohms, depending the construction.

If such a cable extends to the moon and stars so far that we never see
a reflection for the duration of our measurement, we can look into the
open end and observe the impedance as a perfect resistance to AC. If
we terminate the far end in an actual 50 ohm resistor, we can trick the
cable into believing it continues forever. As there is no reflection...

Now, if you turn a photon loose in free space, or a laser beam that all
travel in one thin ray. Propagation occurs very much as per the coaxial
cable above. Strangely though, the ratio between E and H is 377 ohms.
In the absence of anything, there is a characteristic impedance, just as
there would be in a coaxial waveguide.

This also tells us something bout the speed of light and the speed of
propagation in coax. I havn't quite got my head wrapped around exactly
how that all works yet. As cable slows the travel of a single pulse, or
any information. But can speed the sliding front of repeating waves
without information, even beyond light. Perhaps I misunderstood it...
 
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The speed of information travel is velocity factor, slower than light.
The speed of the phase front without information is phase velocity,
sometimes faster than light.

Imagine two soundspeed ripples colliding in a pond. The intersection
moves at right angles to the point of impact faster than the incoming
soundspeed ripples themselves. Our pond for today is a waveguide.
Did information about the ripples travel faster than sound? Not really...

Perhaps as I said earlier of an event horizon, its a non-actual-thing
to be ruled over by lightspeed, its just a math. There is no speed of
math. Folks looking for gravity waves may be disappointed. Else as
was pointed out earlier in this thread, gravity would never escape a
hole, it obviously suffers no such problem...

Entanglement, also a math, also suffers no such lightspeed problem...

The speed of waves is defined by interaction of E and H, and those
things and rules not of E or H have no reason to be so constrained.
Why a neutrino is so constrained? Perhaps E or H curled inside???
 
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In the theory of the holographic universe,

They talk about a "plank Bit" ie the smallest point that can contain information.
Interestingly they say it would contain "0" or "1"..

Why can't a plank bit be a quantum bit? ie what sets the number of states of a quantum bit or is it infinite?

Regards
M. Gregg
 
In the theory of the holographic universe,

They talk about a "plank Bit" ie the smallest point that can contain information.
Interestingly they say it would contain "0" or "1"..

Why can't a plank bit be a quantum bit? ie what sets the number of states of a quantum bit or is it infinite?

Regards
M. Gregg

In a holographic universe, where the observer creates reality, would it not be whatever the observer seeks?
 
Reference,

Holographic universe and the preservation of information.
Full Program: A Thin Sheet of Reality - World Science Festivalze

Smallest size "the Planck length" ie I assume a "string" if a string is one planck length then is that a "planck bit"? If it is then is the string frequency the bit state?

If the frequency is energy dependant and the universe is finite then the range of states must also be finite?
Unless the energy is infinite..(the comment of big but not infinite comes to mind)

Thoughts?

Regards
M. Gregg
 
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