Poll: The universe.

[Panzer_God]

I believe that every person is in their own universe with about 300 other people who they interact with at some point in their lives.

What an odd train of [a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism_Syndrome]thinking that is[/a]

That's actually where I got the original idea but I discussed it with my philosophy prof and eventually this came out. I took a philisophical ideal and turned it into my universal beliefs. It actually helps you let people leave your life when your belief is that their leaving simply leaves room for somone else to come in.

 

[Danny Ocean]

No option for inter-dimensional Branes?

Hah. Seriously though, I don't know enough about that theory. I'm going to go with the Alternating big bang/big crunch idea.

Now let's get some scientific pictures in here!

Spoiler: Click Me!

Yay, science!

 

[clicketycrack]

I believe that every person is in their own universe with about 300 other people who they interact with at some point in their lives.

Then what the fuck happens when you move far away from the place that you live? You will then meet around 300 more people, so whatever happened to the previous 300? What if in addition to the 300 new people you meet, you keep in contact with the past 300? And what about all the people you see on television? Do they not really exist in the unverse since you don't react with them?

Well the word in interact but yes. No more then roughly 300 people exist in your universe at any one time. If your stop interacting with someone they cease to exist. For example when I decide that you bore me and stop talking to you, we will cease to exist in each other's universes, leaving room for someone else.

Well you already don't exist to me. Your just a jumble of disembodied text that only has the abilities of thought and posting. As far as I'm concerned, you are not a person.

 

[Panzer_God]

I believe that every person is in their own universe with about 300 other people who they interact with at some point in their lives.

Then what the fuck happens when you move far away from the place that you live? You will then meet around 300 more people, so whatever happened to the previous 300? What if in addition to the 300 new people you meet, you keep in contact with the past 300? And what about all the people you see on television? Do they not really exist in the unverse since you don't react with them?

Well the word in interact but yes. No more then roughly 300 people exist in your universe at any one time. If your stop interacting with someone they cease to exist. For example when I decide that you bore me and stop talking to you, we will cease to exist in each other's universes, leaving room for someone else.

Well you already don't exist to me. Your just a jumble of disembodied text that only has the abilities of thought and posting. As far as I'm concerned, you are not a person.

yes but I am a jumble of disembodied text that you are interacting with, therefore as long as we are interacting through text, we exist to each other. Once we stop talking you will cease to exist for me and I for you.

 

[Julianking93]

I'll go with Steven Hawking on this;

The Universe is ever expanding and at one point in time, everything was on top of each other

 

[Bigfoot_King]

there is a theory that the universe is a 4D doughnut shape and we live on the surface so we could travel round and reach back to eath

 

[clicketycrack]

I believe that every person is in their own universe with about 300 other people who they interact with at some point in their lives.

Then what the fuck happens when you move far away from the place that you live? You will then meet around 300 more people, so whatever happened to the previous 300? What if in addition to the 300 new people you meet, you keep in contact with the past 300? And what about all the people you see on television? Do they not really exist in the unverse since you don't react with them?

Well the word in interact but yes. No more then roughly 300 people exist in your universe at any one time. If your stop interacting with someone they cease to exist. For example when I decide that you bore me and stop talking to you, we will cease to exist in each other's universes, leaving room for someone else.

Well you already don't exist to me. Your just a jumble of disembodied text that only has the abilities of thought and posting. As far as I'm concerned, you are not a person.

yes but I am a jumble of disembodied text that you are interacting with, therefore as long as we are interacting through text, we exist to each other. Once we stop talking you will cease to exist for me and I for you.

Okay then, but let me ask you something else. Where did you get the number 300? Are you on average talking to around 300 people constantly?

 

[Danny Ocean]

Actualy, the "universe" is nothing more than the ongoing explosion of something.

"WE" - Matter and energy and stuff - are the flames and smoke, the debris. The byproduct of that explosion and we are currently in the process of flying away from the point of explosion with mind boggling speed. "WE" will slowly disperse as the stuff keeps flying.

And once everything is dispersed and has near-disappeared, someone or something will set off the next explosion and no-one will care about the first one.

So you are an advocate of continuous expansion. Very well dramaticised, I like it, where did you get it from?

"WE" will slowly disperse as the stuff keeps flying.

And so will all our rulers, so we won't notice, and it won't make a difference!

 

[Mollecht]

I believe believing in one theory of the universe without actually having studied and understanding the underlying theory physics etc. involved) is rather silly.

 

[Panzer_God]

Okay then, but let me ask you something else. Where did you get the number 300? Are you on average talking to around 300 people constantly?

No that is the maximum amount.

 

[clicketycrack]

Okay then, but let me ask you something else. Where did you get the number 300? Are you on average talking to around 300 people constantly?

No that is the maximum amount.

This conversation has already gotten pretty stupid, but what if you were giving a speech? What if there was a crowd of around 310 people? Would your universe explode?

 

[Rigs83]

I like to quote the late Douglas Adams:
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

infinite & always.

basically the one that humans understand the least...

 

[clicketycrack]

infinite & always.

basically the one that humans understand the least...

I have a bone to pick with this theory. If the universe was ifinite, than looking out in the night sky, your vision would go on and on and on until it hit something out in space which would probably be a star or something reflecting the light of a star. This means that if you were to look out at the night sky you would see nothing but a solid blanket of light. Now, if the universe did begin at a point in time, then you could say that the reason it isn't like that is because the light from all these star hasn't had time to reach us and thus we have blank spots in our sky.

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

I have a bone to pick with this theory. If the universe was ifinite, than looking out in the night sky, your vision would go on and on and on until it hit something out in space which would probably be a star or something reflecting the light of a star. This means that if you were to look out at the night sky you would see nothing but a solid blanket of light. Now, if the universe did begin at a point in time, then you could say that the reason it isn't like that is because the light from all these star hasn't had time to reach us and thus we have blank spots in our sky.

*shrug* i think there's enough space between the stars to allow for darkness... and a normal night sky. even with an infinite universe. and just because there's an infinite universe doesn't mean there's stars in all of it. or galaxies... etc. who knows. we haven't been to the end of space.

and if it was finite, what's after the universe? white...ness? nothing?

 

[clicketycrack]

I have a bone to pick with this theory. If the universe was ifinite, than looking out in the night sky, your vision would go on and on and on until it hit something out in space which would probably be a star or something reflecting the light of a star. This means that if you were to look out at the night sky you would see nothing but a solid blanket of light. Now, if the universe did begin at a point in time, then you could say that the reason it isn't like that is because the light from all these star hasn't had time to reach us and thus we have blank spots in our sky.

*shrug* i think there's enough space between the stars to allow for darkness... and a normal night sky. even with an infinite universe. and just because there's an infinite universe doesn't mean there's stars in all of it. or galaxies... etc. who knows. we haven't been to the end of space.

and if it was finite, what's after the universe? white...ness? nothing?

Nothing is one of those things that the human mind can't really comprehend. Like infinity. Besides, I think nothing would be black.

 

[la-le-lu-li-lo]

Nothing is one of those things that the human mind can't really comprehend. Like infinity. Besides, I think nothing would be black.

nothing could be rainbows. not actually rainbows, but could appear to our eyes as rainbows because it's just that mind-blowing.

and i agree, infinity and nothing are both as equally incomprehensible to the human mind. so really, this discussion is silly. cause it could be anything.

i mean, our universe could be a game of marbles for giant aliens. like... you know. men in black.

i'll stop now.

 

[Souplex]

Reality manifested in fall of 95, everyone came to be with full memories sort of like when you start a movie or videogame.