/sci/ - Science & Math

I work with a religious guy - he's a Jehovah's Witness.

He often tries to lecture people on their lives and he asked me what I believed. Instinctively, I said I was an Atheist. I said I believed that their was life on other planets, and he immediately stopped me and said "No, God created us in his own image etc.". I told him I believe the universe began with "the big bang" and it's ever expanding, and will continue to keep expanding forever.

He shunted my beliefs and continued to lecture me and it kinda pissed me off. On the drive back from work I started to think. I believe the universe will is ever expanding and therefore, in theory, infinite. If the universe is infinite than an infinite number of possible actions can happen. Does that mean that it's possible for the universe to create a God who in turn created a planet and governed over it exactly how we describe it? If so, does that stop me being an Atheist, because to believe that the universe will grow infinitely, I have to accept the fact that a God will, has, and will always exist?

Does consciousness have an evolutionary advantage, or is it just a side effect of certain processes?
Is there any proof that conscious processes survive better than unconscious processes?
If you were going to reply something like "Of course consciousness has an advantage; otherwise we wouldn't have evolved consciousness!" I kindly ask you to hide this thread and forget its existence.

Post a brief summary from big bang to man.

Streaming Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" all day. http://www.livestream.com/musingsofsagansapplepie

could the big bang have been started by the end of another universe?

like say ...the universe is always expanding.. say eventually it gets so far and starts snapping back like a rubber band eventually everything reaches a dead centre and hits each other. all that matter colliding causes a big explosion and starts going outwards again?.

Everything in nature has cycles.

So this is how I came to my theory, that the big bang itsself is just a part of a cycle.

Gravity is the force of matter attracting other matter. So what if the big bang came to originate because all the matter in the universe became so dense because of gravity, and then it exploded.

Now this explosion is known as the big bang. But the explosion following the denseness of all matter is so great it will expand our universe for millions of years. But when this force gradually becomes less all matter will inevitably attract to each other again, so the cycle continuous until an new big bang is created.

Lemme know what you think /sci/

What happened before the big bang?

sup /sci/

I had an idea. Now I'm sure I'm not the first one who thought of this, but I want to know if it's a valid theory.

So, the big bang. Due to the explosion the universe expands. But it has to start contracting sometime due to gravity right? And inevatibly, it contracts to a space so small it explodes again. So is it possible the universe is going through a neverending cycle of big bang-> expanding -> contracting -> big bang?

Excuse my ignorance.

If our consciousness is a bunch of atoms bouncing together could I theoretically write it as a program on a computer in 3d and would they actually have a consciousness?

Ignoring the lack of processing ower.

So we are pretty sure that one day the universe will implode and cause a new big bang.

But how many times have this happen before? Have mankind been in the universe millions of times?
What do you think sci?

Let's say you were explaining to an alien foreign to our universe about how our universe is flawed but at the same time, there are knife-edge perfections. Simplified, a logical alien would hear that and think that our universe is "black AND white" which doesn't make sense. Either something is this or that, not muddled up in a gray area.

Maybe we are looking at this higher power with too narrow of perspectives. This higher power is so vast that in simple terms, can be both black and white. So basically, this higher power does exist and at the same time, does not exist.

Discuss.

P.S. I'm high.

http://www.physorg.com/news190027752.html
New evidence proves the universe is young and the big bang is false!!1 Nah but seriously, what does /sci/ think of this? It's oldish news but whatever.

Could quantum fluctuations have caused the big bang?