/sci/ - Science & Math

The idea of no afterlife is just so strange to me. It feels like when ever someone dies an entire perception of the universe dies with them. It's just to strange. Is there anything in quantum physics or whatever that explains this? I just can't believe an entire perception of the universe can just die like that. It's simply to much to even think about. I can understand someone being created, I can't understand someone ending after gaining so much information and experience of the world around them.

How does an individual become enlightened? Is it a subjective standard in which one defines their own status of enlightenment? Or is it, as the greatest minds of humanity have believed, a single point in the universe in which we gain our knowledge from, with those who penetrate it attaining true enlightenment?

I realize this is somewhat of a philosophical question, but I believe it has its connection to the scientific understanding of the universe.

If there are any individuals out there who are actually "enlightened" - by their own definition, perhaps, or by what they belief is true enlightenment, please share your thoughts, beliefs, perspective, and actions taken to attain total enlightenment.

Is the universe discrete or continuous?

Relativism or Absolutism?

Do you believe in a Creator but not religion? Many religions have many flaws and many absurd claims and have led rational people away. Eliminating religion from the subject of creation we look at the next best thing: The Big Bang theory. But also, this has flaws:

1. The universe started from a small but very compact mass that exploded into the universe we have today. My beef with this is where did this "small mass" come from? What was it doing there in the first place and how did it get there.

2. Time. Time had to start somewhere. Many would say time is the resultant of the Big Bang but how would the Big Bang be orchestrated without prior time? One cannot become something from nothing.

So /sci/ how did everything you see, feel, hear around you start?

>>1722187
counldn't we just adapt to it? Our brains subconsciously do that? We never atcually went in to our own genes and mutated them physically. It did it on its own. Thats why we are who we are an not an extinct ape.

>>1443176
carbon credits?!? sounds interesting. Ive never heard of them and you seem to know a little moar than I on this. Can you enlighten my please?

That would be great. Planet Earth is beautiful. I also want to see our solar system though since all the gas planets will turn into rock but un4chanitly the smaller rocky planets are engulfed by the expanding sun. I would also like to see our sun's super nova. But there is no way...