The second statement does not, and as you say, can not be taken as fact unless all the evidence is in — an impossibility
in an infinite universe.
In the infinite universe there is more than your philosophy could possibly imagine.
People just can't come to terms with the fact that their existence is in fact quite meaningless
in our infinite universe — Cosmologically speaking.
It would be more in accord with the spirit of myth to regard man as just one element
in an infinite universe — even the New Testament does so in clear and classical language; it says, not «God so loved mankind», but «God so loved the world».
For by these facts the great conviction is forced upon us that just as we men and women have personality within that mass of chemical and physical activity which we call our bodies, so
in the infinite universe of activity is there immanent an infinite Person whose existence and character account for its relationships, its tendencies and its achievements.
[Jeff Weeks, a mathematician who is working with Spergel to analyze WMAP's data, says, «The large - scale temperature correlations across the sky are much less than one would expect
in an infinite universe but exactly what one would expect in a finite one.»]
The other side of darkness In April's Sky Lights [«A Lighter Shade of Black»] Bob Berman presents the paradox suggested by astronomer Heinrich Olbers: «If we live
in an infinite universe containing an infinite number of stars, then... every point of the sky, no matter how small, should be filled with starlight....
If we live
in an infinite universe containing an infinite number of stars, he reasoned, then we should see a star along all lines of sight.
Therefore, each shell of stars will have the same overall luminosity and because there are a lot of ever bigger shells
in an infinite universe, there is going to be a lot of light!
Since EVERYTHING is impermanent, CHANGE is a constant factor
in the infinite universe.
Epic Space Online is set
in an infinite universe.
But no violent tearing or ripping here: the fragments are carefully cut, floating like parts of the solar system
in an infinite universe.
Not exact matches
«The usual theory of eternal inflation predicts that globally our
universe is like an
infinite fractal, with a mosaic of different pocket
universes, separated by an inflating ocean,» Hawking said
in an interview last fall, according to the University of Cambridge.
One popular understanding of the Big Bang suggests that our
universe is one
in a «multiverse» of
infinite parallel
universes.
If the scale of different
universes in the multiverse is large or
infinite, the theory can't be tested.»
Between the whimsical art direction and the game's
infinite procedural
universe, which guarantees no two adventures are alike for any gamer, «No Man's Sky» is all about exploration and survival
in a massive
universe you've never seen before.
I n S h o r t: The vital substances
in this vast pharmacy of the
universe, which are measured on the scales of Divine Determining and Decree of the All-Wise and Pre-Eternal One, can only come into existence through a boundless wisdom,
infinite knowledge and all - encompassing will.
@Chad «the big bang was debunked, it turns out the
universe is
infinite in the past??? how
in the world did I miss that??
... if you can't lose the rationale for «fine - tuning»
in an
infinite sea of possible
universes...
To talk about odds of it happening and not happening are irrelevant, sorry if you think the odds are so astronomical that its impossible, keep
in mind that you feel better with
infinite regression, the most illogical fallacy there is (that god created this
universe and then god had to have a creator, because lets get real, you're supposed to have me believe that a creator so complex that he can create the
universe just appeared?
I do think that being an atheist
in light of the complexity of creation (both on an
infinite universe - sized level and on a microscopic atomic level) requires some amount of faith
in something — even if it is faith
in the ability of random pieces of matter to assemble themselves into something complicated.
However small the probability of life randomly occuring, if the number of chances for that to happen is very large (possibly even
infinite in multiple
universes) then it becomes almost a certainty.
Going backwards there was a point
in time when the
universe had
infinite heat and density.
In fact, I have not, or maybe have a very tiny wisdom relative to the «maybe»
infinite universe.
= > current accepted theory by cosmologists from observing that the
universe is expanding
in all directions and cooling, is that it at one point had
infinite mass / heat, the singularity.
I dare quess that 99 % of folks believe that we live
in a singularity called a
universe when
in a very literal sense we live
in a cosmos of
infinite amounts of
universes far too many to ever become known by our future generations even
in a billion more years of generations passing!
1) nothing
in this physical
universe is the reason for its own existence 2) A causal chain exists 3) no causal chain is of
infinite length 4) Only the supernatural (that which exists outside of physical reality) can be the ultimate cause of all physical reality 5) That supernatural cause could not itself have a cause, because
infinite causal chains do not exist 6) This eternal, supernatural enti.ty we call, God.
Theo: [«My position is simply that 1) nothing
in this physical
universe is the reason for its own existence 2) A causal chain exists 3) no causal chain is of
infinite length 4) Only the supernatural (that which exists outside of physical reality) can be the ultimate cause of all physical reality etc, etc.»]
What we are dealing with is the attempted explanation of an
infinite universe by a finite mind, and while we do need, and I am convinced can have, a confident assurance about our faith
in God, humility must be mingled with our confidence
in any formulation of that faith.
But Einstein, 105f, sees that the
infinite lines of force on any body would result
in a field of
infinite intensity, which is impossible; hence he argues that Newton had to postulate for his
universe «a kind of centre
in which the density of the stars is a maximum, and that as we proceed outwards from this centre the group - density of the stars would diminish, until finally, at great distances, it is succeeded by an
infinite region of emptiness.»
Moreover, since an infinitely extended
universe must contain an
infinite number of bodies, each exerting a gravitational attraction upon the others, the
infinite force exerted must result
in the splintering of finite bodies subject to their attraction.
The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world
in its whole and
in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the
universe exhibits a creativity with
infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with
infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61
It has inspired numerous speculative cosmological models
in which the Big Bang was not the beginning of time, but only one of an
infinite number of such explosions
in a
universe without beginning or end.
As you believe
in an
infinite god, the idea of an
infinite universe should be easy for you to understand.
He argued (
in his third way) that even a
universe with an
infinite past would need to depend upon God for its existence.
And even scientists such as Vilenkin who co-authored the paper that suggests that this
universe being past
infinite is unlikely reveals that many assumptions were made (akin to working
in a sterile environment), and that their theorem didn't suggest anything beyond the space - time boundary; didn't rule out multi-verse and other theories under consideration.
As stated by a number of posters, this «new finding of gravity waves» also points to a strong possibility of the existence of multi-verse
universes,
in an
infinite number.
At the moment of the big bang, all the
universe was
in a single point — A quantum singularity with
infinite mass,
infinite energy.
In explaining the scientific theory that the universe originated in a big bang, Paul Davies remarked: «The conditions at the big bang imply an infinite distortion of time, so that the very concept of time (and space) can not be extended back beyond the big bang» (24
In explaining the scientific theory that the
universe originated
in a big bang, Paul Davies remarked: «The conditions at the big bang imply an infinite distortion of time, so that the very concept of time (and space) can not be extended back beyond the big bang» (24
in a big bang, Paul Davies remarked: «The conditions at the big bang imply an
infinite distortion of time, so that the very concept of time (and space) can not be extended back beyond the big bang» (24).
The eternal
universe may be
in an
infinite cycle of expansion outward until gravity finally overcomes it and it all compresses back together to a point where it Big Bangs again...
And the other is that we live
in an oscillating
universe in which there is an
infinite number of expansions and contractions.
In fact it's more likely tat there are an
infinite number of
universes.
ANYONE who still believes
in the literal return of Jesus via an
infinite universe is a false prophet & a clown just like Camping.
The cosmic «I» no longer sees the perpetual perishing of worlds or
universes, or even itself, as ultimate evil, but instead cries out
in adoration to its creator: «It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the
infinite and tumultuously creative spirit.
What I can't get is how an
infinite super being without a physical body with magical powers and a strange interest
in what we do
in our bedrooms actually makes better sense to some people than an
infinite, utterly simple natural
universe.
NAZI counterparts who claimed that «there are an
infinite number of parallel
universes»; based
in the notion that probabilities are deterministic.
As a constant, the
universe itself must be subject to
infinite evolution, evolution being a rule necessary for constants that can not be proven to exist always
in the same state, which our
universe can't be, because we just know we're only 14 billion years old or so
in this genesis (that we scientifically pretend that the facts of this genesis of our
universe apply also to the
infinite universal possibilities subject to evolution absent of creation is a bit strange to me, but I digress).
He can not distinguish questions regarding the existence of the
universe from questions regarding its physical origin; he does not grasp how assertions regarding the absolute must logically differ from assertions regarding contingent beings; he does not know the differences between truths of reason and empirical facts; he has no concept of ontology,
in contradistinction to, say, physics or evolutionary biology; he does not understand how assertions regarding transcendental perfections differ from assertions regarding maximum magnitude; he clumsily imagines that the idea of God is susceptible to the same argument from
infinite regress traditionally advanced against materialism; he does not understand what the metaphysical concept of simplicity entails; and on and on.
Such mental origination is unique, nontemporal, and
infinite: «Unfettered conceptual valuation, «
infinite»
in Spinoza's sense of that term, is only possible once
in the
universe» (PR 378).
Each pulse of existence — Whitehead calls them «actual entities» — requires the antecedent others as its constituents, yet achieves individuality as a unique, finite synthesis; and when its growth is completed, stays
in the
universe as one of the
infinite number of settled facts from which the individuals of the future will arise.