Science & Mathematics Unanswerable questions

[Walesy]

1.) Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?



2 i.) Why does the Universe exist?

2 ii) What causes the big bang, and if there was "nothing" before the Big bang, how can such an event come out of nothing?

2 iii) And if the Universe has been expanding for 14 billion years since the Big Bang, at what point does it stop expanding? Is there a point where everything stops, or does it just keep expanding infinitely? And this "point" at which it stops (if it does) - is that then the point we reach when "another" Big Bang somehow takes place? Was this in fact how the first one took place? i.e the Universe has been "completed" so we start all over again? Could there have been infinite Big Bangs?

3.) Is life inevitable, given a planet is in the right location? Or is life a total fluke where the probability of it happening is something akin to the likelihood of the monkeys typing out Shakespeare and we are just the beneficiareis of a total fluke?

1. because it takes air to make glue set.

2i. Because it has to.
ii. There wasn't nothing before the big bang, it's just that *everything* was tucked into a single point.
iii. It stops expanding once it runs out of energy to keep expanding. At that point the universes latent energy, gravity, starts pulling everything back to a middle point. Once that happens, perhaps it does all start again. Who knows how many times the universe has expanded and contracted, perhaps once, perhaps a whole kajillion.

3. Yes. The universe is ridiculously big. containing an unfathomably large amount of stuff.

Now, the answer to question 2i probably relates to this one.

What does the universe expand into?

 

[Crimson Azure]

2 hours stooooopid!

Fail

It would be 8 hours.

Success

 

[Pie eyed]

1.) Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?



2 i.) Why does the Universe exist?

2 ii) What causes the big bang, and if there was "nothing" before the Big bang, how can such an event come out of nothing?

2 iii) And if the Universe has been expanding for 14 billion years since the Big Bang, at what point does it stop expanding? Is there a point where everything stops, or does it just keep expanding infinitely? And this "point" at which it stops (if it does) - is that then the point we reach when "another" Big Bang somehow takes place? Was this in fact how the first one took place? i.e the Universe has been "completed" so we start all over again? Could there have been infinite Big Bangs?

3.) Is life inevitable, given a planet is in the right location? Or is life a total fluke where the probability of it happening is something akin to the likelihood of the monkeys typing out Shakespeare and we are just the beneficiareis of a total fluke?

1. The absence of air to "set" the glue. In fact take of the lid and see what happens.


2. i. Good question. See Philosophy, Science and religion for theories.

ii. see above.

iii. What we do know is that the universe is expanding. There in no conclusive evidence that the universe will a). stop expanding or b). keep expanding forever. Given that there is nothing to stop the universe expanding but gravity, which could conceivably overcome the "momentum" of the universe, then it could expand into eternity. If gravity can halt the expansion then it is likely the universe would then go into a contraction phase which could end in a "Big Crunch", with the end result another singular "point". A reverse "Bog Bang".

3. There is a marked difference between life and consciousness.
It is quite possible that life is endemic and inevitable throughout the universe, the right conditions and circumstance being highly likely, while at the same time intelligence and/or consciousness are rare. That said there is no real understanding of "how" consciousness comes about. It could be a natural progression, a simple repeatable fluke or a single occurrence.

 

[Dan26]

Given that the Universe is so unfathomably big, and therefore it is impossible to explore it all, or even go close to exploring one/ten billionth of it.

So my question is, would you agree that it's almost as if it seems to have been designed that way purposely? It's as if we aren't "meant" to explore it all. Designed in a way that makes it impossible.

It's almost as if any attempt to learn the secrets of the stars is futile - unless we live for eternity.

So, is there a reason for the sheer unimaginable size? Is it so big to deliberately make our attempts futile? And therefore steer us in some other direction instead, a direction we don't know about yet?

 

[Dyslexic Emo]

If it take 2 men 8 hours to dig a hole, how long would it take 1 man to dig half a hole?

Irrelevant: as you can't dig half a hole

 

[clivewaterhousen]

what was the deal with michael jackson

 

[Walesy]

Given that the Universe is so unfathomably big, and therefore it is impossible to explore it all, or even go close to exploring one/ten billionth of it.

So my question is, would you agree that it's almost as if it seems to have been designed that way purposely? It's as if we aren't "meant" to explore it all. Designed in a way that makes it impossible.

It's almost as if any attempt to learn the secrets of the stars is futile - unless we live for eternity.

So, is there a reason for the sheer unimaginable size? Is it so big to deliberately make our attempts futile? And therefore steer us in some other direction instead, a direction we don't know about yet?

Why is the universe so big? because if it was smaller, it would also be hotter, therefore it would be to hot for us to live.

Nothing intelligent about it, just fortunate.

 

[Parasite]

Given that the Universe is so unfathomably big, and therefore it is impossible to explore it all, or even go close to exploring one/ten billionth of it.

So my question is, would you agree that it's almost as if it seems to have been designed that way purposely? It's as if we aren't "meant" to explore it all. Designed in a way that makes it impossible.

It's almost as if any attempt to learn the secrets of the stars is futile - unless we live for eternity.

So, is there a reason for the sheer unimaginable size? Is it so big to deliberately make our attempts futile? And therefore steer us in some other direction instead, a direction we don't know about yet?

Just as unicelled bacteria have no idea that they are floating about in my butthole, I believe the unfathomable size of the universe is unfathomable because humans are the cancer on the testicles (Earth and the rest of the planets - this creature has lots of testicles) of a larger being that we can never see because we are inside it.

 

[Parasite]

Why is the universe so big? because if it was smaller, it would also be hotter, therefore it would be to hot for us to live.

Nothing intelligent about it, just fortunate.

Duh, as if.

Testicles dude, testicles.

 

[aaronm46]

whats the deal with airplane food?

 

[tucker777]

1.)
2 ii) What causes the big bang, and if there was "nothing" before the Big bang, how can such an event come out of nothing?

There might have been "nothing" in our universe, but then again there are parallel universes, so it wasn't as if there was "nothing" ever anywhere. It could have been that the big bang was caused by the collision between two planes of time and space, parallel universes. Or there was stuff before the big bang such as forces, matter that we have no way of comprehending.

 

[tribey]

iii. It stops expanding once it runs out of energy to keep expanding. At that point the universes latent energy, gravity, starts pulling everything back to a middle point. Once that happens, perhaps it does all start again. Who knows how many times the universe has expanded and contracted, perhaps once, perhaps a whole kajillion.

ii. What we do know is that the universe is expanding. There in no conclusive evidence that the universe will a). stop expanding or b). keep expanding forever. Given that there is nothing to stop the universe expanding but gravity, which could conceivably overcome the "momentum" of the universe, then it could expand into eternity. If gravity can halt the expansion then it is likely the universe would then go into a contraction phase which could end in a "Big Crunch", with the end result another singular "point". A reverse "Bog Bang".

Let me preface this post by stating I'm a layman with no astronomy credentials whatsoever, I've just seen a lot of recent discovery/disc. science stuff.

The predominant theory at the moment is that we're headed for a 'big freeze' - the universe isn't just expanding, it's expanding faster and faster. See dark matter, dark energy etc. Once all the suns burn out and all the stellar nurseries have dissipated it's all over. Dark, cold, the epitome of death.

Another primary theory is we're headed for a 'big rip'. Basically the universe will eventually tear itself apart.

The 'big crunch' is pretty much impossible because gravity has already 'lost'.

 

[Ingall]

Dark, cold, the epitome of death.

So, kinda like living in Tassie......

 

[Walesy]

Well, that's a big downer.

Ah well, let's all just hope for a multiverse then.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Let me preface this post by stating I'm a layman with no astronomy credentials whatsoever, I've just seen a lot of recent discovery/disc. science stuff.

The predominant theory at the moment is that we're headed for a 'big freeze' - the universe isn't just expanding, it's expanding faster and faster. See dark matter, dark energy etc. Once all the suns burn out and all the stellar nurseries have dissipated it's all over. Dark, cold, the epitome of death.

Another primary theory is we're headed for a 'big rip'. Basically the universe will eventually tear itself apart.

The 'big crunch' is pretty much impossible because gravity has already 'lost'.

Ya, the Big Freeze is just when all the stars have burnt out. Now as stars are created by...the remnants of other stars. This is gonna take a loooooong time to happen. Of course, eventually black holes will become much more prevalent, as I think they worked out it takes like 1x10^63 years for black holes to die. Don't ask me how they worked that out. But yeah, one day there will just be a Universe full of Black Holes...which of course means you can't see shit. And then I spose after all those years they'll dissipate and then....BOOM HEADSHOT.

 

[Krakeour Magic]

Black holes die?

I don't think so.

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

What makes you so sure?

 

[BomberGal]

Black holes die?

I don't think so.

They're not alive, so of course they don't die, but maybe you should read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

 

[tucker777]

Here's one for you all;

The Horizon problem
Why is the Universe, almost but not quite, homogeneous on the very largest distance scales. Is it the result of an inflationary epoch - a period of rapid expansion in very early history of the universe which flattened out, or could of flattened out inhomogeneities? If so what called this inflation?

 

[Pie eyed]

Ya, the Big Freeze is just when all the stars have burnt out. Now as stars are created by...the remnants of other stars. This is gonna take a loooooong time to happen. Of course, eventually black holes will become much more prevalent, as I think they worked out it takes like 1x10^63 years for black holes to die. Don't ask me how they worked that out. But yeah, one day there will just be a Universe full of Black Holes...which of course means you can't see shit. And then I spose after all those years they'll dissipate and then....BOOM HEADSHOT.

Or the impossible will happen and the blackholes with their attendant massive gravities will all gravitate toward each other in an apparently almost impossible "big crunch".

I'm not having a go Dyatribe..... but the Big Freeze and Big Rip while both as likely as the big Crunch or even an infinitely expanding universe theories are no more likely at this time.

To say Gravity has lost already is very premature.

Supposing for instance that all the matter in the hypothetically now stationary universe is sequestered within super-massive blackholes, would thse black holes and their unimaginable gravity not then cause them to attract each other, with each meeting producing a more massive and more gravitationally powerful genration of blackholes ad infinitum until all the blackhole in the universe were one? With all matter in the universe in a singularity....

Just another theory.

There are many and no doubt more to come.

 

[BeinPurplenGreen]

Supposing for instance that all the matter in the hypothetically now stationary universe is sequestered within super-massive blackholes, would thse black holes and their unimaginable gravity not then cause them to attract each other, with each meeting producing a more massive and more gravitationally powerful genration of blackholes ad infinitum until all the blackhole in the universe were one?

Finally, Richmond's draft strategy from 1998-2008 explained...

 

[Walesy]

Supposing for instance that all the matter in the hypothetically now stationary universe is sequestered within super-massive blackholes, would thse black holes and their unimaginable gravity not then cause them to attract each other, with each meeting producing a more massive and more gravitationally powerful genration of blackholes ad infinitum until all the blackhole in the universe were one? With all matter in the universe in a singularity....

Just another theory.

There are many and no doubt more to come.

was having a read on this today. Apparently, the speed at which the universe expands is increase. Theoretically, because of negative pressure from the dark matter.

Anyways, the big-rip is when the universe is in a state in which the universe is expanding faster than light can get out.

But as we all assume, things get weird when things get really big, or hot, or fast. So who knows what would happen!

 

[Armitage2Riewoldt]

Or the impossible will happen and the blackholes with their attendant massive gravities will all gravitate toward each other in an apparently almost impossible "big crunch".

I'm not having a go Dyatribe..... but the Big Freeze and Big Rip while both as likely as the big Crunch or even an infinitely expanding universe theories are no more likely at this time.

To say Gravity has lost already is very premature.

Supposing for instance that all the matter in the hypothetically now stationary universe is sequestered within super-massive blackholes, would thse black holes and their unimaginable gravity not then cause them to attract each other, with each meeting producing a more massive and more gravitationally powerful genration of blackholes ad infinitum until all the blackhole in the universe were one? With all matter in the universe in a singularity....

Just another theory.

There are many and no doubt more to come.

Haha, yours probably works better. All I'm going off is the few 1st Year Astro lectures I actually turned up to... sober.

 

[Krakeour Magic]

They're not alive, so of course they don't die, but maybe you should read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

Hawking is wrong.

 

[Pie eyed]

Hawking is wrong.

You can tell him then...lol
I could see you being "slaughtered" like so many sheep in a one on one debate on even the basest tenet of physics if Hawking was you opponent.