Godfree wrote:As I have said often ,"reality is an individual experience"
it's like your determined to draw nonsense from sense ,
The reality might be that they can only experience their 'reality' but this does not make reality dependent upon the individuals experience. Of course this is only my belief but I tend to think reality will still exist even upon the extinction of all individual experiences. You of course are free to believe that reality depends upon you, much like the religious think its been made for them.
What I'm trying to draw from you is the understanding that what you are doing is called metaphysics and in the history of philosophy we've come to the conclusion that its a waste-of-thought in the subject you have chosen to discuss, i.e. Astro-physics. If you truly wish to challenge the current BBT theory then you need to learn to speak to them in their language, otherwise they will consider you at worst a crank and at best yet another 'philosopher' with no idea of how they work.
so lets correct your incorrect assumptions about my post ,
"I accept that we aren't going back in time to watch it"
the bb , we were talking of proof for what was before the bb ,
so my response , were not going back to watch it ,
nobodies going to build a space craft and time travel back to the bb ,
you REALLY think I don't know we look back in time the further out we look,
like your parting with this big wisdom I didn't have,,?????????
you are a simpleton ,
There is no way to prove what was 'before' the BB as science deals with the empirical, not religion or faith.
"we can't please all of the people"
no that is not what I seek , never claimed to have been , your very confused,
Not as confused as you as you'll find no quote like this from me?
"physicists don't talk about "before"as it's not possible to discuss such things,"
as I said , we aint going back to watch it,,,DUH ,!!!!!
I think you fail to understand that in the theory time is a spatial direction, its a spatial dimension. I think you keep thinking of it as a 'bang' that appeared in Space, but from what I understand the BB is the creation of Spacetime. So nowhere in our Universe will we find a 'center' or an originating point of creation. You could say that none of the galxies are moving at all, whats happening is Spacetime is expanding which gives the impression of movement but all thats happening is the distance between the galaxies is expanding. Did you not watch the Krauss lecture?
what happened to "that is exactly what were doing when we observe the far reaches of the universe"
"black holes are still just a theory"
so I take it from that that your not impressed by theory,,???
JUST theory doesn't do it for you,,???
obviously it depends on which theory ,
if it's the bb theory , there is no other option or real alternative ,
Again I'm not being clear, there were and are, I assume, many theories about such things, but currently the BBT best fits the experimental data. The steady-state and big-crunch theories do not, otherwise they'd be the currently accepted theory.
I would pressume far more Newtonians would back black holes over the bbt,
any day , far more probable and likely , that black holes exist ,
than the bbt is true ,
I doubt they even have them in opposition.
we can see the stars circling something , and it has to have a massive ,
gravitational pull to hold all those stars in it's grip,
we have observational evidence to support the black hole theory,,!!
Again you show your misunderstanding of such things. There is no 'grip' or 'pull', so far, in Gravity.
you appear to be trying to pull apart anything you can of my posts,
with no real purpose or motive it seems ,
I don't get the sense your trying to make sense ,
your just trying to make nonsense of my sense,,!!!
I'm attempting to point out to you that one, what you are doing is not philosophy any more, and two, its not science. At best its a political metaphysics based upon your atheist 'belief' that science is somehow in cahoots with religion and that this situation can be solved by some dictat from govt.