Brian Cox

[tonea2003]

Why does there have to be a "who".

Was the universe created in the big bang by a who? I think not, but no-one knows the answer for sure.

exactly the reason i put who/what(for the record i'm in the what camp) as we don't know for sure

 

[Chippy_boy]

exactly the reason i put who/what(for the record i'm in the what camp) as we don't know for sure

I don't think we (mankind) will ever know that. Since time itself did not exist until after the big bang, the idea of who or what created it all becomes conceptually impossible to imagine, let alone to prove.

 

[Chippy_boy]

If the future already exists, then how do we see it? We can see billions of years into the past because of spacetime.

I forgot to mention that of course you can travel to the future, but of course you know that, right?

Get on a spaceship travelling at near light speed and come back to earth 1000's of years in the future. Absolutely do-able if only we could build a spaceship that would go fast enough.

Fascinating to think that the photons from the big bang, emitted 13.7 billion years ago have been catapulted into the future, since from their perspective they have literally just left 0 seconds ago.

 

[aguero93:20]

I forgot to mention that of course you can travel to the future, but of course you know that, right?

Get on a spaceship travelling at near light speed and come back to earth 1000's of years in the future. Absolutely do-able if only we could build a spaceship that would go fast enough.

Relative to what you could see on earth before you returned or actually?

 

[Chippy_boy]

Relative to what you could see on earth before you returned or actually?

Actually. You could return in the year 3047 if you wanted to.

 

[andyhinch]

Actually. You could return in the year 3047 if you wanted to.

Will the dippers have won the league by then ?

 

[tonea2003]

I don't think we (mankind) will ever know that. Since time itself did not exist until after the big bang, the idea of who or what created it all becomes conceptually impossible to imagine, let alone to prove.

as science becomes ever more knowledgeable we step ever closer to all sort of truths, i agree the conception of the beginning of time is a mind blower as we stand today, there is a chance of 4/5 billion years left on this rock let alone elsewhere, so to say we won't ever know is maybe far fetched, just think how much we have advanced in our understanding in the last 200 years alone

 

[aguero93:20]

Will the dippers have won the league by then ?

Don't be silly.

 

[Chippy_boy]

as science becomes ever more knowledgeable we step ever closer to all sort of truths, i agree the conception of the beginning of time is a mind blower as we stand today, there is a chance of 4/5 billion years left on this rock let alone elsewhere, so to say we won't ever know is maybe far fetched, just think how much we have advanced in our understanding in the last 200 years alone

Yeah, maybe.

On another topic, but a related and again I think interesting one, it's only a matter of time before mankind will not be the most intelligent thing on the planet. (There's plenty on the Brexit thread who fulfil that prediction already you might argue!)

But seriously in a few decades or maybe less, computers will be immeasurably more intelligent that we are, and all new scientific breakthroughs will be "imagined" by thinking computers. So maybe they will figure it all out, even if we can't!

 

[aguero93:20]

Yeah, maybe.

On another topic, but a related and again I think interesting one, it's only a matter of time before mankind will not be the most intelligent thing on the planet. (There's plenty on the Brexit thread who fulfil that prediction already you might argue!)

But seriously in a few decades or maybe less, computers will be immeasurably more intelligent that we are, and all new scientific breakthroughs will be "imagined" by thinking computers. So maybe they will figure it all out, even if we can't!