• I am a logical being. I have been an editor for 35 years. I have edited PhD theses and journal articles and hundreds of books. I know what good writing is. I know what can or cannot be proved. I know when someone is pulling my leg. I will do none of that. I can lay out the evidence and my hypotheses in the confidence that people will accept it. But, that is what every crackpot says with a new theory and a twist on the multiverse. Who am I really to think I have the answer? Why would I have the answer?


  • You're right. Why would we have the answer? Bridging the gaps between theory relativity and quantum mechanics while settling mysteries of the big bang and the arrow of time would be quite enough for me. Confusing enough.


  • @OneTooneyTooMany

    The death of those fish, trapped in that cage, and the realization of their ending and my responsibility in the matter, and suddenly I gained what I think is a singular view into how not just the tiny minnows work but how the entire Universe works and evolves, for it truly is a process.

    What did you find out?


  • @OneTooneyTooMany take it easy , make it easy


  • @OneTooneyTooMany An answer is a framework for understanding, not a comprehensive solution to all possible problems in an area of study. Ideas like humility have no place in philosophy because they are inaccurate. If you have an answer, say so, defend it, and if necessary iterate it. The purpose of all knowledge, wisdom and understanding is actionable certainty. Insisting on uncertainty is counterproductive. I can't see what i'm responding to when i post so i'll probably never visit this forum again.


  • Let's say it may be that it exists and we discover it or invent something clever enough that it passes as such a theory and explains everything. With sufficient time we will truly know all and able to control our environments to everyone's satisfaction. We might be able to infer things about how we will exist in the future if we accurately describe how we are right now and why we are that way.
    😀For me, that wouldn't make sense...


  • What if - and bear with me - what if all the matter in the universe before the big bang was just a Transformer, and when the big bang happened, it was just like Optimus Prime changing into a truck?


  • @Indrid-Cold Optimus Prime once said : "Neither impossible nor impassable."
    Everyone free to make any hypothesis but that will just remain as a fantasy of science fiction... writers(??). Physics, philosophy, religions, -all have offered different theories stories.


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  • @JamesRishel RIP Stephen Hawking. I wonder if he get now all the answers and if he now understand mind of God.