@Brent. The only thing that you ever observe is your own consciousness. Which undoubtedly does a great job at tricking you into believing that you observe an "external world".
On Wednesday, 19 March 2025 at 23:28:40 UTC+2 Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 3/19/2025 4:56 AM, Alan Grayson wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 5:40:48 AM UTC-6 John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 4:30 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > *> If the universe is infinite in spatial extent, and we run the clock > backward, is all the mass/energy of the observable region confined to a > tiny or zero volume?* > > > *The short answer is nobody knows what will happen if you run the clock > back to zero, and the mystery remains regardless of if the universe is > finite or infinite. Nobody knows what will happen when things get super > small because our two best physical theories, Quantum Mechanics and General > Relativity, disagree with each other. Most believe that something will > prevent a zero volume from ever occurring, but nobody knows what that > "something" is. * > > *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* > > > Maybe it's a 5th force. What I'd like to know is this; assuming an > infinite spatial universe and that it gets very very small as we run the > clock backward, the observable regions shrinks, but what happens to the > unobservable region? Quentin claimed to have an answer, but I can't recall > what it was. AG > > > All theories treat the unobservable regions as being similar to the > observable (what else could you justify?). So every finite region, > observable or not shrinks to zero. > > Brent > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1ed6bedb-6c32-457b-8650-372bd6d355b7n%40googlegroups.com.
