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Author: Goofyhoofy 🐝 HONORARY
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Subject: Re: OT: what does an expanding universe mean?
Date: 04/13/2024 8:08 AM
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I've long struggled with the notion of nothing. Or, as you say, no nothing. What, exactly, is THAT?

Take away all matter, including the things that comprise matter. Take away all energy, if you haven’t already. Now remove time and space. It is absolute nothing-ness. There is nothing there. There never was. There is no history because, well, tautology. It is the absence of (literally) everything.

Funny, I have very little trouble conceiving of such. I have great trouble trying to put my arms around a 4th dimension, not to mention higher dimensions than that. (Anybody else notice that string theory has sort of disappeared from the popular media? There was a time when there were TV shows and articles all over the place, and now, not so much. I’m gonna postulate, without evidence, that “dark matter” will suffer the same fate at some point.)

But to have the volume of material that we can see in the universe - all the stars, planets, galaxies, and associated debris, and then include a theoretical dollop of all that is beyond our vision, there must have been a helluva creation event - or perhaps it is an ongoing phenomenon (my theory) which is (somehow) turning (unknown) energy into matter before it moves on to the further reaches of space even as it stretches the boundaries of space farther out. I need a good moniker for this, “big bang” is a wonderful marketing word - I don’t have that for my concept.

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Yes, I was unnecessarily harsh in my first assessment. That said, I have trouble parsing what you say, and find myself skimming when it gets too dense.
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