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Wikipedia is a poor source, this article you are reading from seems to be written by dogmatics and ignorant materialists, just as you seem to be. But I am not interested in what some ignorant people say. I am interested in the opinion of serious physicists. Please understand the actual...

In the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment, our conscious observation affects the creation of not only the present, but also the "past" of the electron. Does it prove there was no physical reality in the past at the slits, prior to the pulling away of the film for our conscious...

Currently, the mulitiverse theory is the most favored explanation supported by those who assume the creation of physical laws which enable our cosmos to exist happened by pure chance. It is also favored by Stephen Hawking. But this theory is an inconceivably flagrant violation of Occam's razor...

Probably you were hallucinating on both times because sometimes semilucid states lead to hallucinations. Sleep deprivation can also cause it.

What about possible life in the rest of the ~95% of the universe (dark energy and dark matter)?

We are discussing scientific evidence for possible origins of the cosmos. E.g. the "consciousness causes collapse of the wave function theory" means the cosmos turns non-real and only a product of meaningless wave functions if conscious beings it is designed for are removed from it. Also, the...

The programmer could have encoded everything in advance on a substrate existing in another world which is not governed by physical laws. If that's the case they can know about everything at all times. Remember they don't need to be limited in time so they easily observe any time slice of the...

We live inside a finely ordered cosmos, in which many physical traits, forces and constants are so precisely fine-tuned that they are just right for matter to exist. The most extreme example is of dark energy, whose effect on the expansion of the universe is fine-tuned to 120 decimal places, an...

No real difference. The only different seems to be that before you were born, you were in that part of the spacetime fabric perceived as "future", and after you die, you will be in that part of the spacetime fabric perceived as "past". But, because there is no true division between past and...

But, it gets unscientific when some strongly believe there are an infinite or vast number of universes. It seems likely that nothing supernatural from outside the universe has collided with it, because otherwise an obvious discontinuity in physical laws would have been observed. But we can't...

String theory predicts at least 6 unseen dimensions for fundamental strings to exist. Dark matter's gravitational effects from unseen dimensions can be directly observed in visible spacetime which seems to corroborate the idea of unseen dimensions. Now back to the topic of this thread: the...

It's a pseudoscientific hypothesis according to some physicists, e.g. Paul Davies who writes: "The multiverse comes with a lot of baggage, such as an overarching space and time to host all those bangs, a universe-generating mechanism to trigger them, physical fields to populate the universes...

Both languages will survive, I guess. Also, I think that Modern English will be more similar to Future English of 2000 from now, than it is to Middle English of 600 years ago. Because of increase in written communication, all of the languages that are standardized, and taught in schools and...

It's not a good comparison! We don't have a natural explanation for the origin of universe as of yet, nor do we know about what it consists of completely, unlike a cooking dish which we can directly observe. Also, the person who cooks will surely have a purpose, are you actually saying we too...

That's true! Some of them (strong atheists) seem to have blind faith in this non-scientific speculation. It's ridiculous, they are even making many people believe there are an infinite number of unobservable multiverses!

This speculation assumes the existence of another spacetime, in a quantum fluctuating state full of virtual particles, even when the Big Bang had not occurred. We can't be sure if it's right. The Big Bang had to be fine-tuned with extremely high precision. E.g. if the cosmological constant...

If no, what do you think caused the Big Bang in the first place, and how is the universe so fine-tuned for our Earth to form and concious life on it to evolve? If yes, does it require less than a leap of faith to believe in this non-falsifiable speculation about multiverses, as opposed to...

That region seems to be poorly studied by linguistics and archaeologists because of wars in the region for over three decades.

When non-believers claim they don't believe in God, they are answering the question about the existence of God. It implies the question is useful in their viewpoint since there was a need for the answer. And for those who claim they believe in God, the question is useful too.

Hi all, I need some help! Why is Avestan mutually intelligible with Sanskrit, instead of other Iranian languages like Old Scythian, Old Persian and Old Median? All extinct East Iranian languages (like Avestan, Bactrian and Chorasmian) are classified as "Northeastern Iranian". However...