The Great Unanswered Questions Still Facing Humanity:

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paddoboy

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[1] How did the exact process and methodology of Abiogenesis Arise?

[2] Does any life exist elsewhere other then on this fart arse little blue orb?

[3] Is the Universe Finite or Infinite?

[4] What is "Nothing" from whence the BB evolved?

[5] What is the actual state of matter/energy at and below the quantum/Planck level at the core of BH's

[6] Will we ever formulate an observably verifiable QGT?

Any more scientifically based questions worth considering?
 
paddoboy said:
[1] How did the exact process and methodology of Abiogenesis Arise?

[2] Does any life exist elsewhere other then on this fart arse little blue orb?

[3] Is the Universe Finite or Infinite?

[4] What is "Nothing" from whence the BB evolved?

[5] What is the actual state of matter/energy at and below the quantum/Planck level at the core of BH's

[6] Will we ever formulate an observably verifiable QGT?

Any more scientifically based questions worth considering?
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Looking back to the birth of the Universe the Big Bang seems to be the best explanation

Quantum Foam spread throughout the Universe (a type of ether???) and is it required for light to be able to travel??? ie if Quantum Foam not in place, and a TRUE NOTHINGNESS was the order of reality could light travel through a TRUE NOTHINGNESS?

Not sure about a singularity being smaller than a atom

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Physicists are undecided whether the prediction of singularities means that they actually exist (or existed at the start of the Big Bang), or that current knowledge is insufficient to describe what happens at such extreme densities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gra...e singularity,depend on the coordinate system.
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So Quantum Foam spread evenly throughout a TOTAL INFINITE VOID gets a ✓ from me

So the next question becomes

Why did some of this Quantum Foam decide to group together to form a singularity (or a whatever)?

:)
 
Michael 345 said:
Looking back to the birth of the Universe the Big Bang seems to be the best explanation
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Alex, as another Aussie of reasonable thought, while disliking the BB model, still admitted it being the best we have.
But I see his view on that as similar to Hoyle, who also disliked it and proposed the Steady State. The point I believe responsible for that dislike, is that it denotes a beginning, and a beginning that as yet GR and the laws of physics is unable to explain, or even apply to, and consequently a point where the religious fanatics and God botherers are able to hang their hat on and claim as the work of an unscientific, mythical God.
Michael 345 said:
Quantum Foam spread throughout the Universe (a type of ether???) and is it required for light to be able to travel??? ie if Quantum Foam not in place, and a TRUE NOTHINGNESS was the order of reality could light travel through a TRUE NOTHINGNESS?
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An interesting book to read is Lawrence Krauss' "A Universe from Nothing" ...In it it is surmises that the quantum foam is actually nothing, and we can never get anything more nothing then that.
Michael 345 said:
Not sure about a singularity being smaller than a atom

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Physicists are undecided whether the prediction of singularities means that they actually exist (or existed at the start of the Big Bang), or that current knowledge is insufficient to describe what happens at such extreme densities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_singularity#:~:text=A gravitational singularity, spacetime singularity,depend on the coordinate system.
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So Quantum Foam spread evenly throughout a TOTAL INFINITE VOID gets a ✓ from me

So the next question becomes

Why did some of this Quantum Foam decide to group together to form a singularity (or a whatever)?

:)
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The Singularity of infinite qualities, like the gravitational Singularity your link describes, is now as far as I know, rejected by most physicists.
But we also have a Singularity as defined by where our laws of physics and GR do not apply. That starts at the quantum/Planck level. So while GR tells us that once the Schwarzchild radius/limit [equal to the EH] is reached in a collapsing mass, further collapse is compulsory. Add to that fact that the same GR and all other laws fail us at that point of the quantum/Planck level, and it allows some speculation that the collapsing mass/energy reaches a point at or beyond the quantum/Planck level, where its nature is unknown to us...a surface of sorts in other words, at or below that level.
I like it, along with Krauss' speculation re "nothing" and the quantum foam.
 
paddoboy said:
I like it, along with Krauss' speculation
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That something is a roiling collection of virtual particles, collectively called quantum foam. According to quantum physicists, virtual particles exist briefly as fleeting fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime, like bubbles in beer foam.Aug 5, 2017

https://www.livescience.com/60053-is-space-full-of-quantum-foam.html

This is perhaps a language problem for me.

The above extract is in part of the answer to "What is quantum foam made of?"

That something is a roiling collection of virtual particles, collectively called quantum foam

So far so good, shorthand down to -
quantum foam = a roiling collection of virtual particles

Got it

But then comes

According to quantum physicists, like bubbles in beer foam, virtual particles exist briefly as fleeting fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime, like bubbles in beer foam

Wait what???? Nothing said about fabric of spacetime. What is fabric of spacetime made of?

I thought quantum foam = a roiling collection of virtual particle meant quantum foam = a roiling collection of virtual particle IN NOTHINGNESS

Who slipped in fabric of spacetime?

And then we get as a comparison

like bubbles in beer foam

Have news for you quantum physicists beer foam is made of beer

For your like to work your quantum foam should be made of quantum

Must be coffee moment

paddoboy said:
My sympathy is still with you being lockdowned in Bali;)
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Made with one tiny tiny bright spark here
Coffee.jpg

:)
 
Michael 345 said:
That something is a roiling collection of virtual particles, collectively called quantum foam. According to quantum physicists, virtual particles exist briefly as fleeting fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime, like bubbles in beer foam.Aug 5, 2017

https://www.livescience.com/60053-is-space-full-of-quantum-foam.html

This is perhaps a language problem for me.

The above extract is in part of the answer to "What is quantum foam made of?"

That something is a roiling collection of virtual particles, collectively called quantum foam

So far so good, shorthand down to -
quantum foam = a roiling collection of virtual particles

Got it

But then comes

According to quantum physicists, like bubbles in beer foam, virtual particles exist briefly as fleeting fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime, like bubbles in beer foam

Wait what???? Nothing said about fabric of spacetime. What is fabric of spacetime made of?

I thought quantum foam = a roiling collection of virtual particle meant quantum foam = a roiling collection of virtual particle IN NOTHINGNESS

Who slipped in fabric of spacetime?

And then we get as a comparison

like bubbles in beer foam

Have news for you quantum physicists beer foam is made of beer

For your like to work your quantum foam should be made of quantum

Must be coffee moment



Made with one tiny tiny bright spark here
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:)
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Quantum foam is probably spacetime observed at the Planck/quantum scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_foam

An Interesting extract from that....
Experimental results[edit]
In 2009 the two MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov) telescopes detected that among gamma-ray photons arriving from the blazar Markarian 501, some photons at different energy levels arrived at different times, suggesting that some of the photons had moved more slowly and thus contradicting the theory of general relativity's notion of the speed of light being constant, a discrepancy which could be explained by the irregularity of quantum foam.[5] More recent experiments were, however, unable to confirm the supposed variation on the speed of light due to graininess of space.[6][7]

Other experiments involving the polarization of light from distant gamma ray bursts have also produced contradictory results.[8] More Earth-based experiments are ongoing[9] or proposed.
 
paddoboy said:
[1] How did the exact process and methodology of Abiogenesis Arise?

[2] Does any life exist elsewhere other then on this fart arse little blue orb?

[3] Is the Universe Finite or Infinite?

[4] What is "Nothing" from whence the BB evolved?

[5] What is the actual state of matter/energy at and below the quantum/Planck level at the core of BH's

[6] Will we ever formulate an observably verifiable QGT?

Any more scientifically based questions worth considering?
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On number [2] one must ask, is there intelligent life elsewhere? and is there intelligent life elsewhere, could some of it be far in advanced of the knowledge we on Earth have so far obtained?
 
paddoboy said:
On number [2] one must ask, is there intelligent life elsewhere? and is there intelligent life elsewhere, could some of it be far in advanced of the knowledge we on Earth have so far obtained?
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Seems the perfect time to post appropriate Monty Python



:)
 
Michael 345 said:
I thought quantum foam = a roiling collection of virtual particle meant quantum foam = a roiling collection of virtual particle IN NOTHINGNESS
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I would suggest to use the term "permittive condition" in place of "nothingness"
Who slipped in fabric of spacetime?
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Causal Dynamical Triangulation.
Causal dynamical triangulation (abbreviated as CDT) theorized by Renate Loll, Jan Ambjørn and Jerzy Jurkiewicz, and popularized by Fotini Markopoulou and Lee Smolin, is an approach to quantum gravity that like loop quantum gravity is background independent.
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This means that it does not assume any pre-existing arena (dimensional space), but rather attempts to show how the spacetime fabric itself evolves.
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There is evidence [1] that at large scales CDT approximates the familiar 4-dimensional spacetime, but shows spacetime to be 2-dimensional near the Planck scale, and reveals a fractal structure on slices of constant time. These interesting results agree with the findings of Lauscher and Reuter, who use an approach called Quantum Einstein Gravity, and with other recent theoretical work.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_dynamical_triangulation

more;

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379712000319#
 
paddoboy said:
[1] How did the exact process and methodology of Abiogenesis Arise?
[2] Does any life exist elsewhere other then on this fart arse little blue orb?
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I refer to Robert Hazen "CHANCE, NECESSITY, and the ORIGINS OF LIFE"

start viewing @ 12:00 (to avoid lengthy introduction)
[3] Is the Universe Finite or Infinite?
[4] What is "Nothing" from whence the BB evolved?
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A "permittive condition" ?
[5] What is the actual state of matter/energy at and below the quantum/Planck level at the core of BH's
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There is no "below" Planck level.
[6] Will we ever formulate an observably verifiable QGT?
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Abiogenesis? See Robert Hazen above.
Any more scientifically based questions worth considering?
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CDT?
 
Write4U said:
I would suggest to use the term "permittive condition" in place of "nothingness"
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I feel another back and forth seesaw English language debate coming on so let's nip in its budding stage NOW

WHY EXACTLY IS NOTHINGNESS NOT A PERMITTIVE CONDITION?

Rhetorical question - do not answer

Blah blah blah, not read, links not checked

:)
 
Write4U said:
Nothingness is "not-being". A permittive condition is "being". I see a philosophical difference, not an English language debate. .....:)

Chaos Theory.
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I asked you not to reply to the Rhetorical Question and it seems you cannot understand a simple request hence

I AM OUT

Parting shot

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Their admittedly controversial answer is that the entire universe, from the fireball of the Big Bang to the star-studded cosmos we now inhabit, popped into existence from nothing at all. It had to happen, they say, because "nothing" is inherently unstable.

From

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141106-why-does-anything-exist-at-all

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"nothing" is inherently unstable. indicates to me NOTHING IS BEING TREATED A SOMETHING AND IS THE PERFECT CANDIDATE FOR BEING A PERMISSIVE STATE

PS - THIS IS SCIENCE NOT ENGLISH OR PHILOSOPHICAL

Two cups of coffee and lay down moment

:)
 
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