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Old 11-14-2007, 07:47 PM
JMAnon JMAnon is offline
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Default Re: Was the Bing Bang a Random event?

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We cannot possibly know that.

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well according to our physcists the laws of physics break down or are not valid within a singularity. I'm assuming this is true.

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So what? The "laws" of physics are nothing more than mathematical constructs that allow us to predict observable phenomena. Our physicists are not omniscient by any stretch of the imagination, nor do they claim to be.

True, our current approximations of the universe (which no physicist would claim are complete) do not allow us to predict or describe anything before the big bang or within a singularity. But that does not mean that the big bang was unpredictable or that no predictable laws govern the behavior of singularities. Our laws of physics are based on what we can observe. We haven't discovered a way to observe singularities. If we could, maybe we would be able to create laws that would predict their behavior.

There is far too much we don't understand about our universe to assume that because we haven't found a way to predict or describe an observation, it could never be predicted or described.
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