It will drift out of time and pass, as it were, into legend. The universe will no longer exist. — JosephS
It's good, then, never to lose sight that science probably will never answer ultimate, final questions. And it's a sign, imo, of maturity to give up spending too much energy on them. — tim wood
There is only one universe — Terrapin Station
Now, given that there is a universe, is it more likely that there is just one and only one, or that there's more than one? — tim wood
This is akin to the problem of the Loch Ness Monster. Reported over nine-hundred years, if there is such an animal, it's got to be a family. Now, given that there is a universe, is it more likely that there is just one and only one, or that there's more than one? To hold it to one implies the existence of not only whatever brought it into existence, but additional somethings to keep it at only one. That seems the less likely. But clearly this has nothing to do with physics so much as a judgment on likelihood. — tim wood
I tend to think that universes are constantly being belched from other universes. One or many had to have always existed. — Noah Te Stroete
For example, if we define "universe" as "everything that exists," then you can't have more than one. — Terrapin Station
And the answer is we do not know yet. — James Pullman
And acknowledging that we don´t comprehend most of it, it´s the best way to get there. — James Pullman
There is nothing contradictory in wanting to know something and recognize that we do not know it yet. In fact they are mostly the same thing. If we´ll have a closing answer? Not one of my strong beliefs:
we may not have the time (as species) and it may not be finite (all of this, i mean). — James Pullman
In the 13th century, Siger of Brabant authored the thesis The Eternity of the World, which argued that there was no first man, and no first specimen of any particular: the physical universe is thus without any first beginning, and therefore eternal. Siger's views were condemned by the Pope in 1277.
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