tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683266594621181980.post3327164707191998133..comments2024-03-28T13:50:05.380-04:00Comments on The Snarky Humanist: First Cause? I got yer First Cause right here!The Snarky Humanisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083818775743451843noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683266594621181980.post-42976280559806237212011-09-10T12:56:03.481-04:002011-09-10T12:56:03.481-04:00In other words, Disney had it right with the whole...In other words, Disney had it right with the whole "Circle of Life" thing? So obviously our universe is Simba, but what/who is the monkey shaman?MadScutterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15698486917670918467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683266594621181980.post-29336634259135847762011-09-09T21:51:57.344-04:002011-09-09T21:51:57.344-04:00Before the Big Bang: There are a nearly infinite ...Before the Big Bang: There are a nearly infinite number of universal mass clusters, black holes containing the mass of an entire universe, floating around the infinity of space. Given an infinite amount of time, these universal mass clusters will exert gravitational pull on one another, pulling themselves together. It is inevitable that two of these universal mass clusters will then eventually collide, causing the explosion we think of as the The Big Bang. <br /><br />Distant universal mass clusters continue to exert gravitational pull across the multiverse; this is why the rate of acceleration of our universal expansion is still increasing 14 billion years later. With nothing to stop us, terminal velocity is the speed of light. Our universal mass will continue to be pulled to another universal mass cluster, gradually accelerating until we hit the speed of light, at which point all matter will probably break apart anyway. <br /><br />After hundreds of billions of years, our mass will be sucked into a distant black hole, and may even cause that black hole to Big Bang itself. 14 billion years later, some caveman will try to discover what causes lightning and, failing to gather sufficient evidence, decide it was his invisible friend in the sky.Rich Gilchresthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12365796157550429145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6683266594621181980.post-62842446185292749942011-09-09T21:09:47.051-04:002011-09-09T21:09:47.051-04:00This seems like a really sneaky way to stick me in...This seems like a really sneaky way to stick me into HGTG's Total Perspective Vortex, dear.<br /><br />It demonstrates a good point, of course. I think back to the Big Bang (helluva party) and think "yup, that works". But then I think "ok, so before the Big Bang, there was...." And that's when my stomach drops a little, my mind goes kerflooey, and I realize how convenient the concept of God actually is. <br /><br />However, I'd rather be kerflooey than take the easy way out when considering our origins.The Snarky Humanisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02083818775743451843noreply@blogger.com