"Big Bang is a theory" -George Deutsch (NASA Exec.)

"George Deutsch's resume is a theory" - Nick Anthis (Blogger)

The big bang is a theory, until someone invents a time machine and videotapes it .

Deutsch's resume is not a theory...  it's a lie.

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:

videotapes it

That's physically impossible, since the extreme gravity of the situation (no pun intended) would bend light meaning you wouldn't see "an explosion".

Of course, the density around you would mean you (and your camera) would be compressed smaller than a pinhead.

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:

The big bang is a theory, until someone invents a time machine and videotapes it .

Maybe.  The unknown part of the entire process is what occured within the first microsecond of the universe's existence.  The rest is not contested by anyone:

   The universe expanded from a small, hot point to the place that it is today.

The big bang theory is as much a theory as is gravity.

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:

Deutsch's resume is not a theory...  it's a lie.

 What existed prior to the big bang?

z33driver wrote:

 What existed prior to the big bang?

If there is a God, who created God?

The Big Bang is a theory. Frankly I find it both interesting and disturbing how so few people know that science is based on theories and how near next to nothing is solid fact (e.g. Black Holes).
These same people no doubt sat in Science class, switched their brains off and memorised the text book (and I'm SURE all go As).

If you look at some of the stuff done in the early part of the 1900s and how it was treated by the scientific establishment you will get some real appreciation for how much of science is in fact a theory and how normal people, and scientists, forget to remember that fact.

One more: are we living in a Matrix? Do we really have so-called free-will?

Minh wrote:

If there is a God, who created God?

No one.  If He were created, don't you expect that the one who created Him would be the "real" god?

While not directly related, your question reminds me of this quote:

"The ancient man approached God... as the accused person approaches his judge.  For the modern man the roles are reversed.  He is the judge: if God should have a reasonable defence for being the god who permits war, poverty and diseas, he is ready to listen to it.  The trial may even end in God's acquittal.  But the important thing is that man is on the Bench and God is in the Dock."  -CS Lewis

jmsma2005 wrote:

One more: are we living in a Matrix? Do we really have so-called free-will?

"Brain in a Vat|Jar" is one school of thought, but philisophers debated that hundreds of years ago, The Matrix just made it a fad.

As for free-will, we don't have any free-will, it's just an illusion. Read up these articles (Determinism, Free will) for the way things work. Although if you recognise you are the product of determinism, you can use this to your advantage and gain a sort of "meta-free-will" insofar as controling your deterministic behaviour.

The thing is, the Big Bang is kinda plausible, given a few observations:

The universe is expanding, and it seems to be expanding out from some point where it all originated.  Reversing that (in a mind experiment) leads us to the Big Bang theory, and a few ideas of the physics involved.

Edit:
Evolution is a theory, kind of like how gravity is a theory.

DoomBringer wrote:

Evolution is a theory, kind of like how gravity is a theory.

Actually, Gravity is a Law.

W3bbo wrote:

jmsma2005 wrote:One more: are we living in a Matrix? Do we really have so-called free-will?

"Brain in a Vat|Jar" is one school of thought, but philisophers debated that hundreds of years ago, The Matrix just made it a fad.

As for free-will, we don't have any free-will, it's just an illusion. Read up these articles (Determinism, Free will) for the way things work. Although if you recognise you are the product of determinism, you can use this to your advantage and gain a sort of "meta-free-will" insofar as controling your deterministic behaviour.

Oooh, Wikipedia, my most trusted source for learning about Philosophy and how the world works.  </sarcasm>

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:

Oooh, Wikipedia, my most trusted source for learning about Philosophy and how the world works.  </sarcasm>

It's more trustworthy than you think.

W3bbo wrote:

Actually, Gravity is a Law.

Gravity is nothing but a theory.

Sorry, but that's solid fact.

The DEFINITION of a Law in science is a THEORY that has been proved so many times, and with no evidence that it does not exist, that we can assume it's true.

Nonetheless, the specifics of gravity are under harsh debate. A new theory which re-defines gravity has been proposed, which rather elegantly gets rid of dark matter and sitll explains the rapid expansion of the univerise.

NOTHING in science is not based on theory. If any one theory changes, then science has to re-invent itself slightly.

Core strength.

Gravity is the result of mass and circular motion. In the case of earth, the rotation of the earch towards its center, makes us in constant fall which creates the pull on our bodies, Plus the  gravity due to the mass of the earth and our masses. as the distance approaches zero ,between the centers of the objects, the gravity due to mass increases (Inverse relation).

But we dont understand gravity completely. I mean we cant create it in a space ship, or in a space station the way Star Trek Deep Space 9 station has implemented gravity.

Seocnd about GOD. I beleive This is a riddle. and only the intelligent and wise would figure it out. I say and beleive that God has no begining and no end. Has No father and no mother, and no one is like him.

I say, that GOD is time. Who Created Time? Does time have father or mother? does time has existance? does time has begining? does it have an end?

Michael Griffiths wrote:

W3bbo wrote:Actually, Gravity is a Law.

Gravity is nothing but a theory.

Sorry, but that's solid fact.

I was being pedantic.

Look up the "Universal Law of Gravitation"