Is there a universe or not?

[JAVO]

Q: Is there a universe or not?

A: No, we are but a thought in a post in a thread in a forum.

 

[Ginkgo]

Tell me, how does one think in non-linear time?

One alternative is cyclical. Another is one that includes branching, alternate time lines. I guess the latter is still somewhat linear in nature.

 

[Ginkgo]

You may as well ask if existence itself exists. heh.

 

[Lark]

I've noticed NTs and I tend to disagree a lot on interpretations of physics and I'm curious as to others perception of this. I think that science was heavily influenced by being generated in a monotheistic culture. Thus the holy grail of physics being the toe, the classical concept of "universe", even perhaps the idea of irreducible bits (which again are being integrated in the concepts of strings) all of which act as remnants of/are used to prop up monism. I find that many of these people also have trouble thinking in terms of non-linear time, of time as not having constant rate, of positionality as time in a static universe, etc. So what say you?

Note: I am also dubious of proof by negation which I've noticed is a hallmark of many tj types.

What?

 

[FigerPuppet]

This is too meta.

 

[UniqueMixture]

Toe = the theory of everything which would unify all the fundamental forces of nature under guage theory should we find higgs or observing something in m-theory observationally like a superstring to "prove" extra -dimensionality required by string theory.

P.S. I didn't mean for this thread to be so technical I just wanted to hear how people experience "the univetse" in their everyday lives. To me I experience a lot of phenomena that seem impossible under most standard physics. I think it is because I am aware of alternative conceptualizations so I actively go about trying to experience them in everyday life. This leads to that tension between observer and observed in which they mutually create one another (imo)

I use a lot of physics language because I don't know of any other that has the same concepts (except maybe sufi mysticism, but it is more abstract and less precise)

 

[KDude]

Just to clarify further: Toe, as in "toe of God". Contrast it with mystics seeking the beatific vision, the face of God. Physicists are a little less ambitious.

 

[FireShield98]

The answer is quite simple: 42

 

[ygolo]

The answer is quite simple: 42

and what was the question?

 

[FireShield98]

and what was the question?

Did you even read the title of the thread?

 

[Nicodemus]

Did you even read the title of the thread?

Did you even read the books?

 

[Within]

I'm going to stick with my original thought that I had 10 years ago. That our universe is indeed just the smallest part of that which atoms consist of, waiting to be split in a nuclear bomb detonation thereby bringing an instant end to ours, and our reflective realities. If that's the case the balance of terror was somewhat of an understatement.

 

[LEGERdeMAIN]

Did you even read the books?

Is there a books or not?

 

[FireShield98]

Did you even read the books?

Nope. Actually, I first heard of it from a game on addictinggames.com my younger brother likes to play called "The Impossible Quiz" where question 42 is "What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?" (and you have to click the 42nd 42 on the page). Only later did I learn that it was from a book (when my biology teacher last year would answer "42" whenever someone asked him a question he didn't have the answer to. One day someone asked him why he says that, and then he explained it). Well, since this is a question about the universe, I decided to answer it with 42.

 

[Nicodemus]

Nope.

I know. That is why you did not understand ygolo's post.

 

[Munchies]

oopsy doodle wrong thread

 

[Munchies]

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[RaptorWizard]

Sensors like me don't care what is real and what isn't real, including the universe! We see it, it works, and we are alive, so whatever you over-intelligent investigators. What you see is what you get!

 

[Mole]

Sensors like me don't care what is real and what isn't real, including the universe! We see it, it works, and we are alive, so whatever you over-intelligent investigators. What you see is what you get!

Yes, we can see that the Sun goes round the Earth; and we can see that solid objects are not made mostly of empty space; and it's plain we can see more than 5% of the universe.