Does anyone have any theories on our universe?

- Where did it all come from? Big bang? Divine intervention?
- Whats it like inside a black hole?
- Is there a real tenth planet? Not oversized comets like Sedna and Quaoar.
- Will humanity ever make contact with another lifeform in our universe before we all die out?
- Whatever else.

Divine intervention or theories of a designed universe don't solve any problems becuase it would require some sort of reality for the designer to live in. Somewhere along the line something must've occured by chance - and since the universe is infinite, it's bound to happen eventually and will happen again and again.

What makes you say the universe is infinte

My take is this - the creation of the universe cannot be comprehended by a human mind, we simply don't know enough and we aren't intelligent enough to figure it out. Maybe it has always been here, maybe it's an experiment, maybe someone created it. I dunno. All we can do is grasp at the very few cosmic straws we have hold of.

I think it's definitely possible that the universe is infinite. It didn't have to be created. It had no start and it has no end.

Does anyone have any theories on our universe?
- Where did it all come from? Big bang? Divine intervention?
All the evidence points towards the Big Bang. We know that the galaxies are all rushing apart from each other, i.e. the Universe must be expanding, so if you reverse the process then it contracts, the further back in time you go. And we know that the "echo" of the background radiation must be left over from the initial stages of the Big Bang.



- Whats it like inside a black hole?
There is no "inside" of a blackhole. It consists of a single infinitely small point in time and space - with infinite gravity - from which nothing can escape. Near the edge of a blackhole, your body would be stretched out and elongated until it was a single atom wide. Time would slow down, the nearer you got to the centre, though you'd be dead long before you reached it.



- Is there a real tenth planet? Not oversized comets like Sedna and Quaoar.
I doubt it. We would have found one by now. Of course, there are several "minor planets" like the ones you've mentioned, which have been captured by the gas giants as they wandered in from the Oort Cloud/Kuiper Belt, but I doubt there's anything large enough to be classed as a planet.



- Will humanity ever make contact with another lifeform in our universe before we all die out?
The distances between stars are so vast, that it would take thousands, if not millions of years, to reach them. I have no doubt there's life out there, but humans may have evolved into different beings by the time we find any of it. If we can find a way of overcoming the light-speed barrier, or reaching near-lightspeed, then it will be far less of a problem.

- Whats it like inside a black hole?
There is no "inside" of a blackhole. It consists of a single infinitely small point in time and space - with infinite gravity - from which nothing can escape. Near the edge of a blackhole, your body would be stretched out and elongated until it was a single atom wide. Time would slow down, the nearer you got to the centre, though you'd be long before you reached it.


Well, you don't honestly 'know' that. It's pure theory.

Maybe someone getting sucked into a black hole will go through an atom wide hole, through a worm hole and then fired out of a white hole in an alternate reality and reassembled atom by atom?

Add more theories of yours about other stuff, by all means.

- Will humanity ever make contact with another lifeform in our universe before we all die out?
The distances between stars are so vast, that it would take thousands, if not millions of years, to reach them. I have no doubt there's life out there, but humans may have evolved into different beings by the time we find any of it. If we can find a way of overcoming the light-speed barrier, or reaching near-lightspeed, then it will be far less of a problem.

now, there's a question... what are we going to evolve into?

- Whats it like inside a black hole?


Depressing. And then over.


- Is there a real tenth planet?


Is there a real ninth planet? Or is pluto a stray KBO?

Well, you don't honestly 'know' that. It's pure theory.

Maybe someone getting sucked into a black hole will go through an atom wide hole, through a worm hole and then fired out of a white hole in an alternate reality and reassembled atom by atom?

Add more theories of yours about other stuff, by all means.


erm.. blackholes are pure theory. There's now some evidence of observed phenomina which seem to be explained by that theoritical presence but balckholes arent things we observed and then tried to explain- they are things theory predicted to exist that evidence now seems to be backing up.

now, there's a question... what are we going to evolve into?
Well, let's think...

As technology advances, our reliance on nanotechnology, bio-implants, virtual environments and Artificial Intelligence is likely to result in our bodies becoming increasingly "inorganic". We will gain the ability to regenerate ourselves and repair damage, vastly more efficiently than the average human of today. Death could become obsolete. We might eventually become digital beings made of pure energy. This is something which is mentioned a lot in science fiction, but I think it really could happen, given time, and if technology advances far enough.

The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended.

The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended.

"There is no such thing as simultaneity"- Albert Einstein

We're nothing but a bit of fluff inside the deepest realms of a couch of epic proportions.

The scale of the Universe (http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/index.html)

So what about the 'multiverse' then? I'm thinking that if all the matter and energy of the universe can appear from nothing (and if it didn't, where did it come from?), then any other areas of nothing can potentially (will?) become a new universe. Our universe may be one of an infinite number of others.

Well, let's think...

As technology advances, our reliance on nanotechnology, bio-implants, virtual environments and Artificial Intelligence is likely to result in our bodies becoming increasingly "inorganic". We will gain the ability to regenerate ourselves and repair damage, vastly more efficiently than the average human of today. Death could become obsolete. We might eventually become digital beings made of pure energy. This is something which is mentioned a lot in science fiction, but I think it really could happen, given time, and if technology advances far enough.
crikey... i was thinking more along these lines

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1985/gallery/340/cybermen.jpg