I meant to post this a while ago, but SEN went all wierd so I couldn't.
So it might be outdated, I'm compleatly lost so I would have no way of telling.
Here it is:
QUOTE(CaptainWill @ May 3 2005, 11:34 AM)
It is flawed from a scientific point of view because it implies that something had to exist before the Universe existed. Cause and effect, one of the fundamental laws of logic, breaks down when it encounters the Big Bang Theory.
I do not have a particular theory, and prefer to leave the problem of 'how did the Universe begin' as an 'open question.'
I could come up with a few hypotheses though. One example would be that the Universe does not comprise everything that has ever existed. There could be things outside the Universe that were here before the Universe was created. Of course that returns the same question... 'Well, what created them?'
It's impossible to answer a question like this. Perhaps there is some kind of infinite loop of Universes, I don't know. Maybe there is some entity which is not bound by the rules of the Universe; rules such as time. This could be the creator, although we have no idea what that is.[right][snapback]200235[/snapback][/right]
I agree with this bit: "I do not have a particular theory, and prefer to leave the problem of 'how did the Universe begin' as an 'open question.' "
I think such complex things are currently difficult to explain (but if you read Scientific American or something of the sort, then you'll see they do a pretty good job of explaining most of the theories). My current pet theory is basically this:
According to quantum mechanics (or something of the sort), anything is possible, just most things are very very imporbable. So in the infinite amount of time before the univierse existed, something happened, agaist all possibility a peice of space and a piece of mass sprung into existance. Becuase everything Outside the newly formed mass was Empty, the piece of mass and space exspoded.
So basically the chance of the universe being created was infinitly small, but becuase the amount of time before the univierse being created was infinitly large, those two infinite thingys canceled each other out to form what acutally happened.
Don't know why I though of that. It's most likely wrong.
Anyway that mp) guy who's catholic (the one with the devil giving the finger for their avatar), needs to post again so we can have a greater variety of contrasting opinions and such.