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In reply to the discussion: No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning [View all]cbayer
(146,218 posts)23. The degree to which a layperson can really understand this is questionable, imo.
I love if when Neil Degrasse Tyson leads me to believe that I actually understand some things, but I'm not fully convinced that I really do. I certainly don't understand it well enough to challenge it in any way.
We are dependent on our scientists and our doctors and so many others that have a level of expertise that we will never achieve. There is very often a leap of faith.
Yes, it is always interesting.
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I hope the graphic is wrong, because a theory predicting stars first formed 400 million years ago
struggle4progress
Feb 2015
#1
Relgion and Cosmology are two major sources of theories about the origin of the univese.
Agnosticsherbet
Feb 2015
#18
The degree to which a layperson can really understand this is questionable, imo.
cbayer
Feb 2015
#23
Seeing as how both Time and Space were a function of the BB, there was no "before" it
Vincardog
Feb 2015
#54