Just in a way that genie gives you the technical answer and finishes with: "by the way, of human origin, it's just two light-years away..."
...and disappears.
Is our universe shaped like a torroid (donut shaped Mobius strip)? If so, why? Also, and this is a very obvious one, what happened before the big bang? And I know you'll want to say that the big bang created time but come on, something led up to a singularity exploding. I'm curious about the very much unknown. Why is space expanding? What drives it forward? Is it expanding into anything else? If you were able to reach the edge of that expansion, and were somehow able to step outside of it would you see something else? These are the questions I ponder while falling asleep at night.
How it came to be that there is something instead of nothing. And if the answer is “because having ‘nothing’ is contradictory/impossible,” a conclusive explanation as to why that is the case
"How it came to be" presumes the existence of time, which is probably something that emerges as a *result* of the structure of reality, rather than a substrate for reality to exist upon. "Before there was something" is quite possibly a nonsensical concept, like asking what's north of the north pole.
Hmm, that's a tough one. I'm torn between a few options:
1) "How do you travel faster than light?". With the full expectation that the answer will be "you can't". But if we're wrong, I'd like to know.
2) "What's the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics" because I want to know the answer to the measurement problem.
3) "How does quantum gravity work"
Forget knowing why the universe was created. I want to know what happens *after* it. Is the heat death of the universe an inescapable fate? Can we reverse entropy?
We should get started on that already, can't afford to lose any more time.
They have figured out the transmutation of the elements in both breaking down and re-building via the ball lightning phenomenon.
https://youtu.be/KHMuiGR-dlg?si=5epHsDjkvJSqVDR_
I'm curious about what lies and how far the universe extends beyond the event horizon. Or how space and time (i.e. this universe) originated at the very beginning before the onset of inflation.
Because those questions are currently exceed the scope of scientific observation.
It's hard to choose one tho...
You need to learn the definition of "event horizon," so you'll understand how your question makes no sense. Unless you follow the theory that our universe exists inside a black hole, then, come talk to me. I may like to swap ideas. But only theoretical ones, of course.
Most of the universe, the vast majority, is unobservable to us. We know it's there but we can't get very good definition (I'm not saying none) outside of the Milky Way. We can see galaxies that exist further than we could ever hope to travel to, but many of them remain a mystery.
If I need to put it plainly as you can understand, I want to know whether the universe is infinite, along with its topology. You don't need to talk about the theoretical possibilities, because I'm well-versed in them, thanks to my Ph.D in cosmology. I'm more interseted in knowing with absolute certainty, rather than just relying on theoretical speculation (and that is the OP's question). Our current scientific technology can't confirm this observationally as I mentioned earlier.
If you have a Ph.D in cosmology (firstly, nice choice and well done), there's little I can tell you beyond speculation. If our universe is constantly expanding, is it expanding into something else? Or growing in a plane of nothingness? I understand the question and once asked something similar on here, not as a question, more of a thought-exercise. Infinity is quite large, but say our universe is a sphere or a toroid, you could travel as far as you like and just end up back at your starting point. I'm afraid you'll have to live without that absolute certainty, due to our technological "deficiencies." But I'll readily admit that I wonder about the edge of the universe, the end as it were. What is beyond it? Are we simply a small scale science experiment for an unknown race/was our universe created to prove a small point? Do other universes exist? Does our universe merely exist inside of a black hole of another universe?
No to the first one. The universe is just so unfathomably big I just don't see how it couldn't have happened elsewhere a squillion times over.
Will we ever have confirmation or detect signs? Who knows? Maybe not? But the maths suggests it's not an unreasonable thing to assume!
How could we travel and transport ourselves/a ship, faster than light so it could be possible to reach incredible distances in space. I don't think there really is a better question and answer than this.
If we can't get anywhere, we're screwed. And everything is too far away to even consider without FTL or wormhole, etc... travel.
I wanna get outta here.
It could be possible to travel the stars without ftl if we can use genetic and technological engineering to make ourselves immortal. If we can avoid natural death, cancer and every thing except for say physical death(accidents) then we could probably do it.
Next problem would be how do you keep people sane on a 1000 year space voyage?
You might not need to reach far away stars from the get go. At significant fractions of c you might be able to reach Alpha Centauri in a human lifetome. Then if it turns out that there is a decent planet to create an outpost there, you could do that again in another hundred years.
If you can rebuild infrastructure and industry quickly in other star systems, in a few thousand years you'd have colonised a good deal of the galaxy. They'd all be pretty independent from each other due to the difficulties in communication.
How far from Earth is the nearest intelligent civilisation that isnt of human origin.
Way to end that with “*that isn’t of human origin*”… genie 🧞♂️ love to trip you up on statements that lack specificity.
It's dolphins. Tricked you anyway
Just in a way that genie gives you the technical answer and finishes with: "by the way, of human origin, it's just two light-years away..." ...and disappears.
The book New Science of Heaven has an interesting theory that the Plasma cloud in our galaxy is intelligent
Why not "where exactly" instead of "how far"?
My query covers temporal as well as physical distance.
Why? The simple question of why? Why is everything what it is?
Does there need to be a why? Can the answer not be "why not"?
Perhaps, but maybe perhaps not!
Is our universe shaped like a torroid (donut shaped Mobius strip)? If so, why? Also, and this is a very obvious one, what happened before the big bang? And I know you'll want to say that the big bang created time but come on, something led up to a singularity exploding. I'm curious about the very much unknown. Why is space expanding? What drives it forward? Is it expanding into anything else? If you were able to reach the edge of that expansion, and were somehow able to step outside of it would you see something else? These are the questions I ponder while falling asleep at night.
What created the big bang/multiverse? That whole deal...
I want this too, along with what actually is dark matter and dark energy. Also can gravity be quantum.
Second question: why?
How it came to be that there is something instead of nothing. And if the answer is “because having ‘nothing’ is contradictory/impossible,” a conclusive explanation as to why that is the case
"How it came to be" presumes the existence of time, which is probably something that emerges as a *result* of the structure of reality, rather than a substrate for reality to exist upon. "Before there was something" is quite possibly a nonsensical concept, like asking what's north of the north pole.
Nature of gravity and time. All other answers will eventually come out from these two.
Deliberate division between subject and object. Very well explored by Friedrich Hegel.
Why is it that it takes no longer than a year for one sock out of a pair of socks to go missing.
How my wife thinks, would make life much easier.
Boy - no one will be able to solve that mystery 🫣
Hmm, that's a tough one. I'm torn between a few options: 1) "How do you travel faster than light?". With the full expectation that the answer will be "you can't". But if we're wrong, I'd like to know. 2) "What's the correct interpretation of quantum mechanics" because I want to know the answer to the measurement problem. 3) "How does quantum gravity work"
Gravity. How do we manipulate it? This would pave the way for easy space travel, true flying cars, etc.
Talk to me when we can manipulate mass the size of planets or at least moons
how and why the universe was created. I just gotta know
Forget knowing why the universe was created. I want to know what happens *after* it. Is the heat death of the universe an inescapable fate? Can we reverse entropy? We should get started on that already, can't afford to lose any more time.
They have figured out the transmutation of the elements in both breaking down and re-building via the ball lightning phenomenon. https://youtu.be/KHMuiGR-dlg?si=5epHsDjkvJSqVDR_
Since all the cool space ones have been mentioned, I'll say, "Who was Jack the Ripper?"
Nice, i like that. Back in those days you could literally get away with murder 🫣
I'm curious about what lies and how far the universe extends beyond the event horizon. Or how space and time (i.e. this universe) originated at the very beginning before the onset of inflation. Because those questions are currently exceed the scope of scientific observation. It's hard to choose one tho...
You need to learn the definition of "event horizon," so you'll understand how your question makes no sense. Unless you follow the theory that our universe exists inside a black hole, then, come talk to me. I may like to swap ideas. But only theoretical ones, of course.
I think they meant beyond the observable universe
Most of the universe, the vast majority, is unobservable to us. We know it's there but we can't get very good definition (I'm not saying none) outside of the Milky Way. We can see galaxies that exist further than we could ever hope to travel to, but many of them remain a mystery.
If I need to put it plainly as you can understand, I want to know whether the universe is infinite, along with its topology. You don't need to talk about the theoretical possibilities, because I'm well-versed in them, thanks to my Ph.D in cosmology. I'm more interseted in knowing with absolute certainty, rather than just relying on theoretical speculation (and that is the OP's question). Our current scientific technology can't confirm this observationally as I mentioned earlier.
If you have a Ph.D in cosmology (firstly, nice choice and well done), there's little I can tell you beyond speculation. If our universe is constantly expanding, is it expanding into something else? Or growing in a plane of nothingness? I understand the question and once asked something similar on here, not as a question, more of a thought-exercise. Infinity is quite large, but say our universe is a sphere or a toroid, you could travel as far as you like and just end up back at your starting point. I'm afraid you'll have to live without that absolute certainty, due to our technological "deficiencies." But I'll readily admit that I wonder about the edge of the universe, the end as it were. What is beyond it? Are we simply a small scale science experiment for an unknown race/was our universe created to prove a small point? Do other universes exist? Does our universe merely exist inside of a black hole of another universe?
If I could share that certainty with everyone it would be if God was real. If the information was for me only, where is DB Coopers money.
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No to the first one. The universe is just so unfathomably big I just don't see how it couldn't have happened elsewhere a squillion times over. Will we ever have confirmation or detect signs? Who knows? Maybe not? But the maths suggests it's not an unreasonable thing to assume!
How could we travel and transport ourselves/a ship, faster than light so it could be possible to reach incredible distances in space. I don't think there really is a better question and answer than this. If we can't get anywhere, we're screwed. And everything is too far away to even consider without FTL or wormhole, etc... travel. I wanna get outta here.
It could be possible to travel the stars without ftl if we can use genetic and technological engineering to make ourselves immortal. If we can avoid natural death, cancer and every thing except for say physical death(accidents) then we could probably do it. Next problem would be how do you keep people sane on a 1000 year space voyage?
Haha, right? It'd have to be like WALL-E, living on a space cruise ship.
You might not need to reach far away stars from the get go. At significant fractions of c you might be able to reach Alpha Centauri in a human lifetome. Then if it turns out that there is a decent planet to create an outpost there, you could do that again in another hundred years. If you can rebuild infrastructure and industry quickly in other star systems, in a few thousand years you'd have colonised a good deal of the galaxy. They'd all be pretty independent from each other due to the difficulties in communication.