I'm agnostic. I swing more towards being an atheist but most of them seem a little to closed minded to sit well with me. Religion on the other hand is a well crafted money making machine that prays on the weak.

This painful truth... is my email signature. sigh.

Someone should look into this .

Eleanor Rigby, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door, who is it for? The Beetles

Well since reality wakes in the same place everyday and your dreams send you off somewhere different every night I'm inclined to day reality is real

That's what allows a "Total" eclipse to occur. If the moon were smaller or further away, it would be a transit; nearer or larger, it would be an occultation.

that's a part of my difficulty to go to sleep, i don't wanna be tomorrow so soon

I sold cars years ago. They get them into buildings and showrooms by driving them through a big door or glass wall that unlocks.. It's nerve wracking when there's a few centimeters of clearance on either side and the vehicle is expensive and fragile.

This is because we actually both see and hear with the brain.

There was no time before the Big Bang so this means that there isn’t really a “before”

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I don't know about before, but I'm definitely booking a table for the restaurant at the end of the universe.

Maybe Futurama was right and the Universe is cyclical.

Life is short. Why waste time on the unknowable?

The "big bang" was a local event, the best scopes looking at the darkest bits of space found more galaxies implying the universe is infinitely filled with stuff, light pollution from nearby stuff limits our sight range (otherwise they wouldn't need to focus on the darkest bits to see further).

There's a theory that there were more big bangs and more useful matter existing before the current cycle. The more cycles of big bangs the Universe experiences, the more massive supermassive blackholes get because they do live through big bangs and they actually were present in previous cycles. The theory is supported by the fact how blackholes and supermassive blackholes are placed. Galaxies look like they were formed around blackholes spirally (and in other peculiar ways), like blackholes existed before the matter around them even was in a form of ionized hydrogen. Creepy, right?

The Big Bang was preceded by the Big Contraction which preceded an earlier big bang and big contraction ...infinitely into the past and the future.

I saw an explanation that goes thus…. You are heading north, meet someone and ask for directions towards the North Pole, they point you in the right direction, you travel further north, meet another person, again they point you further north, and so on until you are at the North Pole, you meet someone there and ask for directions north and they explain there is no further north, you can’t be ‘norther’. You have reached the Big Bang point, no more travelling will get you closer or further. There doesn’t have to be more.

"you're not thinking fourth dimensionally" - "Right, right I have a problem with that" :)

Friends. Threes Company....

Go ask your dad

Chitty chitty ...

Time is a local variable to a universe, so there was no "before" the Big Bang. However, it is nonetheless the case that: (1) Something banged, (2) within a framework in which universes CAN bang into existence, (3) which must have existed independently of the nonexistence of our universe pre-bang. Something banged, but we don't know how and we don't know why. Personally, I think the universe was created when a Great Cosmic Pink Polka-Dotted Unicorn farted it into existence.

I think the Big Bang was the sun's birth. The cosmos or space has always existed. Each 'Big Bang' is a new star being born. What gave birth to the space? No-one knows. And what would the parent of space look like anyway?

It's turtles all the way down

Time began at the big bang. There was no "before". This is like asking where a circular path ends.

The. If Bang Theory is BS. It represents science's best guess while still being clearly incomplete.

What is north of the North Pole? Same question.

We aren't certain that big bang happened, there is a new theory proposed that universe has always existed. But the best thing about these questions are that you can try to help the scientific community find answers to them. And what if ut happens that we don't know? Is it the end of the world? No! We need to learn how to live without knowing the answers to everything

....the tweets of Elon Musk...

The deepest of thoughts... It was BANG!

What makes you think there was ever a nothing? A cycle can be so lengthy that the relatively brief existence of the human race hasn't been long enough for us to discern a pattern.

F y'all I'll be thinking about this all day

If everything is the result of something else, then everything, including reality, is impossible.

NEED TO KNOW!

From my experience with many people,I’m not convinced this applies to everyone (myself not excepted)