Poll: Everything Exists.

[Random berk]

You seem to be under the impression that space is infinite. This is a plausibly false assumption.

Space is probably infinite. Having said that, the amount of matter in that space probably isn't infinite. If you had the means to fly though space forever, then after countless billions of years, eventually you'll probably fly beyond the limits of the material thrown from the big bang. After that, there would probably just be nothing but emptiness.

Unless other big bangs have taken place else where, then you'd eventually fly into another universe, or something. Who knows, really?

Damn, that's the most even poll I've ever seen on the Escapist, 50.2 for yes, 49.8 for no.

I don't think you understand how inflation theory works.

Probably not, no. If you mean to explain it though, please do it briefly, I've been reading enough scientific journals tonight to last me a month.

 

[Kataskopo]

Space is infinite, therefore everything you can think of is out their somewhere.

It like the infinate amount of monkeys typing on an infinate amount of keyboards will at some point get you a complete library of all the books ever written.

Do you agree with this?

In this universe, Nope!

Simple as that. Especially if we're going by the theory of the Expanding Universe in which it started at one finite point and continued to expand after the big bang.
It eventually will reach a stopping point, because for something of finite capacity expanding to an infinite amount of space is a completely unfounded and silly idea.

Observable universe is not expanding into something! It's just expanding in relation to itself, intrinsically.

 

[Keepeas]

umm...why did this thread turn into an argument about the universe?
It wasn't limited to THIS universe...
yes, everything is possible.

 

[Madara XIII]

Space is infinite, therefore everything you can think of is out their somewhere.

It like the infinate amount of monkeys typing on an infinate amount of keyboards will at some point get you a complete library of all the books ever written.

Do you agree with this?

In this universe, Nope!

Simple as that. Especially if we're going by the theory of the Expanding Universe in which it started at one finite point and continued to expand after the big bang.
It eventually will reach a stopping point, because for something of finite capacity expanding to an infinite amount of space is a completely unfounded and silly idea.

Observable universe is not expanding into something! It's just expanding in relation to itself, intrinsically.

Oh Snapple Honey Iced Tea!
I made a very grave error in my wording. Thanks for correcting me. I was just trying to give the visual aid of the universe expanding from one point.
Thanks again for fixing my mistake

 

[Michael Hirst]

reminds me of persona 2....all rumours are true.

 

[Crazy]

Lies, all lies! Not everything is possible! You must know this before trying the impossible!

 

[AugustFall]

Space is infinite, therefore everything you can think of is out their somewhere.

It like the infinate amount of monkeys typing on an infinate amount of keyboards will at some point get you a complete library of all the books ever written.

Do you agree with this?

First of all it's a room full of monkeys typing on typewriters for an infinite amount of time. Not an infinite amount of monkeys lol.

Second, even if space is infinite it's not infinitely filled with planets and stars. There's a lot of nothing out there.

 

[MetalMagpie]

Space is infinite, therefore everything you can think of is out their somewhere.

Assuming space IS infinite for the moment (although I was under the impression most physicists think it isn't), this raises an interesting question: Does the second part of that sentence necessarily follow from the first?

I.e. Just because space is infinite, does that mean it must necessarily contain all possible configurations of matter? Why couldn't it contain an infinite amount of empty space?

Even if there is an infinite amount of matter too, why can't it be formed into an infinite number of completely boring shapes like stars?

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

What is the chance of a squared planet, near none, and yet it's there.

square planet you say?

alright boys, we are gonna need alot of dumptrucks and possibly a earthbender if we can spare one...

 

[Isan]

Space is infinite, therefore everything you can think of is out their somewhere.

I can think of an alien species with the technology, ability and desire to reach earth in 10 seconds time and set everything on fire...


nope, didn't happen.
You're opening premise is flawed.




edit: the monkey thing was actually tried (although I think it was with chimps), a day later all they'd produced were pages covered in the letter 's' - monkeys do not act randomly.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Eventually, everything probably happens again.

 

[CaptainKoala]

No, you cannot do things that are not conceptually impossible. You cannot make a married bachelor, or a squared circle.

 

[Dinosaur_Face]

no not everything is possible, some things may be but not everything

 

[0mn1p0t3ntg6y]

A friend told me that quarks both do and don't exist. So if that can happen I'm willing to stay positive.

 

[Lectori Salutem]

Everything that goes against physics is impossible, I'd say

 

[bauke67]

You can have as many monkeys typing as you want, but you're never gonna get a comic book.
Same with the universe, plenty of loopholes that just can't be.

 

[CaptainKoala]

If the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct (which seems likely) then everything that is physically possible has actually happened/will happen/is happening (past/future/present tense makes no sense here). If a particle happened to spin in a slightly different way a few nanoseconds after the big bang, then the laws of physics would've turned out very differently, and maybe we'd be living in 2-dimensional space and be made out of pixels instead of atoms, collecting coins and eating mushrooms to get big.

How about a round square? Don't know how one would look like, but I know I would be mightily impressed did I ever see one.

I found a square circle, is that good enough?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp_space

Obviously, you did not listen to me. I asked for a round square, not a square circle. No cookie for you!

It is impossible to do things that are logically impossible, like a married bachelor.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Not everything is possible. There are limits to the universe and there are too many things that exist which would contradict another thing if it were possible.

 

[newwiseman]

Space isn't infinite but is infinitely expanding by all observation; matter and energy are constants. If you except the theory that our 'big bang' or 'inflation event' is just one of countless events beyond the limit of our expanding universe then there exists the possibility of anything you can image and even more than that. Our imagination is limited by the the laws of physics in our universe but there are no telling what the laws would be in any of these other universes.

Regardless of what the plausibility of something is, mathematically it remains possible.

 

[Gigano]

Hardly.

An infinite amount of "space" does not mean all fantasies exist in it, as little as an infinite mass of water would have a fireplace. Natural laws still apply.