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In reply to the discussion: What if the universe had no beginning? [View all]NullTuples
(6,017 posts)...that our observations are just nearsighted views of something so much larger.
My favorite example: What if the expansion we measure is just the trough of a pressure wave so massive it's entirety is far beyond what we can measure? These are fanciful alternatives that can't be proved or disproved, much as Georges Lemaître's theory fits much of the measured data but we cannot yet and perhaps will never know if it is the only suitable answer. But the math fits both. It falls back to the knowability of Plato's & Aristotle's god.
Personally, I find the idea of a universe that is finite in time or dimension to be offensive. It's modeled too much after ourselves. I would much rather prefer something more outside our experience and currently beyond our comprehension. Something that would push us to grow.