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Quote: from pujolsfan at 2:05 pm on Aug. 22, 2008

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in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...

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Intellectual Forum, not Religion and Philosophy.

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Side note: The Intellectual Forum was originally founded so as we could get away from the garbage that was beginning to befall R&P. And ultimately, since we're talking something that often encompasses R&P (as we've little proof either way) I'd allow it.

I believe there was such thing as a 'Steady State' theory that was likely debunked and given up on a while back now (many years, if the ol' noodle's up to scratch) that essentially stated that the universe just 'is what it is what is was' or something airy-fairy to that effect.

To the OP, essentially the problem you're running into is trying to apply the laws of physics to a time when they didn't apply. That is; they apply to the within the universe, but not around it. There's some data floating around somewhere (you can likely Wikipedia it) stating that the laws of physics only apply to within something like 10^-37s of the hypothesised big bang.

Such questions, it is generally agreed, cannot generally be answered with a 'scientific definition'.

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Routinely sucking the cosmic fugue off our fingers.

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One theory proposed that coincides with the big bang theory is the universal rubber band theory.

Basically some scientists think that the big bang was the result of an infinitely dense mass becoming unstable and exploding outward, thus the big bang. But once the universe expands as far as it can, it will start contracting back into this infinitely dense mass and the process will repeat.

That's the only one that I've read that has somewhat plausibly explains the Big Bang theory.

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Actually there were tests done, and they found out the the universe wasn't slowing down, it is continuously speeding up in its expansion, so the new theory is that the universe will keep expanding until ever atom is pulled apart and seperate from everything else.

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Now the old king is dead
Long live the king.

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The laws of physics, clearly state that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be transformed from one form into another.

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