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Hypothetical: Russia has just set up a military base in Mexico on the US border and the Americans have invaded Mexico, is that a reasonable reaction on the part of the Americans. They give a lame excuse of protecting their border, are you really going to buy that? This actually happened once. In 19...

God has no beginning and no end because God is unimaginable. The beginning and the end must be also unimaginable for an unimaginable item. The beginning and the end of the cosmic energy or space or the creation are also unimaginable. Therefore, the beginning and the end are unimaginable for the uni...

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(p...

Okay, that was all that was being sought here. Ok. There are a LOT of human beings who have so-called 'interesting ideas'. Yes, but only one human is Sir Roger Penrose. As they say, his bad ideas are better than most people's good ones. So-called 'popular ideas' do not really interest me. Popular w...

Do you BELIEVE the Universe BEGAN and/or IS EXPANDING? In the interest of what's left of my own sanity, I am not going to reply point by point to your latest post. Can we agree to focus this down? To answer this one question of yours, I have no particular belief in the matter. Roger Penrose has an ...

It appears here that you have NO idea correct? No, I have a very good idea. I'm being modest since I didn't study physics. But my understanding of the basic ideas is pretty good. I don't understand where you're coming from. You asked why I claimed causality is not always needed in modern physics. I...

Infinite monkey theorem ... I gave you some questions to challenge your claim that "Math and physical laws existed before anything was created." I did not find your response to be on point. I made the distinction between a theorem being true, and a mathematician coming up with a historica...

-------- Math and physical laws existed before anything was created --------- That's a claim, not a fact. It's the claim at issue. Let me ask you. If math existed, where did it exist? Was Wiles's proof of Fermat's last theorem in existence before Wiles's parents met? Before there were humans? Befor...

God made the universe using math and physical laws. I myself take exception to this claim. In my opinion, it's possible that the universe is what it is, and math is just the way humans describe and explain the world to ourselves. Just as Bat-Galileo would patiently explain to you that the world is ...

And whereabouts in the Universe, exactly, is this place where there is, supposedly, NO matter in it but where ONLY a quantum field is present? This is pretty standard stuff in contemporary cosmology. I'm not qualified to delve into the details but there are lots of Wiki pages and Youtube videos aro...

What BELIEF does this so-called 'contemporary physics' hold to 'now'? Yes, thanks, good question. To recap, @dattaswami said that, "In this universe, every item has another item as its cause," to which I responded, "Contemporary physics no longer holds to that belief." So I shou...

You'll never beat wtf, swami. He's one of the five smartest dudes I've ever seen on a forum, so if he says u can't do it, u can't do it bro. Thank you kindly. But God is unimaginable. Earlier you were arguing William Lane Craig's Kalām cosmological argument, a variation of the ancient "uncause...

In this universe, every item has another item as its cause. Contemporary physics no longer holds to that belief. But even granting the premise, that is perfectly consistent with there being no first cause, as the example of the integers shows. That cause will have still another item as its cause. I...

If you go on giving cause to every cause, the chain will never end. Such a defect is called as ad-infinitum (Anavasthaa). So what? Consider the integers ..., -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ... There is no smallest integer, and every integer has an immediate predecessor. There is no first integer . And wh...

God is the generator of Space and Space is His first creation (Atmana akaashah…). Would it be churlish of me to ask, who or what created God? If God was "always there," why can't space have been "always there" without the need for God? Maybe space was always there and God is jus...