"Steve Dirickson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> > : Probably the most obvious example: x = a / b;
> > : So what happens when b == 0?

> On a totally unrelated note:

> It seems that pretty much everyone who is supposed to know about these
> things is in agreement that the universe is expanding.

> Into what?
> I.e., what is being displaced/filled by that expansion? Inquiring minds
want
> to know!

There isn't anything else. We're just in a big, and growing, bubble of
eleven-dimensional space-time (of which there are seven we can't experience,
as they are so tightly curled in on themselves), within which the known laws
of physics apply.

In the Big Bang, the universe flupped out of nothingness, as a sort of
unlikely macro-example of the mechanism by which matter constantly flups in
and out of nothingness at the quantum level. There wasn't a 'before that',
any more than there is an 'outside this', as both space and time are
properties of this universe.

Other such universes, if they also flupped out of nothingness, would quite
likely have flooble and grint instead of space and time...

However, I have a puzzle with the Big Bang. Given that we currently have
roughly as much matter as there ever was in the Universe (after the
matter/anti-matter sort-out, and give or take a few E=Mc˛ transmutings); and
given that clumps of what we have now can get so dense that they form point
singularities (black holes); and given that all this matter was once
compressed into an unimaginably small space; - how come it was ever able to
expand? How come it didn't form a black hole then?

Just curious.....

--
Roy Brown

Oh, and PS: why won't my program compile?

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