Re: What lies beyond the Universe?

From: Insane Ranter (spam_at_not.me)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:37:50 -0400

"Rod Mollise" <rmollise@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20040531161537.22653.00000150@mb-m23.aol.com...
>
> >
> >My take is that given our current knowledge/technology we just cannot
"see"
> >/ perceive what is beyond out current capabilities... given time and
better
> >technology we will eventually get a better view of our universe. Look
>
> Hi Mr. XxXxXxX (can I call you "X" for short? :-)):
>
> Well that's fine. But a "take" is not science unless you have something in
the
> way of data/numbers to make it into more than a...well..."take."
>
> The thing is, commonsense doesn't always make--err---"sense" when
confronted
> with the very big and very small. It would SEEM to make sense that
"something"
> must have happened before/to cause the Big Bang. But, as per the song, It
Ain't
> Necessarily So. Which is not to say that there won't be a 22nd and a 23rd
> century science that will make _parts_ of our current cosmology look like
> phologiston.
>
> What then is the answer to "what happened before time began," Mr. Smarty
Pants?
> ;-)

Well, let's see: First the earth cooled. And, then the dinosaurs came, but
they got too big and fat, so they all died, and they turned into oil. And,
then the Arabs came and they bought Mercedes Benzes. And, Prince Charles
started wearing all of Lady Di's clothes. I couldn't believe it, he took her
best summer dress out of the closet, and put it on, and went to town.

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