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#324712
Vincent
Collision? ......... That's a new one.
11/1/2007 3:42:46 AM
#324714
Rhys
Repeat.
Besides, there was nothing before the big bang, not even time. That's the whole point of it.
11/1/2007 3:46:51 AM
#324715
Fanatic-Templar
What makes you think there was nothing before the Big Bang?
11/1/2007 3:48:54 AM
#324716
Rhys
Fanatic-Templar I must admit you do have a point. It is something that so far we are unable to determine. It is possible that it was simply the previous universe that had a big crunch, forming a super super massive blackhole that was so powerful it inverted itself in an "explosion" that we call the big bang... or something like that anyway.
11/1/2007 3:59:05 AM
#324717
anevilmeme
WTF?
"A collision of that magnitude would be the biggest distructive force that has ever been suggested."
The Big Bang wasn't a collision.
"Any organisms existing on any bodies in discussion would be wiped out."
There were neither organisms nor bodies during the BB.
"Furthermore, a collision of that size would not produce spherical masses, nor could less spherical masses be smoothed out over the years, as there is no friction in space."
Ever heard of gravity? And yes friction can exist anywhere in the universe.
11/1/2007 3:59:24 AM
#324719
Did you miss the part on how this explosion took place?, that ALL THE MASS in the universe was concentrated and the pression burst, finally?. Moreover, Do you realise that you don't have ANY BASIS for your claims about the impossibility of "creating" spherical masses?
11/1/2007 4:02:57 AM
#324720
Anna Ghislaine
I've never heard it described as a collision before. Where do these people get their ideas? It's as though they think one day something went 'BANG' and then our universe as it is now suddenly appeared.
11/1/2007 4:05:46 AM
#324721
dworkin
"A collision of that magnitude would be the biggest destructive force that has ever been suggested. Any organisms existing on any bodies in discussion would be wiped out."
Your point being?
11/1/2007 4:12:07 AM
#324724
Øyvind
That... is awful.
11/1/2007 4:26:46 AM
#324733
David B.
Anna Ghislaine wrote: "I've never heard it described as a collision before. Where do these people get their ideas?"
Possibly from the 'ekpyrotic model', the hypothesis of M-theory (string theory) that speculates that the big bang was caused by the collision of two separate 'branes' in the 11 dimensional 'bulk'.
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hsr/pdfswinter2002/04_07_winter2002.pdf
Like evolution before it, fundies probably consider they have mastered the subject after reading one article in American Science, having only understood about one word in ten.
11/1/2007 5:13:56 AM
#324736
Adrian
Repeat, but just as dumb as the first time.
11/1/2007 5:23:20 AM
#324739
Xotan
Please explain... What was to collide...and with what?
11/1/2007 5:36:36 AM
#324743
Caustic Gnostic
There was nothing before the cosmic singularity, in theory. The fact that it was labeled 'Big Bang' is unfortunate, since a certain human subset can not escape the assumption that destructive pyrotechnics were involved.
11/1/2007 6:02:37 AM
#324746
MarylandBear
Anyway, its not the "Big Bang", its the "Humongous Space Kablooie".
11/1/2007 6:19:23 AM
#324748
MK
@David B. - You probably hit it right on the head, there. Though I very much doubt they cracked open a journal - more likely, they happened to catch part of a "Nova" series on PBS (while monitoring said channel for atheistic influences, mind you) that discussed this in as lay-person terms as possible.
11/1/2007 6:31:14 AM
#324757
jleslie48
"Anyway, its not the "Big Bang", its the "Humongous Space Kablooie".
imagine what the fundies would of done if they named it "creation" [of the universe from a singularity]
11/1/2007 6:44:30 AM
#324777
Cabal
Wow. Just wow.
Spacetime expansion and gravitational collapse says you fail.
11/1/2007 7:26:41 AM
#324783
Mr. Saturday
@MarylandBear
Was that a Calvin & Hobbes reference? I love you for that.
11/1/2007 7:42:15 AM
#324785
Ed Hubble
Failed astronomy?
11/1/2007 7:44:50 AM
#324800
cyborgtroy
PLANETS DO NOT FORM THAT WAY!
11/1/2007 8:12:31 AM
#324803
Robbie
@Everyone naive to think a fundie would pick up a science mag
I doubt it. I think they hear the word "bang" and think "collision". They're just that stupid.
Besides, the singularity comes before the Big Bang - it's a theory of cosmic inflation in the end.
11/1/2007 8:18:43 AM
#324805
Mr Smith
I get the impression that justinhaddeland doesn't have the slightest idea about what he's talking about.
11/1/2007 8:25:20 AM
#324823
Mister Spak
Collision? What?
11/1/2007 9:15:39 AM
#324826
anti-nonsense
The Big Bang Did Not Work That Way!
11/1/2007 9:18:08 AM
#324844
Ambrielle
Wow dude. Have you ever got the wrong end of the stick.
11/1/2007 9:37:31 AM
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