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I have had a funny turn re the start of the universe

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Pruners · 05/07/2008 10:19

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lazarou · 05/07/2008 10:22

I get that as well. I try to imagine of there was nothing, and I don't mean nothing in space, I just mean nothing, as if nothing ever existed. No space.

If in doubt just say big bang

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Pruners · 05/07/2008 10:24

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/07/2008 10:25

I think it's a lot easier on the brain to just say that someone/something must have made it/us!

That, or we're all in an infinite episode of Dr Who ...

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Pruners · 05/07/2008 10:27

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S1ur · 05/07/2008 10:28

we are all made of staaaaaars

BettySpaghetti · 05/07/2008 10:28

I get that imploding brain feelinig when I start thinking about the human body and how amazing that is.

How can a load of bones, tissue, blood etc come together to make this moving, thinking, talking being? DYSWIM?

Ouch -my brain hurts thinking about it -time for another coffee methinks

FrannyandZooey · 05/07/2008 10:29

ooh another lovely title

well done

I used to be able to get that feeling at will by thinking about this when I was a child
I used to lie on my bed and deliberately freak myself out
well I was too young for drugs

Slubberdekangaroomurderer · 05/07/2008 10:30

Oh Pruners I like that feeling. I get it a lot, but came down with a bad case of the imploding brain after watching Donnie Darko.

I quite like imagining what the nothing before the big bang is like. It gives me the tingles.

Of course I do have a practical example of what the void pre bang was like. My mind when I have come upstairs for the 3 millionth time in one day to find something, got to the top and pondered "now why am I up here?"

OverMyDeadBody · 05/07/2008 10:33

I get this too, and found it helps to think that it didn't all come from nothing, it just started off as something really really tiny, and slowly got bigger and bigger and bigger and is still expanding now.

It still hurts your head though

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Pruners · 05/07/2008 10:34

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Slubberdekangaroomurderer · 05/07/2008 10:34

Oh but OMDB, what was the really really tiny thing in before it got bigger?

Oh the hairs on my arms just stood up. lovely.

FrannyandZooey · 05/07/2008 10:34

Oh Donnie Darko scared the willies out of me
dp only has to say the word Frank and I have to go and turn the lights on VERY BRIGHT and think of something else

which is ironic because I get called Frank on here quite a lot really

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Pruners · 05/07/2008 10:34

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BecauseImWorthIt · 05/07/2008 10:35

And where do we go when we die? That's the bit that explodes my brain. I watched my mum die - all the machinery switched off - she was there physically but where did she go?

How can a person, personality, spirit, soul - whatever - just stop?

bamamama · 05/07/2008 10:36

Apparently, when my dh was around 4 he was inconsolable because "the universe is too big and I will never understand it all".

My dh is now a philosopher...

FrannyandZooey · 05/07/2008 10:36

yes you are among friends Pruners
I spent enough years with my brain freaked out that I really don't need to do it any more, but We Understand

Slubberdekangaroomurderer · 05/07/2008 10:37

I had to start a thread here after watching Donnie Darko. I lay away in bed for half the night trying to work my way around time threads.

Desiderata is also a like minded freak.....she has some jolly good theories that will make you reverse your car into hedges because your mind is elsewhere.

bamamama · 05/07/2008 10:38

Just don't start wondering where the numbers live. Or where shadows go.

Really. Don't.

Slubberdekangaroomurderer · 05/07/2008 10:40

Oh I know where the numbers live. They live on the stairs. 1 to 10m go from left to right, almost horizontally and the stairs are light yellow, then 11-15 go up vertically and they are red, 16 up they go blue.

OverMyDeadBody · 05/07/2008 10:40

Before the big bang, all the neergy and matter in the uiniverse where concentrated into a single point of zero dimention and infinate density. Then this point exploded out, unwinding itself in a fractrion of a second into space and time as we now know them. It's all still expanding outwards.

Of course it's almost impossible, with our brains, to imagine such a begining.

Slubberdekangaroomurderer · 05/07/2008 10:43

yes yes yes OMDB but what was the 'single point of zero dimention and infinate density' sitting in before it started expanding.

Oh I love this one. Its the same feeling I used to get on Christmas morning before 6am, you could feel your stocking on the end of the bed, but you weren't allowed to open it yet.

OverMyDeadBody · 05/07/2008 10:43

It's when I start thinking asbout time that my mind goes reaslly fuzzy. Or the infinateness of the universe

OverMyDeadBody · 05/07/2008 10:44

Nothing slubber, it was everything, all of space and time was wrapped around it like a blanket. There was nothing else.

BettySpaghetti · 05/07/2008 10:45

Oh no.

I keep coming back to this thread but I'm getting really befuddled -this is going to be popping back into my head all day now

Slubberdekangaroomurderer · 05/07/2008 10:49

but what was the nothing else like.

No time, no matter, no energy, no nowt.

What is that like?

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