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    Quote Originally Posted by AlexS View Post
    True. Although an agnostic myself, it seems to me that if there is a 'God' the easiest way to create the universe would be to set up the scientific rules by which it operates.
    And that didn’t happen?

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    Well, there certainly are rules,even if we don't know all of them yet. Were they set by a God? That we don't know. If there is, who created Him/Her? I guess we won't ever know until it's too late.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AlexS View Post
    True. Although an agnostic myself, it seems to me that if there is a 'God' the easiest way to create the universe would be to set up the scientific rules by which it operates.
    How about the rules are god? Gravity, the strong and weak nuclear forces, and electromagnetism and their relative strengths basically what happens across the physical and chemical universe. "Feeeeel the force".

    On another topic. Anyone else cynical enough to see how the Trump/Kim interaction has been staged by Russia and China to make Trump look good and keep him in the running for the next election?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Anyone else cynical enough to see how the Trump/Kim interaction has been staged by Russia and China to make Trump look good and keep him in the running for the next election?
    What's cynical about that?
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    Quote Originally Posted by AlexS View Post
    If there is, who created Him/Her?
    That's not a valid question for the same reason that "what was before the big bang?" is not valid.

    You're talking about something before the concept of time existed, when there is no before or after, it just IS. It's totally outside of human experience.

    I certainly can't wrap my head around it, maybe someone else out there can

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    Quote Originally Posted by elanjacobs View Post
    That's not a valid question for the same reason that "what was before the big bang?" is not valid.

    You're talking about something before the concept of time existed, when there is no before or after, it just IS. It's totally outside of human experience.

    I certainly can't wrap my head around it, maybe someone else out there can
    The whole question of what is time is an interesting one. Recently there has been an Italian physicist/philosopher (Carlo Rovelli) on Radio National giving some talks about the nature of time. He reckons time and time line is a human construct - there's only what's going on right now to an individual and there's no such thing as past or future time. If you want to do your head in, try listening to him, he also has plenty of youtube vids - it takes him a long time (ha ha) to say relatively little.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    The whole question of what is time is an interesting one. Recently there has been an Italian physicist/philosopher (Carlo Rovelli) on Radio National giving some talks about the nature of time. He reckons time and time line is a human construct - there's only what's going on right now to an individual and there's no such thing as past or future time. If you want to do your head in, try listening to him, he also has plenty of youtube vids - it takes him a long time (ha ha) to say relatively little.
    If the earth didn't rotate on its axis while orbiting the sun, would there be time? I was created and after a period, I will die. So time does not need to be measured to exist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    On another topic. Anyone else cynical enough to see how the Trump/Kim interaction has been staged by Russia and China to make Trump look good and keep him in the running for the next election?
    Well, Trump does appear to be making more progress than his predecessors.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Twisted Tenon View Post
    If the earth didn't rotate on its axis while orbiting the sun, would there be time?
    We would have to develop a different method of measuring it

    Time is a human construct in the sense that we are the only species to measure it and to use it to describe the world; it would still exist if there was no-one or no reason to measure it, it just wouldn't matter.

    It's also unique because it's the one part of nature that we can't interact with.

    I guess you could say it doesn't "exist" because there's nothing physical to observe, but I would contend that it's still a very real part of existence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by elanjacobs View Post
    We would have to develop a different method of measuring it

    Time is a human construct in the sense that we are the only species to measure it and to use it to describe the world; it would still exist if there was no-one or no reason to measure it, it just wouldn't matter.

    It's also unique because it's the one part of nature that we can't interact with.

    I guess you could say it doesn't "exist" because there's nothing physical to observe, but I would contend that it's still a very real part of existence.
    That’s an interesting concept, Time as a part of nature. I think it exists because everything dies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cava View Post
    Well, Trump does appear to be making more progress than his predecessors.
    I contend hat Trump is only making as much progress as russia and china will allow. They after all pull the NK strings.

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    Surely, time is simply a measure of change.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TermiMonster View Post
    Surely, time is simply a measure of change.
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    A change of what?

    If you stand on the earth in most places you will see day and night, so one could say that sunlight is changing and call it a day but if you stand on the north and south pole you see something different and if you're somewhere in space outside the earths shadow you'll never see it change.

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    How about the rules are god? Gravity, the strong and weak nuclear forces, and electromagnetism and their relative strengths basically what happens across the physical and chemical universe.
    Possibly the most rational answer.
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