The meaning of the universe.

[bonsaiguy]

you folks need to think in terms of the big picture. probability mathematics is a fascinating subject of which I know very little. What I do know is that the universe is big....really big, and really really old which means that almost anything that is at all probable will eventually happen in this universe. (kind of like the million monkeys and typewriters thing but much much bigger.
I would suggest you rent the Cosmos series by Carl Sagan and watch it. It's plenty cool and explains a lot, or at least as much as it can. Also check out
Steven Hawkings books as well. Failing that....shutup and fire up another one hit and I am sure you will soon have forgotten...something something...whatever.

[CocaCola]

The Big Bang came from nothing... electroweak, electrostrong, electromagnetic forces and gravity came together as a singularity(sp) and exploded into big mess of stuff... or something like that.

And after the big bang it took a loooong time for the right conditions to come around to even form matter. There is alot of "time" that wasn't experienced...

[flamingskullballs]

i dont think there is a set reality...i believe it to be just billions upon billions of options, choices...and that given, we create the reality we live in...everything we know, or think we know, is all imagination...we can only sense what we feel is able to happen, and because of the teachings of our elders, we rule out most things...ever stop to think that maybe the monster a child sees under his bed could really be there???

in a set reality, you wouldnt have a choice, because any choice would be overruled by the laws of that reality...

when the natives down south, the aztecs, were confronted by the europeans...they didnt see ships coming upon the horizon, just little ripples in the water...because they didnt believe that ships that size could exist, and coming from the edge of the earth??? impossible!!! but then the shaman stood, and watched, and after doing this for a long time, thinking, and probably eating peyote, he saw them...

[flamingskullballs]

and on the big bang theory...it states that everything came from one big mass, well if that happened, that mass would have to be in the middle of the universe...and everything with a center has a perimeter, one of the few facts...so that would rule out a limitless univese...one or the other is wrong...

[king kong bong]

i was just watching something bout that earlier.

[emg]

nobody knows the meaning of the universe. i know the meaning of MY universe though.

[king kong bong]

the world is my playground.

[pabloescobar209]

Personally, I think there is no answer. And that's what causes this natural paranoia across the World. Supreme happiness will never be achieved in life.

^^^^^^ right on dude, humans have the ability of deep thought, which i beleive is our downfall, we can't just accept shit the way it is, i mean some of you are trying to say what is reality isn't, and its just all in our minds.. like your thinking way to far into it looking for an answer thats not there like Ganj said

[beachguy in thongs]

I'm with the Marble Theory. If you throw two-handfuls of Marbles on the kitchen floor and try to explain which one is going where and why, while there rolling, you're gonna have conflicting theories. The kitchen floor isn't always going to be perfectly flat.