A question from an eight year old

Wings said:
The Little Prince is a good book for young, inquisitve minds that also helps children think outside-the-box. It's seems like she's very intelligent and would enjoy it.
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Yeah, I know. I was one of them.
Sorry, I thought cosmictraveler was asking IF the kid had read the book... :eek:
 
Hmm.. I would have said "sweetie that's a great question. it would seem that a long long long time ago, like 15 billion years or so, there was a big explosion called "the big bang", which created the space we currently inhabit. the momentum of that explosion (like the reason your bike keeps coasting after you pedal for a while) is still causing the universe to expand"

or something like that.
 
TruthSeeker said:
Why are you asking that.....? How's that relevant? :confused:

PS: Thanks for the link
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When I read it I was amazed about all the planets that it talks about and how far away eveything was but ....and therein lies the crux of the book.
 
Water:

Hekki is Beyond the Beyond, Above and All, Transcendental and Imminent, Within and Without.
 
Scott Myers said:
OK, I was driving my daughter to a local skatepark.. we were listening to music, loudly, and she had a question, that deserves some pondering. Maybe it's philosophy, maybe a little science, but still...

She said, "When I'm drinking my water from this bottle, air cannot get back into the bottle, so it collapses. So, how big is the universe?"

What are you talking about? "We'll the universe is not made of air or water, so why doesn't it collapse?"

HMMM????

So.. What of the vacuum??? Did she prove the universe is infinite, or did she prove that it has rigid borders, that keep it from collapse???

What do you all think? Does it prove anything?

I told her I would think on it. I didn't tell her I would be consulting a bunch of folks with brains, but that is what I am doing.

So, please help me be smarter than she is, just for a couple more years!!
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People prior to middle school are deep and philosphical...because they haven't really been exposed to the extremely shallow mindset that is middle and high school.
It won't last forever...
 
I think it's just infinite emptiness.
But i could be wrong, I'm only twice your daughters age, and probably half your age.
 
c7ityi_:

Crom is definitely amongst them, isn't he? For Crom laughs at the four winds!
 
Prince_James,

I saw that movie not too long ago actually. The 4 winds come from a paradisical oneness (God). The 4 winds are a "miracle". It just depends on the "direction" of the wind, that decides which one of the 4 or it is. God's 4 faces are visible everywhere. You know those faces, they are the same as the 4 elements. They can easily be detected in colors, animals, emotions etc.

I do not know Crom. I do not read much, but I know it's an -earth- God, so maybe he is one of 4 gods.

It just depends on us, how many of them exists. Whether they are 4 (elements), 2 (yin yang) 12 (zodiac) 360, or infinite... or only 1. But without separation, knowledge is possible, so dividing them into 12 would be a rational number at larger scales [30000 years] which would give much information, and there are other reasons for that too.... paint 4 equilateral triangles, each facing different side... join them together and there are 12 sides. an equilateral triangle is divinity... the number 4 is how god expresses itself in the material world... because.. he 3 in 1 must be 1+3 since 2 things can't exist on the same place in the material wrold... man, i have to go to sleep.
 
You know not of Crom? Let me tell you more, then!

Crom is the chief of Gods and he lives on a great mountain, whence he sends foth dooms and death. It is useless to call upon him, for he is gloomy and savage, and he hates weaklings. In fact, pray to him and he is more likely to send you death than fortune! But he gives man courage at birth and the power to slay his enemies and what more can we ask of a God than that?
 
No, Crom is a being, and he gives man courage at birth and the power to slay his enemies, as noted above.
 
I'd be careful not to draw your attention to him. He curses the weaklings who seek him out.
 
She said, "When I'm drinking my water from this bottle, air cannot get back into the bottle, so it collapses. So, how big is the universe?"

This is a question from an 8 year old imaging the universe as a vessel filled with something that must have left.. leaving a vacant "space" that is not being re-filled. She has made a lot of happy leaps in her reasoning..

Tell her it is not a measurable vessel, that space is not empty, and nowhere is there somewhere where nothing is. We don't know the name of the something that fills the empty space she imagines, but we know we'll think of a name as soon as we apprehend the something that leaves no emptiness ...

So don't worry, you're as safe as Daddy can make you in a Universe filled with expanding whatsit.

:D
 
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