The Big Bang Theory

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X-ray wrote:

Even if all this came from a single atom, it is that atom's origin that I want to know about.

1) Atoms didn't exist until quite some time after the big bang (sorry I'm just being cheeky here :-)).

2) In order to have an origin you need to have Time.

3) Time is property of our universe, which cannot exist outside of it.

4) Isn't "Time" just our perception of the rate of change anyway... so we shouldn't look at time at all, but a more abstract property called "Change"?

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@X-ray

I think your problem is not with what is on the scales, but the scales themselves...

I like to think of the universe as an equation, it doesn't matter what that equation is, all that matters is that it is more or less ballanced.

Now the question you ask is: Why is there an equation?

The Weak anthroplogical theory satifies that question for me.