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"All I'm saying is what happened to the laws of physics, gravity, etc. We explain much of the universe with these principles/theories and yet we cannot explain "the marble" because now it is beyond our comprehension as you state? We used to think that way about many things but eventually science advances to EXPLAIN. Right?. I'm just looking for a scientific explanation. It may not be "correct" but I'd like to hear what it is. Dr. Chrome????"

You are both right (I love relativity LOL). We do use/create theories to explain observations and push forward the boundaries of our understanding. The problem is that we are currently way ahead in "theory." There are many hypotheses out there that could explain that first bit of time. But we do not have the equipment yet to discern which hypothesis is the more correct one. We'll just have to wait until the right projects get funded.

OTOH, what BF is saying could be true. Our universe may just be a bubble in a huge "multi-verse" (to be trite) in which the parameters are possibly infinitely more vast and thus our universe in all its glory could be perceived as easily as microbes on a petri dish. However, we are living on the Petri dish and can't see the forest for the trees.

Let me give you an example. Consider a two dimensional person who lives on a piece of paper. Imagine an object inside a closed square on that piece of paper. The 2-d person can never reach the object or even see it, only the 4 walls of the box. It would be the equivalent of a safe with no door in our reality. However, you as a 3-d person could just reach down and grab the object inside the square with no difficulty. You could even then put the object back down on the paper and it would magically appear in the 2-d person's world. You could even slam it down on the 2-d person's head and he wouldn't even see it coming (sinners in the hands of a angry god, eh?). That is what BF means about things outside our perception. Make sense?

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