Oylie, nobody's banging teddies that I know about but was wondering if some teddy talk could flush you and Mr Jones out of dormancy. Also, gyro has been pestering for a response that I had hinted about some time ago ....... this short one to thnooks will have to do for the moment.
Gyro, as usual I have trouble understanding your comments. I discount the idea of multiple universes and parallel universes by definition ....i.e. universe simply means everything that exists anywhere. Ideas such as a collapsing or expanding universe takes the assumption that whilst all things are subject to divergence and convergence from other things that make the universe, that it can also be applied to the actual infinite universe as a whole. This cannot happen because it is infinite in the three spatial directions although as I've said any portion of the universe might come into perceptible existence via convergence of its separate parts from elsewhere in the universe and likewise any portion of the universe might go out of perceptible existence via divergence of its separate parts to elsewhere in the universe. You also cannot have a designed universe because it had no beginning, always existed and will always exist.
These ideas about the universe are just reasoned and logical deductions from what we know with the need for assumptions like inseparability, interconnection, materialism, causality, uncertainty and others. We can imagine much, then test in the external world through observation and experiment but we cannot ignore the imperfections produced by INFINITY. However, if the universe was based on finity it is possible that we would "know" all the time.... but it aint.
