The Most Mind-bending Question Ever Posed To Man.

[WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
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Ok, I may have lied, this might not be the most bind mending question ever. But it caused me to stop what I was doing for a good 20 minutes when it hit me.


Ok, picture this. Today is Sunday. Roll back a day, and it's Saturday. Roll back another, and you're sitting in the middle of Friday.

Roll all the way back to the beginning of the universe..... what day is it? <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->


I'm a Thursdayist myself. Although Monday would be more poetically justified or whatever the terminology would be.
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  • Omega_DeathOmega_Death Sith apprentice to a box of Cereal Join Date: 2003-08-06 Member: 19042Members
    Well considering Sunday is the beginning of the week and that would be the beginning of time itself I would say it would be very early Sunday morning.
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  • SupernornSupernorn Best. Picture. Ever. Made. Ever. Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7608Members, Constellation
    This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
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  • Quantum_MooseQuantum_Moose Join Date: 2005-03-05 Member: 43643Members
    Back then, all the days hadn't drifted apart, making it Pangeaday.

    NEXT!
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  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    edited July 2005
    Everyone hates Mondays, and supposedly this was the day the man upstairs began his 6 day creation, so guess I'm a Mondayist.

    But wait, I don't work, and I have a steady income, so let me change that to say I am a <b>Paydayist</b>! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    Whatever day is payday is my day, meh!
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  • BulletHeadBulletHead Join Date: 2004-07-22 Member: 30049Members
    edited July 2005
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    bakas... all of you

    According to "christian" beliefs, God created the world in 7 days. On the SEVENTH day, the Sabbath, he rested- the Sabbath is upheld by most Christians on Sunday. So it stands to reason the FIRST day of the universe was <span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'><b>MONDAY!</b></span></span>

    <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>Why else would Mondays suck so hard?</span></span>
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Quantum Moose+Jul 10 2005, 08:53 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Quantum Moose @ Jul 10 2005, 08:53 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Back then, all the days hadn't drifted apart, making it Pangeaday.

    NEXT! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    qfgj


    done and done
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  • kill4thrillskill4thrills Join Date: 2004-06-24 Member: 29506Members, Constellation
    yep, it's monday. the day we get off our lazy bums to go to work is the day that god decided to get off his lazy bum to create the universe. prior to then he was just lying in darkness for eternity wondering what the hell he should do on "monday"
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  • BulletHeadBulletHead Join Date: 2004-07-22 Member: 30049Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-kill4thrills+Jul 10 2005, 09:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kill4thrills @ Jul 10 2005, 09:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yep, it's monday. the day we get off our lazy bums to go to work is the day that god decided to get off his lazy bum to create the universe. prior to then he was just lying in darkness for eternity wondering what the hell he should do on "monday" <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    exactly!
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  • ThansalThansal The New Scum Join Date: 2002-08-22 Member: 1215Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-kill4thrills+Jul 10 2005, 09:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kill4thrills @ Jul 10 2005, 09:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yep, it's monday. the day we get off our lazy bums to go to work is the day that god decided to get off his lazy bum to create the universe. prior to then he was just lying in darkness for eternity wondering what the hell he should do on "monday" <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    then how do you explain people like me?

    I start work on tuesdays!
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  • kill4thrillskill4thrills Join Date: 2004-06-24 Member: 29506Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Thansal+Jul 10 2005, 07:02 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Thansal @ Jul 10 2005, 07:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-kill4thrills+Jul 10 2005, 09:01 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (kill4thrills @ Jul 10 2005, 09:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yep, it's monday. the day we get off our lazy bums to go to work is the day that god decided to get off his lazy bum to create the universe. prior to then he was just lying in darkness for eternity wondering what the hell he should do on "monday" <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    then how do you explain people like me?

    I start work on tuesdays! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    it's because you're so slow you're one day behind the rest of us
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  • BulletHeadBulletHead Join Date: 2004-07-22 Member: 30049Members
    >_>

    You suck...

    shh... hear that?

    I'ma gonna tell you a story bout a man named SHH!

    SH! SH!

    You're done... NO! no... you're... you're done... you're just done... aight?

    <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • xKORExslimxKORExslim Join Date: 2003-01-11 Member: 12182Members
    How can we measure who long it took god to create the world if the concept of time was discovered long after the world was created?

    In fact, our measurement of time only applies to this planet in this solar system... Any other place in the universe we have to compensate for time differences. So if the universe was created in 7 days, where is this 7 days measured from? Here? that means it was created in something like 15 days somewhere else.


    It's crazy to think about it.
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    I think it's clear that when I say day, I mean a normal Earthican day. And I tried to emphasize the backwardsness of it all to evade that whole (it was before time was even thought up) angle.
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  • KGB_GaralKGB_Garal Join Date: 2005-06-09 Member: 53476Members
    The universe was started on a thursday.. because that's the day I was born. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • CronosCronos Join Date: 2002-10-18 Member: 1542Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-T h e m+Jul 11 2005, 12:22 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (T h e m @ Jul 11 2005, 12:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I think it's clear that when I say day, I mean a normal Earthican day. And I tried to emphasize the backwardsness of it all to evade that whole (it was before time was even thought up) angle. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Hrmmm, Depends. Terrestrial days can vary in length. At the time the earth was formed, one day was only four hours long (I'm so dizzy my head is spinning...). Over time this slowed down to roughly 30 hours, until (it is theorised) a chunk of the earths mantle plummetted corewards and sped things up to roughly what things are today.

    Oh, and lets not forget to thank the moon for muddying things up, what with her gravity gradually applying the brakes to our lovely spin.

    Thus, proving that the universe began on a Thursday!
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cronos+Jul 10 2005, 08:02 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cronos @ Jul 10 2005, 08:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-T h e m+Jul 11 2005, 12:22 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (T h e m @ Jul 11 2005, 12:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I think it's clear that when I say day, I mean a normal Earthican day. And I tried to emphasize the backwardsness of it all to evade that whole (it was before time was even thought up) angle. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Hrmmm, Depends. Terrestrial days can vary in length. At the time the earth was formed, one day was only four hours long (I'm so dizzy my head is spinning...). Over time this slowed down to roughly 30 hours, until (it is theorised) a chunk of the earths mantle plummetted corewards and sped things up to roughly what things are today.

    Oh, and lets not forget to thank the moon for muddying things up, what with her gravity gradually applying the brakes to our lovely spin.

    Thus, proving that the universe began on a Thursday! <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Once again, backwards starting from today people.


    BAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKWWWWWWAAAAAARRRRRRDDDDDDSSSSSSS.
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  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    Friday.

    Because when the universe started, there was one hell of a sick party I bet.
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  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Sunday, because the world is full of dread of the next day.
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    At about 9PM on a Wednesday.
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  • HybridclawHybridclaw Join Date: 2003-11-03 Member: 22271Members
    the beginning of the universe was on a wednesday, i know this because i am god


    mwa ha ha ha ha ha

    here a gorge: <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-T h e m+Jul 10 2005, 08:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (T h e m @ Jul 10 2005, 08:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Ok, I may have lied, this might not be the most bind mending question ever. But it caused me to stop what I was doing for a good 20 minutes when it hit me.


    Ok, picture this. Today is Sunday. Roll back a day, and it's Saturday. Roll back another, and you're sitting in the middle of Friday.

    Roll all the way back to the beginning of the universe..... what day is it? <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->


    I'm a Thursdayist myself. Although Monday would be more poetically justified or whatever the terminology would be. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Technically no day, because the universe was around before the concept of "days" existed
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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Join Date: 2003-08-27 Member: 20284Members
    edited July 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-CommunistWithAGun+Jul 10 2005, 11:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Jul 10 2005, 11:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Technically no day, because the universe was around before the concept of "days" existed <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Stop being lame.

    EDIT: Tuesday. Tuesday always feels a little bit older than other days.
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  • UnderDOGUnderDOG Join Date: 2003-04-05 Member: 15221Members
    Too bad we can’t even come close to the exact age of the universe (enough to get a day at least). Or best guess is around 14-million-ish years atm?
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  • DrSuredeathDrSuredeath Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8217Members
    edited July 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-BulletHead+Jul 10 2005, 08:57 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BulletHead @ Jul 10 2005, 08:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> ...

    bakas... all of you

    According to "christian" beliefs, God created the world in 7 days. On the SEVENTH day, the Sabbath, he rested- the Sabbath is upheld by most Christians on Sunday. So it stands to reason the FIRST day of the universe was <span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'><b>MONDAY!</b></span></span>

    <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>Why else would Mondays suck so hard?</span></span> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Pssst.

    The Seventh day is Saturday.


    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The first Christians were Jews and it is assumed without much controversy, and there is some Biblical evidence that, they honored the Sabbath from Friday's sunset to Saturday's sunset. This would have continued at least until the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in A.D. 70. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath' target='_blank'>Wikify</a>

    The early popes found it will be easier to convert people to Christianity if they change it from Saturday to Sunday, as non-Christians worship the Sun. "The Roman Catholic Church teaches that the early Church met on Sunday (The first day) according to its own authority, and not on the basis of any Scriptural mandate to do so."
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  • GlissGliss Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14800Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
    <!--QuoteBegin-CommunistWithAGun+Jul 10 2005, 08:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CommunistWithAGun @ Jul 10 2005, 08:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-T h e m+Jul 10 2005, 08:49 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (T h e m @ Jul 10 2005, 08:49 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Ok, I may have lied, this might not be the most bind mending question ever. But it caused me to stop what I was doing for a good 20 minutes when it hit me.


    Ok, picture this. Today is Sunday. Roll back a day, and it's Saturday. Roll back another, and you're sitting in the middle of Friday.

    Roll all the way back to the beginning of the universe..... what day is it?  <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif' /><!--endemo-->


    I'm a Thursdayist myself. Although Monday would be more poetically justified or whatever the terminology would be. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Technically no day, because the universe was around before the concept of "days" existed <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    logic'd
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  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    Meh, but, if you go back, even before the earth existed, time still existed, so if you were to take todays system, I'd say Wednesday,

    Hey, I have a 1 in 7 chance of being correct...
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  • goAnimositygoAnimosity Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7689Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Caboose+Jul 11 2005, 12:34 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Caboose @ Jul 11 2005, 12:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Meh, but, if you go back, even before the earth existed, time still existed, so if you were to take todays system, I'd say Wednesday,

    Hey, I have a 1 in 7 chance of being correct... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    If this were russian roulette, the odds would be more in your favor.
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  • stallioNstallioN Join Date: 2005-06-21 Member: 54363Members
    edited July 2005
    I wish it were Russian Roulette. Only the kind where the revolving cylinder is fully loaded.
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  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-BulletHead+Jul 10 2005, 05:57 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (BulletHead @ Jul 10 2005, 05:57 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> ...

    bakas... all of you

    According to "christian" beliefs, God created the world in 7 days. On the SEVENTH day, the Sabbath, he rested- the Sabbath is upheld by most Christians on Sunday. So it stands to reason the FIRST day of the universe was <span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'><b>MONDAY!</b></span></span>

    <span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>Why else would Mondays suck so hard?</span></span> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    But... the first day would be a Sunday.
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  • SoulSkorpionSoulSkorpion Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 423Members
    edited July 2005
    All you're actually asking is "how old is the universe?". You're just asking for the answer to be to a higher degree of precision than it is usually given.

    I was originally going to write out a much longer reply, but it really just boils down to that.

    [edit]What gets really interesting is if you start to factor <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=94596&st=60#' target='_blank'>relativity</a> into the picture, though <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->[/edit]
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