I thought hyperspace was supposed to be a fictional alternate dimension ala Asimov. What has that got to do with the bending of spacetime by objects?

The attraction is a function of distance - the inverse square or whatever is the equivalent in the quantum world. The strong force in particular works only when the nucleus is tightly bound. Any relaxation in the distances should destabilize the whole thing. So yeah, we will eventually get ripped open. Even atom in our substance will disintegrate.

Space itself is expanding and there is no limit to how fast that can happen. It can be at 1000 times the value of c if necessary.

The speed of light in a vacuum is always c. It doesn't matter if you're moving at 0.9c. If you shine a torch of light ahead of you, it will still move at speed "c".

What is meant here however is that there is no limit to how fast space itself can expand. So say we have two ends of a ruler 1 meter apart. After a while, space itself would expand meaning that the ruler will now be longer than what it was. There is no theoretical limit to how fast this can happen. It can be greater than c.

After a while, the space between the nucleus and electrons or within the nucleus itself will become too large, ultimately ripping apart for the fabric of reality itself.

Wormholes ok, they at least have a theoretical framework in modern science. Warp drives...well if you're talking about moving a space bubble relative to space itself. But since when did "hyperspace" become even a remotely scientific theory?

Tell that to the photons reaching us from the event for whom it literally just happened. There's no such thing as an absolute time scale. Thank you special theory of relativity!

I'm a very happy product...

Well, I don't know if other people are conscious. I only know that I am. And there's no reason for me to think I''m not a machine. I'm a biological robot after all...

Or did no one think of that? Reminds me of some other science paper which said that no machine can ever be conscious. As if somehow we are not machines.

So dumb...

How is the brain not a computer? Pfft...ridiculous conclusions.

But what is the state interest in this? Unless there is just one car manufacturer who has a monopoly on all cars, it's the dealer's decision to sell cars from any particular manufacturer. If they don't like the terms, no one is forcing them to sell cars....

I don't think anyone has a god given right to be a dealer and sell someone else's cars. Sure, it sucks to be a dealer who has no choice but to agree to a car manufacturer's conditions...but so what? Life is tough...

I'm not sure why this "pressure" that car manufacturers put on dealers is a bad thing. They manufacture the product, and if they have the leverage to dictate how it will be sold, good for them. I'm not sure what compelling state interest is served by artificially restricting the way manufacturers can sell their cars.

I'm not hypothesizing about whether or not or how it came from nothing. All I'm pointing out is the illogicality of speaking of causation of an even that gave birth to time.

I have no idea. I'm merely saying that asking "before" for an event which created time itself is meaningless.