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re: I want God to be real.
Posted on 1/18/15 at 2:31 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Posted on 1/18/15 at 2:31 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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One way to look at it IMO is that the universe has a beginning. How did it all start? It couldn't have all just appeared out of thin air. There had to be a source for it's beginning. Someone had to create the process that led to the big bang. It couldn't have just happened on it's own. The laws of gravity and physics that the universe has couldn't have just been a complete accident IMO. Everywhere you look in the universe, especially on Earth, just makes it hard to believe it was all one big "oops" to me.
This. Stephen Hawkings is a brilliant man. Maybe the most brilliant man of our time. But I can't understand how he can just come to the conclusion that everything came from a 'singularity' as he calls it and stop there. Well, where did this 'singularity' come from?
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Posted on 1/18/15 at 4:42 pm to WonderWartHawg
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This. Stephen Hawkings is a brilliant man. Maybe the most brilliant man of our time. But I can't understand how he can just come to the conclusion that everything came from a 'singularity' as he calls it and stop there. Well, where did this 'singularity' come from?
A singularity is a dead-end in physics. Hawking didn't say that everything came from a singularity. He, along with every other physicist studying the birth of the Universe, have had to use Einstein's equations to track back to the Big Bang.
Using General Relativity, you will always arrive at a singularity. This means that GR is not adequate to go to and beyond the Big Bang. Actually there was no bang, just inflation and it's the study of this that's helping scientists explore the very origins of time and space in our Universe.
BTW, I think the best physicist living today is Leonard Susskind, not Hawking.
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