AGAIN BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE

This subject never goes away because there is no definitive answer to it. What was the beginning of the Universe? Did it have any beginning at all? Was the universe always around in one form or another? Remember that any philosophical, religious, or scientific explanation with a "something from nothing moment" motif is false. In our world, something cannot be made from nothing. There is no such mechanism.

1) The universe originated with a Big Bang. Shortly before that monumental event, there were quantum fluctuations. And they originated from nothing! All energy necessary for that event must have already existed when nothing existed and came from nowhere. Since energy is conserved, the amount of energy in the universe today is the same as before the Big Bang. It just happened to be there, in the right place! Nobody can pinpoint the location where the universe originated. And what was outside of that universe, again nothing?

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation is evidence that something monumental occurred long ago. It gives no hints of what it was. Two galaxies collided, a galaxy being swallowed by a giant black hole, two black holes colliding, etc. You are free to add your own choices because everything is equally likely. We don't know what preceded that event.

It is usually quoted that the universe's age is around 13.8 billion years. Why is it 13.8 and not 23.8? Why wasn't the beginning of the universe delayed by 50 billion years? There is nothing against it. What was the event that set that number to 13.8? What was the spark that ignited everything? What caused the universe to expand rather than contract?

If there was nothing, then there was not even spacetime. So far, nobody can explain the origin of spacetime.

2) Now, religious solution to the problem of origin. God creates everything from nothing. This is nonsense because we already know something cannot be made from nothing. There was nothing around; only God already existed. Where would God stand if there was no Earth to stand on? And without Earth, there is no gravity; without gravity, there is no air to breathe, water to drink, food to eat, and nothing to make clothes from. So, divine God is naked; it's good he has nothing to hide, and it's even better there are no people around to see the naked Creator. Outside of God, there would be nothing, just an empty vacuum. And the vacuum would suck out God's eyes, belly, testicles, and brain. This is not a pretty picture. Pre-creation time is a nasty environment in which to reside. And remember that all of this is happening before God created the Sun. So, there is no source of heat. The temperature would be zero degrees Kelvin. The temperature of nothing does not even exist, so there is still another problem. We don't know what the temperature of God would be; however, from thermodynamics, heat radiation from God's body would quickly reduce the temperature to near zero. If God managed to move an arm, that arm would instantly break off. If God moved its head, that head would break off. If God touched a body part needed to take a leak, that body part would also break off. Can you imagine a divine Creator with no arm, head, and missing pee pee thinking, "I better create something I could stand on. How 'bout the Earth?". All of this is happening at night because there is no Sun yet, so the Creator could not even see what the fuck he was doing. Remember, now the Creator has the complicated task of creating the Earth, the light, and the Sun. Yes, in that wrong order. The light is showing up before its source! People who wrote religious documents did not know that light and the Sun have something in common. It was not apparent to them. The shape of the Earth was unknown, so people thought that God created the Sun in the morning and retired it in the evening. The following morning, there is a new Sun created by God. And this continues like that forever and ever. They did not know that it may take thousands of years before the light generated inside the Sun can leave its surface. They knew the Sun was moving around the Earth; they looked up in the sky to verify it. So again, their God creates first the Earth and then the Sun. Those people did not know that the Earth moves around its star - the Sun. Throughout the year, the Earth tilts, so we have four seasons. There are no seasons on God's created Earth.

God created the Earth on the first day. Number one is needed to have first. Number one was invented by people in Mesopotamia about six thousand years ago. No people are around on the first Biblical day, so there is no number one. Without number one, there is no first, there is no number two, there is no second, etc. God eventually created people, but those people are not Mesopotamians, so there are still no numbers. If you don't believe that, without numbers, how many days would there be between the fourth and first days? Just don't give me third bullshit! How would the Bible writers know what that cold, miserable God described above was doing on the first day, second day, etc? There is not even a Sun on that first day, so there is not even a day. How would that information be forwarded to the Biblical writers?

Numbers are a monumental achievement of humanity. Don't fuck with numbers because you are always going to lose.

3) Other scientific considerations. The universe has always existed; it had no beginning but will have an end. How do you feel about it?

4) We will skip philosophical considerations. You can find those in the literature.

5) This last point is relatively new and quite revolutionary. The universe is quantum, just like everything around us. Some long time ago, it must have existed in some quantum form. It is also probabilistic. It means that noise attached to those old quantum events will prevent us from being able to determine the quantum state. Essentially, we cannot know what a quantum system is doing. Therefore, we cannot determine what happened long ago or when. That is the correct answer to the origin of the universe and its age. We will never know what happened; it is impossible to know that. The universe will forever hold its secrets. That's it.

Exploding The Big Bang - from Aeon. This article prompted me to write the blog you are reading.

#BigBang #universe #creation #God #SomethingFromNothing