Far out cosmology (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 20:07 (3788 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Not accepted by many, but an interesting thought trying to tackle the quantum gravity standard model problems:-http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rainbow-gravity-universe-beginning-Seems a little far fetched to me, but anything to explain quantum effects. The Big bang is still the preferred model-QUOTE: "The result suggests perhaps the universe had no beginning at all, and that time can be traced back infinitely far."-Good to hear that the Big Bang is now only the preferred model as opposed to the standard model. Since we don't know what might have preceded the Big Bang, we continue to face the prospect of time going back infinitely far. So we still have eternal energy, whether conscious or not, as our first cause. And it doesn't make the slightest difference to the God argument one way or the other.