Stenger\'s Cosmology (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, February 10, 2014, 01:29 (3940 days ago) @ George Jelliss

George: Further to my arguments in Far Out Cosmology
> You might like this debate:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOE48P2M-ao
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> I'm not sure when it was held.
> His arguments are much as they are in his books.
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> He does identify time before the big bang, 
> but it is imaginary (in the mathematical sense)!-Thank you for a wonderful reference on Stenger. His talk assumes a quantum energy state preceding our big bang. He seems to assume it always existed just as we (dhw, Tony, & I) have insisted there has always been energy. I don't think in our discussions here we are all far apart. He give cause and effect in breaking symmetry and describing the quantum reactions that might have caused the Big Bang. His assumption that the quantum emergy before the BB is the same as the quantum energy we study in this universe is probably correct, although string theory with 10^500 universes suggests some universes could be different in their quantum mechanics.-There are many opinions that consciousness needs to be a part of quantum reactions and charcteristics. This may be due to our total misunderstanding of QM. Ruth Kastner's theory about transactional analysis of QM reactions, describing a layercake like arrangement of our reality and quantum reality separated by a wall of uncertainty has helped my underdstanding of the mystery, but I still think conscousness playa a role and why I think a universal consciousness is the God of religions.-http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/critical-opalescence/2013/06/21/can-we-resolve-quantum-paradoxes-by-stepping-out-of-space-and-time-guest-post/