Stenger\'s Cosmology refuted (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, March 21, 2014, 13:58 (3900 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: How do you know that this universe marked THE beginning of time and space? -It obviously did for us-> dhw:How do you know that there has not been a past eternity of events? If, as David and I have agreed, energy is the source of everything, how do you know that energy has not been producing matter for ever and ever, with our own universe just one "event" in an endless sequence of "events"?-Very possible. Can't be excluded->dhw: This seems to me just as likely as a universe coming from an absolute nothing (a concept that nobody seems able to agree on anyway),-Impossible. you can't get something from an absolute nothing -> dhw:or energy producing absolutely nothing until it suddenly produces this one and only universe. -Very possible. Just as likely-> dhw: No false vacuum, and no creation ... just eternal energy eternally producing matter. How matter produced us is, of course, another subject.-Fair enough.-See my just produced entry about the Strassler version of the Big Bang