Quantum weirdness; no Big Bang (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, February 10, 2015, 14:56 (3574 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: By making certain theoretical 'quantum corrections' to general relativity theory the Big Bang disappears and the universe becomes eternal.
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> http://phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation-universe.html
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> dhw: That should really set the cat among the pigeons. I never did like the BB theory anyway. And this proposal provides some scientific respectability for the hypothesis that energy and matter have been interacting for ever and ever, amen and hallelujah!-"Never liking" the BB sounds prejudicial and emotional. It implies a creation doesn't it. That is a strong blow to agnosticism and also to atheism. The paper above is a new suggestion. It awaits critical review, but it is always fun to throw new ideas into the hopper to stir thinking. And as we learned from Kastner there are all sorts of quantum theorists with very different ideas to solve quantum mechanics counter-intuitiveness.