Quantum weirdness; no Big Bang (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, February 12, 2015, 01:03 (3573 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: I do not see it [BB] as implying creation at all, and I don't know why atheists or agnostics should regard it as “a blow”. The idea of a universe springing from nothing seems to me - as it does to you - unlikely in the extreme. The idea of mindless energy and matter eternally interacting seems to me more likely.-Please look at my entry yesterday about the imbalance of mesons (2/11, 14:08) Energy made matter under strict meson guidance. I don't believe energy and matter interacted independently of all the 200 factors in fine tuning. Your idea implies chance blundering forward. -> dhw: This might be in the form of an endless succession of universes, or a single universe endlessly changing itself. Or it might be your conscious energy constantly manufacturing universes or constantly monkeying around with just one. A single beginning seems to me the least likely of the three - but I'm not a scientist, which is why I'm pleased to hear of scientists who are also casting doubt on the BB.-And then there is the new book by Lee Smolin, who states emphatically there is only one universe. There may well have been one universe after another, each one from a BB. Same old problem. With cause and effect at work, there has always been something and somehow life and consciousness has appeared. Not by chance.