Quantum weirdness; no Big Bang (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, February 12, 2015, 19:58 (3354 days ago) @ David Turell

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.-DAVID: 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.-I did read it, and noted that they still don't know why there is a “preponderance of matter in the universe today”. I also noted their talk of “incontrovertible evidence” for the Big Bang, which clearly runs against the theory we are dealing with here. As I keep saying, the concept of an eternal, ever-changing universe, or an eternity of universes, gives chance an infinite number of opportunities to “blunder” into one form of life or another. No, I don't believe it, but as with your God hypothesis, I don't disbelieve it either.-DAVID: 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.

Yep, same old problem. First cause energy with or without a mind? Tweedledum and Tweedledee.