The Big Bang (Origins)

by David Turell , Friday, April 23, 2010, 02:31 (5327 days ago) @ dhw


> I'm taking this off the "Laetoli footprints" thread because, as George says, if the Big Bang was the beginning of everything, there's no place for God. I'm not offering an opinion either way myself ... I'm simply railing against the definitive statement that there was no "before". No-one can possibly know that.-Yes they can, theoretically. Guth Borde & Valenkin presented a theorum in 2002 which was represented by Guth in the 60th birthday party symposium for Stephen 
Hawking: simply there is no before, before the Big Bang. The theory of the Big Bang is a theory of what happened after the 'origin', whatever that was. To quote Guth (pg. 750 in the book)*, " the theorem...does show that any inflating model that is globally expanding must be geodesically incomplete in the past". His guess was: a beginning is some type of quantum event. Andrei Linde (multiverse proponent) agreed the theorem was correct. (Mike Martin 'Research News & Opportunities in Science and Theology, Vol. 3,No. 5, Jan. 2003)-* "The Future of Theoretical Physics and Cosmology, 2003, Cambridge U. Press