Far out cosmology: imagine the Big Bang (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 23:15 (1025 days ago) @ David Turell

Not really possible:

https://mindmatters.ai/2021/06/no-free-lunches-bernoulli-is-right-keynes-is-wrong/

"If nothing is known about the outcome of a random event, all outcomes can be assumed to be equally probable. Bernoulli’s Principle of Insufficient Reason (PrOIR) is commonly used.

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrincipleofInsufficientReason.html

"Principle of Insufficient Reason A principle that was first enunciated by Jakob Bernoulli which states that if we are ignorant of the ways an event can occur (and therefore have no reason to believe that one way will occur preferentially compared to another), the event will occur equally likely in any way.

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"A common visualization of the classic Big Bang model starts with a big empty space where a type of explosion happens.

"No. This is wrong. “A big empty space” is something, and nothing existed before the Big Bang.

"With some imagination, the “big empty space” can be removed from the visualization. Often the next description, with the idea of space removed, is that suddenly there was an explosion. No. This doesn’t work either. “Suddenly” assumes time, and time is something. Nothing, including time, existed before the creation. (Biblical references to “In the beginning” and “before the beginning of time” are congruent.) So we are left with trying to understand Big Bang ex-nihilo creation void of space and time. Imagining the existence of nothing can be difficult. Doing so can tax the imagination.

"Hidden biases easily sneak in when dealing with either Bernoulli’s PrOIR or Big Bang creation."

Comment: The Big Bang created space-time reality. Its origin is as mysterious as God, Himself. We can not imagine the BB in any way as a start of what is now present. We cannot treat the BB as a natural event. It cannot be a quantum fluctuation, by definition of the above considerations. I am left with God, the Creator.