Cosmology: Latest theories of everything (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 02, 2010, 23:54 (5134 days ago) @ David Turell

Sir Roger Penrose has a new book, 'Cycles of Time', in which he proposes that our universe is cyclical. One paragraph in the folowing website shows how delicately balanced is the Big Bang:-"In the 2007 interview (at the 6:00 mark) Sir Roger opines that the big mystery of the BB, is that all this organized universe (which includes galaxies, stars and us) must in some sense be higher in entropy, more disorganized, more random than the BB, making the BB a truly awesome state of order. One, just one, of many such organized features, is that the expansion rate of the BB would be disturbed if the universe, the entire universe, had so much as one sand grain more or less. Stephen Hawking calculated that at 1:10^60. In this tape, Sir Roger ups the ante to 1:10^123, "an absolutely ridiculously small number" he says. So we are all agreed, the BB is an exquisitely ordered explosion.-The host interjects (at 6:12), "That almost prompts the question, "Who organized it?" Sir Roger sidesteps the question in classic materialist fashion. "Some might put it that way. But I prefer to look at things in a scientific view." Ahhh, so Sir Roger has already determined that the ID question is not science. And this is the root of his crazy theory on how to explain the information in the BB while avoiding the "Who?" question. At this point everything else in his theory becomes mere justification and details, for the assumptions are laid bare."-http://procrustes.blogtownhall.com/2010/11/01/mr_hoyle,_call_your_office.thtml