Other Forms of Life (Evolution)

by David Turell , Thursday, November 27, 2008, 01:37 (5637 days ago) @ George Jelliss

However my preferred answer, as I&apos;ve expressed before, based on the logical principle of Ockham&apos;s Razor, is that the universe appeared as a &quot;fluctuation in the void&quot;, involving no pre-existing intelligence. < - As I have stated before, I disagree with George. Occam (my spelling) has to be extended to the following considerations or is not logical. The only void-like space we know is the vacuum in this universe. We cannot know what is outside our universe. It is expanding and should be expanding into an absolute void. There may be an absolute void, outside our universe, with no energy or &apos;virtual&apos; energy particles. It is a possibility it may be like our universe with &apos;virtual&apos; quantum particles, popping in and out of existence in the space between galaxies. The Big Bang may represent a quantum fluctuation within a space like our universe has, but that seems unreasonable, since our universe has a finite beginning. Where is that other space now, beyond the background microwave radiation (from the Big Bang) at the edge of the universe? What George wants is an eternal space, small in size, with virtual particles, and then he can have his quantum fluctuation which produces a universe with 10 to the 8oth power of particles. Certainly, an eternal &apos;something&apos; gets rid of the possibility of a &apos;creation&apos;.