Nightphoenix wrote:
Can experts now explain the origin of the universe? Many
scientists, uncomfortable with the idea that the universe was created
by a higher intelligence, speculate that by some mechanism it created
itself out of nothing. Does that sound reasonable to you? Such
speculations usually involve some variation of a theory (inflationary
universe model) conceived in 1979 by physicist Alan Guth. Yet, more
recently, Dr. Guth admitted that his theory "does not explain how the
universe arose from nothing." Dr. Andrei Linde was more explicit in a
Scientific American article: "Explaining this initial
singularity-where and when it all began-still remains the most
intractable problem of modern cosmology."
By the way the inflation theory speculates as to what happened a
fraction of a second after the beginning of the universe. Advocates of
inflation hold that the universe was initially submicroscopic and then
inflated faster than the speed of light, a claim that cannot be tested
in a laboratory just like evolution as the origin of man. Inflation
remains a debated theory.
Linde is an expert in this field, but if Vilenkin was asked, then
perhaps he would have given them a better answer.
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0305025
Title: Creation of massive particles in a tunneling universe
Authors: Jooyoo Hong, Alexander Vilenkin, Serge Winitzki
Comments: 32 pages, 1 figure
Journal-ref: Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 023521
"The process of tunneling from nothing can be thought of as a limit of
tunneling from a closed recollapsing universe of very small but nonzero
size to an inflating universe"
Secondly, no physical creation will ever be compatible with cosmology
and reality. It is inaine to point to any lacking in our current
knowledge of cosmology to bolster one's unrealistic convictions of a
physical creation of the universe. And in addition, goddidit is not a
sufficient explaination of anything even if that were the case.
There are higher theological questions that could be framed. But I
wonder how many theologians are capable of doing such a thing. I've
never heard from any. I would be interesting in reading what they had
to say.
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