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"Raktizer Omheit" |
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02 Nov 2006 12:36:32 AM |
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The Big Bang, Vacuum Energy, and Nihilsm. |
The theory which states that the universe began with the Big Bang explosion
some 20 billion years ago has been taken as proof by some theologians for
the existence of God as a necessary cause for that explosion in the first
place. Such theologians argue that the primordial matter which the Big Bang
erupted from could not have created or caused itself to exist from the
nothingness of outer space, unless God by means of a miracle caused this to
happen. In ancient, pagan Greece Aristotle came up with the philosophical
concept of the "uncaused cause,"or Supreme Being, as the origin of the
universe, which centuries later the Christian scholastic theologian Saint
Thomas Aquinas referred to as "The First Cause" or "Prime Mover," i.e. God
Himself. Today, with the latest discoveries and refinements in the realms of
String Theory, Quantum Physics, Thermodynamics, and the General Theory of
Relativity, it is argued that the primordial matter out of which the Big
Bang erupted from could indeed have been created out of the nothingness of
space, i.e. from Vacuum Energy to use the scientific term. In other words,
energy came from a vacuum, or in other words, from nothing. If the
oscillating theory or Big Crunch of the universe proves to be true, i.e.
that there is so much dark energy and dark matter out there that eventually
the universe will stop expanding and began contracting back into the
primordial matter it came from, only to be followed by another Big Bang ad
infinitum, one still has to wonder how many Big Bangs and Big Crunches there
have been so far? If there have been let's say 1 million Big Bangs and Big
Crunches so far, what was there before the first Big Bang in the series of 1
million?
There are estimated to be more than 200 billion billion stars in the
universe, of which our sun is just a tiny miniscule of a percentage of. Many
of these distant stars or suns probably have solar systems with planets
revolving around them, like our own solar system, and many of these planets
have probably highly advanced, civilized, and intelligent life forms like
planet Earth, and also with a history of multiple comet and asteroid
strikes, and supervolcanic eruptions from time to time, followed by periods
of mass extinctions of the species living there. If one day a particle
accelerator of sufficient length and power is built, the existence of
tachyons, i.e. subatomic particles which can travel faster than the speed of
light, might be confirmed. It is speculated that the subatomic particles
known as Higgs Bosons would indeed turn out to be tachyons if they could be
accelerated beyond the speed of light. Because of the vastness of
intergalactic space, some stars and galaxies are so far away from planet
Earth that the light they send out may take thousands or even millions of
years to reach us, and in effect are shown as they were in the past. If
millions of highly intelligent species from millions of planest have indeed
perfected the technology of space travel at speeds faster than that of
light, they may very well have surreptitiously visited and influenced the
human race a countless number of times in the past. The vehicles used by the
cherubim angels of God to visit the prophet Ezekiel, as shown in the Book of
Ezekiel chapters 1 to 2 and 9 to 10, do resemble a U.F.O. spacecraft in many
ways. If the monotheist God of Judaism, ancient Persian/Iranian
Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam does exist, one would have to
speculate that Jesus Christ has visited maybe millions of planets, has been
crucified millions of times, been resurrected millions of times, ascended
back to heaven millions of times, and returned for His Second Coming
millions of times. One would have to also speculate that there are millions
of Satans, along with their following of fallen angels, for millions of
planets, and that the Archangel Michael has had to do battle millions of
times, or that he has millions of loyal archangels like him. See Revelation
12:7-9.
The concept of predestination in theology oddly has its counterpart in new
insights concerning studies between genetic predispositions in family
histories and the case histories of repeat offenders or habitual criminals.
Of course predestination itself is a problematic concept for theologians
because God is argued to be the one who makes people good, whereas it is
Satan who tempts people to acts of evil. In addition, according to I Timothy
2:1-4 and II Peter 3:9, God wants everyone to be saved, and therefore
implying that free will exists, although God is presumed to know ahead of
time what people will choose. The truthfulness of the Bible has also been
called into question with the theory of evolution as first brought to large
scale attention with Charles Darwin, at least as regards a literal
interpretation of the Creation story as put forth in the Book of Genesis,
and new archaeological and genetic discoveries are challenging or even
discarding a literal interpretation of the Bible quite frequently in
academic circles.
Maybe the nihilists are right, and there is no meaning and purpose in the
universe. Maybe the universe was created out of nothingness, and maybe the
Vacuum Energy theory is right. Personally, my common sense and gut feeling
tells me that this is just too absurd and too unscientific to be true, and
that Energy could not have come from a vacuum or nothing, unless God made
this to happen. This is what I believe in my hearts of hearts, although even
I have doubts from time to time. I however will place my bet on the
probability that God exists, which to me is a higher probability than God
not existing.
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| User: "Sam Wormley" |
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| Title: Re: The Big Bang, Vacuum Energy, and Nihilsm. |
02 Nov 2006 07:00:51 AM |
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Raktizer Omheit wrote:
The theory which states that the universe began with the Big Bang explosion
some 20 billion years ago...
That's not what the BB theory says...
No Center
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/nocenter.html
Also see Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html
WMAP: Foundations of the Big Bang theory
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html
WMAP: Tests of Big Bang Cosmology
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest.html
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| User: "Raktizer Omheit" |
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| Title: Re: The Big Bang, Vacuum Energy, and Nihilsm. |
02 Nov 2006 06:13:52 PM |
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"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:7_l2h.1048041$084.618710@attbi_s22...
Raktizer Omheit wrote:
The theory which states that the universe began with the Big Bang
explosion some 20 billion years ago...
That's not what the BB theory says...
No Center
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/nocenter.html
Also see Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmology_faq.html
WMAP: Foundations of the Big Bang theory
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html
WMAP: Tests of Big Bang Cosmology
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest.html
Sam Wormley, how underwhelming!
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