Thinking of the sublime, of the sublime; of raging oceans, the night sky, the interiors of some cathedrals, and other things that are superhuman, awesome, limitless. No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe:
Yet
1. If the Universe had no beginning
2. there would be nothing for a Creator to explain.
3 But there would still be an eternal Universe to explain.
Yes, but what of the opposing argument?
Suppose next that the Universe is not eternal, since nothing preceded the Big Bang.
That first event, some physicists suggest, may have obeyed the laws of quantum mechanics, by being a random fluctuation in a vacuum.
This would causally explain, they say, how the Universe came into existence out of nothing.
But what physicists call a vacuum isn’t really nothing.
We can ask why it exists, and has the potentialities it does. In Hawking’s phrase, ‘What breathes fire into the equations?
What of the fine tuning that brought about the complexity of life, however, the complexity of life is complex if there is an infinite number of universes and an infinite number of big bangs.
Yet
1. If the Universe had no beginning
2. there would be nothing for a Creator to explain.
3 But there would still be an eternal Universe to explain.
Yes, but what of the opposing argument?
Suppose next that the Universe is not eternal, since nothing preceded the Big Bang.
That first event, some physicists suggest, may have obeyed the laws of quantum mechanics, by being a random fluctuation in a vacuum.
This would causally explain, they say, how the Universe came into existence out of nothing.
But what physicists call a vacuum isn’t really nothing.
We can ask why it exists, and has the potentialities it does. In Hawking’s phrase, ‘What breathes fire into the equations?
What of the fine tuning that brought about the complexity of life, however, the complexity of life is complex if there is an infinite number of universes and an infinite number of big bangs.
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