"All other mysterious lies downstream of this question. It matters to me because I am human and do not like not knowing."
~ Ann Druyan
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| Roen Kelly |
According to the standard Big Bang model, the universe was born during a period of inflation that began about 13.8 billion years ago. Like a rapidly expanding balloon, it swelled from a tiny, indeed - far, far smaller than the electron to nearly its current size within a tiny fraction of a second.
This is the generally agreed principle and powerful model that explains many of the things scientists see when they look up in the sky. But there is the idea about the existence of the universe, that makes uneasy to the scientist. The idea is that the universe underwent a period of rapid inflation early in its history cannot be directly tested and it relies on the existence of a mysterious form of energy in the universe's beginning that has long since disappeared.
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| Roen Kelly |
According to Eric Agol, "Inflation is an extremely powerful theory, and yet we still have no idea what caused inflation or whether it is even the correct theory, although it works extremely well."
We usually say that nothing can be created out of nothing because we think it would violate the law of conservation of energy. it will ignite the unstoppable process of eternal inflation, leading to the universe we inhabit today. If the theory holds, we owe our existence to the humblest of origins: nothing itself.
In the Inflation model, fluctuations are attributed to quantum fluctuations that happened initially at the beginning of inflation on incredibly small size scales, whereas quantum fluctuations are expected to be significant. Then inflation spreads it to appear on a macroscopic and microwave background. Because the pattern was determined by quantum physics, we can guess what that pattern is.
So how could you create a universe with the matter in it, where there had been nothing before?
Yet the explanation still leaves a huge mystery unaddressed. Although a universe, in Vilenkin’s scheme, can come from nothing in the sense of there being no space, time or matter, something is in place beforehand - namely the laws of physics. Those laws govern the something-from-nothing moment of creation that gives rise to our universe, and they also govern eternal inflation, which takes over in the first nanosecond of time.
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| Roen Kelly |
Even as the theories attempting to solve this mystery grow increasingly complex, scientists are haunted by the possibility that some of the most critical links in their chain of reasoning are wrong.
Further References:
The Beginning of Time - Stephen Hawking
What Came Before the Big Bang? - Discover
Spirituality, Quantum Physics and Life - spl BiNal
ANY idea of the universe beginning or ending is creationism or pseudointellectualism or scientism or just plain fantasy masquerading as science.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that can come before or after reality, the universe, is fantasy.
Therefore reality, the universe, always was, always is, and always will be an infinite dynamic equilibrium eternally existing at the center of time.
No beginning or ending nonsense, no intelligent design nonsense, no guiding consciousness nonsense, no quantum fluctuation nonsense, no god nonsense, no expansion nonsense; just reality always and forever.
If you want to dispute this concept?
Please present the evidence that the phenomenon of 'More distance and time beyond any point of distance and time' ever stops and what is beyond those points if it isn't more distance and time.