Posted on 09/02/2010 2:40:29 PM PDT by WhatNot
LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.
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The laugh is on the guy who doesn't even know how ice is made.
So there’s no mistaking your claim of having the facts about how the Universe is structured,here’s your statement:
“The Universe is not structured by time, it is structured by space-time.”
You made that statement without any qualification. In other words,as a fact.
Wow, he’s become a real fundamentaliat: “I said it, I believe it, that settles it.”
You talk about the laws of physics,well,where did those laws originate? Too perfect to be by chance.
Yes, that is a fact, and has been proven. It's called Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Time has been proven to slow down as speed increases.
The laws of physics in our universe originated the tiniest fraction of a second after the Big Bang created the universe. They are perfect from our own anthropomorphic viewpoint, but only because we exist to observe them. There are likely trillions of other universes that have radically different physical properties than ours does.
It was Hawking and another Physicist who ‘proved’ there was a big bang. It was the Big Bang which brought Time and Space into existence. So far I haven’t seen where Stephen has shown how it was that these two dimensions were brought into existence or intertwined, so I’ll pass on trusting Stephen’s latest assertions.
BTW, the ‘laws of physics’ did not exist before time and space expressed. Without time events cannot occur, without space things/objects do not exist, regardless of how many expressions or variables of either dimension are postulated.
Georges Lemaître was the guy who formulated what would later be known the Big Bang Theory, and it was Fred Hoyle who coined the term. That was in 1949, and Hawking was only 7 years old in 1949.
Hawking did Quantum Gravity and Black Holes, which of course have been proven to exist.
I wrote ‘proved’. Look it up. No one had done a mathematical proof prior to he and another dude writing it.
Back in the late '60s and early '70s, when men first walked upon the moon, "three British astrophysicists, Steven Hawking, George Ellis, and Roger Penrose turned their attention to the Theory of Relativity and its implications regarding our notions of time. In 1968 and 1970, they published papers in which they extended Einstein's Theory of General Relativity to include measurements of time and space.1, 2 According to their calculations, time and space had a finite beginning that corresponded to the origin of matter and energy."3 The singularity didn't appear in space; rather, space began inside of the singularity. Prior to the singularity, nothing existed, not space, time, matter, or energy - nothing. So where and in what did the singularity appear if not in space? We don't know. We don't know where it came from, why it's here, or even where it is. All we really know is that we are inside of it and at one time it didn't exist and neither did we.
Your first sentence is correct, if modified to "our laws of physics", as the laws in a different or previous universe would most certainly be different.
Your second sentence should be modified to "without space-time events cannot occur".
bon nuit
"Proved" is too strong a word. I think "postulated" would be more accurate.
The real proof came before Hawking's papers on singularities in space, and consisted of the background radiation found by Penzius and Wilson in 1964.
It is late here too. I would love to debate more.
I must say I appreciate your intellect and belief system more because I can see you have given some deeper thought to these matters than others.
Good night.
Where does time and space (distance) not exist?
How about in the reference frame of a photon.
At the speed of light time stops, length contraction goes to infinite (no distance).
A photon does not exist in our reference frame of 3 spatial dimensions and 1 temporal dimension, but it does exist.
Conclusion, Photons do, from their reference frame, exist without time and space.
When Job doubted God, God asked him a simple question: “Were you there?”
Strange thing to say given that your own thoughts on this stuff are about an inch deep.
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