in the beginning was Inflation .....
If there is no way to know, as the author surmises, just how does he know it took place 13.8 billion years ago?
The Big Bang may be the method God used to create the universe.
Big Bang is considered a theory
Evolution is considered a theory
God?? Why do so many people believe in God rather than call him a theory?
“Certainly everything in the universe that we see now, at one time before inflation, was smaller than an electron”
I suppose he was trying to simplify things, but how small is an electron, exactly?
9 posts and nary a picture of Kaley Cuoco?
There is no contradiction between “big bang” and creationism. Big Bang posits that the universe had a beginning and that tends to confirm creationism.
What if time itself was variable too? Depending on the current size of the universe.
In the first millisecond (our current feeling of time) a billion years passed?
“But scientists announced Monday a breakthrough in understanding how our world as we know it came to be. If the discovery holds up to scrutiny, it’s evidence of how the universe rapidly expanded less than a trillionth of a second after the Big Bang”
Sounds like a miracle to me.
BANG!
There’s no way for us to know exactly what happened some 13.8 billion years ago, when our universe burst onto the scene.This really depends on the Creationism you go for. If you're like me, Catholic, you believe in Old Earth Creationism and the whole question of evolution and all that is moot. If you're a believer in Young Earth Creationism, well, then the universe wasn't created 13.8 billion years ago, so that's false anyway. The world was created on October 23rd, 4004 BC, at 9:30 AM - assuming you use the Ussher Chronology.
not only that…but what is 13.8 billion years. Einstein, and modern quantum physics demonstrates that time is a physical property, and has not been constant over the life of our universe. In fact, the multiple indicates that as time has changed speeds….14 billion years might equal about 6 thousand years today.Eh, no, that's not right. It's not that time has not been constant. It's that the faster you go, the more time dilates for the object/person going faster. Time dilation doesn't mean that time changes speeds. It's all relative to the observer.
Since the scope of science is confined to our laws of physics, it can’t begin to even deal with that. Using science to prove or disprove God is like trying to use a screwdriver as a hammer. It’s the wrong tool for the job.That's the best description I've heard. You're exactly right. Science is the How. God is the Why. They are non-overlapping magisteria.
It could therefore be postulated that the speed of light over the course of time has changed.That would be C-Decay Theory, and would solve the starlight problem in YEC. The problem is, since the development of electronic digital counters and pulsed lasers, it has been possible to measure the speed of light in the laboratory with great precision. Even if the speed of light reached the proximity of its final value decades ago, there would be enough residual decay as the value reached its limit asymptotically for our modern apparatus to detect. There is none, which means that for the theory to work you have to toss out the exponential decay which governs nearly every phenomenon in the universe in favor of trigonometric functions that only work by brute force curve-fitting. Since it doesn't satisfy Occam's Razor, that's why C-Decay Theory has been abandoned. There are better (meaning, simpler and more accurate) scientific explanations. If C-Decay DID exist, there would be some pretty far-reaching implications. It would not simply mean that "the speed of light has changed over time". It would also mean that the very fabric of reality would be subject to change in the temporal dimension. For example, that would imply that energy is not conserved, thus negating the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, which changes how entropy works completely.
Kind of like AWG David? Wonder if he is one of the 97% who have already determined this is "settled science".
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I have a problem conceiving inflation/big bang and a limited universe...or at least a universe that is restricted to 13.8 billions years old. Too many astrophysicists have told me that when we look into space in ANY direction, we can see no more than 13.8 billion light years away, thus confirming the age.
Sorry, but if there was a bang and inflation, where is the empty center of the universe? If not empty, the stationary components in the center?
There is NO empirical evidence here...just theory...just like dark energy and dark matter. They say...we can’t see or detect dark energy, but it’s there.? Oh really?
How about being the scientists you say you are and saying simply... I don’t know...when in truth we really don’t have the scientific answer.