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The Universe Really Is Fine-Tuned, And Our Existence Is The Proof [300 word excerpts of an over 2,600Ph article]
Forbes.com ^ | Dec 19, 2019, | Ethan Siegel

Posted on 01/06/2025 8:46:08 AM PST by daniel1212

The Universe is electrically neutral, with one electron to cancel out the charge of every proton in the Universe, and the nuclear forces are extremely short-range, failing to extend beyond the scale of an atomic nucleus.

When it comes to the Universe as a whole, only gravitation matters. The Universe expands at the rate it does throughout its history — and not at a different one — for two reasons alone: our laws of gravity and all the forms of energy that exist in the Universe. If things were slightly different from how they actually are, we wouldn't exist. Here's the science of why. ... Imagine that you came upon a thin, tall, rocky spire here on planet Earth. If you were to place another large rock atop this spire, you would expect it would topple over....When we do find the proverbial boulder balanced in unstable equilibrium, we talk about there being a fine-tuning problem

If we come back to the expanding Universe, that's the situation we find ourselves in: the Universe appears to be enormously fine-tuned.

On the one hand, we have the expansion rate that the Universe had initially, close to the Big Bang. On the other hand, we have the sum total of all the forms of matter and energy that existed at that early time as well, including:

radiation, neutrinos, normal matter, dark matter, antimatter, and dark energy.

A Universe with too much matter-and-energy for its expansion rate will recollapse in short order; a Universe with too little will expand into oblivion before it's possible to even form atoms. Yet not only has our Universe neither recollapsed nor failed to yield atoms, but even today, some 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, those two sides of the equation appear to be perfectly in balance.....

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Reference; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: anthropicprinciple; belongsinreligion; creator; firstcause; thetrollagator; universe; xxxatheism
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To: TexasGator
you cant explain “ where” everything came from

origins

you guys always want to skip that first part

look up singularity and apply the word weasel translator

it means “ nothing “

i understand it just fine.

and as far as ignorant

apparently you are

cuz they have abandoned the THEORY they taught as fact for decades.

professing themselves wise
they became fools

21 posted on 01/06/2025 12:21:49 PM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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To: cuz1961

Once you guys thought thr earth was flat.


22 posted on 01/06/2025 12:23:52 PM PST by TexasGator (|1211i.11'1/'1/11111)
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To: Fuzz
cosmic evolution

biological evolution

micro evolution

same same

total b.s. for God haters period.

/-)

23 posted on 01/06/2025 12:23:53 PM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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To: TexasGator

typical leftist projection

that was you guys

bible teaches a round earth

both the OT and the NT

wow, your ignorance is deeper than i thought.


24 posted on 01/06/2025 12:26:14 PM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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To: cuz1961

Sigh.

No.


25 posted on 01/06/2025 12:28:20 PM PST by Fuzz
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To: cuz1961

“typical leftist projection

that was you guys”

typical leftist projection

that was you guys


26 posted on 01/06/2025 12:29:43 PM PST by TexasGator (|1211i.11'1/'1/11111)
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To: rbg81
Even with a Creator, one can ask: What created the Creator?

Well, not really.

A creator of the universe and all creation stands outside His creation and outside time.

27 posted on 01/06/2025 12:33:44 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ LIFE )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

“A creator of the universe and all creation stands outside His creation and outside time.”

Not if his creator created him.


28 posted on 01/06/2025 12:39:24 PM PST by TexasGator (|1211i.11'1/'1/11111)
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To: TexasGator

I believe that before God spoke the light into being there was nothing, at least nothing that man could perceive. When God said “Let there be light,” there was light. God continued creating until everything that was created was created.


29 posted on 01/06/2025 12:43:50 PM PST by NCLaw441
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To: rbg81

Who created the Creator? This assumes that the Creator was created. The Creator who created time, space and matter had to exist outside of time, space and matter.


30 posted on 01/06/2025 12:49:28 PM PST by NCLaw441
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

To think about Eternity Past hurts are finite human heads.


31 posted on 01/06/2025 12:50:50 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: FatherofFive

The author confuses the concept of the big bang with creation from nothing.


32 posted on 01/06/2025 1:00:08 PM PST by TexasGator (|1211i.11'1/'1/11111)
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To: NCLaw441
"The Creator who created time, space and matter had to exist outside of time, space and matter." Matter does not exist. Only energy states exist. E=MC²
33 posted on 01/06/2025 1:13:09 PM PST by TexasGator (|1211i.11'1/'1/11111)
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To: rbg81

Valid question but this is not Greek mythology.
Exodus 3:14: And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.


34 posted on 01/06/2025 1:44:04 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Fungi

Popeye said something similar.


35 posted on 01/06/2025 2:23:43 PM PST by Fuzz
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To: Fuzz

I am what I am and that’s all that I am, IIRC.


36 posted on 01/06/2025 2:29:04 PM PST by Fungi
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To: rbg81

“On the other hand, who knows how many times an embryonic “Big Bangs” occurred (with each collapsing back onto itself) before yielding the one that produced our universe?”

The universe existed before the big bang in the form of a plasma.


37 posted on 01/06/2025 2:29:52 PM PST by TexasGator (|1211i.11'1/'1/11111)
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To: TexasGator

‘ The universe existed before the big bang in the form of a plasma.’

Lies from the devil.

Before the big bang the was only a Chuck E. Cheese with faulty wiring.


38 posted on 01/06/2025 2:43:26 PM PST by Fuzz
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To: cuz1961
Ethan Siegel is a moron if he believes first there was nothing then it exploded and became everything

Einstein told Niels Bohr that "God does not play with dice." Bohr responded, "Einstein, stop telling God what to do!"

39 posted on 01/06/2025 2:43:36 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Fuzz

sigh

yes.

read and weep.

Darwin’s Top 10 Arguments Against His Own Theory
Herman B. Bouma
March 29, 2023, 2:59 PM

https://evolutionnews.org/2023/03/darwins-top-10-arguments-against-his-own-theory/

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where you been fuzy ?

Big Bang Abandoned in New Model of the Universe

A new cosmology successfully explains the accelerating expansion of the universe without dark energy; but only if the universe has no beginning and no end.
By Emerging Technology from the arXivarchive page
July 27, 2010

https://www.technologyreview.com/2010/07/27/201850/big-bang-abandoned-in-new-model-of-the-universe/

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LPP Fusion
https://www.lppfusion.com › science
The Scientific Evidence Against the Big Bang

Summary from LPPFusion, Inc.

The contradictions between Big Bang theory predictions and observations are not at all limited to those that have been widely dubbed a “Crisis in Cosmology”. Despite the continuing popularity of the theory, essentially every prediction of the Big Bang theory has been increasingly contradicted by better and better data, as shown by many teams of researchers. The observations are, on the other hand, consistent with a non-expanding universe with no Big Bang. The real crisis in cosmology is that the Big Bang never happened.

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40 posted on 01/06/2025 2:57:29 PM PST by cuz1961 (Isaiah 53:3)
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