Hawkings now argues that there need not be an event to start the big bang. That there is no reason to believe there was a cause.
It just was and always will be.
Well, Muslims call their god Allah, Christians call their God Jehovah (among other names), and evolutionists call their god Big Bang.
In other words, the Big Bang is a Big Banging.
Hmmm...sounds familiar. Not surprising that this universe would mirror its Creator.
A very non scientific explanation from a very scientific source. What a cop out. He should detach his speaker box and not offer anything that demonstrates his hypocrisy.
I never cared much for Hawking. Perhaps it's because listening to him try to communicate is uncomfortable. Perhaps I'm way too much of a rube to understand what smart people understand even if they don't know.
The concept of the Big Bang is way more than fascinating. People who understand it...sort of...say it was neither big nor loud. They describe where we were before the Big Bang, again, without the ability to comprehend it. I always wondered what surrounded that microscopic speck that banged into everything we see.
I always wondered what got it started.
This is an area where Hawking's understanding and mine are about equal.
His explanation is, "That isn't important. Therefore it requires no explanation." His answer to why the Big Bang banged is, "Becuz." Maybe I missed something.
There is a permutation of a line from Air America, one of the great lines in the history of moviedom. It goes something like this: I'm sixty-four yeare old, and so far I haven't figured out anything.
It just was and always will be.
How utterly preposterous. What is the name for "that" science? The "it was and always will be" effect. Whatever happened to cause and effect?
Amen.
Yes, the universe just simply came out of nothing.
Uh-huh.
The very notion of reason itself presupposes a cause.