Posted on 07/03/2014 11:34:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The universe shouldn't exist — at least according to a new theory.
Modeling of conditions soon after the Big Bang suggests the universe should have collapsed just microseconds after its explosive birth, the new study suggests.
"During the early universe, we expected cosmic inflation — this is a rapid expansion of the universe right after the Big Bang," said study co-author Robert Hogan, a doctoral candidate in physics at King's College in London. "This expansion causes lots of stuff to shake around, and if we shake it too much, we could go into this new energy space, which could cause the universe to collapse."
Physicists draw that conclusion from a model that accounts for the properties of the newly discovered Higgs boson particle, which is thought to explain how other particles get their mass; faint traces of gravitational waves formed at the universe's origin also inform the conclusion.
Of course, there must be something missing from these calculations.
"We are here talking about it," Hogan told Live Science. "That means we have to extend our theories to explain why this didn't happen."
Bang!
One possible explanation holds that during the fiery flash after the primordial Big Bang explosion, matter raced outward at breakneck speeds in a process known as cosmic inflation. This bent and squeezed space-time, creating ripples known as gravitational waves that also twisted the radiation that passed through the universe, Hogan said.
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Oh heck he has to go and say th
Easy! Quantum particles ultimately are guided by the hand of the Creator, as He owns the whole Lego set and He may do as He likes. God designed the universe, and in so doing, created the matter/energy/time/space within it, including all the normal laws that they all behave by.
If He wants to, He can override the system (like any good engineer), and He's done so on any number of occasions.
Regarding the known and discoverable laws of quantum dynamics, they are definitely non-intuitive, and apparently non-predictable (with 100% certainty, for any given single event) for those of us who live inside this space-time-matter-energy contraption.
I'll note that you were the first one to bring religion into this, and you quoted the guy (Physicist) who was thrown out of FR for trying to pervert science into a weapon against faith. That is truly a futile - and unsupported on FR - road to go down.
Maybe we’re still in the first microsecond of the big bang. We all just move really, really fast.
I was responding to someone else who brought religion into the thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3175636/posts?page=15#15
You butted in.
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Physicist still has an account here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~physicist/
He left on his own, which is too bad because he was informative on scientific matters, though I differed with him on subjects like libertarianism.
Quantum particles do follow the rules of quantum dynamics. As I said before, if they didn’t you wouldn’t have a job.
If you don’t think the universe is understandable and predictable as created by God, then let’s see you provide evidence for your claimed miracles using the same high standard you set for predictability.
If there were massive inflation, wouldn’t that indicate that a Dem administration was in office shortly after the Big Bang?
Cheers!
If you have a theory (and an experiment to prove that theory) that the wave function is to be treated as something absolute, and not a probability density, well, knock yourself out - if you can do it, you'll win yourself a Nobel Prize fer sur.
That you claim I don't believe in the rules of physics that makes my career in electronics possible is a joke, but, hey, you have the freedom to be a preening faux-intellectual joker, too...
...but it doesn't mean you're right.
The fact that quantum mechanics is strange does not mean that quantum mechanics is unsuccessful. On the contrary, quantum mechanics is the most successful theory that humanity has ever developed; the brightest jewel in our intellectual crown. Quantum mechanics underlies our understanding of atoms, molecules, solids, and nuclei. It is vital for explaining aspects of stellar evolution, chemical reactions, and the interaction of light with matter. It underlies the operation of lasers, transistors, magnets, and superconductors. I could cite reams of evidence backing up these assertions, but I will content myself by describing a single measurement. One electron will be stripped away from a helium atom that is exposed to ultraviolet light below a certain wavelength. This threshold wavelength can be determined experimentally to very high accuracy: it isWhy do you consider randomness and probability to be evidence for the supernatural, especially when it doesn't stop quantum mechanics from making very accurate predictions, explaining numerous natural phenomenon, and greatly increasing our understanding of God's creation?50.425 929 9 ± 0.000 000 4 nanometers.The threshold wavelength can also be calculated from quantum mechanics: this prediction is50.425 931 0 ± 0.000 002 0 nanometers.The agreement between observation and quantum mechanics is extraordinary. If you were to predict the distance from New York to Los Angeles with this accuracy, your prediction would be correct to within the width of your hand.
In a sane world Obama wouldn’t be here, but here we are...
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