The Steady-State theory has been shredded. The universe has not always existed.
Multiple cosmologists (like Avi Loeb at Harvard Univerity) say that the universe had a beginning and will come to an end.
Now, as to that beginning:
1.) did the universe come from prexisting matter, and if so where did that pre-existing matter come from and so on- thus leading us down the road of using a logical fallacy known as Infinite Regression.
2.) If the universe did come from nothing, how can that be proven?
Observe...test...then confirm.
How can you observe nothing if the universe came from nothing? If you can’t observe nothing, how then can it be tested? If it can’t be tested, what then can be confirmed?
What happens ultimately to the scientific method?
“.. can you observe nothing if the universe ..”
agreed
Regarding the whole something from nothing issue, I thought the latest ideas were that “empty” space is constantly creating and destroying matter and anti matter from “nothing”.
Am I mistaken?
Also my only take away from the article is that scientists do not know what the universe is or where it came from.
It always seemed obvious to me that just because we can only observe this universe, that does not mean it is the “universe” meaning everything. There could be countless big bang universes all around ours. Or one bigger creation by God.
They just don’t know.
Multiple cosmologists (like Avi Loeb at Harvard Univerity) say that the universe had a beginning and will come to an end.
“What happens ultimately to the scientific method?”
It’s as dead as the constitution, its all
scientific consensus now. No facts or proof needed,
just a bunch of ignorant jacka$$es with PhD’s who
agree. To them even honorary PhD’s count.
When one speaks of something outside of Physics(the physical Universe) one HAS to use a different science: Metaphysics.
Yet scientists CAN postulate that there was an UN-caused Cause (God) simply because every effect...including the singularity that became the Big Bang, needs a cause; but many refuse.
Stranger things have happened! (Well, in this case actually they haven't! :O )
When Science disproves your religion, you invent a Science that needs no proving, only speculation and faith. That Science is called oddly enough Quantum Mechanics.
I say oddly as Quantum is a measurable vector, and Mechanics is the interaction of a defined set of existing physical objects. Neither of which apply to Quantum Mechanics. The very definition of Quantum Mechanics is an Oxy-Moron.
Fitting for a religion FOR morons.