Posted on 05/11/2016 7:53:28 PM PDT by MtnClimber
They just updated the problem without solving it - the horizon problem got magically solved by inflation but now inflation is inadequately explained, itself. Institutional science at its finest.
There’s always the God theory.
My biggest problems with the Big Bang Theory is what caused it to happen and why. There had to be a catalyst where there was no matter why at that particular moment in time when there was no time.
Of course, religion provides an answer where man doesn’t even ask the question.
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We can create a guess when there is no answer. We can then compare the guess to experiment or experience. The Big Bang Theory guesses how the universe was created.
It is not a guess that there is a universe but its creation is a guess. Scientist tell us, with a great deal of certainty, the exact state of the universe a few parts of a microsecond after the Big Bang but nothing about the state of the universe a few parts of a microsecond before the Big Bang.
This is where religious or spiritual belief comes in. My belief in an infinite God is also a guess or theory that I accept on faith. Content with my belief I have no difficulty accepting that an infinite God can create a billion year old rock in one microsecond. I cant prove Im right and no one has proved me wrong.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein
The difference is that many people are involved in proving or disproving events that I am perfectly content to accept on faith, God and the Big Bang.
Wrong usage.
I believe in the Big Bang....I also believe God lit the fuse...
I still have a sneaking suspicion that Halton Arp may have been correct in his big bang criticism, and his notion of intrinsic redshift.
Thus supporting my lifelong contention that it takes as much faith to believe that the universe spontaneously created itself out of nothing as it takes to believe that God created the universe.
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One question then ... what is the unit of measure for faith, and what is the instrument you use to measure the amount of faith it takes to believe one thing over another?
“The Big Bang” is a science-dumbed-down-for-us-layfolks term used by scientists to describe the origin of the universe. If I asked a priest to describe it, he might say “God said let there be light”. I mean, if you asked a scientist to describe the events of “let there be light” to the layfolks, wouldn’t an apt description be “there was a Big Bang”.
Same event, different perspectives, different descriptions.
Time passes even if there is no universe is around to know it
All depends where you're doing the measuring.
As a whole probably yes, but around a super massive object, space/time is not flat (Euclidean) in that particular area.
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