Posted on 10/29/2017 4:15:50 PM PDT by TBP
The Big Bang never happened and our universe may have no beginning and no end, suggests a new theory by physicists, including one of Indian-origin.
The theory applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein's theory of general relativity and may also account for dark matter and dark energy.
The widely accepted age of the universe, as estimated by general relativity, is 13.8 billion years. In the beginning, everything in existence is thought to have occupied a single infinitely dense point, or singularity. Only after this point began to expand in a "Big Bang" did the universe officially begin.
Although the Big Bang singularity arises directly and unavoidably from the mathematics of general relativity, some scientists see it as problematic because the math can explain only what happened immediately after - not at or before - the singularity, 'Phys.org' reported.
Ahmed Farag Ali at Benha University and the Zewail City of Science and Technology, in Egypt and coauthor Saurya Das at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, have shown that the Big Bang singularity can be resolved by their new model in which the universe has no beginning and no end.
Their work, published in the journal Physics Letters B, is based on ideas by theoretical physicist David Bohm in the 1950s, who explored replacing classical geodesics (the shortest path between two points on a curved surface) with quantum trajectories.
Researchers applied these Bohmian trajectories to an equation developed in the 1950s by physicist Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri at Presidency University in Kolkata.
In addition to not predicting a Big Bang singularity, the new model does not predict a "big crunch" singularity either.
The model avoids singularities because of a key difference between classical geodesics and Bohmian trajectories, researchers said.
Researchers explain that the quantum corrections can be thought of as a cosmological constant term (without the need for dark energy) and a radiation term.
These terms keep the universe at a finite size, and therefore give it an infinite age.
NDTV is from India.
Yes indeed. The scientific authorrrrrities have settled it for us.
No one can know the age of rocks, but few look to the Rock of Ages.
God has no Creator. He is the Alpha and Omega. He predates everything.
WJB, is that you?
It’s settled then.
We do not exist.
Not by Deuteronomy IV 19 and Malachi I 11.
Well, yeah...
But THIS one’s NEW and IMPROVED!
FORTIFIED with essential quantum terms and equations!
An essential part of a healthy cosmology!
NOW in a more economical FAMILY SIZE!
In other words, scientists must admit, after billions of dollars and tens of thousands of questioning articles in noted science magazines, that without the Hand of God, we could not exist
I’ll settle for a small one
My guess is, he’s the only “minority” in the group and the liberals who wrote this have to let everyone know.
It doesn’t have to be.
Since this approach to quantum gravity failed back in the 1950's, I suspect this idea hasn't gained much traction.
There are some other approaches to quantum cosmology that yielded interesting results though.
Daffy duck would be a better handle.
There’s a reason why the name of the book of Genesis in Hebrew is “Bereshith”, or “In the beginning” (literally, “at the first time”).
Man that is something I used to lay in bed thinking about a lot as a child. It was a mind boggling concept. Well, still is I guess lol.
Nothing makes any sense. We humans being here doesn’t make sense. The fact that there is anything at all is pretty weird. On the other hand, there not being anything at all is even weirder when you think about it because without there ever having been something there cannot be nothing because even nothing would be “something.” We can’t think too deeply on these matter or we will go crazy. Well, I speak for myself I guess. But, I just gotta trust God, and that one day the Lord Jesus will explain it to us :)
You might enjoy Gerald Schroeder who has written many books on the word of God starting with Genesis...all extremely informative...he brings the Bible and science together, one explaining the other...truly fascinating and broadening.
Reminds me of a phrase I heard at a Promise Keepers event - God is so big the universe exists within Him and yet He can also fit into our individual hearts......... I wonder what this theory does to reconcile the expansion/and other things like creation of elements and development of black holes and other things we have been accustomed to hearing them tell us about.
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