It sounds like a fun problem, actually, dare we say—a lighter moment?
Big Bang
Rob Sheldon on whether we have the Big Bang theory all wrong
First, cosmologists have been trying to falsify the Big Bang for decades. Many do not like it because of its theistic implications.
Could doubts about the recent Big Bang find kill cosmic inflation theory?
Most likely nothing will kill cosmic inflation theory. Nothing will kill multiverse theory. And nothing will kill the vampire.
Can physics tell us if time had a beginning?
But if time is infinite in the past, doesn’t that violate Hilbert’s Hotel? In which case, logic will tell us if physics doesn’t?
Did time’s arrow originate in a quantum source?
The researchers’ thesis does not, however, account for the Big Bang. That’s a biggie, so to speak.
Was that big gravity wave find just dust? Not a multiverse?
Sheldon’s view is that, using Occam’s razor, dust should have been the first hypothesis. The logic of the multiverse explains why it ended up being the last.
I’m a Luke Barnes fan even though he would surely be critical of my ideas
Luke Barnes has been mentioned favorably twice at Uncommon Descent. I mentioned him in Nuclear Physicist asks, “Why is PZ Myers so dumb?” and slams Victor Stenger to boot. VJ Torley mentioned him favorably in Is fine tuning a fallacy. I “learned” intro cosmology from Barbara Ryden’s book, but I put “learned” in quotes because […]
Kirk Durston on “God and Science – Is there a Conflict?” . . . food for thought
I think we need to watch a video by Friend of UD, Kirk Durston. But first, a loop-back note: I have been rather busy elsewhere with issues like AS-AD, Kondratiev waves, Hayek’s investment triangle, SD and Schumpeterian creative destruction.(Pardon the resulting absence.) BTW, this line of thought leads me to hold that the oh- so- […]
Christian Darwinist Karl Giberson weighs in on the recent gravitational waves discovery
Actually, it is true that modern cosmologists “found more theologically friendly models of the Big Bang ‘disturbing,’ and wanted to refute them.” They have, to their credit, never made any secret of it.