
Via a curious universal pattern of correlated pairs of objects:
One curious pattern cosmologists have known about for decades is that space is filled with correlated pairs of objects: pairs of hot spots seen in telescopes’ maps of the early universe; pairs of galaxies or of galaxy clusters or superclusters in the universe today; pairs found at all distances apart. You can see these “two-point correlations” by moving a ruler all over a map of the sky. When there’s an object at one end, cosmologists find that this ups the chance that an object also lies at the other end.
The simplest explanation for the correlations traces them to pairs of quantum particles that fluctuated into existence as space exponentially expanded at the start of the Big Bang. Pairs of particles that arose early on subsequently moved the farthest apart, yielding pairs of objects far away from each other in the sky today. Particle pairs that arose later separated less and now form closer-together pairs of objects. Like fossils, the pairwise correlations seen throughout the sky encode the passage of time — in this case, the very beginning of time
Natalie Wolchover, “Cosmic Triangles Open a Window to the Origin of Time” at Quanta
Some physicists think we should have found more arrangements involving three or even four particles.
Our physics color commentator and author of Genesis: The Long Ascent and The Long Ascent, Volume II ,Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts on trying to exactly guess the origin of the universe:
Once upon a time, the universe was static, eternal, and unchanging. Then came Genesis, and there was light. No, no, said the wise men, it has no creator, it is eternal. Then came Einstein, Lemaitre and Pope Pius XII and there was light. No, no, said the wise men, the cosmos is dynamic and eternal. Then came Peebles, Dicke and Penzias and there was light. No, no, said the wise men, the cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be, it is cyclic and eternal. Then came Hawking and Penrose, and there was light. No, no said the wise men, it is dark, really dark: dark energy, dark matter, and dark multiverses; dark string theory, dark time, dark inflation, dark purposes and yes, even dark math.
Well then how can anyone know anything about the cosmos? Theorist Daniel Baumann explains,
” He compared the primordial universe to a system like water or a magnet very near the critical point where it undergoes a phase transition. “We live in a very special place,” he said.”
And there was light.
Don’t like that story? Just wait. There are others.
Towards the end of the article they concede that the ’emergence’ of time is still unresolved:
As well, Entropy was not mentioned in the article. Which, given entropy’s rather tight correlation with time, is a strange omission for a paper to make that is claiming to have made significant progress on our understanding of how time could have possibly ’emerged’ in the Big Bang.
As the following article states, “Entropy explains time; it explains every possible action in the universe;,,”,, “Even gravity,,,, can be expressed as a consequence of the law of entropy.,,,”
On top of the fact that “(Entropy) explains time; it explains every possible action in the universe”, Entropy is also, by a VERY wide margin, the most finely tuned of the initial conditions of the Big Bang. Finely tuned to an almost incomprehensible degree of precision, 1 part in 10 to the 10 to the 123rd power. As Roger Penrose himself stated that, “This now tells us how precise the Creator’s aim must have been: namely to an accuracy of one part in 10^10^123.”
In the following video, Dr, Bruce Gordon touches upon just how enormous that number truly is. Dr. Gordon states, “you would need a hundred million, trillion, trillion, trillion, universes our size, with a zero on every proton and neutron in all of those universes just to write out this number. That is how fine tuned the initial entropy of our universe is.”
In order to provide evidence that the Mind of God is behind the initial entropy of the universe, i.e. behind the ’emergence’ of time, I will appeal to the Quantum Zeno Effect and also to Quantum information theory.
An old entry in wikipedia described the Quantum Zeno effect as such “an unstable particle, if observed continuously, will never decay.”
Likewise, the present day entry on wikipedia about the Quantum Zeno effect also provocatively states that “a system can’t change while you are watching it”
And here is a fairly recent experiment which verified the ‘Quantum Zeno Effect’:
Atheistic materialists have tried to get around the Quantum Zeno effect by postulating that interactions with the environment are sufficient to explain the Quantum Zeno effect.
Yet, the following interaction-free measurement of the Quantum Zeno effect demonstrated that the presence of the Quantum Zeno effect can be detected without interacting with a single atom.
In short, the quantum zeno effect, regardless of how atheistic materialists may feel about it, is experimentally shown to be a real effect that is not reducible to any possible materialistic explanation. And thus the original wikipedia statement of, “an unstable particle, if observed continuously, will never decay”, stands as being a true statement.
On top of the Quantum Zeno effect, in quantum information theory we find that “one should bear in mind that an object does not have a certain amount of entropy per se, instead an object’s entropy is always dependent on the observer.”
And as the following article states, “Fifteen years ago, “we thought of entropy as a property of a thermodynamic system,” he said. “Now in (quantum) information theory, we wouldn’t say entropy is a property of a system, but a property of an observer who describes a system.”,,,
Why in blue blazes should the finely tuned entropic actions of the universe, entropic actions which happen to explain time itself, even care if I am consciously observing them unless consciousness really is more foundational to reality than the finely tuned 1 in 10^10^123 entropy of the universe is? To state the obvious, this finding of entropy being “a property of an observer who describes a system.” is very friendly to a Mind First, and/or to a Theistic view of reality.
For instance Romans chapter 8: verses 20 and 21 itself stated, thousands of years before the 1 in 10^10^123 initial entropy of the universe, and the quantum Zeno effect, was discovered, “For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.”
Thus, whilst the ’emergence’ of time is, as they themselves admitted towards the end of the paper, unresolved as far as their mathematics is concerned, if one is willing to follow the evidence from the quantum zeno effect and from quantum information theory to where it leads, then one is led inexorably to the obvious conclusion of “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Further notes on how consciousness and quantum mechanics are extremely tightly correlated: