#14
by Mr P » Sep 03, 2010 5:29 am
Of course he's not saying anything new, Victor Stenger promotes the same idea (and goes one step further in the case of the Abrahamic god) that the universe can get along fine without a creator. Also a number of physicists are pushing the idea of a cyclic model with subsequent big bangs happening in succession i.e. Steinhardt and Turok, Lee Smolin and Roger Penrose. Penrose is about to release his new book Cycles Of Time later this month with his own take on the idea.
All of these rest on the theory that the (inherently) chaotic conditions present during the Planck era are unstable due to quantum fluctuations and it's this chaotic system that Stenger defines as nothingness. This arises from the fact that no meaningful information can be extracted from a system such as this and so rendering enquirey obsolete. This is opposed to the semantic skullduggery usually employed when people try to define nothingness.
I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws and feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me! I'm a machine and I can know much more!
Brother Cavil, BSG