ckrypto on Nostr: There's a problem with your questions. Time itself is part of the expansion of the ...
There's a problem with your questions.
Time itself is part of the expansion of the universe. So the "spontaneous combustion" of the big bang, or the universe being eternal presupposes that there was time or a "nothingness" before the universe started. It could be the case that a "soup" a virtual particles is about as close to "nothing" as there could ever be. Similarly since time is part of it, there might not be such thing as "before" the big bang, or "outside" the universe, because it would be like asking what's north of the North Pole.
But as for what I specifically believe, I've taken a few college level astronomy classes but I'm not an astrophysicist, so I know enough to know a good deal about the subject matter, but also that I don't know nearly enough to disagree with the scientific community. The evidence shows 14.5 billion years ago our universe was compressed to a nearly infitesimally small point and in a microsecond began expanding rapidly. Physics shows that very improbable things can happen occasionally. A big bang might have been one of them, but that only needed to happen once. The anthropic principle shows that it doesn't matter how improbable something might have been we would only exist in that improbable universe to postulate it. Notice that none of this requires a creator to be involved. So now you have to ask yourself what's more probable, a universe started randomly and on one of the trillions and trillions of planets life started evolving, or a god-created this planet specifically and cares about who you're married to or what kind of head covering you wear. I see no evidence of any sort of god and find the proposition ridiculous. Sorry, but not sorry.
Time itself is part of the expansion of the universe. So the "spontaneous combustion" of the big bang, or the universe being eternal presupposes that there was time or a "nothingness" before the universe started. It could be the case that a "soup" a virtual particles is about as close to "nothing" as there could ever be. Similarly since time is part of it, there might not be such thing as "before" the big bang, or "outside" the universe, because it would be like asking what's north of the North Pole.
But as for what I specifically believe, I've taken a few college level astronomy classes but I'm not an astrophysicist, so I know enough to know a good deal about the subject matter, but also that I don't know nearly enough to disagree with the scientific community. The evidence shows 14.5 billion years ago our universe was compressed to a nearly infitesimally small point and in a microsecond began expanding rapidly. Physics shows that very improbable things can happen occasionally. A big bang might have been one of them, but that only needed to happen once. The anthropic principle shows that it doesn't matter how improbable something might have been we would only exist in that improbable universe to postulate it. Notice that none of this requires a creator to be involved. So now you have to ask yourself what's more probable, a universe started randomly and on one of the trillions and trillions of planets life started evolving, or a god-created this planet specifically and cares about who you're married to or what kind of head covering you wear. I see no evidence of any sort of god and find the proposition ridiculous. Sorry, but not sorry.