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Well, we have a universe of, perhaps, two trillion galaxies that live together in a regularly nonuniform background radiation that can be predicted by a mathema
by OneWordSoln 7y ago
Well, we have a universe of, perhaps, two trillion galaxies that live together in a regularly nonuniform background radiation that can be predicted by a mathematical model predicated upon our advanced understanding of physics and a single point-source event we call the Big Bang, whose physics are beyond our physical reality's description and require some serious hoops to be jumped through (e.g. inflation) to align its progression with the state of our universe today, and yet we have the model and it accurately predicts the precision of our measurements of it (the CMBR) and even its non-uniformity. The universe has a precisely-defined conversion between matter and energy (thanks, Einstein) as well as precise laws that conserve both matter and energy; therefore, nothing gets created and nothing gets destroyed, only transformed, and yet some people deny that something literally "extra-ordinary" is the Source of it all, stuff and its interrelating laws.
To say there is no "Prime Mover" is the height of hubris, for we live in a universe with laws that bely its own creation. For we creatures -- no matter how cognitively well-endowed we are -- to say that we are capable of understanding everything about the Source of this creation is not only absurd, but unscientific and logically unsound.
5/6ths of our universe's matter is missing.
The energy that keeps the universe expanding is missing.
We have no explanation for how the universe implements gravity and, thus, how it works with respect to the other three fundamental forces.
And yet "scientists" claim there is no Creator. The interrelation of all the dynamical systems at work in the various levels of the universe is so precise that even a small variance of one of them -- e.g. the Fine Structure Constant -- would not just break the entire structure; it would render it unmanifestible.
No, we can not understand how this universe was created, because, as the time-dependent creatures we are, the Creator of all that exists, including time itself, is literally beyond our comprehension. Knowing that "the Unknowable" exists should be common knowledge by now, especially for the physics community, as they work to transform subsets of Unknowns into Knowns.
All you who downvote such opinions think yourselves better than Einstein who himself understood that there was a Creator, even as a non-religious person who failed to crack all the mysteries of this wonderful creation. The problem of hubris is a purely personal problem that involves a completely different mathematics fought in a different realm.
Only by accepting the truth of reality can one successfully explore it, my dear friends. Plugging one's ears and yelling, "Blah! Blah! Blah!" is not the way of progress, even if it is the way of social media's self-selecting herds. This grand experiment has shown -- among other things -- that people who can not refute any points of an argument would simply rather make the argument go away. Everyone who knows the history of scientific advancement knows what became of that vast majority who ridiculed Boltzman and Einstein.
- xelxebar 7y ago> ...precise laws that conserve both matter and energy; therefore, nothing gets created and nothing gets destroyed... Not your main point but just wanted to point out that because of inflation, energy actually isn't conserved! It's kind of surprising, but consider light getting redshifted from a far away galaxy. Its frequency drops as it travels through space and thus, so does its energy. This happens with the beam not interacting with anything, so the lost energy doesn't really go anywhere.
- OneWordSoln 7y agoThanks! That is truly fascinating. I have never encountered that idea of it being a consequence of the red-shift before but it does make sense. I wonder where that energy goes. Perhaps there is an ether after all? Seeing as Planck implies that nothing is continuous in this universe, then I wonder what the quanta of the redshift is? Perhaps time itself causes the friction. (I apologize for my layman's spitballing here but this universe is nothing if not fascinating.) And by inflation, I was referring to the brief period shortly after the BB where the clumps of galaxies quickly separated themselves. Is that what you are referring to here, or are you referring to the general expansion of the universe?