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The Big Bang Didn’t Need God to Start Universe, Researchers Say

Published on June 28, 2012 by   ·   4 Comments
The Big Bang: Solid Theory, But Mysteries Remain

This graphic shows a timeline of the universe based on the Big Bang theory and inflation models.
CREDIT: NASA/WMAP

SPACE.com

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Our universe could have popped into existence 13.7 billion years ago without any divine help whatsoever, researchers say.

That may run counter to our instincts, which recoil at the thought of something coming from nothing. But we shouldn’t necessarily trust our instincts, for they were honed to help us survive on the African savannah 150,000 years ago, not understand the inner workings of the universe.

Instead, scientists say, we should trust the laws of physics.

“The Big Bang could’ve occurred as a result of just the laws of physics being there,” said astrophysicist Alex Filippenko of the University of California, Berkeley. “With the laws of physics, you can get universes.”

Filippenko spoke here Saturday (June 23) at the SETICon 2 conference, during a panel discussion called “Did the Big Bang Require a Divine Spark?” [Images: Peering Back to the Big Bang]

Quantum fluctuations

In the very weird world of quantum mechanics, which describes action on a subatomic scale, random fluctuations can produce matter and energy out of nothingness. And this can lead to very big things indeed, researchers say.

“Quantum mechanical fluctuations can produce the cosmos,” said panelist Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the non-profit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute. “If you would just, in this room, just twist time and space the right way, you might create an entirely new universe. It’s not clear you could get into that universe, but you would create it.”

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Readers Comments (4)

  1. bernard says:

    The laws of physics have always been will always be and are every where, sounds like the definition of God to me

  2. namroy says:

    “With the laws of physics, you can get universes,” said Alex Filippenko of the University of California, Berkeley, during a panel discussion at the June 23 SETICon 2 science and science fiction conference in Santa Clara, California He argued that the universe could have begun as a result of a random “quantum mechanical fluctuation.”

    Filippenko implies that we should not trust in God. “Instead, scientists say, we should trust the laws of physics.”1 But many scientists suggest that the laws of physics lead to trust in God, not from it. Which is right?

    Physicist Jake Hebert recently showed fatal flaws in this increasingly common “universe from nothing” argument, as described by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss in his 2012 book, A Universe from Nothing. In Hebert’s Acts & Facts article, he first explained that the “argument hinges on the claim that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero,” an extraordinarily unlikely sum.2 And since nobody but God knows the exact energy content of the entire universe, the claim is entirely unscientific.

    Second, and more critically, quantum fluctuations are only known to occur within space that already exists. How would the first universe-generating fluctuation occur without space, and how could that space be there without a universe already in place? It appears that in order to make a universe this way, another universe must already exist. In that case, how did the first universe begin—or the one before that?

    Hebert also noted logical problems. For example, the assertion that the universe came from nothing assumes pre-existence of the very laws of physics that can supposedly generate universes. Filippenko began to address this by saying, “The question, then, is, ‘Why are there laws of physics?’ And you could say, ‘Well, that required a divine creator, who created these laws of physics and the spark that led from the laws of physics to these universes, maybe more than one.’”1

    But instead of accepting his own argument for a “divine creator,” Filippenko objected that one would still need to explain where that creator came from, and where the creator of that creator came from, and so on. This is a thin smokescreen, since the ultimate Creator of the laws of physics and/or the finite universe would of necessity not be finite. Only finite entities like universes or people require causes, because only they have beginnings. A “beginningless” or infinite Creator did not come from anything else since He always was and is.3

    Filippenko and like-minded scientists ignore the necessity of pre-existing space for quantum fluctuations to occur, ignore logical problems in obtaining laws of physics from nothing, and ignore the nature of God, all in the name of justifying their faith that the universe could come from nothing. In reality, without an infinite Creator, not only would there be no laws of physics that point sinful people to his existence, but there would be no universe at all.4

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  4. Jai Chandarana says:

    Actually this article proves that God created a big bang, which created the world! LOL!

    You see according to quantum physics, the big bang was made a quantum fluctuation which is a form of conscioussness(of Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle)from sunyata(emptiness.)

    And in Dharmic religions(Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sant Mat and Sikhism), God(Brahman) is not an old man who sits up in the clouds or a supreme being, but a form of conscioussness which is the uncertainty of the movements from a format of sunyata(emptiness.) Science says that 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of an atom is emptiness(sunyata), and new scientific studies suggest the rest of the atom is just the conscioussness of how we perecvive it!

    Hinduism/Dharmic faiths, say that the world is an illusion(maya), created through the uncertainty of how our senses and mind created view the world around us. But in reality, there is just the realm of Nirvana/Such Khand(heaven or Brahman/God.) Science says this too!

    So Hinduism/Dharmic faiths say;.
    1. God(Brahman) is utter conscioussness of certainty within sunyata. Science says this too.
    2. God is everything. God is the real reality, which our senses fool as this world(maya.) Science says this too!
    3. We are Souls/Atmans not bodies.The Soul/Atman, is made of Brahman/conscioussness/God. Scienfic study from Dr Hameroff, says that we are quatuam conscioussness Souls and not bodies!
    4. God created the universe. Science says that too, as I have just explained!

    ATHEISM DEBUNKED!

    Look at these links;.
    http://wisdomfromsrisriravishankar.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/whole-world-is-made-from-that-one.html

    http://www.swamij.com/swami-rama-energy-consciousness.htm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_2s65RbSdw

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2225190/Can-quantum-physics-explain-bizarre-experiences-patients-brought-brink-death.html

    http://goddirect.org/faq.htm#2

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8AjoUb8Tq8&feature=em-share_video_user

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-EE-QBs85g&feature=em-share_video_user

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj_i7YqDwJA

    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/santmatfellowship/blog/2008/04/05/was-buddha-an-atheist-document-harmony-of-all-religions

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo4b8EiY9Vk

    AND GUESS WHAT HINDUISM/DHARMIC RELIGIONS RELIGIONS BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD WAS CREATED BY A BIG BANG:

    http://www.hindu-blog.com/2008/04/hinduism-and-big-bang-theory-cosmic.html

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jqMUkoFqwA




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