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Hawking - Did God Create The Universe?

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Sean Elifritz

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I was pretty impressed by this documentary (It's impossible to prove such a thing, let alone any other negative, but a much better attempt than usual) and it managed to piss off the person I watched it with.



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Panel discussion that aired later:

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I like his presentation. What I don't like is his absolutist proclamation that he holds the ultimate conclusion on how universes are created. Somebody should fabricate some papal clothes for him lol

The idea that black holes are big bangs in reverse is interesting... Perhaps they are a bridge to other parallel universes in a constant boil of contractions and expansions. Maybe this entire universe initially fed off a parallel collapsing universe (their big shrink became our big bang.. 2 space-time bubbles linked by a black hole)

Hawking is really taking a quasi-religious stance to taunt the Vatican's absolute dictate that a god created our universe. In other words, he's pissed off ;)
 
Black holes are cool. I wonder if anything survives intact after going thru one..
 
As far as I know, Black Holes are still completely theoretical along with worm-holes, the multiverse, and other such things that often are spoken of as real but for which there is no empirical evidence.
 
One of the coolest thing Hawking ever did was supply some short vocal segments for Pink Floyd's Keep Talking:


As for his Hawking's take on God, it's not really an argument for or against "God", but for against a "universe maker", which are two distinctly different concepts, connected only by religious belief. One can be non-religious and still believe it's possible for there to be, or have been at some point in the distant past a "universe maker". The concept that the universe could make itselve out of nothing also breaks down when you get into the big bang. The concepts of space and time are not clearly explained and the analogy that the matter matter for our universe came from some "negative energy" is philosophically flawed, although probably still accurate regarding the variables that would be required to explain it mathematically. All these issues can be resolved using the computational model I've discussed elsewhere as a basis for this universe's existence.

j.r.
 
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