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Sunday, September 11, 2022
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Artists' Renderings
(Representations of the Big Bang)
I have a really difficult time grasping where all that "nothing" was before there became "something".
Each time I see an artist trying to portray the transition from nothing to everything, I want to say "In the beginning, there was only one: A single, black infinitude, so cold and dark for so very long..."
Especially since some of those are clearly a multiverse.
(Granted, at the end of the story, there is no multiverse, but still...)
The "big bang", a misleading term, seems to have been the beginning of time as well as space. There was no "nothingness" before the big bang, because there was no "before the big bang", just as there cannot be a point further south than the South Pole.
Unfortunately, even though we do now pretty much know the origin of the universe, it's not intuitively easy to understand the way evolution is. I recommend Hawking's The Grand Design or Krauss's A Universe from Nothing for a good basic explanation for the layperson. You need a very basic grasp of quantum physics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to understand the concepts, but nothing really esoteric or equation-y.
Rad - Even scientists don't like change.
ReplyDeleteEach time I see an artist trying to portray the transition from nothing to everything, I want to say "In the beginning, there was only one: A single, black infinitude, so cold and dark for so very long..."
ReplyDeleteEspecially since some of those are clearly a multiverse.
(Granted, at the end of the story, there is no multiverse, but still...)
Anon@4:42am - But, where was that infinitude? That's what makes my head hurt.
ReplyDeleteI've always wondered too, WHAT went bang? And where did it come from? In addition to "where was it"?
ReplyDeleteUnknown@4:22pm - I guess we'll never know the answers to our questions.
ReplyDeleteI prefer faith in science than whatever faith in any religion
ReplyDeleteThe "big bang", a misleading term, seems to have been the beginning of time as well as space. There was no "nothingness" before the big bang, because there was no "before the big bang", just as there cannot be a point further south than the South Pole.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, even though we do now pretty much know the origin of the universe, it's not intuitively easy to understand the way evolution is. I recommend Hawking's The Grand Design or Krauss's A Universe from Nothing for a good basic explanation for the layperson. You need a very basic grasp of quantum physics and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to understand the concepts, but nothing really esoteric or equation-y.
Infidel - I managed to find a PDF of each book and will read them later. Thanks.
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