Sentences with phrase «with infinite universes»
He actually was backed into a corner, having accepted the mathematical impossibility of intelligent life given demands of fine tuning, and had to claim multiverse with infinite universes to escape the supernatural necessity.
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«The usual theory of eternal inflation predicts that globally our universe is like an infinite fractal, with a mosaic of different pocket universes, separated by an inflating ocean,» Hawking said in an interview last fall, according to the University of Cambridge.
To talk about odds of it happening and not happening are irrelevant, sorry if you think the odds are so astronomical that its impossible, keep in mind that you feel better with infinite regression, the most illogical fallacy there is (that god created this universe and then god had to have a creator, because lets get real, you're supposed to have me believe that a creator so complex that he can create the universe just appeared?
What we are dealing with is the attempted explanation of an infinite universe by a finite mind, and while we do need, and I am convinced can have, a confident assurance about our faith in God, humility must be mingled with our confidence in any formulation of that faith.
No more than you find any problem with an infinite immaterial deity who at some point within an infinite past, initiates the expansion of the universe.
We are just moved movers, as is everything from the big bang, but what holds all existence since forever is the unmoved mover (AKA God) which is what started the big bang, along with the infinite amount of big bangs before the current universe... or possibly all universes at all dimensions.
One can see a point of origin of the universe with the Big Bang theory and determine that an infinite intelligent creator was the source.
The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world in its whole and in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61
He argued (in his third way) that even a universe with an infinite past would need to depend upon God for its existence.
At the moment of the big bang, all the universe was in a single point — A quantum singularity with infinite mass, infinite energy.
Avoiding infinite regression, this physical universe could not have had an infinite series of causes because an infinite series of causes with no beginning is a contradiction.
People just can't come to terms with the fact that their existence is in fact quite meaningless in our infinite universe — Cosmologically speaking.
Well Nick, would you be so kind as to inform us «dims» how the universe could have an infinite series of causes with no beginning?
What I can't get is how an infinite super being without a physical body with magical powers and a strange interest in what we do in our bedrooms actually makes better sense to some people than an infinite, utterly simple natural universe.
But then at whatever time it takes place God would already have existed for an infinite period of time; and we would be faced with the Augustinian question of why God chose to create the universe at that time rather than at some other.
It would be more in accord with the spirit of myth to regard man as just one element in an infinite universe — even the New Testament does so in clear and classical language; it says, not «God so loved mankind», but «God so loved the world».
Kaplan maintains that God is the creative process which transforms the chaos of the universe into an organic whole: «Nature is infinite chaos, with all its evils forever being vanquished by creativity, which is God as infinite goodness» (REN 51).
The solution of the eternal recurrence depends essentially on Nietzsche's conception of the external, independent relation of time to becoming and willing, coupled with his notion of time as infinite and the becoming universe as finite (TSZ 178).
To say that the universe will come to an end only after an infinite period of time is identical with saying it will never come to an end.
There is no other possibility and it does not prove that there is a creator, for there may be an infinite number of universes with no life, different life, or the same life that we are familiar with.
The universe we know aligns with intelligent design «out of nothing came something» ie the Big Bang; to refute intelligent design we must bring to life an infinite number of universe and infinite number of possibilities.
He does not need to make us or our universe, but he creates us because he wants to share the infinite love and happiness of his own life with us.
Second, there are other alternatives; (i) the Universe we live in is one of an infinite number stretching back in time with no start in time, but a series of expansions and contractions; (ii) we are one of an infinite number of universes in a multiverse.
God created the greater part of the world for its own sake — a point that comes home even more strongly to us, with our knowledge of the infinite universe — and wisdom consists fundamentally in recognizing this and the limitations it imposes upon us.
You argue that I am wrong to make assumptions about time being infinite in the Godless version of existence, because it is understood that time is relative, it is created along with the universe, etc..
I understand the nothing your talking about; the problem with a universe out of nothing is it also is a series of infinite regression.
(Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 101) And in a passage, in which the three formative elements are presented succinctly, he says,»... the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms are together impotent to achieve actuality apart from the completed ideal harmony, which is God.»
Inflation does not result in a universe with uniform properties, but a multiverse with an infinite number of «bubbles» in which the cosmic and physical properties vary from bubble to bubble.
God, who created this infinite universe, and all that's in it being reflection of His infinite attributes, with even the smallest things so detailed in their design, that it would be total absurdity to think they have gotten that way by evolving themselves... this Creator would have never created us, human beings, giving us such abilities that we posses, without giving us a way to understand Him, His nature and His character and to KNOW Him, as we are known of Him.
One is that goodness is an accident in a material universe with no mind behind it, no purpose running through it, and with nothing to account for it except protons and neutrons going it blind — the cosmos itself a «gigantic accident consequent upon an infinite succession of happy flukes.»
Some researchers go further and envision a type of infinite time that plays out not just in this universe but in a multiverse — a multitude of universes, each with its own laws of physics and its own life story.
Thus, Ellis» model of time retains enough of the block universe to match with relativity's predictions, but without needing to take Einstein's drastic last step of assuming that the fourth dimension is solidified into the infinite future.
If the multiverse is the final stage of the Copernican revolution, with our universe but a speck in an infinite megacosmos, where does humanity fit in?
[Jeff Weeks, a mathematician who is working with Spergel to analyze WMAP's data, says, «The large - scale temperature correlations across the sky are much less than one would expect in an infinite universe but exactly what one would expect in a finite one.»]
The other side of darkness In April's Sky Lights [«A Lighter Shade of Black»] Bob Berman presents the paradox suggested by astronomer Heinrich Olbers: «If we live in an infinite universe containing an infinite number of stars, then... every point of the sky, no matter how small, should be filled with starlight....
The notion of the multiverse — that our universe coexists with an infinite number of other universes — has gained ground among working scientists.
An essentially infinite universe, in both time and space, would remove the problem of understanding the origin of the Universe in a big bang singularity, and would also do away with the need for dark matter, which is required in the standard big bang.
«Without fuzziness, all of the matter and energy of the universe has to be packed, at the moment of creation, into a volume that is zero, with infinite temperature and infinite density.
The result: an infinite progression of new universes, each bursting forth with its own laws of physics.
They have postulated an infinite regress of untestable universes with unknowable dimensions in an attempt to avoid a creation.
At every moment, in Wheeler's view, the entire universe is filled with such events, where the possible outcomes of countless interactions become real, where the infinite variety inherent in quantum mechanics manifests as a physical cosmos.
«If we wait long enough, our bubble universe will eventually undergo an infinite number of collisions with other bubble universes,» Vilenkin says.
Eventually this idea grew into what is now known as the multiverse theory, the notion that our observable universe is just one of perhaps an infinite number of cosmic domains, each with its own version of the laws of physics.
Einstein also proposed that the universe began as a singularity, a point with zero volume and infinite density containing all the matter of the universe.
For example, in Bubble universe theory, there are an infinite variety of «universes», each with different physical constants.
Once you've done all you can DO, this amazing universe we live in takes care of the rest and we sink into synchronicity with its infinite beauty.
Directed by Peyton Reed, whose last theatrical feature was 2008's Jim Carrey comedy Yes Man (which perhaps describes his level of control on this film), it's likely to be the sort of mindless diversion devoured by a perpetually unfaltering core audience, but the rest of us tired of this staunchly self - involved and defiantly conventional universe will be left with one more opportunity to grumble at the infinite depths of Marvel's stockpile.
That means he was 24 when he made Fruitvale Station, his first film with Michael B. Jordan (and his first film); 27 when he rebooted the Rocky franchise, of all things, with Creed; probably not yet 30 when he was handed Black Panther, the latest entry in the infinite Marvel universe.
In the time since, Levine has rededicated Irrational's efforts to the BioShock universe with BioShock Infinite, while 2K Marin has been working on an FPS reboot of PC classic XCOM, a development that hasn't gone all that smoothly.
Thanos» quest is to combine all six of the stones to possess an almost infinite amount of power with the ultimate goal of destroying half of all human life to «restore balance» to the universe.