Thanks for taking the time to reply in length (Appreciated)
Very interesting.
Thanks again.
Peace,
Ceeboo
sock puppet wrote:Eventually, we're back to a big, cosmic bang in THE beginning, or the underpinnings of it--a per chance creation.
Theory. It is the best explanation to date that I have come across, including theories of intelligent design/creationism. It had to be so colossal that this earth was one of the things that per chance resulted. But it was just a change of energy and matter into a rearrangement of energy and matter, that have always existed.
Your question points up, in my opinion, the futility of religious explanations for how the cosmos came to be. Following back, one must eventually end with the conclusion that something has always been. At some terminal point in the analysis, something--an intelligence, matter, energy--has always existed. It wasn't created. Getting our head around that concept is difficult because we're used to observing things that have a beginning and an end, like birth and death. We know there is time on either side of those events, but we eventually tire out in our investigation of what came before the beginning, and the beginning before that one, and the one before that, ... . One answer to a question like that always begs the next.
A god is a highly organized concept. So who organized god? And who before the organizer, created the organizer? And so on and so forth. That does not give us an answer.
Energy/matter has always existed, but merely changes form due to physical properties and circumstances. Einstein helped us understand that. Something is "created" only in the sense that it results from changes to something else that preexisted the "created" thing.
Entropy is, IIUC, the principle that everything is in a state of decay. When the big bang occurred, billions and billions and billions of particles of matter exploded across the universe. Our earth is one of them. It is in the process of decaying as compared to its earlier states. The big bang was itself a process of decay.
Realizing that attributing things to a creator per se just begins an infinite regression back in time, to attributing earlier states to one previous creator after another ad infinitum and never coming to an understanding of how it all started--because it never did start, but has always existed is the only answer that will completely satisfy us given our concepts and understandings of time. Realizing that in one form or another, matter/energy has always existed, then how can we account for this seemingly complex earth and the human organism? The answer is looking into the sky, realizing just how vast the universe is and that merely by random there would be sufficient chance that this very planet called earth and this type of organism we call human would exist, as a result of changes in energy and matter. Therein lies the randomness.
Accepting the randomness of it all is difficult for the human ego. We want there to be a purpose, that we are 'special' not merely a random throw off from a big bang. But to date, randomness from a big bang that itself was just a change of energy/matter that has always existed is the best explanation that does not require that one keep inquiring back in time, endlessly. That is, the big bang theory is the best terminal explanation of it all.
Someone will come along and explain to us someday even greater insights. Until then, the big bang is the best explanation that does not merely beg the question.
Disclaimer: These are my amateur understandings and explanations of the big bang theory and Einstein's ideas. My apologies to the scientists reading this for the obvious hack job that I have done here.