On 18 January 2014 01:32, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it a coincidence that: > > -During the cold war the image of the universe and the theory that > explained it was an inmense nuclear explosion? > Obviously there is a connection. Without the theories of nuclear physics you can't build H-bombs and you can't explain nucleosynthesis... The theory that explains nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang is *still* that it was a "huge nuclear explosion" - namely a fusion explosion. It's unlikely this explanation will change except in the details (lithium abundances). > > -In the world dominated by the multicultural ideology and computers, > it is a multiverse and/or a computer simulation the preferred > paradigm? > You are misusing the word 'paradigm', which means the wholesale replacement of one fundamental outlook with another one that makes the old one completely redundant. Paradigm shifts have only happened occasionally in science, and appear to have become less likely as our knowledge has improved. There has not been a paradigm shift in our model of the universe since Lemaitre worked out that it could be expanding and Hubble confirmed it. The Big Bang has not been *replaced* by this new model. Even the discovery of the universal expansion wasn't a paradigm shift, because Einstein had worked out that it was possible, so it was just a refinement to the existing theory. We haven't changed our views, we just have more knowledge, which enables us to build better models. It isn't a coincidence that the knowledge we acquire is in the same area as the technology that we are developing. They don't operate in a vacuum! :) You need better evidence before you decide that science is merely reflecting the zeitgeist. Whenever discoveries continue to surprise us, as for example the acceleration of the universal expansion did, this zeitgeist theory (which has been popping up throughout the history of science, most recently as "postmodernism") is reduced in likelihood. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
