On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:50 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > Eternal inflation seems to assume there is something because "there has > always been something". However if so, it sidesteps the underlying issue - > why is there this (eternal) something? The question itself - and any > attempted answer - can't be answered causally. >
Eternal inflation can't explain how nothing became something but it can explain how *almost* nothing became something, and that certainly seem like a step in the right direction. A scientific explanation shows how simplicity can produce complexity, or to put it another way exposes the simplicity underlying complexity; and that is why the God theory is such a spectacular failure, the explanation is more complex than the thing it explains. It's true that the inflation field as proposed by Alan Guth and Andre Linde isn't nothing, but it's vastly simpler that the universe it created and INFINITELY simpler than a omniscient omnipotent infinitely intelligent conscious being. Perhaps some will want to call the inflation field God, but I don't have a fetish for that 3 letter English word so I won't. > >The question itself - and any attempted answer - can't be answered > causally. It either had a cause or it didn't, and if it didn't then it was random. John K Clark > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
