On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:00 AM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > You seem to be obsessed with God, >
I'm obsessed!? Bruno is the one running around trying to stick the "G-O-D" label on anything that moves not me. > The problem with EI is that it needs an explanation for how the entire > temporal structure arises, > The FEATURE of the inflation field is that it is much simpler than the Universe or Yahweh. And I'm not exactly sure what you're demanding, a explanation of how something, or rather how a nothing without even the *potential * to produce something produced something? > even if it has no beginning, the theory needs to explain why this reality > and no other? > This is needed only if you assume every event has a cause, and modern physics gives me little confidence that this is in fact true. I think it more likely that the existence of the inflation field is a brute fact. > This is a fascinating question, and one in the scientific tradition of > digging deeper into what's really going on. > It might be fruitful to speculate if there was something even simpler and it produced the inflation field, but then of course people would wonder what produced that. This line of inquiry can only end in 2 ways: 1) We keep finding things that are simpler and simpler but the complexity level never reaches zero and it looks like it never will, so we give up. 2) Eventually we find something that is just a brute fact and that is that. 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.
