i do not believe in any theory about the origin of the universe because?
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Why should I not believe in any theory about the origin of the universe?
Because nobody has proven that the Universe even has an origin.
The Big Bang (Inflation Theory) has flaws and unexplained elements we are expected to take on Faith. Paul Steinhardt, a physicist that contributed to that theory, thinks the flaws are are so numerous it is no longer science. (Something can be a scientific hypothesis that needs work, but stop being science when the work and future knowledge contradicts the fundamentals of the theory. That is what happened to the Inflation Theory, which was never really a theory but a hypothesis.)
Steinhardt now promotes a different hypothesis, the Big Bounce, which explains everything the Inflation hypothesis was meant to explain but overcomes the problems discovered in the Inflation Hypothesis. I say Hypothesis because the Big Bounce is itself still unproven. Nonetheless, the Big Bounce is still a good scientific hypothesis; it fits with our modern knowledge (unlike Inflation) and thus doesn’t have the flaws Inflation did.
However, in The Big Bounce hypothesis; the Universe expands and contracts in a presumably endless cycle. The contraction shrinks the universe small enough that nothing could survive except the energy and matter, but not to a point. It then expands. There are good physical reasons to suspect this is possible, it fits with other known phenomenon.
But this means that Time and the Universe have no origin. The Past is just as eternal as the Future. The Universe has always been here and always will be, in one form or another.
This can be hard to wrap our heads around, but that is a human quirk. Logically, it is easy for us to imagine that every minute is followed by another minute, eternally. It should be easy for us to imagine that every minute was preceded by another minute, eternally, but for some reason humans balk at this logic; and want to insist there was, somehow, a “first” minute, and I guess no Time before then. What does it even mean to say Time started 14 billion years ago? How could there NOT have been a minute before that?
In any case, you should not believe in any theory about the origin of the Universe because there is a very good chance it doesn’t even have one.
I’m an atheist but to speak about the religious, if they can believe God had no origin, you’d think they could equally believe that an inanimate Universe had no origin. But again, us flawed humans balk at the most simple logic.
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