RE: can we really ever know true origin?
December 22, 2010 at 5:53 am
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2010 at 5:58 am by Justtristo.)
(December 21, 2010 at 3:40 pm)mamamia88 Wrote: Right now I know of 2 theories for origin of the universe, the big bang, and creationism. Both of which seem like an unending train of what came before. For example if someone created the universe then who created the creator and who created the creator's creator and so on. If the universe came from the big bang then what created the original energy that sparked it? and if you found that out you would have to find out the cause of the cause. So is it even possible to know 100% the origin of the universe? or will there always be one more mystery to solve? Or did the universe always exist? My human mind says that there has to be a origin of something and the idea of something always existing is foreign to me, but it is possible. I buy into the big bang more because scientists would at least be able to give me a logical explanation rather than criticizing me.
An scientific explanation for the cause of the big bang, I believe will come when we have a unified theory of physics, string theory is one of the candidates for the unified theory of physics. I would recommend the most excellent book and television series, The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene as a good introduction to String Theory.
There are other theories out there for a totally naturalistic explanation for the formation of the universe. For example Victor J Stenger proposed a model in his article "A Scenario for a Natural Origin of Our Universe" which you can download here http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3137
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