Matter and energy can be past-eternal

[bennyboy]

@MoY

(fuck I wish people would stop ninja-ing me )

You can quote imright.com all you want, but you are appealing to Hawking's credentials rather than understanding his ideas fully enough to express them as your own. I mean, Alex was actually kind enough to respond to your appeal to Hawkings with a link for you to read. Didn't read it, didja?

Did Alex "claim" he was a physicist? I doubt that. He doesn't need to make any claims. He can just say it like it is, and you can get it, or you can embarrass yourself. Those really are your only two options, but I'm guessing you'll rant for a while, challenge him to a debate, get two posts in and then claim you have super-important school business to attend to. . . but you'll be back as soon as your grant application is settled or whatever.

How about you just skip all that, let Alex give you a few more links so you can catch up to physics that isn't 40 years old or written dumbed-down for kindergarten students and for profit, and you can learn something useful?

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His evidence is that he knows what he's talking about.  Instead of asking for his credentials, why don't you answer his question, and unless he's tired of your juvenile rants, he might actually teach us something about physics.

He doesn't know what he's talking about though. I've demonstrated that. He didn't know that many cosmologists see the big bang as a singularity. He didn't know what a singularity was... Etc.

Dude, everyone more than 10 years old knows that scientists call the Big Bang a singularity. Try to get past that, and you'll see that physics is a big field, with very many ideas that you haven't yet had the chance to absorb, and that someone here could assist you in learning something more than a catch phrase that you picked up on the back cover of A Brief History of Time.