RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
August 24, 2014 at 3:34 pm
(August 24, 2014 at 11:39 am)Chuck Wrote:(August 24, 2014 at 10:57 am)Diablo Wrote: It may have been a big bounce, not a big bang. Maybe it's always been there, just bouncing along.
The Bouncing along forever theory, without any need to postulate some major gap in our understanding of physics, doesn't seem to me to square with second law of thermal dynamics.
Either our current understanding of physics is sufficiently comprehensive, in which case our universe can only be a one time thing (there can be infinite number of other universes) , or somehow Big Bounce represents some break in know laws of physics that permit entropy of the universe to be reset.
Thermodynamics was never my favorite subject so... take this with a grain of salt... or two... or a whole jar!
I'd guess that the expansion and inflation of space-time would be independent from the overall thermodynamic state of the matter contain within the space-time. A big-crunch would "simply" be a contraction of space-time, aided by the gravity caused by matter, somehow...