Physics, Hindu Cosmology, God and New Age Inspiration

[Alex K]

(Feymen once said something to the affect that if anyone claims to understand it, they're lying)

Feynman, wasn't that this guy who did some important work 60 years ago?

[Mudhammam]

(Feymen once said something to the affect that if anyone claims to understand it, they're lying)

Feynman, wasn't that this guy who did some important work 60 years ago?

I'm still drinking morning coffee over here. And I just pulled the graveyard shift.

Soooo shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[Confused Ape]

[Angrboda]

I think many scientists will say almost anything if they have a book to sell.

[Confused Ape]

I think many scientists will say almost anything if they have a book to sell.

It's likely than many do. It's also likely than many really believe what they write in their books. Either way, there's a lot of New Age Quantum ideas going around.

[tor]

All this hindu cosmology is bunch of bullshit. You find something which you can twist to make it look like big bang and so on and then pretend like hindus knew cosmology. BULLSHIT.

[MindForgedManacle]

I think many scientists will say almost anything if they have a book to sell.

*coughLawrenceKrausscough*

Sorry 'bout that.

[tor]

Lawrence Krauss rocks the house.

[MindForgedManacle]

He also hasa tendency to make certain claims on the basis of physics in a way that he knows comes off as misleading. Saying that science shows that "the universe came from nothing", by which he means it might have come about via a quantum fluctuation of vacuum energy, is very misleading, and he continues to do so. I kind of like him when he doesn't do that or doesn't shit on philosophy for not being science.


I think my favorite physicist is Sean Carroll. Knows his physics and his philosophy, and his knowledge of and adeptness in explaining cosmology to rebutt certain theological claims is really without compare. He's one of the 3 or 4 people I would say definitely beat William Lane Craig in a debate, just a few weeks ago. Watch it if you haven't, it was glorious. :p

[tor]

He also hasa tendency to make certain claims on the basis of physics in a way that he knows comes off as misleading. Saying that science shows that "the universe came from nothing", by which he means it might have come about via a quantum fluctuation of vacuum energy, is very misleading, and he continues to do so. I kind of like him when he doesn't do that or doesn't shit on philosophy for not being science.


I think my favorite physicist is Sean Carroll. Knows his physics and his philosophy, and his knowledge of and adeptness in explaining cosmology to rebutt certain theological claims is really without compare. He's one of the 3 or 4 people I would say definitely beat William Lane Craig in a debate, just a few weeks ago. Watch it if you haven't, it was glorious. :p

But the universe could come from fluctuations. Which is what Krauss is saying. He is not wrong.