“In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously empty space. However, the Big Bang is the beginning of spacetime itself, not an event in time.” MatterBigsReligionImaginationSpaceEventsEmptyOne TimeBangsExplosionsEmpty SpaceSpacetime Book:The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science Source: The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science
“Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.” LyingReligionAskingNorth PoleSpacetime Book:The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science Source: The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science
“Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even the quantum vacuum is not an inert void, but is boiling with quantum fluctuations. In our macroscopic world, we are used to energy conservation, but in the quantum realm this holds only on average. Energy fluctuations out of nothing create short-lived particle-antiparticle pairs, which is why the vacuum is not emptiness but a sea of transient particles. An uncaused beginning, even out of nothing, for spacetime is no great leap of the imagination.” WorldWayUsedReligionEnergyCausesImaginationSeaEventsHappeningsAverageRealmsEmptinessPairsLeapAtomsVoidDecayQuantumConservationParticlesVacuumsTransientBoilingShort LivedFluctuationEnergy ConservationSpacetime Author:Taner Edis
