Ashlee Banks gives an excellent if somewhat speedy summary of the idea this Universe came about as a result of the singularity from a black hole in another Universe. The idea is presented as relatively new but I thought it had been around for longer than that. In any case, Banks gives a quick description of how it works.
The regulars have seen the Rockhouse pitch on Creation that something lit the fire which started the Big Bang. We're happy to call that something God or whatever you like but it's not satisfactory to hear from Stephen Hawking, well, it just happened and I've got the mathematics to prove it; there is no God.
The faithful person can easily counter with the mathematics is your faith and God is mine so then you have a standoff.
As previously, the Rockhouse only needs the spark to set off the Big Bang and all religions follow from that fundamental. The Rockhouse is not usually too good with the sub-text which follows that but we're right there with them when they tell us God created everything. Fair enough as the Big Bang made everything about which we're physically aware and God sparked it so I'm in.
We can handle Stephen Hawking's 'there is no God' theory but the Rockhouse theory is shot all to hell if this Universe came from a black hole in another one. That extends to Universes getting infinitely big in an endless series without anything really having any clear point of initiation.
Religion gets past it with, well, it's a mystery but that's not a satisfactory answer here. We need something which elicits, well, yeah, that makes sense. The idea of originating in a black hole makes sense in an astrophysical context but it shoots the Rockhouse theology in the kneecaps.
The faithful can skate right past it since saying 'it's a mystery' covers Unknowable Things and this is an excellent cop which is generally shatterproof.
Ed: I'm ok and you're screwed?
It looks that way, Watson. Woe is me and my theological dilemma.
Ed: I feel your philosophical pain. Truly.
Bite me, Watson.
The regulars have seen the Rockhouse pitch on Creation that something lit the fire which started the Big Bang. We're happy to call that something God or whatever you like but it's not satisfactory to hear from Stephen Hawking, well, it just happened and I've got the mathematics to prove it; there is no God.
The faithful person can easily counter with the mathematics is your faith and God is mine so then you have a standoff.
As previously, the Rockhouse only needs the spark to set off the Big Bang and all religions follow from that fundamental. The Rockhouse is not usually too good with the sub-text which follows that but we're right there with them when they tell us God created everything. Fair enough as the Big Bang made everything about which we're physically aware and God sparked it so I'm in.
We can handle Stephen Hawking's 'there is no God' theory but the Rockhouse theory is shot all to hell if this Universe came from a black hole in another one. That extends to Universes getting infinitely big in an endless series without anything really having any clear point of initiation.
Religion gets past it with, well, it's a mystery but that's not a satisfactory answer here. We need something which elicits, well, yeah, that makes sense. The idea of originating in a black hole makes sense in an astrophysical context but it shoots the Rockhouse theology in the kneecaps.
The faithful can skate right past it since saying 'it's a mystery' covers Unknowable Things and this is an excellent cop which is generally shatterproof.
Ed: I'm ok and you're screwed?
It looks that way, Watson. Woe is me and my theological dilemma.
Ed: I feel your philosophical pain. Truly.
Bite me, Watson.
4 comments:
Seems to me that if it started as a black hole, that would just tie it to Indian Circle. No beginning no end. The black hole beginning wasxjust the last and biggest black hole of the previous cycle compressing to a point where it built to another Big Bang.
That was was first thought when I first learned of Black Holes and the expansion/contraction of the universe.
Even circles have no beginning or end They still have a starting point
The black hole idea kind of brings back early trippin' hijinks with, wow, man, did you ever think the stars are just atoms in a bigger Universe. It's so much simpler with a single Big Bang as I can say, yep, that had to have an Instigator, the existence so powerful it's impossible to understand. Everything makes sense after that.
For the really, really big bang, why doesn't the singularity in a black hole explode just like the first one. It would make a supernova look like a kid's sparkler. Yahoo!
Where we came from and where we are going will likely forever be a question based on the faith of what we choose to believe. Richard Pryor once said that the first humans were likely black and African. He surmised that the first black man born in Africa likely questioned how he got there and how does he get to Detroit. UH!
My all-time favorite Richard Pryor story was the one about going to Africa with a friend. Pryor marveled when he realized everyone around him and in the country was black.
He said his friend asked him, "Do you see any niggers?"
Pryor said he broke down in tears.
Cadillac Man, no chance I've forgotten a similar experience for you on going to Ghana and it wasn't as demonstrative but it sounded like it went deep inside.
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