Origin of the Universe - Stephen Hawking (5 of 5)
Stephen Hawking gives a lecture on the Hawking-Hartle no boundary universe.
Lecture given to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley on March 13 2007.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/universes/html/bound.html
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You're mom asked if you were comin home for supper? Or will you be playing with your dingy?
My IQ is 132...Doesn't mean I'm gonna jump on Hawking's bandwagon. Or wheelchair. WalkingPhilosopher = lol. Should be Walkingretardtryingtohumpadoorknob
And genius isn't 130...130 is above average, but not genius. I think 140+ is gettin into genius category.
Hawking assumes it makes no sense to ask what came *before* the BB since time itself came into existence with the BB. But our concept of time could turn out to be a single member of a subset of an overall metatime set. It is difficult if not impossible to separate our theories of the universe fro
m the actual ontology. *Actual ontology* may turn out to inseparable from theory.
And if "God could have just as easily made a universe that was already 14,999,994,000 years old" <== WOuldnt it Have ALREADy BeEN CREATED!?
And we wouldn't be able to explain what happened outside, basing our theories with what we observe inside. That is what Hawking actually meant.
If one finds the beginning of a process then that is the beginning. What is limiting us to grasp is our position or attitude towards the whole idea of existence. Because of our many subjectivist ideas we feel indifferent or even angered with objective reality. Truth comes from 3 sources and on
e is scientific experimentation and analysis. It also has a dual character. Meaning it could be used for good or not.
ödel, anyone? It's important to state questions, like "why we are here", but just don't expect to get a definite answer. The more questions you ask, the more there is to answer. We should continue questioning, but it's improbable that we will find out a definite truth. Our answers will just become
more complicated. :)