Boing Boing does Big Bang
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Boing Boing asks, What came before the Big Bang? The article it cites says that the Big Bang theory is widely accepted by physicists as making “a lot of sense. Except for one small thing. That initial (infinitesimally small) point (of origin of the universe), called a singularity by physicists, is a physical impossibility. According to the models we have today, the temperature of the universe at that first moment would have had to be infinite, which mathematically makes no sense. Also, the singularity doesn’t do a good job of explaining where all the matter and energy we see today in the universe came from. So, physicists are increasingly starting to look at other branches of physics, to see what they can do to replace the singularity with a more reasonable proposition.”
What if they look into cosmogony, the study of the origin of the universe, where science and theology meet? What about God as the uncaused first cause? If we are going for the simplest explanation here (Occam’s Razor anyone?), Creatio ex Nihilo would be where I’d bet the farm on, instead of going for string theory concepts that look like physicists’ very own “God of the gaps.”