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. — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed, hence with… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously empty space.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course,… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events. — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even the quantum… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works. — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
