Howard Van Till posted:
> FYI: Interesting story re big-bang theorizing at:
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> www.msnbc.com/news/743539.asp?pne=msn
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Interesting to propose a new theory simply because you
want to have a competing idea out there to work on. Living
in Japan as I do, I notice that some Japanese find it
fashionable to turn to "Western ideas" in the same way
some in the West seem to have some romantic notion of
"eastern ideas". If they only knew.... both of them.
I did notice, however, that they claim that they "originally
did not like the idea" of an oscillating universe.
Admittedly, the nature of entropy and how to explain the
arrow of time is a matter of debate. I would add that
likewise, the "reservoir" may be far more enormous
than any of our puny imaginations can conceive.
Nevertheless, we do know two things that basically hold
up at least within the narrow confines of our own experience
in this small universe and up to this time. (1) You can't
make a perpetual motion machine or you are guaranteed a
trip to Sweden (if you succeed). (2) The wave function of
nothing is nothing.
I grant however, that both "nothing" and "entropy" are not
very clearly defined quantities at the fundamental level
and there is reason to permit speculation given that those
(perhaps metaphysical) issues are not merely ignored.
by Grace we proceed,
Wayne
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