Come on in to my little Cosmic Cafe. The tables are set and the lunch buffet is open. The cuppa table is open with all of your favorite beverages. Please relax as we reopen our discussion which is already in progress...
Dealing with inconsistencies in a theory are the only way to maintain intellectual honesty and scientific integrity. Let's move on from the traditional "Big Bang" cosmological theory, to seeing how quantum physicists have dealt with new information in relationship to those inconsistencies.
Continuing on with Fred Alan Wolf's, Parallel Universes, Part Four, p. 172:
Most cosmologists now agree that there cannot be a consistent theory of the big bang or an early scenario without bringing together all of the present knowledge of physics. Later attempts have certainly taken into account relativity theory. However, although relativity has increased our knowledge of the big bang and in itself points to a new vision of space, time, and matter, relativity is a classical theory as well. Since classical physics has long ago been replaced by quantum physics to explain the present universe, it stands to reason that the concepts of quantum physics must play a role in the big bang.
But this turns out to be frought with controversy. No one quite knows how to do it. The major reason for this is that quantum physics has at its heart the important role played by the actions of observation. These actions alter physical matter. The properties of matter that we observe every day, such as the hardness of metals and stones, the temperatures of heated gases, the color of light and materials, as well as the refined properties of atoms and molecules, depend on what is chosen to be observed. If matter remains unobserved, quantum physics predicts that matter will not have any of these properties to be observed.
These patterns of probability are quite weird. They are themselves unobservable. But whenever an observation of matter occurs, these patterns suddenly change, with the result that matter appears with the property sought for. Not only that, but these patterns can act together producing a new physical possibility --- much as superimposing a number of transparent images in a slide projector can produce an image that is not contained on any of the individual transparencies. Synthetic fabrics are only a tiny example from today's world of quantum technology where the superposition of possibilities to produce a new possibility in the physical world is used.
This new possibility cannot occur unless the separate possibilities act simultaneously. To carry the slide image analogy further, assuming that each slide carries a particular property of matter, it is as if the properties of matter depend on the choices of the exhibitor of the slides. Thus all of the observable properties of real matter needed to explain the creation of the universe can exist only through the superposing of these separate possibilities.
Each possibility must be distinct from all others, since each involves the appearance of matter in the physical world of space and time with a particular property. Each possibility must occupy a separate region of space and exist for a particular interval of time. Somehow these regions and intervals, the arenas in which matter plays the game of physics, must be adjacent to each other. Yet each possibility must also occupy the same space simultaneously in order that these patterns of probability can be superimposed together. Thus the arenas must all be the same arena (matter must occupy the same space, our universe) and, at the same time, an infinite number of adjacent arenas (a number of spaces or universes that are somehow "disincarnated" from each other).
Such spaces are today called parallel universes.
Consequently, whether or not the big bang occurred before there were observers, quantum physics states that parallel bangs had to occur --- each bang in a separate but equal other universe.
Wolf goes on to explain the following adjustments in perception and their relationship to parallel universes:
1. The First Inconsistency, Not Enough Time to Start the Universe
2. (The subsequent) Inflationary Models
3. (The problem?) Inflation Is Not Enough
4. (And finally...) Parallel Universes Solve Another Problem: That is the "WHY us" problem.
I will make my commentaries to two separate audiences: Believers on Jesus, and the other, unbelievers.
First, to believers:
The Bible is clear about one thing. We have free will. We chose what we observe. Quantum physics is clear about one thing. What we seek to observe, determines what manifests. Why do you suppose Jesus got so upset when he fed the five thousand, and subsequently, the four thousand? He has been trying to teach us how to access the kingdom of heaven, so that we can feed his sheep, and do the will of the Father, yet we refuse to even believe that the kingdom of heaven is at hand, and moreover, that we believers, have access to its provision!
The Bible is full of quantum physics! It is not that you must be an expert on quantum physics folks, but you must re-examine your own understanding and assess your own perceived 'risk taking' and self limiting 'comfort levels'. If we don't believe and act like we believe everything that Jesus said and did...how on earth can we expect the unbelievers to want to believe???? Where are the signs, wonders and miracles that shake their incomplete or erroneous view of the world?
Now to unbelievers:
It is not necessary that you believe anything I just said to believers. It is necessary that you have the intellectual honesty to admit that the field of quantum physics has changed everything we previously thought about matter and how it came 'to be'. Every theory needs to be re-thought, re-worked and re-evaluated based on our new understanding. Unless of course, you believe that all life and indeed all matter is made of something other than atomic and subatomic matter. Perhaps it is easier to believe in myths, fables, magic wands and fairy dust?
Science is a collection of disciplines that really don't communicate very well together. There can be no understanding of a unified theory until there is a comprehensive framework, and that means that there must be effective interdisciplinary communication. Don't feel too bad 'unbelievers'; we Christians have similar problems.
Again, to believers:
I know this is controversial for everyone, especially on a Monday. ; ) I have already confessed elsewhere that I am not in a very good mood today. But that really doesn't matter. I am expected to take every thought captive and to rule over my emotions. I am expected to do all that I can possibly do to manifest the kingdom of God, daily. I am reading more and more and realizing how much we have left to do. I am realizing how far behind the 'church' seems to be. How unruly the body of Christ is, still. The head is brilliant, stable and all that it should be...but the members war against each other. All members must come to attention under the head, the mind of Christ. Stop looking at each other, and look at him, only.
