"My latest tweet is a little "highbrow" but deserves a spot in the consciousness of people who wish to think of themselves as intellectuals:
'Universe from Nothing': Big Bang was a bargain
Here is my response:
Let's be really honest: Which is a more plausible explanation for the origin of the universe (points for concept, not eloquence of words):
Option A: ""Given a big enough emptiness, enough virtual particles can pop into existence, for free, to trigger a Big Bang and start a universe. "Nothing is doing something, and not only that. It has to do something," Krauss says. " Gordon's version: if you put enough 'nothing' in one place, suddenly, it becomes 'everything'.
Option B: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." Gordon's version: some being beyond the laws of physics caused somethign out of nothing.
Can't we at least be honest enough to admit that Krauss's explanation really is no more 'rational' that Option B? On the one hand, you must pre-suppose a omnipotent force outside the bounds or laws of nature---on the other hand you pre-suppose an omnipotent force outside the bounds or laws of nature.
It's interesting that not that long ago, some philosophers liked to start with the supposition that the universe had always existed. If there wasn't a beginning, then they didn't need to explain a beginning. Now, virtually everyone acknowledges that the universe had a beginning, which put us back in the same intellectual boat we were in before, namely, 'if there is a beginning, how did the beginning happen?'
Interestingly, the best they can come up with is this idea that enough of 'nothing' is eventually 'everything.' And these same people are the ones who would accuse people believing in an omnipotent Diety to be credulous. Seriously? It's as if the intellectual elite are sitting high in their ivory tower sneering at the unwashed masses as they declare, "Those silly prebians, still believing that the moon is made of green cheese. Every intelligent person knows that the moon is clearly made of marshmallow fluff." They sneer at people who believe in a diety, yet the best counter argument they can offer is some theoretical mumbo-jumbo about nothing becomming something. (I still do not know how if all this nothingness suddenly produced everything, it doesn't just as quickly jump back to nothingness.......)
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